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Ersahi Kir
Freelance Mining Company
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Posted - 2012.10.28 04:39:00 -
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I'm glad I stopped trying to convince my friends to play. If I had to defend miner bumping as a sandbox activity I would be embarrassed.
Carry on though if that's your bag. |
Ersahi Kir
Freelance Mining Company
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Posted - 2012.10.28 04:58:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Ersahi Kir wrote:I'm glad I stopped trying to convince my friends to play. If I had to defend miner bumping as a sandbox activity I would be embarrassed.
Carry on though if that's your bag. How is it any different from bumping people on the undock or bumping people to prevent them warping? same mechanic, same result.
Bumping someone off a station has strategic value if they're playing docking games, and bumping to prevent warp falls under the same umbrella. Bumping in those situations actually sounds like a neat tool in PvP.
Miner bumping at its core is just harassment, and if I had to defend it as an activity it would be "Eve is neat because people can be obnoxious and it's A-OK!" Or, to put it another way, take that Eve is Real video and replace large scale PvP fights with people bumping miners. Would you really want to show that to your friends when you tell them how cool the game is? I sure as hell wouldn't.
And just a FYI, I gave up mining a long time ago and am not really affected by this either way.
"I was there. We went to this ice field and there were miners mining ice, and we weren't going to let that happen. Not without bumping. And then 5 new miners warped into the field. But the fleet commander, he kept it together. They were expecting me to fly 50 clicks at max speed in the general direction of the miners. I didn't know if I was gonna make it. And then I bounced off the miner, because collisions don't occur in eve. And then I ran to the forums to tell everyone. I was there." |
Ersahi Kir
Freelance Mining Company
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Posted - 2012.10.28 05:05:00 -
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MinefieldS wrote:Make ice and roids destructible so they can be obliterated by guns. Bumping problem solved!
That actually made me laugh out loud, very nice. I guess that would move all the tears over to the null/low sec people who complain about afk cloakers. |
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