EVE General Discussion

Ok Dracvlad, have you done highsec wars before and after the change to the watch list?

I don't think you have. But let us do an experiment.

I want you to wardec my corporation (my newbro will be just fine) and I want you to actively hunt me down. I am being completely serious about this...

I want you to experience the frustration of hunting ghosts, not knowing if I am even online or not while you fly through the 5000+ starsystems trying to locate me. Once you spend a week trying (if you haven't quit Eve before then) to locate me and blow me up, then come back to this thread and tell us how you felt about it.

Seriously, wardec my corp and actually try it out.

Doesn't need a counter, its balanced by the fact that by the time you act on the info its out of date.

I won't even actively hunt him at all. I will be the young fawn bounding through the forest. I won't even fly a combat ship that whole week. To him, it should be easy...

Piece of cake, right?

Fat chance of that happening, he won't even come after me, a self declared bear that actively avoids being directly involved in non NPC ship explosions.

Admittedly my offer for him to prove his chops definitely involved a trap of some description

Typical bull, if you had done your homework before hand you would know where he was likely to be and would use your locator alt to narrow down his exact location, in other words you would be poised to go after him. This is easy stuff for anyone with a brain.

Warning to anyone just arriving in the thread:

Drac is a complete wet wipe right now.

We seem to have put him on tilt and he isnt handling it very well.

They did.

Now, how about you backing up your BS for once? Come find me.

He can't back it up because he isn't able to.

One little innocent comment by Ralph about Drac's AFK flag, free Intel proposal and Drac is having a meltdown, ranting at everyone. He has no ability to back any of it up.

Fair enough, then quit complaining. And 0.0 is nothing like highsec. Cannot compare the two at all.

Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution.

250k plus 5min delay, the price/time scales down if the target is in region and further down if he is in the consolation, Plus travel time to located system. If the target you located is traveling it's completely worthless if he is mining or missioning it's entirely possible for the missioner to finish his mission on dock up with in the 5min period plus travel time. 30min cool down time for Level 4.

Let me break it down, You have One person plus a scout hunting Leroy. You place a locator agent, 5 mins 250k later you get the system name, and no station meaning he is in space. You have travel to the system which we will say is another 5mins of travel time away.

When you get to the system, you see Leroy is in system via local (Free intel), Your OOC scout, FIRST needs to check the stations, doesn't matter if there is a Mission Agent in system, you need to be sure that you know he is still out in space. You can bypass this by sending him a duel invite (Free Intel), but this will possibly spook your target, after verifying that he is space, you then check his Killboard (Free Intel) to see what he fly's and if you can narrow down what to look for. He like Caldari so you begin looking for anything Caldari related.


Scan time, plus verifying if he is docked, may cause you sitting on this one person for, let's say, 20mins. A lot of work going into finding this one particular person.

If you are in a missioning system, Like any of the SOE mission hubs, you have a lot of ships to go through, if not your in luck. Eventually you find a Leroy in a Raven. If your lucky you call in a friend to come in an interceptor to get tackle, if not you better hope that he's near by a gate. No interceptor pilot means you need to be in a fast warping ship yourself, normally a T3 with a warp speed Sub and Rigs. Making you more venerable as your ship is now two roles rather then one.


And all that before you even press F1.


Locator agents are not easy mode. They didn't need to be pushed aside. They generated Content. Finding a Corps HQ is a lot easier, making it easier one the defending corp to mount a possible defense as well.

Compared to now, were you roam randomly hoping to find someone, check mission hubs periodically and sit on pipeline and hubs catching the stupid,

Locators are not free.


EDIT:

Also whats with the whine that Ralph got some likes? Like serious? Likes are nothing I can run over to the Get Likes thread and boost my self up by 500 or more in a week and that doesn't mean anything. Just some people agree with him and sent that recognition in via a little button. I can log my other accounts onto the forum and boost myself up. 12 likes per post baby.

Just because someone's post get's a like doesn't mean anything of value to someone else.

Maybe because you see likes as a, "I find this post agreeable/funny" why does it bother you? That some people may disagree with you? That someone might have a different opinion that you and that is upsetting somehow?