I've never clogged, even when I knew I would lose millions and being griefed. Still, I don't think CL is a big issue. If you attack someone for PvP and they clog, to me, that shows that you won by default. Perhaps you didn't get the money for the bounty, but so what. Can someone explain what and who loses if someone clogs?
Everyone who cares about the verisimilitude and integrity of the game setting loses.
Disconnecting to save assets is essentially a duplication exploit. Any insurance costs, any cargo costs, any profit (credits, rep, rank, or BGS work) from failed missions, and any time saved, are all things the combat logger now has that they would not have had if they had not cheated.
Even if you can discount any influence this would have on the shared parts of the setting, having one set of rules for legitimate players and then another, better, set of rule for overt cheaters is a slap in the face to anyone willing to adhere to the rules.
PvP issues are only a small (though the most visible) subset of the problem. Sure you can call it a 'win' if someone disconnects on you, but they'll surely be doing the same, and they still have everything they should have lost, so even that small deterrent to making the same mistakes in the future vanishes. This may not be a problem for a friendly duel or a pitched battle, but that's not most PvP, and those scenarios can easily be decided on conditions other than ship destruction.
If you go back to the post I made in this thread previous to this one, you'll find an example of someone who goes around destroying random defenseless ships, while flying a Corvette and not being able to cover it's rebuy. By all rights, that CMDR should be in a Sidewinder, which would make their antics a bit more difficult. Ultimately, the only objective victories are about inflicting loss upon your enemies; when they cannot lose anything tangible, they cannot be defeated, only momentarily distracted by the need to switch to solo to do some repairs.
While I have sympathy with Cl problem, I totally understand moving a fabricated, shoddy investigation that's sole purpose seems to have been to cause controversy to the 'back pages'.
Also all you guys accusing FD of 'lying' need a chill pill, there was nothing for them to act on in terms of facts from that investigation, 5 occurrences in 5 mnth by 1 perpetrator; hence no action taken.
Is anyone even talking about the SDC 'investigation' at this point?
That was just an icebreaker. There is plenty of meat elsewhere and it really doesn't paint FDev any better as far as enforcement goes.
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