A risk-averse farming bot will never lose because all it needs to do to win a PvP fight is dock up before the attacker can catch it, and local gives more than enough warning to do this.
A risk-averse ESS stealing bot will never win because if it uses the same “dock up as soon as someone appears in local” tactic as the farming bot it will never be able to steal from the ESS. All you have to do to block it is keep any random player in local at all times.
Do you honestly not see the difference between these two situations?
Tell that to the 2 secs align explorer bots. If someone get in grid they just ab out and warp. they can work 23,5/7 so they WILL find empty ess with bounties unclaimed/ not defended some time.
And forgot to put in the caveat that even then its unlikely unless you either know the person, or are fortunate enough to be invited into a group where size trumps risk of just being taken for a ride.
But you are correct on what people on forums are like, and though I have met a number of people I would corp with like me they tend not to because theres no advantage for us to.
Yeah then you have your income cut in half( more if dinamic is less than 100% and WAY more if you actually lose the ship) so it’s better to CHANGE ACTIVITY , how hard is that to understand?
You don’t need to. Put the T1 frigate close enough to appear on d-scan next to the ESS and the risk-averse bot will run away. In fact, it will probably run away even if the T1 frigate is docked just because there’s a non-blue name in local, but appearing on d-scan will guarantee it.
Or, if you really want to have a ship literally next to the ESS you can do it with an unfitted T1 cruiser and the price difference is negligible.
You do know that the concept is still the same regardless of the specific class of ships that enter the ESS, right? You can have a hull tanked Vexor, or a max Armor plated Maller, and it would do the exact same thing that is being referenced as a general concept.
