Chryseis Wen
Doozer Mining Cartel
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Posted - 2011.04.26 15:46:00 -
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Ok, so let's suppose CCP takes this to heart and makes some space (maybe 1.0 space) "gank free." Here's the trade off: you only have low grade, low volume asteroids in 1.0 space. Miners flock to 1.0 space, and the competition over those tiny, sparse asteroids becomes insane. That guy who set his alarm to wake up right after downtime is hogging the best belts, and has cleared most of the rocks (or worse yet, the macro miners have sent in their now invulnerable bot-fleets), so there is nothing for late comers to mine. Because mining is now risk-free, there is nothing to stop the resource hoarders from choking off the supply of these "free" minerals. And your legitimate miners will be forced into the fray with us scoundrel PVPers any way, back to competing for the higher risk, higher reward minerals in the rest of space.
This is the beauty of Eve. The PVE players rely on the PVP player more than they will ever think of, just as the PVP players need the PVE players more then they think of. By adding risk to the equation, PVP players make the markets viable, just as massive PVP wars make the markets profitable. Risk in Eve = profit, but more than that, risk = enjoyment, challenges, and the incentive to innovate and create your own solutions.
The player run solution you are talking about? It's been there all along, you were just looking at it the wrong way. I like your idea of coming up with a player run solution to your problem (CVA was one example, but that wasn't risk free. I would send my main toon into CVA space looking for miners/ratters to kill just for the thrill of being chased around by a CVA fleet). There have been many creative solutions to the "problem" of non-consensual PVP, some effective, some not, but this innovation has changed the landscape of eve, forcing both miners and gankers to evolve tactics, ships, and strategies. Start thinking of it less as "what can the community do to make my mining safer," and more as "what can I do to make my mining safer, and how will that effect the community."
Either way, good luck, and if you find yourself on the wrong end of my weapons some day, it's nothing personal, just doing my part for the greater good of New Eden.
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