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Pretty generic stuff, but... Playing the Ghost Recon beta on my PS3. Apparently shooting teammates hurts yourself, but grenades are fair game. Been chucking those suckers like its going out of style.
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PokeWarVeteran posted:Pretty generic stuff, but... I think you've missed a trick here. If you get hurt for shooting other people, the obvious grief here is to cause people to kill themselves by standing in front of them.
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Apr 25, 2012 00:34
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Lord Banana posted:I think you've missed a trick here. If you get hurt for shooting other people, the obvious grief here is to cause people to kill themselves by standing in front of them. I tried. It's difficult most of the time, but I did a nice one on accident just like ten minutes ago. So there's a game mode where there's a bomb on the map and each team is trying to grab it and blow up the other team's base or something. On one map (Pipeline, for those who try it), one of the areas has two main corridors leading to it. It's easy to be shot while standing in one of the corridors, but there's plenty of cover on the outside to shoot those inside. Anyways, I had just helped escort our bomb carrier into position, and my other five or so teammates got into position covering the corridor we didn't come through. Sure enough, like three guys came running down the alley at us. Now, I had the smart idea that I'd run out of the alley and take up a position outside to shoot those running by to chuck grenades at us. However, I didn't think they'd already be there. What ended up happening was three guys shooting me in the back, then dying to an enemy grenade that was lobbed over my head, then me dying to the lead enemy (headshot) before I could raise my gun. My teammates were a bunch of armchair general types. You've heard the things they say, and they said a lot of it. tl;dr: I used my body to protect the enemy from my team's gunfire, and then they all died from a single grenade due to their health being reduced by the anti-teamkill measures where they might have survived with some damage before. PokeWarVeteran fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Apr 25, 2012 |
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Apr 25, 2012 00:46
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Does anyone actually have a link to the person dying because of WAR's billing fuckup, or is it just one of those urban legends? I kinda find it hard to believe that someone actually died because their power was cut off due to WAR. Like, there was probably something else wrong in their lives if they were so far behind in paying their power bill that it got cut off.
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Apr 25, 2012 00:57
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The APB Reloaded Something Awful clan, Something Lawful, had its first J4G (Join for Guild) recently. A player named Dreaming paid his  , went straight to the APB thread, asked to be let in and in classic friendly SA fashion was convinced to make several "application" topics in different subsections of the forums.When it came time for the initation procedure, he was paraded through San Paro with a goon escort, driven to a destination and the verdict was passed. Alternative video including the escort: http://youtu.be/HJvwTabRq3Y
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Apr 25, 2012 01:06
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Songbearer posted:The APB Reloaded Something Awful clan, Something Lawful, had its first J4G (Join for Guild) recently. A player named Dreaming paid his I felt so bad seeing his threads in all the different sub-forums.  Not bad enough to tell him of course.
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Apr 25, 2012 01:09
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Link to his profile so I can see all the posts? Also can you explain a little what him being shot meant? I thought those games were all about that stuff.
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Apr 25, 2012 08:52
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I think the idea was he was expecting to get a little party thrown for him as an acceptance to the Totally Awesome Something Lawful Goon Guild and instead he got rejected and shot to death instead. There's not much beyond that
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Apr 25, 2012 08:58
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oldgoatmon posted:Link to his profile so I can see all the posts? Usually you don't shoot fellow officers though, but they used friendly fire to take him out, before kicking him to the curb. Enforcers rarely fight anything but criminals.
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Apr 25, 2012 09:12
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Songbearer posted:The APB Reloaded Something Awful clan, Something Lawful, had its first J4G (Join for Guild) recently. A player named Dreaming paid his That J4G van paintjob with the sliding door is loving brilliant. I can only imagine his face when they closed the door.
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Apr 25, 2012 10:13
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When my best friend and I got bored with Starcraft 2 we would join 3v3 games and do Overlord rushes. Just produce as many of the big floaty fuckers as we could and then fly them over to the other team's base, yelling at our teammate. WHY AREN'T YOU HELPING.
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Apr 27, 2012 12:40
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In the latest Battlefield 3 patch, throwing down a spawn beacon in the open causes your team to parachute in from high up. Normally this is used to access otherwise out-of-bounds high perches, but in Rush modes it will make them waste precious seconds drifting down while the M-COMs are being armed.
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Apr 28, 2012 06:31
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Kinda tougher to grief in Dark Souls due to the way multiplayer works, but I think my friend just did a pretty decent job. For those who haven't played, you can invade other players games by using certain items and under certain conditions, and as such there are a couple of areas that are hotbeds for PVP. He was invading in an area called Anor Londo, a huge city with plenty of room to run around and play cat and mouse with the host, and with plenty of NPC baddies that can be tricky if caught unawares. Since a lot of people in Dark Souls just layer on the heaviest armor in the game and a ring that lets them dodge and flip away quickly, a lot of times Dark Souls PVP can be pretty boring and cookie cutter in nature. Instead of playing this game, my buddy started getting creative with aggro-ing the NPCs around the level to try and kill the host, including baiting people into the Titanite Demon room where a large enemy makes quick work of them, sometimes glitching through the wall with its weapon to score one or two hit kills. The best though, is leading players into the Giant Blacksmith's room. This is a friendly NPC who upgrades Boss Souls into awesome weapons and sells a reagent that lets you upgrade weapons past a certain threshold. He's a very valuable and often visited NPC. My friend baited a player into this room, circling each other as they dueled, and at the last second, rolled behind the Giant Blacksmith, forcing the player to accidentally hit the vital NPC. The blacksmith enraged, killing the host and netting my friend tons of souls and some humanity. Now anytime the player who my friend invaded gets close to the Blacksmith area, he gets attacked immediately and can no longer upgrade his weapons. The only way around this is to seek out a very out of the way NPC and pay souls to seek penance to be forgiven- but since the host was at least level 90, this would run him somewhere in the neighborhood of a cool 50,000 souls...
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Apr 28, 2012 23:21
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Fun grief, but FYI 50,000 souls isn't really that much. It would only take 20 or 30 minutes tops to grind out in the forest unless they nerfed things since I've played.
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Apr 29, 2012 02:00
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20-30 minutes of grinding sounds like punishment to me, but then again I'm in the "Playing combat focused MMOs is griefing yourself" camp.
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Apr 29, 2012 02:21
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Gherkin Jerkin posted:Fun grief, but FYI 50,000 souls isn't really that much. It would only take 20 or 30 minutes tops to grind out in the forest unless they nerfed things since I've played. Not even 20 minutes. It would take 5 minutes tops at most assuming you were using Dark Anor Londo with the right ring equipped and killing the 2 Phantoms outside O&S's room. Still, because of the way Dark Souls players are, getting them to attack a friendly NPC is hilarious. They will be angry because it isn't ~honorable~
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Apr 29, 2012 02:35
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:20-30 minutes of grinding sounds like punishment to me, but then again I'm in the "Playing combat focused MMOs is griefing yourself" camp. It's not an MMO, it's an action RPG with a multiplayer component that lets you go into the worlds of other players and gently caress with them, basically. Backstab them, kick them off of ledges, gang up on them with other invaders, and so on. If you're feeling dickish you can glitch end-game equipment to a new character and invade low-level players and gently caress them up. Or you could get creative. There's co-op multiplayer as well but that's not for this thread. 50k souls isn't all that much but Oswald is kinda out of the way so it's a pain to trek all the way back to him to get pardoned. In the meantime you're depriving the guy you invaded of lightning weapons, and if you invade before they fight that area's boss and gain the ability to warp they will hate you for it.
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Apr 29, 2012 03:19
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I seriously can't wait for this game to be out on PC, GFWL or no.
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Apr 29, 2012 03:44
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NTT posted:One of my favorite things to do to grief 2fort (TF2) is to take a couple buddies, all go engineer, and just build a whole bunch of level 1 sentries under the water in the middle of the map. It's real simple, and pisses people off. You can't spycheck at all down there though, what with all the water. Apart from the usual "2fort = self-grief" poo poo, you can get some extra efficiency out of it if you've got the Gunslinger weapon, which allows you to plop down expendable and un-upgradeable baby sentries twice as fast and for only 100 metal.
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Apr 29, 2012 23:40
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Dr Snofeld posted:It's not an MMO, it's an action RPG with a multiplayer component that lets you go into the worlds of other players and gently caress with them, basically. Backstab them, kick them off of ledges, gang up on them with other invaders, and so on. If you're feeling dickish you can glitch end-game equipment to a new character and invade low-level players and gently caress them up. Or you could get creative. I get why the guy doing this is naked, but why is everyone else taking off their clothes too? Out of a sense of "honour"? Also I love how when two people are having a fist fight and they block it sounds like clashing blades.
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Apr 30, 2012 01:23
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Pharnakes posted:I get why the guy doing this is naked, but why is everyone else taking off their clothes too? Out of a sense of "honour"? There's no way to know who you'll invade or what it will entail, so what that person is doing is invading as naked with no weapons, usually meaning "let's have a fight using only our fists" Then he gets in that parry (where you hear the slowdown noise) and pulls out his big gently caress-off demon greataxe to take advantage of the usual vulnerable time where, if you would punch, it'd deal maybe 30 damage total. But instead, it deals the full lifebar of damage.
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Apr 30, 2012 01:59
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FrancisYorkPatty posted:There's no way to know who you'll invade or what it will entail, so what that person is doing is invading as naked with no weapons, usually meaning "let's have a fight using only our fists" .... and people are all "lol ok lets do this."?
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Apr 30, 2012 03:20
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KildarX posted:.... and people are all "lol ok lets do this."? Why not? It's not as if they'll lose anything if they can recover their body before dying again (a little like in Diablo) and the spot in the video is about 20 seconds from a respawn point.
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Dr Snofeld posted:It's not an MMO, it's an action RPG with a multiplayer component that lets you go into the worlds of other players and gently caress with them, basically. Backstab them, kick them off of ledges, gang up on them with other invaders, and so on. If you're feeling dickish you can glitch end-game equipment to a new character and invade low-level players and gently caress them up. Or you could get creative. There was supposed to be an also in there. I know it's not an MMO, I just can't stand grinding in general.
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Apr 30, 2012 03:36
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KildarX posted:.... and people are all "lol ok lets do this."? Yeah, there's a very strange sense of honor in Dark Souls. People will bow and expect you to bow back, and you'll get some pretty harsh messages online if you use some more dickish strategies, like taking advantage of some spells that deteriorate armor. One Demon's Souls grief that people would play is using a weapon called the Scraping Spear. The weapon is essentially useless in regular PvE play, but in PvP the weapon deals damage and degrades armor until it's useless. The catch is that the only way to repair armor in the game is with souls, which is the currency and also what you use to level up. So you could set a guy back a good chunk of souls and then kill him because he has no armor.
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Apr 30, 2012 03:37
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:There was supposed to be an also in there. I know it's not an MMO, I just can't stand grinding in general. If you're not human you can't be invaded and being human is 100% controllable and confers benefits that are outside of summoning fellow players, absolutely minor. You will rapidly outpace soul gains in any given area and you don't lose anything for losing a fight unless you also then die immediately after you respawn. In fact, unless your abusing a few of the tricks in the game you almost can't grind in the game. There is no punishment in Dark Souls that you don't take upon yourself. Which is why absolutely everyone should crystal soul spear every idiot who bows.
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Apr 30, 2012 03:41
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FrancisYorkPatty posted:Yeah, there's a very strange sense of honor in Dark Souls. People will bow and expect you to bow back, I bowed once while I was playing with a few friends over. The coversation went a little something like this.  What the hell dude, don't bow, he'll just stab you. No, man, he bowed to me and I'm not going to be a je-- huh, backstabbed. Told you.
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Barudak posted:If you're not human you can't be invaded and being human is 100% controllable and confers benefits that are outside of summoning fellow players, absolutely minor. You will rapidly outpace soul gains in any given area and you don't lose anything for losing a fight unless you also then die immediately after you respawn. In fact, unless your abusing a few of the tricks in the game you almost can't grind in the game. I was responding to someone who specifically said you'd have to grind, so I'm not sure why my posts are offending you so much.
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Apr 30, 2012 04:03
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I was responding to someone who specifically said you'd have to grind, so I'm not sure why my posts are offending you so much. People like entertainment thing a lot, are mad/sad when other people don't like that book/movie/tv show/cocktail/video game.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I was responding to someone who specifically said you'd have to grind, so I'm not sure why my posts are offending you so much. It depends a lot on what tier of PvP you are doing. If you are doing any sub-level 80 or so PvP, then there's really no grinding you need to do ever since just powering through the game once will get you to 80 easily. If you are aiming to go past level 150 or so then the grinds start getting long and tedious but there's also no reason you should be vulnerable to invasion because there's no benefit to doing it in human form.
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Apr 30, 2012 04:46
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Oh lord, the Scraping Spear. I remember this guy who tried to Firestorm-Spam me using that trick where you can keep moving while casting it. Luckily, I was faster than him, as I had that ring that increases maximum equipment weight. He was wearing a full Brushwood set (heaviest armor in the game, I guess his strategy was to get in close and endure my attacks while blasting me with flames). Luckily, he screwed up once and knelt while casting (the default animation) so I started flailing the spear at him. Didn't take long for him to run off behind some mobs and start flooding me with angry hate mail. Idiot didn't leave my world though. I responded tersely to his mails with things like "lol" and "noob" (so classy) until I found him, then killed him while he was (I assume) trying to exit the mail interface so he could save himself.
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Apr 30, 2012 04:56
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I decided to give other players the full Dark Souls experience, beat a New Game runthrough at level 10 and joined the Darkwraith (PvP) covenant, allowing me to invade in the Undead Burg, essentially the starting area, at an extremely low level with fully enchanted endgame gear. And there I spend my days happily getting xbox live messages calling me a human being.
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Apr 30, 2012 05:19
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GreenAcidRage posted:I decided to give other players the full Dark Souls experience, beat a New Game runthrough at level 10 and joined the Darkwraith (PvP) covenant, allowing me to invade in the Undead Burg, essentially the starting area, at an extremely low level with fully enchanted endgame gear. And there I spend my days happily getting xbox live messages calling me a human being. Dear God this makes me want to pull Dark Souls out and learn how to do a crazy run like that. That is so drat evil and perfectly in line with the Darkwraiths.
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Apr 30, 2012 05:34
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Policenaut posted:Dear God this makes me want to pull Dark Souls out and learn how to do a crazy run like that. That is so drat evil and perfectly in line with the Darkwraiths. I used to watch streams last year of people doing it at level 1. It was kind of mean spirited but really funny at the same time. They would do stuff like hang back and throw dung pies at them, since low level players likely would not have blooming purple moss to cure the toxic status so they'd waste all of their estus trying to stay alive. Occasionally they would encounter another player doing the same thing they were and actually have a proper duel. Newer players sometimes got confused by the dragon covenant signs too. They would think it was a friendly phantom and they'd summon them to help and would get destroyed immediately.
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I was at a LAN part and someone brought the game "Cruisin World" for the Nintendo 64. It's a pretty drat boring racing game, like Mario Kart but without any of the powerups or crazy maps. I picked a three wheeled meter-maid car called the "Sardine Master" and we were off. I played one map with some friends and was about to turn it off when I discovered that the controller's middle trigger honks the horn. And you can keep honking forever. I would just honk nonstop, for the 3+ minutes it took to complete a map. I also discovered that I had coincidentally picked the car with the most annoying horn sound. It was like cheese grating the ears. After one match, another person started honking his horn too. We joking declared the horn to be considered "psychological warfare" and I actually started winning more matches after I held the horn button down (even though it gave me a headache). At one point I won a race and the other guy who was honking came in second, and we high fived over the head of the one angry guy who wasn't honking After 8 races or so two of us were still alternating beeping and honking our horns almost nonstop, and everyone was going between laughter and anger. During the final race, one player got sick of the horns and unplugged everyone's controller including his own. Unfortunately for him, even though our throttles stopped, the horn stayed stuck in the "on" position. We plugged our controllers back in in the wrong order because the cables were tangled, and when we had sorted it out the guy who unplugged them was in control of my car, which was still honking (he couldn't stop it) and now I was in control of his. I couldn't control the steering or power, but I could still honk, so I just held down the button and started laughing. This was all in good fun, of course (nobody got TRULY mad) but I still thought it was hilarious.
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Apr 30, 2012 06:20
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Okay, we need some one in Goonswarm here to explain it, because apparently Goonswarm is now trying to burn the largest trade hub to the ground in Eve Online. Funny enough, while its a grief to other players CCP (the dev of Eve Online) love it because it means players will have to spend money on new ships/gear/etc.
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Apr 30, 2012 15:03
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I'm not in Goonswarm, but basically, Jita is the biggest hub of trade and commerce in EVE. Its also in highsec space, where if a player attacks another player, the aggressor is swiftly destroyed by NPC police forces, as opposed to nullsec where anything goes. Players that stay in highsec all the time generally don't like being killed and think nullsec players are no-life griefers. Players that stay in nullsec all the time generally consider highsec players to be whiny babies that shouldn't be playing EVE. Goonswarm has put together multiple nullsec guilds and their own substantial resources behind blockading Jita by suicide-attacking ships in the system. This will have the combined effects of massively loving up the game's economy as well as hopefully resulting in a lot of glorious pubbie tears.
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Cervixalot posted:Kinda tougher to grief in Dark Souls due to the way multiplayer works, but I think my friend just did a pretty decent job. Some more Dark Souls griefing ideas: - get on tall ledge with dragonslayer greatbow, shoot invaders off the ledge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ifYVk9NRHQ - dress up as shiva or the ninja in the forest, watch invaders run around looking for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esk2nuLGKzY - put on SmoughTits armor and camp/troll low-level parish invaders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXwVaRJlESE - trap Anor Londo farmers near the first gargoyle fight by raising the platform, make them come through the church, and shoot them off the rafters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYDBnMqiXE I can't wait for this to come to PC 
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BexGu posted:Okay, we need some one in Goonswarm here to explain it, because apparently Goonswarm is now trying to burn the largest trade hub to the ground in Eve Online. I want to know how they are killing in Jita without triggering the security force. Did they trigger the force elsewhere in the system as a distraction. I know you could do that.
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EVIR Gibson posted:I want to know how they are killing in Jita without triggering the security force. They aren't avoiding security, as I understand it. But if you build your ship right, you can kill your target before the security kills you. Since Goonswarm is already wealthy and has been planning for this event for a while, they can just eat the monetary loss.
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