Fourth one has Concord on it, it is meaningless in terms of the gank, remember that the objective is to take down the DPS in a short period of time, the sooner the better. Do you have ten Oracles at this point, nope. Also those Oracles are easy to kill and as AG has no income trading like that is a loss to AG. It is not difficult to understand. With neutral RR we could alleviate the risk, but now that Oracle is on its own. As I said there are very few AG players left due to this, your ten oracles don’t exist,
Increasing the cost of a gank is not that much of a victory as they build in redundancy to their ganks. When we were going through the DPS option we knew that we had to take out 6 in the first ten seconds based on their redundancy to have a chance to remove enough of their DPS, they could then load more DPS in, but their next option was to take out the DPS we had. Which is why RR was important.
A Zealot needs two vollies to take down a Catalyst, it just does not work, if you call that reliable I have to wonder what you mean.
The Seebo is one thing, remote tracking enhancers are another to try to make sure you can get that single volley kill. Remember you have to reliably kill a ship each volley.
It is a simple point that is ignored, AG has no income stream, you cannot trade losses with gankers, without the RR capability you end up with trading losses and that is why AG no longer exists in any organised way. You ignore this key point and pretend it is unimportant, except it is the most important issue. Just because you don’t see it does not mean that those who did this did not.
The RR nerf was a real killer for AG. it destroyed organised fleets, period. You can deny that however much you want but after that change the players left melted away.
You say you have not lost any ships to them, which shows you were ineffective in stopping ganks, they only went for people who were making them fail. Did they actually try to gank you, I am guessing not.
PS. There was one ship that could do this effectively and reliably, it was the Marshall, so without RR support who in their right mind would risk that?
PPS I personally liked nuking the locking range of the -10 suicide tackle, that meant that the prey would get into warp and they fail the gank, easy to counter as they have to use a tackle that is not -10 so I can’t nuke him before he gets that first important point on the target ship.
Anyway, it is an argument for nothing much at all, AG does not exist in any organised form, and never will at this point.