I’m sure if that person would believe they’re the centre of the universe and create a forum post about this super important incident then the perspective would be different, the tone and story would sound very different and we could easily see their side of it.
Back to the current situation:
He did something unexpected (and actually quite smart and well thought out) and reaped the rewards. He won, you lost, HTFU, welcome to EVE, demanding reimbursement makes you look like a Karen. Don’t be a Karen.
In this case, the person took advantage of the situation and will make a profit. He’s a good guy.
This is a result of bad code and insufficient testing before release. I tried several of these anomalies, and after killing the first shuttle, all the NPCs disappeared.
I think it would be a good idea to compensate the players for their lost property.
I think it’s quite interesting that a. either the site disappears due to something players do, and/or b. due to actions of players it is possible to keep the sites open longer and use it for purposes other than just shooting NPCs. I think it’s a welcome change to a ridiculously boring content, whether the effect is intentional on CCP’s part or not (which we will never know). I hope more future event sites behave like this.
And the important stuff is that now you know that this is possible, you can figure out how to detect it. And after you detected it, who forces you into the site exactly? Right, you can just search yourself another one. But everyone wants to be lazy these days. They rather quit the game, because as they pay for it they see it as a right to harvest that exact event location. Who are they to fly somewhere else?
And that cargofitted, 10bn isk loaded freighter has also all the right to fly unharmed through Uedama on autopilot without scout and web, because it sure is a right given by nature once that account is paid.
This brings to mind an analogy with parents these days. Those who send their kids to school, and when they come back with bad grades they call the teacher and demand better results or else. It never occurs to them that their kids could just be illiterate and dumb or lazy shits who are responsible for their own grades, not the teachers.
Thanks for the heads up if I ever decide to do any of these particular event sites. Dscan them first. Got it. Wouldn’t be the first event sites where Dscan is a necessary prerequisite.
Now it took 30 posts for you in this thread to get over your quitting rant and finally start discussing mechanics of death avoidance…nice!
So D-Scan may be not the best choice…but did you not notice what happens if you start a site? You could draw a conclusion from that to enter a site which possibly is a trap or search for another one which is guaranteed not a trap…
As I said: Don’t rely on “lazy fits”. Fit a Propmod. Once you land and find yourself surrounded by 40 NPCs (you are unlockable for a certain amount of time after falling out of warp, so you have a few seconds to check your environment), you overheat and burn straight away from them towards a celestial that you can warp to. Ideally in the direction with the least NPCs. Eat all the drugs you have: preferrable Hardshell/Overclocker and Exile/BluePill.
At the same time you overheat your repper to tank incoming damage as long as you can. Within a few seconds you are completely out of damage range of all those Ventures and the handful of Garmurs or the Orthrus cannot kill you alone. Warp off as soon as you are out of point range.
So, can a “Newbie” do that? No. Most probably not. Even a Veteran can be caught on the wrong foot. But to have a chance at all, using a good fit is the first step. And a fit without a propmod on a ship made for speedy combat absolutely is no good fit. It might be a working fit. A convenient fit. But not a good fit.
I did not necessarily means his posts…he also interacted with others and ranted on the answers where he could have gotten straight to the point in the first or third post and started the mechanics discussion. This is EVE afterall…you are always in search for knowledge about mechanics and how to avoid loss. And you need to adapt most of the time if not constantly. After each expansion the game is different in certain aspects.
They need to blow some steam off. But they play this MMO game solo without friends so when they can’t do it ingame because there is nobody to listen to them, then their only option is forums.
There are loads of situations in EVE where you encounter people ‘taking advantage’ of the game mechanics. I recently lost a ship to the ‘Bowhead trick’ ( someone using the Bowhead’s quick re-ship mechanics to swap ships very fast ). It’s legitimate mechanics…but was just being used in a different context to normal. You can guarantee that if people can use some mechanics to their advantage…they will. But its not an exclusive club. You can join it too.
For example, yesterday I accidentally discovered that a few mods give one of my cruisers absurdly high scan resolution. I’m not entirely sure why it works. I will ‘take advantage’ of that…and no, I’m not telling anyone the ship or the fitting.
I’m already making progress in this game, and I’ve even mastered the unsubscribe mechanic and the mechanic for refusing all in-game purchases.
Because my money deserves better use.
I also hope that the owners of this will also finally master the mechanics of getting rid of such developers and the mechanics of transferring this game to another studio.
