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TrueBlue84

Lets talk Black Zone gate camping

Currently, this is a big thing in the game. There is one reason this is gaining popularity, is because it's VERY LITTLE risk, for high reward. As it is currently employed, a group will take 5-10 players, possibly more and stand by a gate/ exit to a black zone gate in t4 gear, and kill people coming by. The counter point to this is: It's a black zone, there is risk and you should know the risks associated with being there. This is a valid response in a typical situation, however there is practically no risk for a group to do this. It just requires flat T4, and that's it. You don't even need a horse in the majority of situations. I'm watching people CC chain people with bubble until it's gone, and that's it you're done. It's not worth rallying a group to fight them off because as soon as a defensive team shows up, they just zone back into Caerleone and if they die, they just buy a new set of T4 and are back out in minutes.

Typically in the black zone, a ganker would need to risk something in order to get a reward. Flat T4 won't net you very many kills if you are actually straying away from the comfort of Caeleone and having to commit to a fight several zones away. Likewise, even if you brought a T3 horse out in the BZ, you will likely lose out on many kills to someone who has a T5 horse or better, thus forcing the ganker to typically commit some baseline of risk in order to get a reward.

The defense option doesn't really work unless you are parking people there 24/7 because they second they leave, the T3/T4 swarm just piles back through.

In most games you have high risk/ high reward, low risk/ low reward. Here there is low risk/ very high reward. That in my opinion, should not be.

Posted Aug 17, 2017, 7:33 PM UTC

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