Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You are too dumb to keep insisting on it, oh you went into corp and checked who was online and then did a quick calculation, so unimpressive.and it also shows a dying corp, also you are generally in null sec so why the hell would a hisec war deccer be interested in you. So your corp is of zero interest to have a hisec war dec, feel stupid now, you should.

The Goons are only of interest to pipe and hub hunters because they have enough dumb asses who go shopping and give easy kills to that sort of people.

When people have a hisec war dec many of them did not log on with that character, or avoided in another way, at least now without the perfect logon intel they might do something with that character instead of just leave it logged off all week, but how long this takes with the quivering mass of fear filled hisec players is an open question...

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The change was made so the likes of us could not see when supercaps and titans logged in, mercs were not thought of.[/quote]

Thanks for the lesson, ( not trolling )
I was not aware what the specific reason was they ditched it.

You corp had an issue before, it is well known about.

I have said nothing of the sort, you said that then say I am saying different, it is irrelevent to me. You are saying whatever you think about 10% I have neither said it was true or untrue, to me it does not matter because the hunter should have an idea who is active and who is not and when they normally play, that they generally do not really do this relying on free intel is their issue, with the change of having no watch list perhaps people will take a risk and that number what ever it is increases, I hope so. The only way it matters is that we are talking about a lot of hisec players who don't log on that character for a week with a war dec and maybe that will change.

Actually I think that most mercs went to pipe and hub camping before the watch list change because of teh lack of real targets in hisec, a number of people disagree with me, but that is my opinion. Nothing I have seen posted by those people who say I am wrong changes my opinion.

You keep throwing that hate PvP comment in this thread and the AFK cloaking one, obviously it means something to you, like a blanket to hold onto when sleeping perhaps.

The hunter typically knows. However, I know I do not play on a schedule. I log in when I have the time and feel like it. You may see me play somewhere between 10 and 14 Eve time, and you may see me play between 01 and 05 Eve time, sometimes inbetween, and during weekends I play whenever. That's a window of 8 hours on most days and I would say that's similar for most players. So, assuming an 8 hour window and an average playtime of 2 hours per day, that's heuristically still only one out of four players online when I start looking for them. And that's a very active corp, most are far less active than than two hours per member and day, war or no war. Then there are alt characters too, that may be offline for days on end, even though the player is online. Then he may switch and play the other character for a while. Then there are inactive members, maybe they are on vacation or don't feel like playing right now. All this pushes the chance of somebody being online at any given time down even further.

I agree, most people agree that it should not be free and I applaud that. But I still feel that many of you are coming from the point of view influenced by how easy it was before and I don't mean to insult you by saying that. I do support the locator agent idea, but I would like standings to be taken into account in terms of the person being located so taht if I have high standings I get a mail telling me that someone asked about me, if I don't then that is my look out

If I was going to give a merc contract on someone, I would had the merc a detailed mail with the login times and locations of the people I wanted them to kill, but maybe that is because I want it to succeed. I would note their vulnerability and make a decision on whether it is possible or its worth. For example and pretty obvious reasons I would not do a merc contract on baltec1's corp.

But I can turn around and say why should my playing time be detailed in any way without in game effort to people who wants to hunt me and as my game play is often to frustrate enemies I find that deeply annoying, and don't get me started on the map data which sets my teeth on edge.

But yes the key part is time and money which is why I suggested an OA to do this that works on a constellation basis, the OA is vulnerable when operating and does a scan every five minutes of the constellation, it can be blown up without any RF timer when operating but when offline requires a RF timer. It can be picked up and replaced like a mobile depot. Only one can be placed in a system at a time and only one can be online in a constellation. I would suggest about 30m in value and I hope that people can resist mercs by blowing them up creating a conflict driver in space. I think that this would work really well and I keep suggesting it. Maybe have it require fuel. I also wanted it requiring people to warp to it to turn it on or off.

I do understand these numbers and your issue despite it appearing otherwise when fencing with baltec1, which is why I have taken the time to lay out the OA idea that I keep pushing and hope that others will support.

From my side I want to see people fight back against war decs by blowing them up for pretty obvious reasons.

No because I want people to have a network of them and a region is too much, making it a region is getting back to contract list notifications level. Also it will not be a conflict driver if at a region level...

Something I meant to add, it has a limitation on how many targets it can deal with, also I would like it to have different capacities if put down for a corp as compared to an alliance, and the system works at the alliance level if you are in an alliance or corp if you are in a corp. Another proviso, you have to be at war with them so no alt corps plonking them down and standings...

That would be useful though, when you are not there to watch said Constellation. For example, I usually operate in Gallente and Minmatar space, having the structure notify me of WT activity in there would be pretty valuable when I'm 30 jumps away.

I'd go with that.

But then I would have to leave a 30M structure with no reinforcement timer (according to how it was proposed) 30 jumps away with no means to defend it. That's not risk, that's silly, and it's not a conflict driver but a target training dummy. If that was what we are after, we could just propose a deployable akin to a mobile depot. Just scans the grid it stands on and notifies me whenever an enemy passes through. Costs 500k and I can just poop those all over the place. Basically sensor mines. It would get the job done at least.

People have to find them and they can be blown up while operating, the objective of that was not to make it so certain people at the top of the hisec food chain would not dominate with timers, that was due to a discussion with Vimsy. Also giving it a value created a conflict driver and also if they are like Mobile Depots they will be ten a penny, those are my reasons, but people have differing ideas.

EDIT: What is the sweet spot in terms of value that makes it interesting to blap but not a killer to lose, 30m seemed OK to me as it had enough value that I did not want to waste them, but would 10m do it. Mobile Depot levels of cost are not worth it in my opinion.