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Originally Posted by jermain
Thats an immensely helpful comment. Care to elaborate?
And Paisely you could say that about anything in PA. Cheaters crashing fleets and roiding farms etc? Do we get rid of ships and roids? I don't see that as a viable downside, it would inevitably happen but no more than cheating does at present.
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Whilst having Multihunters is a good thing and its a thankless job.
I've questioned like many other folk have ... how can MHs be so incompetent?
I tend to find that when it comes to kurbing abuse...
Game Mechanics > Multihunters > Left as is.
I've been quite vocal in the about "support planets" back in r15 (assassin was an outstanding head MH back then) to around r30ish but game mechanics have curbed this.
What made "support planets" exploded in popularity was that 1 group of people were using them and created a Keep up with the jones mentality to counteract the edge that it gave... their short-sightedness prevented them from seeing how this was poluting the quality of the playerbase I.E. an increase in unwanted/irc inactive galmates etc.
There are certain ways to cheat without MH being to counteract this like using VNC clients to access gal mates computers at silly o'clock to send defence etc. This requires a certain amount of trust like not watch any dodgy porn on the other computers etc... and it is used by certain gal mates / buddy packs etc.
I've also played when stealers didn't die (pre r19) and when fleetcatches were profitable enterprises but in hindsight it was detrimental to the playerbase as a whole.
What I am seeing being detrimental to game is the current exiling culture to create the psuedo private galaxies and exiling noobs out of the game.
I've suggested a stagger of private to public galaxies like the first xmas round (game mechanics) to counter this.
Moral of the story is I like the idea (and hearing ideas from new people) of stealing structures but it is open to abuse that I don't think MHs can successfully combat. Not to mention the keeping up with the jones mentality it would generate.
In short im too long in the tooth and would prefer to keep the status quo on Sks.