Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Seems like lately more and more abadoned rookie ships started showing up around all high-sec. I don't know if its for lulz, or to bait kill right but it seems to me that these ships take too much protection. I recently found a sector where I saw around 200 abadoned rookie ships using d-scan somewhere on safespots.

I think we should not get a criminal status for blowing abadoned ships in space. There is no point in wardec or losing even stupid cheap trasher and going crimial just to clean it up from the way. Sure, it is possible to dock, leave ship and return and board it and some players must be doing that since they dissapear sooner or later if they aren't on safespot, but does it has to be this annoying to deal with it?

I think that attacking abadoned ships should only give suspect status and an usual security status hit.

Your thoughts?

I think you could hop in it, gain plus 1 tritanium and get a perfectly good rookie ship that you could use in any way you see fit. You could start a mini profession of collecting and reselling them. Keep the tritanium as a bonus!

These ships are NOT protected. Hop in it and it becomes yours. Hop out of it and shoot it with no consequences.

Smartbomb them. Remember that PLEX increases smartbomb range and damage just by sitting in cargo.

If there are 200 rookie ships in a safe spot, it's a gankers cache most likely for pulling concord.

No, that isn't possible since the 'Hyperdunking Nerf' which made it impossible to board a ship in space with a criminal timer. I bet those 200 rookie ships were not in the same safe spot, but rather it was a starting system and represented the many new alt characters that eject from their ship immediately after spawning into the universe and fly their pod off.

In any case it doesn't matter. If you really object, board the ship and dock it or eject and then reboard your ship and explode it, or just wait until CCP's routine maintenance removes them from the universe. Other than cluttering up your scanning, they are doing nothing to the game, and this isn't really enough to merit some change that would only save you the 10s it would take to board and unboard it to turn off the CONCORD protection yourself.

I mean, you can't influence a gank-in-progress like that, but you could use them to pull CONCORD for a subsequent gank. However you can do that by just shooting a station or customs office already. You don't need empty ships to explode to pull CONCORD.

I haven't actually done the new NPE, but it is my understanding you start in a warp bubble now that, I was guessing that you can't fly your rookie ship out of that bubble, but you can your pod so players were ejecting and flying away. Perhaps I am wrong on that, but I too noticed many (I would say a dozen or so, not hundreds but perhaps the OP is counting the actual new players in rookie ships in starter systems as well) empty rookie ships floating around starter systems. Maybe there are other reasons or places in the new NPE where players are choosing to abandon their ships, or maybe it was always like this.

There are only two nefarious reasons I can think of to have hundreds of rookie ships in space. One would be if you were trying to delay CONCORD using Globby's 'superhyperdunking' approach which lead to this exploit warning: https://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/exploit-notification-delaying-concord-response/ and the other would be for the reason you cite, if there were multiple CONCORD spawns in a single system, and you were trying to pull specific ones that had no closer station or POCOs since pulling CONCORD moves the closest spawns. I think both are very unlikely and the OP more likely just got confused at seeing so many new players in rookie ships in a starter system.

Just let the ships be. They are not causing anything bad in the game. You also get to use your time to do something more useful for yourself than scanning down some Ibis in a newbie system.

Okay, and this is a problem why?

It literally costs more server resources for you to blow these up than it does for them to just sit in space and do nothing for 30 days.

I don't know: I hate it . Would take the time to destroy them all (in which case I would get a satisfaction of KM for it), but right now only thing I can do about it is to either ignore or board them which doesn't give me enough satisfaction to waste a time with it.

I also didn't know they are there only 30 days. I thought its on permanent. In that case it bothers me a bit less .

Oh they increase range all right, when you officer fit SBs.