Your thoughts? Can’t be really proven that the one behind it is using any cheats (since he uses different ships so they target/fire at different time), but it is definitely suspicious… I experienced it myself and I died pretty instantaneously. Last time they caught me with sub 2sec instalock in Rancer it took longer for them to actually kill me.
Does it matter if it’s one player controlling 10 ships or 10 different players? You’re still dead either way…
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I think you missed the point. Yes if it was normal fleet composed from actual players I would still be dead, i´don’t care I lost my ship, I fly cheap and when I see Keres I know I am ****, there is no counterplay to that, 28km scram + web that took me to 100m/second instantly after I activated mwd.
Point is - can this really be done without cheating? Seemed more efficient than typical human controlled gc. Question is what happens if someone finally decide to mess with him.
what part exactly looked “more efficient than human gameplay” to you?
What you mean?
Input broadcasting?
Or Is it the fact you got insta scrammed? (Which is normal)
How fast they all target and killed me, but okay hard to say, might be because classic gc want every member to be on killmail so they let you live longer, not very conclusive. As I wrote in the beginning, impossible to prove, but if it is so easy to do why is this first time someone multiboxing this content?
This reminds me the case with Ahbazon-Prime smartbombing multibox, There was definitely an input broadcasting at first. Then I think it was you who posted how can be all fitted smartbombs executed instantly and next day their behavior changed to use that.
yes
Maybe look up the attributes for your fancy mwd module? Maybe 500% signature radius tells you something?
Nah, thats no good indicator. They remote-sensorboost their primary tackler which immobilizes you almost instantly, the other ships just lock you as fast as they can and hit you quite well because of your low speed. Probably used Info Commandlinks too for higher Scanreso on all of their ships. Maybe even the damagedealers have an own SeBo.
You’d need very good evidence for input broadcasting, like all chars pulling their drones in at the same tick, all jumping a gate at the same second or something. Warping or aligning unfortunately doesn’t help, because that can be done via fleetwarp. And firing as well, as you can pre-fire your guns and then just ctrl-click on the overview instantly since you are only waiting for your target to appear. Even a group of humans can this very very simultaneously.
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lol please don’t comment if you have no idea what is being discussed
You were specifically asking how anyone could instalock you after your fired up your mwd…well that is why.
quote where I asked that
Such question doesn’t even make a sense lol. Why would anyone who activated MWD was surprised he got locked?
I think he just misread this
lowsec should should be renamed NoSec. Those Gate Guns and Station Guns are useless.
I would even call the mechanic that you start shooting, rewarp 250km and go back and continue shooting without gate guns shooting at you as a bug.
The fact that you tried to go through Rancer is all I need to know
True, but I took a Corvette through low sec not long ago and it was clear that there were bots being employed. Sure, I was dead either way. It wouldn’t have mattered, but they were definitely bots being employed. No one’s reflexes are that good.
Well I also think this whole setup is suspicious, but it cannot be proven. Report them if you want, I didn’t even bother with that.
Because the initial “catch” can be done and is done normally by lowsec pirate gatecampers in 1 second and they can catch sub 2 second align time ships like Sunesis, t3d and even shuttles.
And since that player uses different hulls, each of his ship will target+shoot at different time. So there is no proof. Last time when I spotted a “new” activity being multiboxed (smartbombing in low) I did have a proof, reported them, discussed this on forum. Nothing happened except that a new method of activating smartbombs was found and revealed and this multiboxer switched to that method and now you cannot prove he is input broadcasting anymore 