CCP was already exploring changes to bump mechanics, but the team was laid off, so the project is on temporary hold.
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It is not an excuse, it is the reality.
I trained up Lucas Lucias to do that, but could not find another person to make it two Talos, my other account did not have anyone suitable at that point. I could afford it, but I was an exception.
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It all comes down to being bad at the game in the end and making excuses. When I wanted to solo freighters by myself, I didn’t cry about how stupidly high the ehp of them was. I went and made isk then Plexd more accounts so I could accomplish my goal.
Sure, and almost surely by someone that is going to gank said freighter. Suiciding ships into a freighter just to collect tears…how often does that happen?
And all credit to you, and yet when AG started ganking freighter wrecks bang, the mechanics changed so quickly and placed it out of their reach. There is no level playing field in terms of mechanics and in terms of power projection.
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You don’t think theres a slight difference between the effort of running 30 accounts vs a 1mil thrasher being able to destroy billions with a click? ag are playing the same game, they can multibox 20 basilisks if they put in the effort, or run two nados and kill wrecks.
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Where is the ISK reward in AG to plex those accounts, can’t see it…
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They’re playing a video game where they have fun failing nonstop to stop ganks. Why do they need a reward?
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Well to be able to fund their fight for a start.
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Go make isk then? the 45bil I’ve been paying for plex every month didnt fall out of the sky
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I would expect that you get most of that from ganking perhaps… Though SP farming is anothr way and quite soul destroying as per Ima’s breakdown on this.
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Yeah because I spent hundreds or thousands of hours grinding on idiots. SP farming only works when you start doing it, my perfect gankers only recently finished at 20-22mil sp. Thats over a year without extracting. An ag character wouldnt need anything close to that either and could use +5s
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But this gets back to the issue on what hisec is for. You are a non-casual player who moans about the restrictions put on an area for casual players because you chose to operate there, does this give you the right to farm such casual players in such a unbalanced way.? And furthermore to scream blue murder on these forums to protect that.
If that is Eve, which it is in my book then hisec is doomed as we see with the decline of war decs and other content. Personally I am fine with it as I decided not to partake in hisec content as it is so poor and the purist in me who looks at this advantage you have and despises it is at a point where I give no fecks if you and all of hisec disappears. Happy now…
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What am I moaning about exactly?
Where is the inbalance? I have to put lots of effort, time, skill and prep work into killing people who put almost no effort into what they do.
You’re being a bit hyperbolic no? You just want to completely gut my playstyle so it becomes impossible.
Yet you come on these forums and moan about highsec ganking nonstop. Thinking it needs to be completely changed
I’m always happy. Unlike the sad sacks who can’t handle the way the game is and want it constantly changed cos they are bad
You have complained about nerfs and increased EHP have you not, up above.
The inbalance is in the tactical advantage that bumping gives, I have explained it enough times for it to sink in.
Well seeing as I moved my stance a bit to try to accommodate your play, so not really, I guess you would not do it in the other direction though you did say 15 minutes, so perhaps there is hope for you.
Where have I ever moaned about hisec ganking as a whole, I attacked bumping due to its inbalance, I told CCP that leaving all the mining ships with the tank of a wet paper bag was stupid, but I have never once called for the end of ganking, you believe your own propaganda.
Of course your happy, you have to work for it yes, but it is a grind and at the end big bucks and little risk, yes you are happy. Still bloody boring game play and you are welcome to it.
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I said I didn’t complain… I said I just added more characters and adapted…
A freighter with a scout has all the ‘tactical’ advantages. Bumping only works when the targets already made horrendous mistakes
Yeah because you just cry about every single mechanic till it gets nerfed, then start crying about the next one.
I risk stuff everytime I undock. Failganks due to slaves, or a slight mistep and I lose a 3-5bil fleet.
I’m not ganking for the isk, I’m ganking because I like ganking.
If I was doing it for the isk, I’m not doing a very good job of it
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Option is dock up and log, great stuff…
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has them, for me bumping is a massive gaping inbalance, without that ganking would be in a happy place imo. I don’t give a rats ass if you believe me or not. But that is my view.
One thing I would like to do however is make NPC stations unaccessible to -10. But that is to drive conflict.
LOL, the break even point is 1bn, so 3.5bn, seriously…
I know you like ganking, but on the flip side with this mechanic most people on the other end of it don’t because of this mechanic. You better note that as an issue because it is going to kill your fun.
The killmail you linked just proves that you have so much ISK that you can afford to do that, so what, AG don’t have that kind of ISK and cannot afford to do that, so what…
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Yeah, sounds like a better idea than sending a expensive noncombat vessel through a road with bandits waiting. You could also have a defense fleet… Do something else besides expect 1 player to beat 30 just by default.
Yeah, it would almost cease to exist. Happy for the bears
what? How hard is it to understand, fleet dies, no loot, fleet cost 4bil, + blue loot maybe 500mil. Profit = negative 3.5bil
This isnt even counting pos sec chars and plex cost
it’s a 100% loss pvp game… Thats the whole draw of this trash game. There has to be a loser and of course the loser isnt going to like being the loser.
And do you know why they dont have that much isk? Is it because the games unfair or is it because they are bad/or lazy and dont want to put the effort in. I have friends who mine all day and make way more isk than me unless I get super lucky finding a whale and having a good drop.
There is literally nothing stopping agers from making lots of isk
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Well that might come if certain changes work their way in.
Well I won’t cry over it.
…, this is funny in so many ways!
Well they don’t like losing their stuff, but they especially don’t like losing it to naff mechanics and poor balancing which is why hisec is so dead and getting worse. Enjoy it while you can…
Yes, casual players basically…
Well depends if you start comparing different areas of the game.
Read Casuals
Me too, but I don’r want to Rorqual mine, am I or even you being lazy, bad or not wanting to put the effort in?
They are based in hisec as casual players, that is the reason.
From my prespective I think you are in the spot of feeling entitled to your gamaeplay, and you and your buddies play the one more nerf card like mad. I have noticed this trend with the majority of the war deckers in the war dec discord, so many of them are bitter and angry, choked into paralysis by the anger and bitterness of another nerf, it is sad and maddening to watch and one hell of an eye opener.
I know you put effort in and I respect that you do, however, it is still based on an utterly naff mechanic which you say will kill all ganking if it gets removed or modified, which I find sad. Not much more I can say is there?
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Or use a webber, or go around, or scout
Hauling is a skill if you know how to do it properly… but most don’t and come cry that they lost a 25b isk boat to a well organized group