Alec Stacer
Raven's Flight
Nulli Legio
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Posted - 2012.12.22 03:25:00 -
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Eve is ABSOLUTELY a PvP game. Just because you don't shoot at Player's ships doesn't mean you aren't PvPing. Do you undercut people in the market? Thats Player vs Player. Do you Research and sell BPCs? Unless you are the only one doing that, you are competeing with otherplayers, and PvPing.
Empire space is an important part of EVE, but given that 65% of everything in the game is Player made, its obviously a player vs player game.
Having massive NPC infastructure is really only there to guide and teach players "how to EVE"
But the fact that you can make as much money AFK mining in highsec, as you can running Anom's in Null, is ********. If I am puting myself at huge risk, constantly watching everything around me so I don't get ganked, fighting the toughest rats in a -1.0 system, why are you making more money than me in candyland?
Risk = reward.
AFK highsec mining = 0 risk, therefore should yeild zero reward.
If you wanna make hundreds of millinos of isk mining, you should need a Tech2 harvester, and decent squad of bodyguards rolling with you out in the reaches of space. You don't get faction mods doing complexes in highsec, so why should there be an abundance of decent ore sitting up there.
Nullsec isnt about gatecamps and massive blobs. Its about owning the land and making it better, upgrading it and making money. SURE, you gotta boat your loots to highsec and sell them, but you risked your butt getting them, so you should be rewarded for it. The guys with 3 -7 accounts AFK mining in highsec risk nothing, and get paid like whoa because of what CCP did to the minerals market. (not saying that was a bad thing)
Im gunna do it, Im making a WoW reference, but if you could stay in a Level 5 zone and farm copper ore all day, and make the same money as people Raiding endgame dungeons and level cap quests, your game is broken. At least in wow if you want to farm ore you have to actually play the game. AFK mining is RAMPANT in eve.
Again, Risk should equal reward. And highsec mining has 0 risk, therefore should be marginally profitable compaired to lowsec/nullsec mining.
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