And a lack of pirates is causing global warming.

And a lack of pirates is causing global warming.

Wall-o-text taken to a whole new level.
Did not read.

This will be a productive thread.

****, I'll get back to low-sec ASAP...

So, because mining barges and exhumers got a boost to their EHP, CCP is moving EvE in the direction of being a carebear campground themepark?

Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

Eve has never punished players for being stupid, other players punish them for being stupid, and it happens on a daily basis.

Putting a hardcap on the amount of douchebaggery one can inflict (introducing ore holds and buffing barges/exhumers, taking away insurance payout from suicide ganking) was long overdue. I'm all for teaching stupid people lessons the hard way, but allowing crap to go on like can flipping and insurance payouts to concorded ships was dumb and it took way too long for CCP to realize the definition of the word lame and how it was negatively affecting their new player retention. Things like that happen in a sandbox game though.

As for your second question; you don't have to be smart or on your toes to make progress in this game, all you have to do is log in for less than 60 seconds a few times a week.

P.S.

I read all that crap in the hopes you would sum up what James315 grand plan is and save me the agony of reading all of his crap.

Left dissapointed.

Really? You link to the James 315 CSM platform then try and say that you are not about "changing the game mechanics"

Good stuff....

... Subscriptions doing nothing but increase (not counting the incarna fiasco) ...

Well there you have it

James 315's RvB alt.

or you could, ya know, go outside in the yard and pull the legs off spiders.

Drama...conflict....interweb spaceships... lol

Continue..... you amuse me.

The tears from "hard core Pee v Pee players" are far sweeter than any other.

I think you will find many carebears are perfectly happy for pvp to take place consensual or not. it is the douchbaggery that goes on that sticks in the claw.
The thing I find Ironic from the OP is that he is in a corp that is only about consensual pvp. The lamest pvp model ever.

the 'carebear dollar' myth is exactly that, a 'simple and fundamental fact' proven time and again.

Then why has the game consistently moved towards safer and easier?

Read the first post, got disinterested. Boring topic about a boring subject. The end.

See, I thought what you've been doing for 8 months now was an elaborate and brilliantly executed troll on a scale not seen in High Sec before. I was right.

I can't believe someone would be so butthurt over no longer being able to kill miners with no risk at all. What the hell.

I believe that the aggression changes promote pvp in highsec, because now people can shoot you more often, you all want others to experience more risk but when you are the ones that get that risk, you scream like children. Entitled children.

You can still pray on newbs that doesn't know aggresion mechanics, you can till can flip (need a buddy for it though). Mining barges has been easy as hell to gank for way too long and unless they sit in a procurer or skiff, they can still be ganked without too much trouble (they don't fit tank, right?).

To parallel this for you - the criminal flagging system introduced with the latest CrimeWatch update was exactly the same thing Ultima Online did to aggression and thievery mechanics when they changed the notoriety system to be far less forgiving to criminals. The last CrimeWatch update was so similar to the Ultima Online changes way back when that I'm almost certain CCP simply molded them to fit their game. Criminally flagging an aggressor makes him open to attack from everyone, providing a huge deterrent to aggressive behaviors without outright making them impossible.