EVE General Discussion

To be honest I'm surprised you get any warpable hits at all. If their intel is working properly they should be safe when you're 2 jumps out, not when you come into system.



So your character arrives in system local a second or two before you land on grid. Your 5 second scan is 5 seconds but 7-9 seconds have already passed (you had to de-cloak and launch probes). Another 8 seconds to warp to them is 15-17 in total and that's long enough for a battleship or smaller to GTFO. I's more than long enough if he's aligned to a safe, which he might be if his intel channel sucks (which it obviously does).

and this is the problem. hunting as it stands is just heavily-biased towards a ratter. Null is supposed to be risky. Where is the risk when the BEST hunters are seen from 15-20 seconds away?

I jump into system, have a warpable hit on a scorp navy issue in 4.6 seconds. Land on him in another 5-7 seconds, and he is gone.

Jump into a system, have a hit on a noctis in 5 seconds. Land in another 8, he is gone.

Jump into system, have a hit on an ishtar in 5 seconds. Land in 8-9 seconds, he is gone.

Jump into a system, get a hit on machariel in 4 seconds; land in 5-6 seconds, he is off the field.

in all cases they all warp to a renter pos.

I encounter this dozens of times every day. I have been doing my hunting for years; it is getting worse and worse. Virtually none of the ratting ships are manned by humans anymore, its all automatic programming - local has a neut - warp to pos.

I have a max skilled high-grade implanted prober alt; my tackle has warp speed mods to the hilt - and STILL the ships get away more often then not.

CCP, do something about the damn botting in null pockets. If you cant do that, introduce at least a 5 second delay to local. 5 seconds, thats not too much to ask is it??

EDIT - what is the point of combat probes if the hunter using them does not stand a chance of success? EVE is all about reasonable chance; a ratter should have a reasonable chance to escape; a hunter should have a reasonable chance to catch prey. As it is, the balance is tipped too heavily towards the ratter.

Translation: I'm very bad at hunting, it MUST be bots.

Why are you probing for ships inn ANOMALIES in the 1st place. CCP gave you'hunters' a gift in that the staple null sec pve activity dones't require probes to find. You should be D-Scanning and whatever anoms are in 5% is where you warp. launching probes at all gives a warning to alert ratters AND costs you precious seconds that helps them get into warp.

Isn't it typical of these forums for someone to be very very bad at something and all of a sudden it's not them but rather something CCP should be changing?

Show me how is it risky to rat in null?

What can possibly happen that cannot be avoided by looking at stupid local list.

Now compare to wormholes; no local - good fights, fun ganks, every day.

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Translation: I'm very bad at hunting, it MUST be bots.

Why are you probing for ships inn ANOMALIES in the 1st place. CCP gave you'hunters' a gift in that the staple null sec pve activity dones't require probes to find. You should be D-Scanning and whatever anoms are in 5% is where you warp. launching probes at all gives a warning to alert ratters AND costs you precious seconds that helps them get into warp.

Isn't it typical of these forums for someone to be very very bad at something and all of a sudden it's not them but rather something CCP should be changing?

Now, I'll predicate this with the fact that I already know the OP is a hypocrite, and a disgrace to his/her alliance, who in general are not shitposting crybabies.

But I love the part where the OP calls out an NPC corp alt who disagrees, and says to post with your main... and yet praises an NPC corp who agrees with him, and shows no such hostility.

OP, biomass. For the children.

I don't really understand why ppl are arguing about his probing skills. The point is bots, which I agree I hate bots and would love to see them banned!