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Thomas Orca
Northstar Cabal
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Posted - 2012.05.05 01:51:00 -
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ivar R'dhak wrote:
The food chain metaphor is perfect here.
There is now indeed NO real food chain left. Only big fish eating the smaller ones.
I'm curious as to what you think a food chain is. |
Thomas Orca
Northstar Cabal
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.05.05 01:57:00 -
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ivar R'dhak wrote:Thomas Orca wrote:I'm curious as to what you think a food chain is. It begins with plankton or in EvE-¦s case miner "pond scum".  "Food chainy" enough for you?
And what we have now is not reminiscent of that how? |
Thomas Orca
Northstar Cabal
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.05.05 02:11:00 -
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ivar R'dhak wrote:
And what we have now is reminiscent of that how?
Miners are the bottom of our food chain; they are the producers of our little food chain. With the removal of gun mining, the vast majority of minerals produced comes from them.
Next, one of our primary consumers, if you subscribe to the carebear philosophy that ganking is solely for those who are terrible as "Real PvP", is the ganker. They kill the miners for their modules and maybe some ore.
Thirdly, if you again subscribe that carebear philosophy with the addition of the ideals of Nullsec alliances that lowsec pilots are terrible, are the lowsec pilots, who kill miners and other unprepared people who wander into lowsec. They make up our secondary consumers.
Forth, you have the nullsec alliances. Again, consuming everything below them in the food chain, especially if they wander into their respective nullsec territories. They are our tertiary consumers.
Finally, you have the leet pvpers, who are our apex predators.
EDIT: Then industrialists are our decomposers, who take the remains of all the other trophic levels, and turn them into usable resources. |
Thomas Orca
Northstar Cabal
Fatal Ascension
87
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Posted - 2012.05.05 02:21:00 -
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Nick Bison wrote:
I'd like to see your permission slip allowing pets to post.
You're just jealous because you have no owner alliance to love and adore you. |
Thomas Orca
Northstar Cabal
Fatal Ascension
87
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Posted - 2012.05.05 02:27:00 -
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Nick Bison wrote:
Bwaa haa haa ... good one.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. |
Thomas Orca
Northstar Cabal
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.05.06 15:53:00 -
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Aron Croup wrote:
Yes and no. Planned obsolescence has not prevented us from making technological improvements over the years, it has just ensured that the lifespan of these new products is kept short enough that we will buy the next wave of improved products.
Logic would dictate that if low defense & high-yield mining vessels are too fragile, someone would design either an equally high-yield version that has more defensive capability (but would be more expensive), or that some of the mining yield and cargo capacity would be sacrificed in the design of an equally priced yet more sturdy vessel.
You can already do the second one.
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Thomas Orca
Northstar Cabal
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.05.06 16:49:00 -
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Archdaimon wrote:Still seems like a place where sadists only wants easy mode because they can't handle a challenge when presented with one.
You see, the problem is the things you are asking for (i.e adaptability in your internet spaceships) are already doable under current mechanics. There is no need for a new ship, because the role that you wish to be filled is already filled by existing ships. |
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