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For all the FW peeps: "Dockblocking" - working as intended?

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Cearain
Plus 10 NV
#101 - 2012-12-04 14:42:34 UTC
X Gallentius wrote:
I'm sorry you don't actually want to participate in FW occupancy warfare. There is a place for players like you - Egghelhende.




The only way to participate in fw occupancy is to defensive plex your home system with alts, like you do?

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Cearain
Plus 10 NV
#102 - 2012-12-04 14:47:51 UTC
Vyktor Abyss wrote:
'Dock-blocking' is working well as intended.

for example for the last couple of weeks I've been blocked from docking in my home station of Fliet and can't get to a lot of my PVP ships.

This is good because it encourages and motivates me to actually fight for my system back so I can get access to my stuff again.
[Yes I'm aware I could drop militia and move out, but with so many ships it'd be more effort than actually just winning the system back IMHO]

I also like this mechanic because I was up in Ikoskio a day or two ago, had some fun solo pvp in my Fleet Stabber killing a couple of frigs and dessies in a 1v5 situation i managed to escape from in barely 10% armour. After the fight a bit more help came in for them and I was looking around for a good place to repair before round 2. As it happened the nearest repair in lowsec Gallente FW I could dock at would have been 4 or 5 jumps.

I was left a tough decision - to jump to Caldari highsec (1 jump) and repair there or run the gauntlet back to a friendly lowsec station.

choices like that are very good - I landed on the highsec gate at the same time as one of the enemy tackle frigates who jumped in anticipation of catching me so bounced to a neigbouring system before retrying a few minutes later when the highsec jump was clear.

To end the story, I went back for round two of 1v6 and died horribly.

Old non-docking blocking would have made it way too easy for me to get repairs - this system made getting repairs feel like a real achievement, and that should not be taken away.

Edit: also note that making it back out of this 'dangerous' area to dock to log out gave me the same interesting choice. Log in space and risk being probed or try to run the gauntlet. These choices are important for keeping the game interesting.


Well if you were fighting for amarr in say frerstorn or ebolfer you would have to go like 5 jumps to repair. Therefore by the time you made the round trip of 10 jumps you likely wouldn't have the option for round 2. No fight for you just allot of warping around trying to find a place to repair. Just like null sec.

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Cearain
Plus 10 NV
#103 - 2012-12-04 15:17:07 UTC
Hans Jagerblitzen wrote:

Exactly. It would be foolish to make final decisions based on impressions made months ago when we've had so much time in between to observe how it played out. Hence this thread asking for everyone's current impressions.



Its not like we didn't understand what it would mean to be denied docking when ccp first announced this. The only reason there are more people in favor of it now is because those are the people who stayed/joined. Before we had the lockouts in faction war most in faction war hated the idea. Now allot more like the idea or they wouldn't be active in faction war.

Like I said. Most catholic priests think the celebicy requirement is not too restrictive. Well if they didn't think that they wouldn't be priests. Same here. CCP forced it down our throats and now only people who don't mind it that much remain. Plus lots of people with null sec mentalities moved into to fw and think the lockouts are fine. Just like they think null sec is pretty nice too.

But in making more of eve all the same how many new subscribers have they gotten?

Might I ask what you are telling ccp on this issue?

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Vyktor Abyss
Abyss Research
#104 - 2012-12-10 16:37:28 UTC
Cearain wrote:

Well if you were fighting for amarr in say frerstorn or ebolfer you would have to go like 5 jumps to repair. Therefore by the time you made the round trip of 10 jumps you likely wouldn't have the option for round 2. No fight for you just allot of warping around trying to find a place to repair. Just like null sec.


YATCP

Whine, crap assumptions and a slight against nullsec.