Nerf Ganking Megathread

We can continue this long winded discussion regarding tethering I am gong to stand my ground on the matter as we have the stargates to worry about.

Start removing tether then more pilots would either stay docked up or log out.

The compromise might be that we revisit the Control Tower setup and make use of the forcefield but that requires more fuel and highsec charters. There is an unknown regarding the introduction of some small personal hub or something from fanfest y124? Hadn’t looked into the correct name of such deployable other than I am interested and hoping we have some sort of safe space using it.

The Tether even though it can be seen as a exploit to the faction standings couldn’t the same be as the Control Tower Starbases? The ability to become immune to targeting.
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This image of mine comes to mind with that where the NPCs can not get to me.

How do we do this without Tether in places where the NPC’s are out to get us? The constant bouncing within the system does become tiresome.

With the Trading, it would require a pilot to sit in station and have items issued by alts (under contract etc)

It won’t be buffed. What will happen is that your words will be taken as direct support for the removal of one thing as a condition for the addition of another thing “at some point in the future, maybe,” but the moment the former is achieved and it’s time for the latter, they’re going to pretend that they have no idea what you’re talking about. Considering how long you’ve been here, and your positions on various arguments, I’m genuinely surprised that you don’t understand how this “game” is played by now.

And yours too. You’re welcome. :wink:

Yes yes, as a Party member, only Tessa Springfield is allowed to break the rules. After all, she has noble and righteous social justice reasons for doing so! She’s protecting people from reading things they don’t like on a computer screen!

I triggered a snowflake who can’t read very well. What can I say, I love clubbing seals. :wink:

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Imagine if CCP introduced that new deployable you mention which would grant a similar force field like on your picture but knowing CCP’s track record it would accidentally also block CONCORD attacks. Just imagine the salt flood gates collapsing until they patched or rolled it back. :wink: :smiling_imp: :popcorn: :smirk: :innocent:

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I don’t think so.

  • tether protects you around citadel, where you can do much more stuff than you could do previously inside POS afaik, namely trading
  • tons of citadels are public and you can hide there from facpo/hunters, that wasn’t really the case with POSes before

And what was even point of using POS in space you are enemy in? I never really used them, just destroyed a few and destroying them is more :poop: than bashing citadels with their timers. I still can’t believe CPP didn’t significantly nerf offline one’s hitpoints. Then we would clean them up already ourselves.

Didn’t know, that is even worse.

There’s a ton of dead sticks out there owned by corps that have long since closed. But the stick is still there, belonging to no one, so no war declaration can be issued. They exist, in perpetuity, as monuments to ages by gone.

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Simple fix, apply a 3 month (or shorter) decay timer (only reset is to fully remove from space and relaunch/anchor) to the control tower afterwards it will unanchor creating pvp interaction once more parties see the due time to unanchor.
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Making this change could also increase demand and that demand forces more pilots to undock to either mine the materials to reproduce or undock to fight and steel the unanchored Control Tower.

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You don’t have control over what people are going to call you. It’s best you don’t put your identity of who you are into what they call you, or else you will forever be chasing them around trying to get them to be nice to you. And they simply won’t.

Once your get a strong sense of self identity, no one, and nothing they will ever say or call you will rattle you.

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A live concert is much better…

While Tessa whines about people “calling her names” and waving the EULA/TOS about like a cudgel, she herself spews toxic, vitriolic personal attacks at people who dare disagree with her.

She is obviously very young, at that age where she is blind to her own bad behavior. Or maybe she’s not, and thinks her bad behavior is justified because she’s “on the right side”. In which case her “morals” are just an excuse to outlet her aggression on the internet.

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I’ve seen full grown 40+ year olds with that sort if vitrolic behavior. It’s the product of never having to deal with their own consequences. Either parents continuing to bale them out, friends, even coworkers. These people believe they are helping by preventing hardship from occurring to their loved one. But what they don’t understand is they are creating entitled self absorbed emotionally stunted individuals who are walking time bombs.

Hardships refine people. They grow from it. Their character is tested and resolve is created. Without it, we are left with, well, what we see so prevalent in society today. Cry-bullies. Trigger happy safespace clowns that can’t function unless everyone is stroking their frail identity and egos.

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If I was this powerless, I’d be angry all the time, too, and making statements such as “you need to be controlled and gagged”.

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That’s just it. They aren’t powerless.

But they don’t know how to function through hardships because they were repeatedly rescued from it, and now expect society and/or the government to continue to do it for them. Or in the case of EvE, CCP.

No one ever walked with them during hard times, or times of difficulty. They never experienced that they are powerful and they can overcome adversity.

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They are in the sense that they have an external locus of control. But I see what you’re saying:

The only “power” they have is to whine to Nanny.

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I do control my ability to interact with people though. There is no rule that says I must accept personal attacks when discussing video game mechanics or play styles.

I’m not chasing anyone down trying to get them to be nice to me. I closed the door, and that seems to have offended you.

Where was I whining? What toxic, vitriolic personal attacks do I use? I don’t use the eula or tos like a cudgel, I remind you that you agreed to it when you decided to start playing and continue to agree to it every time you log in.

your armchair psychology is weak. For one, I have already stated that I am a man and 37 years old. I’m sorry that you don’t know what free speech even is, or that you agreed to suspend any rights you think you have when you accepted the eula and tos.
You should read the definition of cyber bullying. You are playing victim over being told you can’t be a dickhead and victimize people online. You tout political narratives as a form of personal attack against your person. You obviously view yourself as a victim even as you argue that you have a right to bully others.
When you are met with resistance, you look for other ways to attack people. For example, scrolling up over 2000 posts to find something I said and was corrected on already as some form of gotcha and moral/intellectual superiority.
Your tactics remind me very much of late 90’s early 2000’s yahoo chat.

You assume too much and don’t know your target. You look pathetic in your armchair, trying to read psychology from wikipedia.
I grew up in Kansas on a farm. I put 20 years into construction, and now I am disabled because my bones are breaking down to the point that I am bound to a chair at 37 years old. I have mental health issues that I have had to overcome where possible, and learn to accept what can’t be overcome.
My whole life has been hard work and obstacles. You have no clue what you’re talking about. I don’t say this all as response to defend myself here, I repeat what I have already stated multiple times on these forums. I do not hide who I am. I don’t care if you like me or accept me.

You are powerless. You gave up any imagined power you had when you clicked accept to the eula and tos. Now that the winds are changing direction, you’re whining about having rules put in place that you don’t like. You can’t control yourself, or simply don’t want to. That doesn’t make you cool or edgy.

Oh, please tell me who rescued me from my life. You assume too much because you don’t know the target which you engage.

The first thing I say to anyone who makes this claim is “you should probably stay away from full-loot MMOs and survival games.”

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Why?
I made the mistake of forming opinions on ganking in eve based on ganking in wow. Then I learned, and have since been shown some basics for pvp and find it exhilarating.

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I guess it depends on what kind of mental issues are in play, but generally games in this genre don’t mesh well with a lack of mental/emotional stability. It has nothing to do with ganking specifically, as there are many other ways to take big losses, or have negative player interactions in EVE that don’t involve ganking.

I would also add single-player horror games to the list of genres being advised against.

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