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Industrial exploitation

'DRAMA!!' by by emeahacheese (MAHS)

…or so a pilot named “Lightening Bug” [sic] seems to believe. I popped into Offikatlin on business in my Mastodon. LB sat in a heavy interdictor on the gate. Note, a HIC with a scripted warp disruption field can obviously trap a deep space transport despite the built-in warp core stabilization. So like any well-prepared and well-trained lowsec hauler, I aligned to my destination, engaged my MWD and cloak, and when the MWD cycle ended, decloaked and warped off. LB did not appreciate having her prey escape so easily.


[ 2010.02.27 19:49:14 ] Lightening Bug > nice exploit
[ 2010.02.27 19:49:16 ] Lightening Bug > reported

Perhaps the pilot in question should follow the advice she has in her own bio.

“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat–to learn to die–is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.” — Bruce Lee

Not all victories result in a ship explosion: she didn’t get a killmail and I completed my business in the area. Though I suppose the pirate losing to the industrial makes it an exploit, right?

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  1. Preparing for an industrial roam
  2. Blog Banter 11: Strategic Industrial Ships

Date: 2010-02-28

Categories: OOC

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  • Ah yes, the old "not dying" hack. Seriously cheap move Casi, I thought you were better than that.

    =P
    -Aiden
  • cchance
    hehe if u can really screw over pirates with a prorator, fit cargo expander rigs, fit a nanofiber or 2 and 2 inertia stabalizers and a warp core stabalizer to lower u're signature radius to increase lock time and u can almost surely escape before a lock with a 10mn mwd burst/cloak
  • Sore loser is sore :(
  • If I wanted to stay all anonymous, I'd not have posted it here, right? :D
  • Yeah, I don't make any special claims of uniqueness. I suspect LB just has grown too accustomed to macro haulers, heh.
  • Entirely possible...
  • Asking a question ("erm, how did you do that?) is a good idea, yeah, just not assuming it's an exploit.
  • You could give them a true Industrialist response and pay mercenaries to hassle the pirate for a few weeks! That would possibly backfire though as anonymity is your friend as a lowsec smuggler...
  • That particular trick has been around forever and is used by lots of folks. Perhaps Lightening Bug is new to low sec, eh? LOL.
  • anon
    It's difficult to believe she was in a HIC and didn't know about cloak+MWD. Maybe she was trolling you?
  • Cheater.
  • I love how the second someone doesn't understand a particular mechanic - in this case I suspect they've never used a cloaking ship - they cry wolf. I expect their petition was worded alright, but they're just going to get a mail back saying its working as intended and its always been that way. Ignorance does not make it an exploit.

    Now, I'm not saying that people that don't know x or y shouldn't question it - in local, in some other channel or in corp/alliance: whatever - but to just assume outright that because you failed to do what you have managed several times on stupid people that its an exploit is silly.
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