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Angry Mustache
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.05 19:51:00 -
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When I was a newbie in highsec, i mined for a bit with an retriever on an alt, largely AFK.
I found it immensely boring, but it was better isk than drake missioning, esp right before odyssey which removed the ice belts. I mined up something like 200m isk during that, than swore off mining forever. An official Member of the Goonswarm Federation Complaints Department.
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Teochoilae
Enlightened Industries Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.06 01:46:00 -
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I heard that your mustache is the source of your power, care to comment? |
Angry Mustache
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.06 04:44:00 -
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Teochoilae wrote:I heard that your mustache is the source of your power, care to comment?
I couldn't possibly comment. An official Member of the Goonswarm Federation Complaints Department.
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Hendrick Tallardar
SniggWaffe WAFFLES.
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Posted - 2014.04.06 06:04:00 -
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While we enjoy our banter on the TMC Jabber, I was curious how you feel activities like ratting/mining can be adjusted to provide a lesser incentive to "afk"
Given that GoonSwarm have fits specifically designed towards AFK ratting (AFKtars and I believe the VNIs I laugh at you for losing routinely) how do you see the subject as it is currently and how what direction it should go in? The same applies for AFK cloaking (no, that's not a reference to SA jokes I make). LeeSsang. Never Forget. |
Angry Mustache
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.06 22:49:00 -
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Hendrick Tallardar wrote:While we enjoy our banter on the TMC Jabber, I was curious how you feel activities like ratting/mining can be adjusted to provide a lesser incentive to "afk"
Given that GoonSwarm have fits specifically designed towards AFK ratting (AFKtars and I believe the VNIs I laugh at you for losing routinely) how do you see the subject as it is currently and how what direction it should go in? The same applies for AFK cloaking (no, that's not a reference to SA jokes I make).
So i'm going to state my conflict of interest right now. I participate in AFK ratting, and it's the only way that I am able to afford to PLEX my accounts. If CCP changed aggro mechanics right now, and removed AFK ratting as is, I would probably drop to just 1 account from the current 3.
Having said that, I'm not altogether comfortable with AFK ratting/mining/plexing. While it's great to be able to say, badpost and rat at the same time, I don't think that's healthy for the game. I would prefer that in order to make good money, I should be actively controlling my ship in space (this was the optimal way to rat, until CCP removed Naga ratting, RIP), the problem is, I don't have the endurance/willpower to do that for the 15-20 hours a month needed to PLEX an account, and that account would probably lapse. Every hour spent ratting is an hour not doing something less soul crushingly boring; the more I rat, the less i feel like actually playing EVE.
Yes, one can say "HTFU" and that if I can't spend 15-20 hours/ month ratting, I should stop trying. But then there's the point that FW plexing is just as AFK but can PLEX an account in 6-8 hours, or that FW missions can do it in 2. When applying the rule of "be active (in space) to make money", nore that activities like industry and invention require much less activity and assets risked. The best solution to the "AFK" whatever problem is to make those activities difficult to AFK through mechanics, but make them lucrative enough that people trying to do them can make decent money without burning out.
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