Anon06/10/25, 16:03No.1794008
kys
dude(s) goes to a place and shoots some locals. ratters, miners, whatever, or 'defence fleet' twats defending krabs for free. simple fun. it's trivially easy to avoid combat if you want, even if you're retarded, and krabbing ships now are pretty strong against the ships that have a chance of catching them, so it's shit
ESS was intended to be an incentive for residents to undock and defend themselves somewhat, rather than hiding and waiting for visitors to leave every time. balance the risk of combat against the money being stolen. the concept is strong. it's a failure because stupid constraints were put on activating the acceleration gate, and there being an unironic 80km scram bubble inside, and there typically being nothing of value inside, and very bad balance favouring defenders enormously
skyhook is similar but you need to fly a hauler so you're -1 real ship, and it just hard tackles you, and the krabs can self steal or something. disaster