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Posted - 2012.06.06 01:04:00 -
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Alexandra Delarge wrote:Ban Bindy wrote:The point of high sec mining is that it does not have to require total attention. Don't play the game AFK. The game is not designed with this kind of play style in mind and you should never consider your ship and character safe and just get up and walk away from your computer.
WHOOOAH WHOOAH, everyone hold up, we got a game designer who knows how EVE's designed to be played here!!!
Not being funny or nothing, but put a sock in it and leave out telling people how to play. Everyone plays EVE afk to some extent, null sec guys are the worst for it since they spend hours sat at blue pos's or docked waiting for a bridge or a fleet to take them to a fight. Market traders are certainly not spending much time focused solidly on the spreadsheets, I'd imagine most miners dont fixate on their screens while they 'buzzbuzz' rocks, everyone plays afk to a point.
Also, considering the game lets you 'level up' or 'gain skills' while your computer isn't even turned on I'd say if anything EVE was designed around a semi-afk/not even logged in play style. Tbh, I've lost count of the number of times I've walked away from EVE to take a leak, grab a drink or do something, may not be clever to do it but who cares what people do with their gametime, its their choice.
As an aside to the whole 'miner ganking' thing, when I first started playing four years ago, nullsec was interesting, the people who lived and fought there were interesting, they actually encouraged people to join them to fight a cause, the whole game was clever. Now its just two camps, the people who want to just play the game and the people who want to boot everyone else out with insults and childishness. EVE is not the game it once was, its become a playground for spoiled kids, and no amount of expansions or pretty graphical upgrades will ever bring back what made it special. |
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Posted - 2012.06.07 16:36:00 -
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Scatim Helicon wrote:Disruptive events such as Permageddon create opportunities for profit that can be exploited by the intelligent, the daring, and the creative.
Highsec miners, being none of these things, are unable to take advantage.
Lets ask Chribba about that statement shall we? |