(07-18-2014, 07:35 PM)Mímir Wrote: Yes, you are right these "super secret bases" are stupid, but those are the confines of the game mechanics, and we have to deal with that the best we can. I thought it was a maximum of 18K, but today I saw the Heg at 14K (players show at longer ranges than PoB's), and when I got there he was positioned on top of the base. He might have moved, but the point is that players from each side are likely to be in scanner range when undocking. That is unfortunate, especially for the few Corsair and Gaian players that aren't completely discouraged from logging already.
Those Miners are generally no more interested on who undocks from that Base than they are really bothered by the NPCs that fly around them whilst they mine. The Miners also 'see' GRN coming through the JH from Leeds and Smugglers coming in from Newcastle. As long as they are left alone they will generally leave you alone. I have never heard of a Hegemon, with mining lasers, chasing a Fighter let alone a Battleship.
Quote:This is maybe a technical discussion, but I strongly disagree. A Hegemon hugging a PoB with Cerberus platforms can be quite nasty to get at in a Battleship (I had to engage from 3K out and did not expect to pop it), where a smaller ship can dodge the incoming fire and get in range to deliver heavy damage. A battleship is terrible for many things, piracy included. Cruise is always an option.
Not everybody wants to cruise away maybe they would like to RP with words and not Guns.
Quote:Ok so you fly ducks, prefer not to fight other snubs and Battleships - that just leaves Cruisers and Gunboats, which in my opinion can be two of the nastiest things to fight in a snub.
It was to point out that I would rather not fight unless I have to.
In the first Post I did say this line:
Quote:We were happy to not fire shots as neither of use are that good at PvP and we enjoy the RP more.
Quote:Who knows? You might mop the floor with me. Plenty of people do; but if I fought you and knew I was a lot better than you, then yes, I wouldn't hunt you and I would give you the opportunity to leave unscathed, provided you didn't throw insults etc.
I find it unlikely. People who are rubbish at PvP don't go around looking for fights. Well that, at least, is my logic. I know my limitations and hence I don't, on any of my characters, go around looking for fights. I possibly win in 1v1 fights about 1 in a hundred. They tend to be lucky kills.
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Quote:We're going wildly off-topic here. I guess the conclusion is that I am unhappy with the fairplay in the situation today, but the BPA) believes that I should suck it up and realize that this is how the game is to be played?
I gathered you were unhappy with the conclusion of today's events and I did say I was sorry.
We are all guilty of it, in one form or another, but we are all also good at justifying to ourselves that what we did wasn't really unfair.
