EVE General Discussion

Neutral Freighter pilot landed, looted, went suspect to us, ejected and had another freighter pilot board, while locked mind you, and in doing so removing the suspect timer from him and his ship.

If they take the suspect into custody they typically impound the car as well. They also confiscate all weapons utilized in a crime. Just saying.

Doesn't sound like an exploit to me, and the point Jamagh puts across is simple. You guys are saying "supsect timer on a ship", well it's not on the ship, it's on the pilot. If the pilot gets a suspect timer, they can't just swap ships and lose it, otherwise they would just go suspect in a rookie ship, then swap to something else to fly away scott free.

So with the timer being on the pilot, if the pilot leave his ship and a non-suspect jumps in, the ship would not have a timer. The solution is to get in the ship yourself.

As for the ability to board a targeted ship, I'm not sure if it has changed, but you should be able to board a targeted ship anyway, it was always ******** that you couldn't. Any random could stop you boarding an empty ship by simply targeting it, and there was no way to stop them targeting it without hostile action.

How does it do anything to suicide ganking? If you are suicide ganking, their suspect timer doesn't mean a thing.

How does it do anything to suicide ganking? If you are suicide ganking, their suspect timer doesn't mean a thing.[/quote]


Well think about it. We where about to point the freighter to get people to then kill it. However you switch pilot and get rid of the suspect on the freighter meaning it can run away without being contested.

Yes but a kill which get nullified because they switch the pilot. Sorry but you should not be able to switch pilot just to get rid of a suspect of a ship. The target will have a suspect because he scooped the damn looted. The only one will not have suspect is the next freighter pilot who switches with the other one.

Demon has apparently done a HORRIBLE job of getting across that it was OUR freighter that got ganked.

This WHOLE thread is supposed to be about finding out if the "not allowed to board a ship that is targeted" mechanic has changed.

We're NOT bitter gankers, we're just trying to figure out why it happened.

nobody can tell you if the mechanic is correct or not because nobody in your group can actually express what EXACTLY happened

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working as intended

Since the "white hats" in this case were the people who lost their freighter, they, being white hats and therefore horrible evil carebears who are not only out to ruin the game with their carebearness but the entire world too (according to the usual screed of the leet highsec PVPer) probably had their buttons on green.

Oh, how dare they! They were supposed to get concorded to the gankers could point and laugh about that too.


Anyway, it looks like someone pulled a little trick. It's said that the owner of the ship can board it even if locked. So perhaps the gank squad made sure to use the alternate pilot that was NOT the owner and have the actual owner ready to take the ship back.


If this is the case, and doable, be ready to see this become as common as NRR.

Exploit?


Well, if the cops were chasing a car full of stolen loot, and the driver stops and gets out, and they see someone else jump in, do they just forget about the new driver?

Of course if this is an exploit or a bug, and it gets fixed by some "flagged cargo" mechanic ("possession of stolen property"), expect to see "flagged cargo suspect baiting" as the alpha aspies seek newer ways to bonk the other kids in the sandbox with the pail and shovel and then point and laugh.

This is a tactic that has been used since ages ago. Once I got baited into shooting a mission griefer. When I taunted him to pod me (on his cyclone) he did, and then boarded a rifter from the orca right next to us. Concord killed his rifter. When I petitioned it, the logs showed nothing.

This was way way before crimewatch and suspect timers and all this junk.