ramming in CGs

[Jonathan Thal]

Ram me once, shame on you. Ram me twice, shame on me.
How did you manage to let someone repeatedly ram you to death?

1st time I figured accident, I dont try to live in a victim mindset, second time I got the idea someone was ramming me, 3 and on I was in the mail slot and unable to maneuver well.

 

[Jonathan Thal]

Let me guess: autodock, unshielded minmax build, afk, no situational awareness

level 6 shields on my cutter no im not min maxed im a RPer no auto dock, i haz da skillz to fly, and got caught going into the mail slot so no maneuverability.

 

[Jonathan Thal]

Just block them or more importantly its wise to do CGs in Solo.

O7

unfortunately I dont like this option, it makes the game feel empty and Id like to meet with other players from time to time, I dont care if ur a pirate and steal from me thats apart of the game, gank me warn me and if I run then kill me fine but for someone to gank me shoot me 2 or 3 times and im dust no warning no call no nothing just yank and pop, how is this fun for someone?

 

[Jonathan Thal]

I didn’t even know ramming was a long-standing issue until I started reading this thread. Reading your post does show me that it doesn’t look like there are any easy ways to sort this, and any which do will only go to slow the whole docking process down.

That is a shame because this kind of action will push more players into Solo mode. I occasionally play in Open but rarely do so when it comes to CG’s as the letterbox is often blocked.

first time I was rammed to death by a player I was doing a CG where stations were bombed and my clan and I were rescuing people from a burning station. As we were in line to drop of people I had a player ram me and as I was trying to get away I was rammed to death. first time fling my cutter and I was under built so I was easy pickings i guess.

as for your second statement thats what i fear too, Id love to play in open more and if this was real life I dont think there would be as much of this issue, traffic collisions are more distracted drivers over intentional, with exceptions to bait and switch insurance scams but I dont think that works in-game.

 

[Bigmaec]

level 6 shields on my cutter no im not min maxed im a RPer no auto dock, i haz da skillz to fly, and got caught going into the mail slot so no maneuverability.

You have to get rammed about a bazillion times in a Cutter with a class 6 shield, how did you manage that?

 

[Maximillian Forrest]

unfortunately I dont like this option, it makes the game feel empty and Id like to meet with other players from time to time, I dont care if ur a pirate and steal from me thats apart of the game, gank me warn me and if I run then kill me fine but for someone to gank me shoot me 2 or 3 times and im dust no warning no call no nothing just yank and pop, how is this fun for someone?

I sometimes play in group mode with Mobius (PVE) which is great as you can get to interact with a lot of other players during a CG. Unfortunately, Mobius clearly has a few rogue players who freely kill others without any action being taken against them, even though the group promotes being against PVP.

 

[GJ51]

IIRC - isn't the best ram strategy to just but a Suicide-winder and ram hard enough to go boom and let the station kill the target?

 

[Bigmaec]

IIRC - isn't the best ram strategy to just but a Suicide-winder and ram hard enough to go boom and let the station kill the target?

There is an easy workaround to that: don't speed!
Seriously in open just don't speed at CGs or in ShinDez.