You could stop mining for a year and nobody would notice. There are enough stockpiled ships and ammo that new supply is largely irrelevant.

Anyway, James 315 wants to make legitimate miners richer and more prosperous by killing the bots. Why are you against this? What are you hiding?

As the final ship docks up in Jita, the last miner departed New Eden and were cleansed off the world as James 315 intended...
However.... what would be left of EvE when the day comes....
The day all miners stop mining?

1st week:
No ammo, everyone switches to T1 laser crystals...

Gallente Pilots are affected a little bit later...

2nd week :
Lasers!

And salvagers, lots of salvagers... Gun Mining becomes popular again, despite it's ineffectiveness.

3rd week :
sounds like lots of roams with noob ships and lasers. the Drake as a pvp Titan sounds unrealistic as nobody can afford missiles anymore, so the Amarr eve is finally complete. :)

4th week :
see week two.

5th week :
lol, eve becomes f2p, new miners enter the game. :P

6th week :
everything starts anew

As the final ship docks up in Jita, the last miner departed New Eden and were cleansed off the world as James 315 intended...
However.... what would be left of EvE when the day comes....
The day all miners stop mining?

1st week: people stop mining

2nd week : other people start mining because the whining losers who stopped mining rather than fought back are no longer hexdupal boxing all the roids.

3rd week: Profit

Rookie ship blobs. Immagine the awesome of hundreds of lil buggers poppin each other with civilian guns.

Rookie ship blobs. Immagine the awesome of hundreds of lil buggers poppin each other with civilian guns.

1st week: people reprocess loot from npcs, npc loot does not whine as much.

Let me put it this way

CCP won't let any single group destroy their cash cow. If, and that's a big if, any one group came close to damaging their subscription numbers enough to impact CCP's revenues in a significant fashion, you can bet that CCP's bean counters will start screaming bloody murder about how Hilmar isn't getting a bonus this year.

At that point, CCP will artificially shift the balance of power in the game universe in a way that will make everyone equally unhappy.

The fact that this hasn't (to my knowledge) ever happened says a lot more about the stability of Eve than you might suppose.

And before you even say "BUT GOONS AND TEST!"
Yeah, they're pretty big (20k+ members between them I think), but if history has taught us anything it's that empires become exponentially harder to control the larger they become. Goons and Test wield a lot of power in game, to be sure, but it's not an insurmountable amount, and, more importantly, they aren't damaging the game (regardless of what the haters will say).

tl;dr: LOL thinking that CCP would let players kill their paychecks, "sandbox" or not.

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My corpies said James 315 is an evil SOB who wants to rid EvE of all carebears and forces everyone into PvP...

So... Eve is dying?

The Maytag guy died too.

As the final ship docks up in Jita, the last miner departed New Eden and were cleansed off the world as James 315 intended...

My corpies said James 315 is an evil SOB who wants to rid EvE of all carebears and forces everyone into PvP...

You should be a bit more respectful. James 315 will be the next highsec/mining CSM representative, if he so chooses.

If CONCORD declared mining illegal, all the miners would join Goons and mine in nullsec.

Highsec would beceome even more boring that in is, and that is all.

oh look, this thread again.

yeah, good luck with getting a decent supply of low end minerals if that happens...

As the final ship docks up in Jita, the last miner departed New Eden and were cleansed off the world as James the Horrible grabs hold of the throne of CSM.
Any ships that mines will spontaneously explodes.
James stands in his lair , looking over the horizon as the sun finally set for the Empire on which the sun never sets.
However.... what would be left of EvE when the day comes....
The day all miners stop mining?

1st week:
Ships and ammo becomes increasingly rare , large scale thousand man fleet battles ceases.
Large corps start reprocessing dreadnoughts , ECM Battleships and tertiary support ships for minerals.
Previous manufacturers faces an impending mineral shortage , they start hoarding the minerals ,thinking the miners will return one day .
Null sec corps security details are strained,entrance system defense and perimeter patrols are spread thin.

2nd week :
Minerals and parts resoruces dwindle to crictical level.
On an attempt to gain more minerals through wrecks . CFC declares war on NC, Solar Fleet, TEST,Pandemic Legion and Noir Mercenary Group.
Code name : Operation Judgement
Delve , Syndicate and Fountain burns for 4 days and 4 night .
Smaller null sec alliances and corps pull resources back from foreign deployment and secure the perimeter in their home systems.
Small gang pvp disappear entirely, majority of pvp battles are fought as gate camps with majority of them being Amarr ships fielding laser turrets.
Carrier support becomes much more prominent as every ship is more precious than Quafe Shirts.

3rd week :
CFC , NC-Dot , Solar was all that was left behind in the carnage.They declares a truce and banded together to form the New Conglomerate.
Battleruiser class vessels became the Titan equivalent of today as global Titans population drop to less than 30 .
Null sec and low sec activity drops to minimal level.

4th week :
High sec mission running and R&D becomes the norm .
Ammo and ships becomes the only recognized currency in EvE. Jita population dwindled from 3000 to 60 .

5th week :
Players start leaving EvE. Player and subscriber counts drop below 70k and the number of active players in the server at any moment diminishes to thousands . Mission running activity dropping to minimal level. The remaining players take to the Worm Holes , hoping to survive the apocalypse by doing PI .

6th week :
EvE is dead

Month One:

"Lord Mittani, while we still control all of the nullsec ore supply with our bot fleets, the absence of hisec miners has crippled our influx of low-grade minerals such as tritanium and scordite."

"So what do you suggest we do, prole?"

"Great master, if we wish to continue having titan domination of all of nullsec, we will have no choice but to divert over half of our mining bot fleet to extracting veldspar and the like."

"HALF?!"

"Yes m'lord, for without hisec miners to supply it in abundance, we will have to mine it all ourselves."

"You mean to say that you honestly expect us to devote half of our bot fleet... to veldspar?!?!"

"I see no viable alterna-"

"SILENCE! Who is responsible for this?"

"A man who calls himself James315, m'lord."

*evil stare*

"Then you know what must be done, adjunct."

"Yes, Lord Mittani. He and his followers shall be... dealt with."

"See to it that none survive."



Month Eight:

"Hey mining bro, how's it going?"

"Lucrative as always! Just gathering up another million veldspar right now."

"Yeah, this is great. How long have you been at this?"

"Oh I'm new, just a month or so."

"Have you fit for maximum yield?"

"No, I fit for tank."

"Tank? Why?"

"So I don't get ganked. I heard there were a lot of gankers in this game."

"Oh that was a long time ago, kid. Miner gankers are pretty much extinct now. It's all about the yield, now."

"How did that happen?"

"You don't wanna know. Let's just say it turns out us hisec miners actually have powerful friends in low places, kid. Friends that never knew they were our friends until it was almost too late. But they came around in the end, and now everything is smooth as gravy."

"Cool."

CFC , NC-Dot , Solar was all that was left behind in the carnage.They declares a truce and banded together to form the New Conglomerate.

I love a good story, but OP's is more science fiction than science fact. I have absolutely no intention of putting an end to all highsec mining. My opponents try to paint me as anti-miner. I'm against illegal mining. I strongly support legal mining. As a matter of fact, some of my best friends are miners.

I only intend to ensure that mining takes place within the proper bounds of the Code. Miners who follow the rules have nothing to worry about. And if I am given the honour of a seat on the CSM, I can promise you that I will only act in the best interests of highsec. I will not propose anything that would unduly harm the miners.

There's really nothing to be afraid of whatsoever.

Why does that sound like a white guy trying not to sound racist by saying he has loads of black friends when he only has 1 lol

You could stop mining for a year and nobody would notice. There are enough stockpiled ships and ammo that new supply is largely irrelevant

And if I am given the honour of a seat on the CSM...

"Have you fit for maximum yield?"

"No, I fit for tank."

"Tank? Why?"

"So I don't get ganked. I heard there were a lot of gankers in this game."

"Oh that was a long time ago, kid. Miner gankers are pretty much extinct now. It's all about the yield, now."

"How did that happen?"

"You don't wanna know. Let's just say it turns out us hisec miners actually have powerful friends in low places, kid. Friends that never knew they were our friends until it was almost too late. But they came around in the end, and now everything is smooth as gravy."

Is this supposed to be a good outcome?

As a matter of fact, some of my best friends are miners.

Spoken like a true politican right there...

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