Ok, two part question 1) Say there is a carrier sitting in a POS shield with fighters assigned to a drake that is running an anomaly in 0.0, when the drake uses the fighters to kill the rats in the anomaly does the carrier pilot, the drake pilot, or both get the sec increase/bounties?
2) if there is a pilot on a gate with fighters assigned to him, and the ship on gate uses fighters to attack someone and he takes GCC, does the ship that attacked, the carrier, or both that take GCC?
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Matt
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As far as I'm aware fighters are just big drones that can warp...
So the logical answer would be that Assuming your fighters attack the rats you will both get the bounties/security increase.... However I am certainly far from convinced that this would be the case.
Reason I say this is, you have given agro by your fighters firing at the target, no doubts about this, you would not be able to jump due to timers etc. However, in my experience you usually only receive bounties if you are on grid, you clearly won't be, so it depends which mechanic is considered primary in this case. I would suspect it would be the fire mechanics and that you will indeed receive bounties, but you would need to ask a carrier pilot to know for sure!
Unfortunately for point 2, I'm not familiary with the GCC acronym, but I could take a stab and say as a general rule, anything the ship that has the fighters assigned does will effect both players just like drones. Security hit, agro mechanics including timers everything... Thats why you only assign drones/fighters to players you trust.
Only other thing to note with fighters, you have to launch them while outside your pos, they can be ordered to protect someone or assist someone then I believe you may retreat inside, but you have to be clear of the shield to launch them for sure.
You cannot cloak while you have fighters out... This leads to a bad day when your fighters shut down and become detached, you then have to hope the system is quiet, get warp in's from fellow pilots and scope them to drone bay... it's not pretty!
Lastly, as far as I'm aware (and I'm not certain on this one) fighters can not use acceleration gates!
GCC means Global Criminal Countdown. The timer you get for attacking rats or attacking/stealing from other pilots. There is an extensive set of articles on the wiki.eveonline.com site with many details about the pros and cons of GCCs and what to do about them.
Ahh, ok I always knew them as Global criminal Flags…Believe my inital assumption holds true anyway if in Low-sec and someone with your fighters attacks your fighters will also attack and in turn you will obtain a timer.