Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No, it really isn't. But it's refreshing that you're new enough to EVE to think that.

Not only is this method used as the OP states, but people also use the same online FF method to "Skynet". Basically a carrier or super sits by a online tower with no password, assigns fighters to a fleet member in local for more DPS, and when someone shows up at the tower, they put in the password and the shield comes up.

I say you can easily fix this by putting a timer on how long it takes for the FF to come up. I think 1 minute would do.

So I activate the Force field and before the timer expires light the cyno. You've just delayed activation, not resolved the issue: having a Cyno within the confines of a potentially active force field.

This method is one of the most annoying methods of cynoing supers and titans around. If CCP has declared this an exploit they need to start clamping down and enforcing it.

Simply not allowing the forcefield to be put up if there is a cyno next to it (25km + forcefield radius) is a fix to the garage door exploit and makes it a whole lot dangerous to use the skynet thing (assign fighters from a online pos w/ no forcefield)

I'll agree that the Garage door is questionable. Skynet, on the other hand, I do not believe questionable at all since any benefit derived is lost once the POS field covers the ship. The issue people have with the Garage Door tactic is that the benefit does not vanish when the force field covers the ship and cyno.

I do have a feeling though, that if this gets fixed it will just be taken to the next level with onlining towers.
Tower online in 10 seconds, cyno up and jump. Your session timer wont be over before the POS is ready to get a bubble up.
So where do we draw the line? Cynos can't be activated within [range] of onlining/online towers? As much as I disagree with this method of cynos, a lot restrictions has to be made

Dreads, siege mode, offline tower, problem solved. Not sure why you cannot see that as a solution, if you are not flying a dread to knock down an offline tower before its used then you really have nothing to stand on and whine about an "exploit" that can be prevented before it starts. Don't want to shoot towers, don't want to fly caps....but want the killmails, stop whining and be proactive while the players you are hunting are off line, obviously you found their towers/systems/character names . The method to counter the exploit if you didn't figure it out is knock over their tower and **** on their sandbox



lol risk free. Must be playing on the test server. On the live server, you can be shot at anywhere, anytime, by anyone. Get off you butt, fly a dread, and knockdown the tower before the shield is up. I explained as a counter method in the previous paragraph, you can be proactive and take it out before the ship jumps in or whine about it on the forums cause you lack the ability to do so. If shields go up to fast right now, that is a simple fix for CCP to make it a few minutes with zero resists or something on the tower even if the tower is anchored but the shields are in active (to make the tower easier to kill, problem solved).



Would agree with this, if a drone ship is sitting on a POS an aggression timer should be implemented that lasts longer from fighters/bombers and if the shield goes up it kicks the ship away from the tower, as well as a slower shield activation.

I see the problem as the shields activate too fast and some players (the whiners in this thread) lack the ability to destroy things unless its not in an actual fight (aka moving cap is probably not set up for combat or escorted, easy kill for scrubs...where is the risk for you? ).

That's where you are terribly wrong. Using this method you can avoid being so much as targeted, let alone shot. You jump to the cyno and have a invulnerability timer, during that timer you enter in the POS password and you are home safe, every other ship that isn't you gets booted out of the forcefield.

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