Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
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Posted - 2012.08.28 17:50:00 -
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Too-Boku wrote:Josef Djugashvilis wrote:Saw the name - james 315.
Stopped right there.
It is probably best for james if folk do not encourage his really strange obsession with miners.
His article will be about miners and how they are destroying Eve. He should change his name to James One-Note.
The self obsessed ego (mittens) and the miner obsessed ego. There's a lot more to it than miners. Set aside your prejudice, hate and preconceived notions and read the article.
Well... as much as I enjoyed the article, while it pretends to be about high sec in general it really is just about the miners and suicide ganking.
Yes, it references war dec's and such but we all know that system isn't finished yet. It's main focus, and reoccuring theme, is the increasing difficulty suicide gankers are having.
The ability to suicide gank a miner must absolutely remain possible. However previously it was like an all you can eat buffet (in large part due to the lack of skill of the victims, but also due to it being too profitable and easy over all), with any ******* able to make decent money with little or no preperation or intelligent target selection (despite well articulated arguments otherwise).
Suicide ganking should be done for specific reasons:
1: The occasional target is found that has been scanned and found to be juicy enough to warrant the risk/loss.
2: You have a reason to wage economic warfare on the target organziation or individual.
3: You are teaching someone a lesson.
It should not be done because you have 5 minutes to kill and needs some extra ISK.
I would start worrying when we see the harder to locate, but more lucuative targets being protected by the nerf shield... namely cargo haulers of all types including freighters. Even with no insurance payout if the time is spent to find an appropriate target the profits can be huge. It's just not as easy as taking a couple of destroyers out to the nearest belt while an alt distracts Concord.
Miners were being routinely farmed for a profit, and it was so easy it was a fairly widespread practice (shame on you lazy miners). I don't see a problem with making it harder profit from the excercise, as long as it isn't impossible... but trying to make the case that CCP is on the road to making High Sec a non-aggression zone is an unrealistic (if well worded) stretch.
To carve a successful niche for yourself in EVE you need to be able to out sell, out produce, out fight,-á out run, or out wit your competitors.
If you can do none of the above, your only option is to complain on the forums that somehow you are at a disadvantage using the exact same tool set-áas the rest of the player base. |