Yes. Have you ever done that to a fw permatanker? What do you think is going to happen? He’ll dock and wait you out. You can’t be there 24/7. Time is on his side. Eventually you will leave and he can keep going on. If you’re thinking you can just keep alphaing him off the field, then you’re mistaken, unless you want to continuously throw hundreds of millions at him in the hopes that he’s going to explode.
You make it sound like this hasn’t ever been an actual problem and is easily dealt with, but if it was, then those people wouldn’t exist.
That’s obviously not what’s happening. We need to stick to what’s real, not to what we want to be real. Like this here:
We know that. They don’t. For years nothing changed that, so why would you even bring it up? Stick to what’s real, not to what should be real.
I’m sorry, but you need to find an actual argument here. It doesn’t matter if they have to join, or not. What’s important is that they are joining and that these people are a problem which can not actually be dealt with, just like the Orcas.
Because telling every new player that he’s required to use at least two characters, to actually play faction warfare properly, is complete and utter nonsense. Why would I need to explain this to you? It’s self evident that this isn’t a good way forward. There’s a difference between people wanting two or more characters or people who require two or more characters.
Currently, despite some people claiming that you need two characters at least to have fun, most activities do not require two characters. In FW, when you don’t have your own trucking alt, then you’re going to have a worse time! Alphas or not! It might be free to own Alpha trucking chars, but it should not be required just so you don’t lose your ship to some people you didn’t even know where sitting there, virtually unkillable, while farming everyone who doesn’t understand what’s going on.
What are you going to write now? That people should be educating new players better? That CCP should do this or that better? I’d just, again, point out that we need to stick to what we have and not what should be. Apparently the “should be” never materialized for one reason or another and we need to accept that!
It’s as if, inside your bubble, you’re thinking there’s plenty of options, ignoring that there’s hundreds and thousands of different people who can not ever be aware of everything, can not ever all be able to pay for hauling services instead of acknowledging at least organizational problems, ignoring that there should not be any gameplay which requires to characters, ignoring that it’s a problem when virtually unkillable ships shoot people who “should know better” AND wrongly thinking that they can actually be dealt with. Ignoring that things obviously aren’t working properly while coming up with “should be” as if they meant anything else but keeping the barely functional status quo alive.
I challenge you to dedicate your time and efforts to getting rid of FW station campers in highsec. When you think it through, you’ll notice that there is absolutely no way of getting rid of them, because they can just switch alts to a different station and come back when you’ve left. You’ve achieved nothing but wasting your time and learning that your idea of how it should work might not be how it actually works.
I’d challenge you to making a new char, joining a corp and going through the process, but that’s silly. I admit that I did not do that myself either, but unlike you I’ve at least talked to enough people to understand how it works.
