so, I know the reason for the change to not allow people to use smart bombs in highsec, which is to prevent people from making a ton of alpha accounts to gank people in highsec, which I understand that but there is a good bit of alphas especially new players that I feel like this mechanic kind of hurts.
the reason I say that is because how the whole change works is that if your safety system, which is the thing that helps and prevent new players that don’t know what they are doing committing a crime without them even knowing it was a crime, and how the saftey system works with smartbombs, is that if you are in highsec, you can’t turn the safety system down to red and you also can’t use smartbombs unless the safety system is turned down to red and the only way to turn it down to red is by either not being in highsec or by having omega. which is fine, but something that the smart bombs are good against is drones because it’s quite hard to kill drones especially if you’re a medium size ship, unless you’re a missile ship. Also, while you can kill drones in small size ships, even with ones that are not missile ships, it still is challenging especially when you’re trying to clear out a rouge drone site with a lot of drones or even doing a lvl2 security mission, which can have drones. I also do understand that you can use drones yourself to kill them but not all ships have drones.
Also, I know the restriction thing for smartbombs needs to stay to keep the issue, people just making a lot of alpha accounts to use smartbombs to gank people in high sec, from occurring again, but something to do instead of not being able to use smartbombs at all in high sec could be just making the restriction work a radius. for example, in high sec you could use the smartbomb but if you don’t have the safety system thing set to red and someone gets within a certain distance of you it could then not allow you to use it unless there’s none in that radius.
I don’t really care if the idea I gave isn’t really put into use, but I’m just suggesting at least give alpha players the ability to use it against drones and smaller ships like it is meant to.
Something else, if an idea like mine is put into use, the radius to disable the usage of the smartbomb would have to be increased a good bit farther than the effect of the actual module, mainly because I know people will just go fast enough to get hit by it anyways, due to latency and to bait them into suspect status. Also to address cloaking, the safety system could just not pick them up, for example if a cloaked person is within range of it, when it would normally disable the use of the smartbomb, it would still allow you to use the smartbomb because the safety system wouldn’t even be able to tell that they are there which is kind of the whole point of cloaking and also I know then people would just use cloaking to bait people into suspect status, but that does give more risk, when using it, to EVE and not to mention, someone intentionally going out of their way to use cloaking to bait someone to suspect status would either take them sitting in one spot for a long time and generally just be very unlikely for someone to be able to do that.
I’m just saying I just find it a bit annoying that I need to be omega to be able to use smartbombs against drones in highsec.