Hi guys,
Yeah I’m also having an issue with the chat being blank since the update I think CCP are in the process of looking into all these things. It can take a while to lock down from issues especially while trying to allow access to the normal game population to various services.
Fingers crossed they fix the issue soon.
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Local “should” be working, ALL of the chat servers are borked, fleet, corp, alliance, all player channels all of them.
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You don’t need an NSA to rat, full stop, its not required, it never really was, you can do basically the same thing with a little site selection and a couple Sensor Boosters
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Carriers are still used in PvP all the time, they are still fantastic support/boosters for a sub fleet (assuming there aren’t 30 titans on grid) and they are still called to either bait and escalation or completely dominate a sub fleet.
我发现了一个新的BUG，就是当我上线时，本地频道只会显示我一个人，如果有玩家进入星门，才会继续添加显示在频道内，但是，我根本不知道看似安全的星系内隐藏了多少我的敌人！！！ 
我认为这不是一个好主意！
Prolly better to just camp the gates instead
Sure. Camp all the gates in a region, 24/7. For months on end. 
You have fun with that. Cuz that’s what you have to do to lock down initial hacks.
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I have 2 characters sitting in the same null sec station having coffee looking at local on their IPads. They both have working local but they have different pilots in the system on their display. One of the characters doesn’t show up on the other character’s local even though he is sitting across the table in the station coffee shop. .So…even if you have local and rely on it normally, don’t trust it. Its like blackout but your adversary may have an accurate local while you might not. Fly safe.
This is not the result of any blackout or comms issue. This is CCP’s DDoS-mitigation efforts running amok.
Taking chat from in-game and putting it onto separate hosting was always going to increase the number of nodes a DDoS could targeted.
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So South of Uk, connection problems (but normally only first time on each toon) no local at all and chat just tells me it cannot start, it miffed as cant fuel pos, but im patient been playing enough years to know CCP will fix it eventually, after all they are not the ones creating the DDos attack, just please remember yo give me back what i lose if i cant get on 
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For the natives. It made it safer for visitors. I was in a C4 WH for 20 months, on and off, and was poking my head(s) out with impunity into NS connections without having to worry about the natives seeing me popping up in local like usual.
Unless they were watching d-scan within 14.3 AU of the hole… the probe window showing a new sig (if I was the one who opened the hole from the other side) would have been their only sign I was there.
didnt make it safer for visitors.
Unsure how you came to that conclusion but your wrong.
I could spend some time explaining that but what would be the point, clearly you wouldnt understand.
LOLZ this is what null pvp is hide until you have 200 people to fight a 12 man roam, and make sure you have 20 logi and a few caps because the scary low sec pirates might kill you.
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Yep. anything to ■■■■ over the players.
CCP we need a new blackout !
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Agreed
Like I just said… during the blackout people popping into nullsec from WHs could go longer without being detected by the intel networks the blue donut possesses.
I was enjoying not having to appear in local when I popped my head(s) out into a random nullsec system I found while scanning down my corp’s WH chain on any given night.
I didn’t say it was perfect safety, I said safeR.
Perfect time for another blackout! Red dots, check. Annoying ding sound, check. Mining barges are back, maybe, check. Null is boring as ■■■■ anyway. Like, not even kidding, it’s safer than high sec by a mile. Shut the comms down.
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To all of those that cry for blackout and claim null sec is safer than high sec or boring, not sure in what language we all need to explain to you that null sec is not safe at all. The only way it is safe is because those that live in null make it safe within the territory they control. And as mentioned before, blackout never hurt big entities. It only hurt small corps and alliances that didnt have the man power to control the zones.
If you all like blackout so much, please, I beg of you, please go in WH space.
And for the record, CCP knows that if they bring BO the same stupid way they did this past summer, the game will shut down.
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I’m just going to leave this here.
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Economically blackout was an unmitigated disaster. Anyone who wants a return to blackout I suggest the following:
Go to your Personal Assets and systematically delete everything. That is the end result of black out. Delete it all and see how much fun the game is.
If you think blackout was a good thing you are an economic moron.
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