I'm beginning to think that I actually am in a professorial role. Hulkageddon University. I'm just one of a large number of professors and teaching assistants, serving the needs of an endless stream of willing students. The hulkistas.
My latest class tonight. Situational Awareness 101. I've taught it before, but it's worth teaching again. This is the lesson plan:
[ 2012.05.02 00:20:45 ] (notify) Approaching Nathan Justt's HulkI enter the grid at 20:45, start slowboating, begin attacking 1 minute 28 seconds later. I have to assume Nathan Justt wasn't at the computer, monitoring his mining. If he was, then holy dumbass. I did get my most expensive Hulk kill to date, 413M ISK.
[ 2012.05.02 00:22:05 ] (notify) Ship stopping
[ 2012.05.02 00:22:11 ] (warning) This action is an attack on your target. Attacking this target is a crime, will result in a security status penalty for you and will bring CONCORD to enforce the law by destroying your ship. <b>CONCORD will kill you!</b><br><br>Do you wish to proceed with this dangerous action?
[ 2012.05.02 00:22:13 ] (notify) For initiating combat your security status has been adjusted by -0.1609.
[ 2012.05.02 00:22:13 ] (notify) Poetic Stanziel, criminals are not welcome here. Leave now or be destroyed.
So what lessons did Nathan take away from my class? Don't mine AFK during Hulkageddon. If a destroyer enters the belt with you, and if he's not on top of you on the warp in, then get the hell out of there.
Maybe CCP needs to create a special module for miners. A mid-slot item that will emit an audible alarm when a player-owned ship enters their grid. Perhaps the module can be configured to exclude certain classes of ships (other mining vessels, industrials, etc.) Such a module would have saved poor Nathan Justt. He might have been AFK, but he was near his computer. Probably jumped from his lounger the moment his shield alarm went off. Why do I think this? Because as soon as I destroyed his ship, he had the wherewithal to call me an ass in local.
I don't begrudge him his outburst.
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I'm at -2.3 security status now. Travelling through Amarr was interesting, although not particularly dangerous. How long, sitting still, before guns and police start firing? Is it possible to be a criminal in a cloakie, and not get chased, wasted, by the po-po? Or do the police have special, super-secret cloakie detection equipment.
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Some folks have been kind enough to put bounties on me. More please.
It's not exactly the same, but when I was -9.00 to the Minmatar Republic I was unable to use cloaks in Minmatar high-sec systems. I can't recall whether there was an error message.
ReplyDeleteYou can not activate a cloak while the fuzz are after you. You can generally move around high sec pretty easily as a criminal as the police will web you into warp before scraming you. Other players will be your biggest concern.
ReplyDeleteAt -2.3, he has nothing to fear from other players...just because the NPC Navy is after you doesn't give other players free reign to shoot you.
DeleteYou need to be worse than -5 before other players can get involved.
DeleteAs a miner I approve of this statement. I've been mining every day of hulkageddon the last 2 years running and have yet to lose a ship by the simple expedient of watching local and d-scan. I know one of these days someone will get me but so far, while I've had a few very close calls I'm still rocking my original hulk (admittedly a good tank helps too, can save your ass on a slow warp out).
ReplyDeleteDon't be an afk dumbass miner folks. not during hulkageddon anyway.
Time to rat up your sec status!
ReplyDeleteSoon. I figure when I hit -3.0, I shall head to nullsec. My ratter is parked in a 0.6 system, with only lowsec between me and nullsec. So, just have to make sure I can travel that 0.6 system safely.
Delete"Stop bitching about EVE University. You think you can do better, run your own fucking University."
ReplyDeleteSolving the problem by doubling it, there's a novel idea.
Amusingly, if you apply their own advice to their own statements, your comeback to them would be "stop bitching about me bitching about the Uni, if you think you can do better, bitch about the Uni yourself." An incoherent rejoinder, and yet its inanity redounds only upon its targets.
You cannot cloak if you're under the minimum sec-status for un-restricted entry into a system.
ReplyDeleteYou'll get this charming message:
[(Timestamp) Notify] Your cloaking systems are currently jammed by police who are in pursuit of you.
The faction-piggies, however will first web then point about 6-8 seconds later (lol!), helpfully webbing you right into warp. They will also get at least one shot off if they web, and they hit hard, so fit at least some buffer--shields in the mids, agility in the lows and maybe a WCS or three, as players can also go after you. You also get sentry-gun aggro if this happens, so don't dawdle at gates.
The exception is the Sanctum constellation of the Genesis region, as they are owned by CONCORD--if you get aggressed there, then it's by CONCORD, and you will receive a Global Criminal Cooldown (but not a sec-hit unless you agress something you shouldn't, of course), and get CONCORD'ed. (I think this also applies to other parts of that area that are owned by Interbus, as well, IE Faction piggies = CONCORD) You can still get through it if you're in something fast/agile enough not to get aggressed, but if you do, then accept your beating, as getting away would still be exploiting by evading CONCORD--and CCP really, really doesn't like that, as we all know.
Nothing could save this miner. He is dumb beyond saving. The largest HP of the Hulk is the structure, so not having Damage Control II is an atrocious mistake. Cargohold is not an issue, mine to a can, canflip is nothing in loss compared to gank. He had an empty rig slot and SMALL shield booster.
ReplyDelete"How long, sitting still, before guns and police start firing? Is it possible to be a criminal in a cloakie, and not get chased, wasted, by the po-po? Or do the police have special, super-secret cloakie detection equipment."
ReplyDelete- About 3 to 5 seconds in a 1.0
- They will web, neut, ECM and eventually scram
- You can't cloak
- They're usually not too bad
lol no cloaking while "wanted"? That's bullshit.
ReplyDeleteThen again I'm sure some jamoke will come along and use that in the never-ending AFK-cloak argument "Well if the faction police are chasing you and you can't cloak....then if nullsec people are chasing you, you shouldn't be able to cloak either!" or some stupid shit like that.
I really don't get why avoiding faction po-po or even CONCORD is such a big fucking deal. RL sees notorious criminals evading the police all the fucking time, sometimes even fighting them and occasionally winning. It brings heightened drama and all... why the hell else do they "interrupt for this NEWS BULLETIN" whenever there's some wild police chase going on or something? Why is Worlds Wildest Police Chases so heavily watched and syndicated all over?
Because people love a good story about someone flipping The Man the bird, and _potentially_ getting away with it.
How bout some hair-raising crime drama where DED-faction PLAYERS go after criminals trying to scram, web, set up gatecamps, etc, to catch them? That'd make for some interesting FRAPSing for damn sure!
You are very good at shooting large inanimate objects that cannot shoot back. When Hulkageddon is over, have you considered a career as a miner?
ReplyDeleteAnd get shot at? No thanks :)
DeleteI did consider adding "and then getting very quickly killed by a far more powerful opponent" to my original comment. Honestly, gankers and miners have an awful lot of playstyle in common...
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