Sebroth wrote:Every day countless of companies around our glob have to move, change thier buisiness ideas or in some other way adapt to the reality or they will be forced to shut down. Every company have to decide what risks they are willing to take. If the risk are to high and/or the profit to low they need to find or create whatever they need to survive. If a shipping company is getting owned by east african pirates they might need to find other ways to do thier business or accept their loss as a part of their cost to run that same business.
Adapt or die. Thats the rule we all live by in EvE. Just because I want to be left alone when I have my own little mining OP does it not mean I will be left alone. Not only do both hostiles and neutral blow me up, those pesky rats will do thier best as well.
What you talk about have nothing to do with greifing. But all to do with market balance. If no hulks where blown up in eve then mineral prices would go down and in the end your profit would be the same. If you are having a hard time making profit it's time for you to change you business plan. It's not the time for CCP to change thier game. Even if they did change thier game you would still find yourself in a bad situation as long you are not willig to adapt. We that do adapt will always be on top of people that don't.
/seb
This would be such a fine argument except that "griefing" is what these activities get called on the forums all the time, by the people who do them. The EULA forbids griefing but doesn't bother to tell new players or anybody else that there is almost nothing in the game that is "griefing", short of real life threats.
If all these activities are to balance the market, they are really doing a fine job, don't you think? One man's market balance is another man's market manipulation. The market is designed to be unbalanced. It's full of bottlenecks that can be exploited by players. This market is not free or open any more than the real world market is free or open. It's dominated by the big boys.
Oh holy sandbox, God forbid we should ever question it.