You seem to confuse "Foundation of the production chain" with "Bottom of the food chain"

Just because the tards with no patience say you're below them doesn't make it true.....

With the changes on Mining Barges, the Ore Thief career is on the brink of extinction. "Professional ore thieving" was alot of fun, it was something that made EvE unique.

Why did CCP changed this?

first - not a noob
second - not an alt

if your going to troll get your facts straight first

OP is upset that his gameplay style has been affected now that noobs and miners can hide their ore from him. What I am saying is that yes the "easy" stealing and griefing days are over, its time to adapt. Isn't that was EvE is all about...adapting and trying out new play styles and tactics.

The game will not grow if the griefers are allowed to **** off new players too much. There has to be a limit, otherwise stagnation will set in. Every company wants to see growth and if that means pissing off a few 'I get beat up in rl so I am gonna be a keyboard commando and take it out on strangers' type players then so be it. Subscriber growth is of much more import than keeping a few old players happy.

Some wierd posts... since when removing unique features in EvE Online a good thing?

The game is going just fine since 2003.

Right and yours is really weird, since they did not remove ore stealing. It seems weird you would act like they did. They made it so people like the op now have to work at it, and they gave miners options to avoid it, so i will reverse the question, since when are options a bad thing?

and how many more subs would there be if the griefing was, not stopped, but toned down a bit? I am not attacking griefers, to each their own, but the point remains and is valid.

It the ONLY mmo that grows every single year since launch.

Their is a reason why people play EvE Online, it's a niche game, if they remove the "uniqueness" from it, the game dies.

Toned down griefing is hardly removing 'uniqueness'. Rampant griefing = slower growth, if it wasnt a problem then CCP wouldnt be doing as they are and causing so many vets to biotch on the forums.

Not sure if trolling, or just stupid.

Exuse me? You come in here and say they removed ore stealing, you are wrong! 100% wrong. And I did that without insulting you. Or, can you prove ore stealing is gone, take into account, I can go into the game right now and steal ore..

99% of my EvE online time is ("was") doing ore stealing actions, their is almost no one jetcan mining anymore.

Because daily freighter and industrial killmails, ganking, griefing and lol bumping confirming your post. Hisec, although more secure than null/low, is still most violent place in eve.

Really? and you can back this up with what kind of proof? Because you say most people do not jet mine? I Jet mine bubba, my corp mates jet mine, I know others who jet mine. If you want to be an ore thief, work at at. You sound and look like someone who wants to hang around the noob areas and kill noobs who jet mine. You do not want to be an ore thief, you want to kill people who do not understand the game.

EVE Online, where criminals whine about how hard it is for them to continue commiting crimes.

I don't think you understand the nature of the EvE Online sandbox.

Toned down griefing is hardly removing 'uniqueness'. Rampant griefing = slower growth, if it wasnt a problem then CCP wouldnt be doing as they are and causing so many vets to biotch on the forums.

Since the patch, i only found 5 guys jetcan mining.

The "work at it" is a nice theory. Imagine if CCP changed the mining career, removing 99% of the asteroid fields from the game, so you had to travel 6 hours searching to find some asteroid fields to mine for 5m. I bet you wouldn't like that.

If you do the crime do the time, just like real life.

Hmm the majority of ore thieving was done to players that did not yet have mining barges trained. IE. It was the guys using cruisers and jet canning into them or the mining frigate and jet canning. And guess what CCP did not make any changes to them or that early part of the mining career. It is still the same. And they are still jet canning.

Kind of hard doing a crime when the game mechanics prevent it.

EVE Online, where criminals whine about how hard it is for them to continue commiting crimes.

How about this, in the interest of realism, those who are caught commiting crimes will be sentenced to a term of some months locked inside of a prison station where the only thing they will be able to do is run around their captain's closet.