Balancing Hi-Sec Freighter Bump Mechanics

[Teckos_Pech]

@Mike_Voidstar

I would not so constrain my choices, but that’s about what the gankers have on the field in this scenario as well, so why the double standard?

Says the guy who despises PvP and who never takes part in it. Trust me, when you find out the enemy has a hostile fleet nearby you don’t just pretend they don’t exist.

@Mike_Voidstar

You should understand… I am a huge carebear. All I do is 'bear it up, I despise the PvP elements of the game, and am only here for the pretty graphics these days since they hired a bunch of extremists PvP guys from null sec alliances as their Dev team, Oh, 9-10 years ago now?

@Scipio_Artelius

So we are discussing bumping, since that’s the assertion that the engagement is 1v1 when it is the bumper alone and doesn’t become more than that until later on.

So, the idea that any lazy bumper can keep a freighter bumped for an extended period of time isn’t the case. Lazy bumping leads to the Freighter getting on his way and that’s perfectly fine.

However a lazy freighter doesn’t deserve any more assistance, just as a lazy bumper doesn’t.

Heh…nice.

@Mike_Voidstar

Why does the lazy ganker get a 2nd try? 3rd? 4th? 40th?

Ganker or bumper? You keep whining about deflection and then you write that crap.

The bumper screws up he could very well lose the freighter.

Next.

@Mike_Voidstar

Every time interval equal to the align time of the target that his fleet isn’t there to gank is a failure to be ready. It’s just poor planning and lazy execution, and it should not be rewarded.

Umm no. If they are in a central location with a number of bumpers then they are ready.

@Mike_Voidstar

Either the ganker is ready to gank, or he isn’t. Try to keep the comparisons equal.

But the bumper is not being lazy. He is quite active and busy.

You are all over the place you want to ■■■■■ about the gankers when it suits you and tell everyone to shut up about gankers when it doesn’t. Bottom line is this is the same intellectually dishonest horse ■■■■ we get in the AFK cloaking thread.

@Mike_Voidstar

Even so, no one is saying the Hauler should be able to recover from bad luck in 40 seconds. 5 minutes is far more than reasonably generous, and yet you are behaving like someone stole your favorite candy.

Yes, because you know very well that the gank fleet might be waiting out 10 minutes on a criminal timer from their last gank. You’re arguments are completely self serving tripe.

@Mike_Voidstar

The point under discussion is about what happens next. Ganker got lucky and starts bumping despite preperations. Good Job. But so Sad, his Fleet was not ready.

No. The gankers did not get lucky. They saw this moron undock. They saw his cargo value. They’ve been keeping an eye on him. The bumper gets ready in the appropriate system. When the moron appears he starts bumping him. There are noob ships standing by to shoot the moron if he attempts to logoff. And this all happened because the idiot freighter pilot took on too much risk.