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Gate-Camping: The Simple Reason
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Jenshae Chiroptera
#81 - 2015-03-31 14:32:25 UTC
Infinity Ziona wrote:
... With the right tweaking CCP could ....
Pockets and pipes remain the same.
"Travel route" systems vary by spawning you 20-70 km from the gate.

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Not even once

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Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#82 - 2015-03-31 15:40:28 UTC
Yang Aurilen wrote:
Demerius Xenocratus wrote:
Gatecamps are an unfortunate necessity. It doesn't make sense for people to be able to travel through low/nullsec in anything they please with zero risk, and there's really no other way to catch someone who is just transitting the system.

I would submit that instalocking is a bit broken, and the fact that people can gatecamp risk free with enough scout alts scattered about. The folks that gatecamp for a living in places like rancer tend to have scouts 2 jumps out in every direction, they're literally untouchable.

I thoroughly enjoy murdering gate campers because 1) they are scum and 2) they tend to be flying excessively shiny things.
But most times they're already docked up when your fleet lands on gate in the adjacent system.


Aww is the poor frog gonna cry that we killed alot of them on the hik/pyne gate again?


1st) Again...there is no such thing as instalock.

You can tweak a quicklocker that it is on the point with the server tick.

It is a simple calculation.
Gate campers have usually no time to grind isk otherwise (job, family)...they want to come online and kill ****.
Most of them pay their accounts with cash (credit card) and not with plex.

If I want to kill a lousy hauler on a gate I need 2 scouts and a logistic alt, with the camper thats 4 paid accounts running simultainiously.

CCP loves gate campers.

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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#83 - 2015-03-31 18:02:37 UTC
last time I went roaming I did probably 20 jumps through low without running into a single camp. Think I started it off by jumping into null, can't remember if there was no one there, or just a blob too big to fight. Although a bunch of times I've gone through that same nullsec and not seen a camp. The first fight I got was vs a scythe fleet issue. He couldn't break my tank and I couldn't hit him. eventually I found someone in a belt and got a kill. then took a stupid very probably bait fight because I was done for the night and didn't care, which was stupid as a carrier undocked.

Also I had a lower sp alt in FW, didn't play it much, but when I did I don't think I ever saw a camp.

meh, camps are over rated.

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