You are confusing the PEG field, with PEG capacitors as a power source.
The PEG field is not on, unless the ship is in warp.
That bubble and “peg” you see in the graphics, only occurs when the ship has completed its alignment, and initiates warp (via PEG field).
It is not there when its flying around with conventional propulsion (ie: bumping other ships).
The PEG field, is only a factor in terms of collision, when in warp.
Not before or after.
The fact we visually fly through planets during warp, is another matter, but not relevant to non-warp bumping.
Ill send MaxSingularity an email sometime this week, and ask for confirmation on bumping when not in warp.
Let’s try: what is bumping gives a suspect status ONLY if ship has more than it’s maximum normal speed (which means bump happened while or soon after propmod was used)?
If I bump an Orca into a Freighter the Orca has a lot higher speed than max normal, so it would go suspect. Also prop mods are used by a lot of other people, namely miners who want to avoid bumping and I’m sure it could be used to make them go suspect as well.
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Something else to think about.
You can normally only get a suspect flag if you set the safety to yellow. If the safety is on green I can’t do anything that would make me suspect. So what if I bump and have the safety to green? Do I slide trough the target or is that safety setting no longer important and we can suddenly become suspect while on green?
I don’t think anything about suicide ganking should be changed.
Lazy or incompetent people get ganked, people that have made personal enemies get ganked, maybe the odd unlucky person gets ganked, that’s about it.
I’ve never felt in danger of being ganked in my JF, and why should I? I have a scout, I have a directional scanner and most importantly, I have an exit cyno ready to go and in fleet at all times. If I jump a gate and see anything even vaguely suspicious: right click capacitor -> jump. Problem solved.
I’m against any changes to the current gank mechanics.
It’s a broken mechanic that CCP has no idea or enthusiasm to fix since fixing it entirely would involve fixing the “neutral alt” issue , the broken beyond belief war mechanics and most frighteningly the ancient retarded corporation management UI.
