EVE General Discussion

I think you may not see the opportunity as it presents itself. He didn't just blow up a worthless shuttle. He "gave" you a nice little killright with which you can use to hunt him and have some fun.

Set him to red, add him to your watchlist, use a locator agent, and boom goes the dynamite. All in that order.

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The Thrasher can be fit for fast lock and will one-volley a shuttle. It is therefore more than possible to pop the pod as well before CONCORD arrives on scene. There are pilots who pipe-stalk between Incursion focuses with the express intent of popping high value pods.

Not that I used to treat shuttles as abalative armour for my pod in that manner... and now use a Jag.

There are probably a few people out there that actually think auto-piloting is wrong. For the most part though, I think the hate is applied towards people who think they have the right to autopilot in peace.

If you are auto-piloting because :effort: and you fully accept that you should be able to be shot down, I don't think anyone will hate you for it. If they do, then they are hating someone for playing a video game in a manner in which they prefer, which makes them anti-sandbox and therefore non-relevant.

Mainly because you're not (according to them) playing the sandbox correctly and they're behavior controlists at heart. You know, kind of like the anti-smoking nazis of yesteryear.

Among which was the most exquisite item fashioned by CCP, the monocle. I do envy the capsuleer who now has the opportunity of joining the most exquisite and exclusive club in New Eden. I did hear that their hauler nearly met a very unfortunate end.

Which seems to have quite the nebulous definition.

Heh, not bad.

OP, he wasn't hating you, just trying to make fun of you.

Everybody knows (or should know) that autopiloting in highsec can get you killed, depending on what you're flying and what you're carrying.

So players tend to equate autopiloting = clueless player.


In your case, since you just lost an empty shuttle and provided your pod was empty-ish too, you certainly didn't make a derpy mistake like this one.

So the guy was just generalizing. If you ask me, smack-talking (or smack-mailing) after losing a thrasher to an empty shuttle is pretty silly. Come to think of it, maybe he was a bit butthurt himself.

Peopel do not hate autopiloting. Just autopiloting ships stay much more time available tof scanning and ganking.

If you autopilot in a shuttle, you probably will never be ganked in high sec. Same for an interceptor.

I dont think gankers HATE auto-piloters. it is a game feature after all.
it is just that auto-piloters make extremely easy gank targets, but since most gankers are lowlife scum with no sense of selfworth, they come up with excuses why they gank autopiloters to make them feel better about themselves. ridding EVE of bots blah blah blah. go scout out mining belts and take out isboxers. sure CCP condones it because each box is one more PLEX, but most other mmorgs ban for such activities.