Jita Park Speakers Corner

The goons have taken matters into their own hands to address bots mining ice in Gallente space but what about the rest of New Eden?

I would like to propose that the hacking skill be upgraded to "hijacking" to allow a pilot to eject a bot or afk pilot from any ship and send the now empty ship to a location somewhere in that same system as the property of the hijacking pilot. Giving him the opportunity to remove it from bot mining and sell it on the open market. Level 5 Hijacking skill would allow the ship to auto pilot thru gates to a destination set by the hijacker up to five gates.

The hijacking defense could be as simple as typing in the name of the pilot targeting your ship and the name of his corp before the hijack timer is successful something like 5 minutes. Additionally once successfully ejected the bot capsule would begin a 20 minute timer at the expiration of which it would become a legit target (Red) for any pilot with positive sec status with no penalty sec status hit for the extermination of a bot.

This way every human pilot can become a part of the solution to the bot problem and not just the goons. These are my thoughts as to an interactive multi-player way to address something that puts legit players at a market disadvantage when bots can mine non-stop 23/ 7 365.

You got five minutes to either find God or lose your ship ..... what is your question?

Although i can not say i completely agree with your analysis that this would spawn an effective bot counter measure within a few days because i just don't view their programmers as the best in the business, sure eventually some of the more expensive bot programs might sell an improvement/ countermeasure but some would just fall by the wayside which would be a good outcome.

I think anybody who leaves any ship in autopilot while they take a shower needs to lose that ship by any means possible in the game IMO i do not understand afk pilots who want to play the game by not playing the game ... that is just my point of view.

Both are good improvements to the idea thank you!

I can just imagine how much griefing one could do with this. Sit on Jita undock, "hijack" everyone. For hours on end.

And you know that this "hijacking defense" would be a popup which blocks any and all input to the other parts of the client. It's CCP we're talking about here.

You are under the mistaken impression that the OP gives 2 shiites about bots.....

as an "anti-bot" solution, this feature suck.

But as a whole, its an interesting concept that i would love to see in game some day.

For example, you can catch a guy in space, you can kill him, but you cannot make him give away his ship. And take it as a trophy. That makes no sense to me.

If you tweak it, this could be a cool thing to implement to revive lowsec for example.
As an example, to hijack a ship, you need following conditions:
1. Target is scrambled/disrupted.
2. Target shield/armor destroyed or lower than 10% and he is in structure.
3. His cap has to be kept below 10%.
4. His speed must be lower than 20m/s.

So you have to catch the guy, scramble him, use multiple webs on him, drain him of a cap. Then you initiate the hijack, which would be for example 2 minutes. During this time if one of the conditions will be disrupted, you have to start again.
That would be pretty hard, and gives the target chance to call backup or kill/scare away one of his hijackers. But in the end, hijackers get a prize.

That would be pretty cool to catch people in low-sec with a small crew and take their ships as bounty.

But eve has plenty of other issues atm, that are more vital and much easier to implement. But the hijacking idea is cool indeed.

Thank you both for at least looking to see if the proposal had merit. Any an all improvements and modifications that can make something i propose more workable is readily accepted from my POV. I don't like the idea of bots being able to out mine humans so i want to get at them any legal way and taking their ships and podding them seemed a good first step. Overall I think "Hijacking" should have a place in the EVE universe and would appreciate all support to make that a reality from high sec to null. EVE is a dangerous place if you afk at a trading hub, gate, station, mining field, or POS you shouldn't really expect nothing to go terribly wrong imo.

The idea of hijacking a ship fits very well into the dark atmosphere of eve. It can add new taste to piracy and low-sec.
There is many ways this idea or some form/part of it can be implemented. And hopefully someday it will. But i dont think it will be any time soon, CCP has too much on its plate as it is.

Ship hijacking would be awesome if it was a boarding action played out in Dust 514.