Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
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Posted - 2013.07.26 16:08:00 -
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Joran Kuchera wrote:Personally I agree with the OP. The ease of access to ore sites has unbalanced the situation.
Also from my own perspective I hate it thanks to the cost to my own playstyle. With the masses of high sec macro miners feeding the Chinese ISK Selling machine I am now forced into low sec to make the business of mining profitable and now; thanks to the outrageous ability to simply warp to an ore site without scanning it down first; I have lost countless exhumes making the business of mining a moot enterprise for me. I actually rather enjoyed it, until now.
Any joker in local can fly pass and hit the DScan and spot a hulk and it's not exactly a stretch for them to assume the Hulk on scan is in the ore belt signature they already know is there and can warp to.
it's all well and good to say "watch local" or keep hitting your own scanner but it's easy to just for a moment take your eye off the ball and it's game over. I'm sick of it, atleast before gankers not only didn't know if there was an ore belt in system but also had to scan it down first, something some can not be bothered with.
I'm hugely disappointed by this change and this will likely put an end to my mining activities as I'm now significantly in the red from the constant ganks.
Of all the CCP changes to this game, this one has honestly made me question if I wish to continue playing as the activity I enjoyed the most aside from PvP on my main is now no longer a viable option. Finally another freelancer with nearly the same complaint as myself.
I am all for leaving the new ore sites as they are.
But please give us back the random gravametric sites in low and NPC null that were the bread and butter for us freelancers.
Mining does not work in these area's without the small safety net gravametric sites provided. |
Lyza Kimbo
Cat Scratch Fever
23
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Posted - 2013.07.26 17:16:00 -
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Plus ca change...
I read the first page of this thread. The rest, eh, tldr, especially since it's the same old arguments repeated by the same old forum trolls.
When I first started Eve back in 2005, there was an alliance called Big Blue that had "sov" (which was different back then) in BWF-ZZ, just past Oijanen. I mined Crokite there, and was a happy little noob. It wasn't safe, there were interruptions, and you had to be on your toes, but it was fun and profitable.
Today I'm in an Alliance in (redacted), an NRDS area, and it's much the same. We watch local, we watch the intel channels, we help each other out, and we make money. No, it's not safe. No, you can't AFK. But the risks are manageable, and not onerous in proportion to the returns.
My corp/alliance leaders understand permissions, understand the dangers of AWOXers, know how to use an API, take a bluntly skeptical attitude toward applicants, and generally have their **** together.
It's not ideal, no, but it's workable and it's enjoyable. People who use words like "impossible" really need to step back and re-examine their view of the game universe. It's big, really big. There are other places to go. Step outside your comfort zone and take a risk, just be sure it's a calculated risk.
I mean, really, what the **** else are you going to play? There is only one MMO for big boys and girls. The rest are kiddie games. Granted, that's a sad state of affairs, but it's the reality we are stuck with. There's Eve, and then there's the great amorphous mass of generic corporate crap.
They say it can't be won, the way the game is run, still if you choose to stay, you wind up playing anyway, it's OK... |