Barbelo Valentinian
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.15 17:03:00 -
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RubyPorto wrote:
Nobody's yelling that it's too rich (if they were, disrupting it would be silly, since disruption makes mineral prices go up, thus making it more lucrative). The problem is that miners have gotten used to and subsequently developed a sense of entitlement to the ability to make Isk almost completely AFK. This has lead them to (wrongly) believe that HiSec space should be "safe" or that their untanked Max Yield/Cargo Hulks should be ungankable. This belief has led them to make annoying posts on the forums. These annoying posts on the forums have led to people disliking miners due to their inability to comprehend simple premises of EvE that have not changed since Beta; namely that you are never safe.
And round and round we go. What you are not getting is that the AFK aspect is why some people do mining and other AFK-able pursuits in EVE. If they can't do it, they won't "learn" anything else, they'll just leave.
And you can bet your bottom dollar that CCP wants to have such players in the game. Otherwise mining would not be as it is - it's pretty obviously designed to be one part of the game that's AFK-friendly. Their money is as good as your average EVE mini-me Nietzsche's money 
The whingeing (so far as I can see) is not about being ganked per se, it's about a concerted perma-campaign to grief miners.
A player who likes AFK playing has already accepted the compact that they'll occasionally be ganked. Even Hulkageddon per se was cool, because a canny player might take advantage of it, and anyone who was really risk-averse could just sit it out. But a perma-campaign? I doubt it will really do much good in the long run.
I think some of you guys have your heads so far up your metagame that you forget that there are plenty players of EVE for whom such concerns are meaningless, they just want to potter about in a space game. Now, anyone who wants to potter about in EVE to the extent of subscribing to it has to have accepted that they're never absolutely safe (otherwise they really are an idiot), but an OOC campaign specifically targeted against them (for the sake of someone else's silly metagame) is a whole different enchilada.
The imperceptible shift in EVE from a virtual world (where the omnipresent danger is part of the lore) to a game in which winning at all costs is all that matters, is a huge mistake.
It's a monumental stupidity to try to turn EVE into "LOL in Space".
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