Knowledgeminer Vs Dracvlad thread

[Dracvlad]

You basically said that it was some arbitrary chance based mechanic and I linked what you said Knowledgeminer Vs Dracvlad thread - #51 by Dracvlad

This is wrong, very wrong. Whether a gank succeeds or not should be based solely on how well each of the involved parties plays the game, not chance based (other than the chance based way in which weapons work already).

Suicide ganking is just like normal PvP, with the only difference that the ganker has a limited amount of time available to succeed before being killed himself. Why should the ganker artificially fail at least 50% of the times regardless of how well he does it or how badly the victim fits and flies his ship, and still face 100% guaranteed death himself? Why should suicide ganking in high sec, but not (non-suicide) ganking in low sec, have such an arbitrary failure rate? Makes no sense.

In reply to what Lorelei said, it is utterly dishonest and incorrect. The only thing suggested was a variable CONCORD response time.

@Knowledgeminer

It should be noted, for those not familiarised with this stuff, that it’s absolutely impossible to achieve the 50% (or any other) minimum survival rate Lorelei said she wanted without introducing chance based suicide ganking mechanics, which is at the root of our criticism and something Dracvlad claims Lorelei neither said nor implied .

50% was applied to the overall balance and it does not require some chance based mechanism which you insist is needed for this, and you criticise her for this. It is here in your own words. And that is why I insisted you were talking out of your rear end.

As for the AFK part, Lorelei was talking about mining in hisec, as most gankers think that miners are AFK I made that connection. You are right you did not directly say it, but my focus was more on the fact that someone actually was sitting afk in lowsec for 60 minutes and did not die and compared it to the accusation that gankers apply to miners. So I did something similar to what you did. Here is what triggered you to go on your lowsec rant, and me to incorrectly add AFK.

@Lorelei_Ierendi

But considering I have to sit there and watch my Mackinaw pound away at asteroids for more than 20 minutes whilst not doing anything except waiting for gankers to appear… what can I do when they appear?