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Skihids
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Posted - 2012.10.10 18:37:00 -
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Vehicles are not required for the repair farming, so you'd have to zero out the SP/WP from the whole rep tool to shut it down. That would cause our Logi brothers a good deal of pain, but it might be worth it for the short term.
I doubt that the Yellow zone would solve the problem. Picture a heavily contested Skirmish match on a large map. Add a boosting squad off on the edge of the map. Would the enemy team even notice it in the middle of the fight? I would guess not, and even if they did there would be little incentive to abandon a capture point to go after them. Maybe if they were spamming OB's, but savy farmers would abstaiin from attracting attention to themselves that way.
However there is another way:
There are two distinct security methods. The first is to prevent a crime, and the other is to allow it to happen but punish the perpetrator after. Some actions are difficult to prevent and easy to track, so they lend themselves to the latter type of enforcement.
Boosting falls into that category. There are many ways to boost that are dificult to prevent without causing collateral damage, and yet it is quite easy to spot. CCP could write a simple overwatch routine to sniff out boosting activity, and that could be augmented over time if needed.
Then punish the booster. Slap an SP fine on him big enough to hurt.
Just like the IRS, you would then audit the offenders SP gains for a certain length of history to search for other boosting.
The threat of an SP audit and fine would be enough to deter such behavior. No matter how long you managed to get away with it, you would always run the risk of discovery and punishment. |
Skihids
Tritan-Industries
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2012.10.10 19:37:00 -
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Skytt Syysch wrote:Shiro Mokuzan wrote:All this makes me think they should've just gone 100% passive for SP gain in the first place.
SP farming is not a problem in EVE, because it's not possible. Farming for OBs is the bigger problem. I don't care if you hit your SP cap in a shorter period of time, I do however care if you're raining "unearned" OBs onto the field all game.
Ah, but you WOULD care if half your team abandonded you to play Farmville. You can't enjoy the game playing four against eight. |
Skihids
Tritan-Industries
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Posted - 2012.10.11 04:20:00 -
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ButthurtDweller wrote:The best way to fix this issue is by limiting the amount of points per action towards an orbital strike. For example, if some one wanted to sit there and bump a lav back and forth and spam repairs they could never get an orbital strike doing just that. They could get like 70% towards a full orbital strike but never a full one. Since no one mode of gaining points by itself could allow the squad to get an orbital strike this would force people to play the game and use various skills such as hacking/ killing/ injectors as well as repairs.
Doing it for SP is just as bad if they leave you four against eight.
I say enforce a no farming rule like the IRS enforces the tax code. They do zero to prevent you from cheating, it would require doing our taxes for you and that is prohibitively expensive. Instead they catch you after the fact and fine you into the stone age or toss you into prison.
So CCP implements a scanner to run over all server logs of matches to flag and preserve suspicious behavior. Most cases of farming are blatantly obvious so it would not be difficult. Then you fine he offenders something like ten times the SP they farmed. Repeat offenders would also get banned for a time.
Word would get around very quickly and farming woud stop.
It also has he advantage of discouraging other boosting methods as there would be the threat of a historical audit of past matches for the behavior once it was discovered. You could never be sure you were getting away with it or if you woud be discovered later and suffer the consequences.
All that and you don't penalize anyone for normal play. No yellow zones, no nerfing logis. |
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