Even if you are not afk and aligned the speed these destroyers take out exhumers is scary, Insta lock and scram... game over

Does it matter?

None of the mining barges need any more of a buff. EVE is not a place where you can happily do what you want anywhere. You are always in danger you are always potentially dead. Thats the point of EVE.

Now please please get over this hissy fit of dying and stop worrying!

Human condition..it's a video game, eesh. Some of you people blur the line between reality and fantasy in unhealthy ways.


Using similar logic, I must be a member of a terrorist organization, because I play the terrorists in counterstrike.

I seem to use this example a lot. If me and Tippia met in-game, I would likely be trying to kill him, and vice versa. If me and Tippia met RL, I would invite him out for a drink.

'Tis a common security blanket folks hang onto. But it's an illusion, and like all illusions, provides no real security or protection. Check the killboards. You'll see that your comforting illusion is just smoke on the wind.

Like security blankets and teddy bears everywhere, your illusion is a coping tactic to protect you from fear. Shed the fear; Your game will only improve.

So you have no argument and no evidence to support your position, since you have to rely on fallacies to make your not-case.

Enough of this fippery and conniving subtle remarks. Tell us how you REALLY feel.

I see, so you back up your ad hominem argument with another ad hominem argument and then proceed to tell me that I'M the one embarrassing myself?

That, is pretty damn amazing.

I'm sure they are. Is that all you have to add? Or are you just stalling while you come up with an actual point?

no rush, I can wait.

Yes, a strawman is indeed a fallacy.
So you still have no argument and no evidence to support your position, since you have to rely on fallacies to make your not-case.

No. CCP sets the rules. They also hand out the tools. If you choose to ignore the gameplay effects of those rules and choose not to make use of the tools at your disposal, then the outcome is very much on your shoulders.

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So you still have no argument and no evidence to support your position, since you have to rely on fallacies to make your not-case.

I have a valid, giant argument.

"Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively to impose domination over others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power." (Ask and you shall receive)

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Gankers are bullies with exactly the same motivations and influences as the school yard bully picking on perceived weaknesses.

Despite the tone and style of prose....that is not a "she".

So i've learned that gankers are incompetent sociopaths that fail at EvE in every way. Just wondering what that makes the miners who die at the hands of these Eve failures? I've seen in this thread and others, gankers referred to school yard bullies which is an insult to miners. Unlike in real life, in a video game (except pay-to-win which Eve is not), everyone is given the same tools to make their way. You can choose what ships you fly, how you equip them, and where you fly them. Eve is fundamentally a competitive game. You must compete with other players for whatever resources you are after. You'll win some and you will loose some.

If gankers are school yard bullies and incompetants, then that portrays the miners are weaklings and even more incompetant. I'lll not accept that. We're all demigods of the same galaxy. Just last night 3 of us launched on a hulk flying 1 t2 cat and 2 t1 cats. Killed dozens of Hulks with far less dps before. Landed on target, locked him up and got to blasting. Then a flight of shield maint drones from the hulk came out. Another flight from the Orca nearby. We never even got to his armor. It was fantastic. We offered 'gf's in local and watched our cats explode while the hulk didn't miss a cycle. The guy was at the keyboard, knew we were coming, and had a plan to beat us. That guy was neither weak nor incompetant.

You can adapt to the losses, or blame the other guy.

Looked like 2 to me. Maybe it was only one. I only had 20secs to find out before it all ended hilariously.

You seem kind of angry. Would you like to talk it out? Lady Areola Fappington has a teddybear we could use to roleplay some scenes.. work on your issues.

I don't feel busted. I feel like a guy who saw a bunch of shield maint bots and who lost a gank on a hulk. The point of the story is miners can protect themselves. They don't. But that isn't my fault or CCPs fault. Its theirs. Ganking doesn't make me a bully any more than it makes the miners weak. If they're weak, they choose to be so.

Sounds to me like you're a leet PvPer who can count how many of the 10 drones orbiting the target are actually repairing it, in a limited time frame with a dozen ships on grid, with effects and drone brackets off to minimize lag getting the pod out.

I especially like the part where you assume there was no second hulk/other ship on grid to launch the second flight of shield drones in order to facilitate your ad hominem attack.