I realise that this is new and shocking to you, but this has been common knowledge since forever.

Still, congratulations on expanding your understanding of the game.

F*** me, I need to run mission chains.

So? That doesn't mean it isn't spectacularly dumb in terms of game design, like quite a few things in Eve. THIS is what the OP is suggesting.

Actually it's perfect game design within this very game.
Why do you disagree?

It is a terrible game mechanic, once again benefiting the sociopaths. This is the kind of thing that attracts the lowest kind of human to Eve.

Constructive, I can see why your on the CSM

It is a terrible game mechanic, once again benefiting the sociopaths. This is the kind of thing that attracts the lowest kind of human to Eve.

The little problem with this sentence is it displays your tendency to assign a hierarchy to human beings. The big problem with this sentence is it demonstrates that you think you have a high place in that hierarchy when in fact you don't.

Actually it's perfect game design within this very game.

a) Those who play bad guys in a game that's built around being the bad guys and explicitly allows it. They take the game light hearted and care mostly about player interaction.

My point precisely, where perfect means typical.

It is a terrible game mechanic, once again benefiting the sociopaths

This is the kind of thing that attracts the lowest kind of human to Eve.

In my experience the opposite is true. The only time I see smack in local is when some pirate wannabe gets his arse handed to him. Otherwise, this "light-heartedness" of which you speak is actually symptomatic of the sociopathy itself. I mean being a **** is funny to some people, isn't it.

Welcome to EVE, cheaply designed game with 16mil/year research and "development" budget!

So? That doesn't mean it isn't spectacularly dumb in terms of game design, like quite a few things in Eve. THIS is what the OP is suggesting.

Stealing or threatening to blow up required mission items is a safe and easy way to earn income as a pirate.

Remember what happened to miner ganking?

So? That doesn't mean it isn't spectacularly dumb in terms of game design, like quite a few things in Eve. THIS is what the OP is suggesting.

No it's spectacularly sensible, and full credit for CCP on not compromising on this core principle.

What would be spectacularly dumb would be "fixing" this feature and treating mission runners as some kind of special chosen-kind who may not be touched or interfered with, unlike every other profession in EVE.

why don't you try explaining why it should stay instead of making baseless claims.

treating mission runners as some kind of special chosen-kind who may not be touched or interfered with, unlike every other profession in EVE.

why don't you try explaining why it should stay instead of making baseless claims.

What does allowing people to **** with you in high sec missions, with zero risk and zero cost, bring to the game? Where the only defense is hitting d-scan every second and praying you don't get warp scrambled for too long.

What does allowing people to screw with you in high sec missions, with zero risk and zero cost, bring to the game?

No it's spectacularly sensible, and full credit for CCP on not compromising on this core principle.

What would be spectacularly dumb would be "fixing" this feature and treating mission runners as some kind of special chosen-kind who may not be touched or interfered with, unlike every other profession in EVE.

Don't worry high sec mission runners, there is a solution to combat this. All you have to do is hit D-scan every second you are doing the mission and be ready to warp out the moment you see combat probes, even if you have to abandon your drones to do so.

An incredible sense of risk and the potential for catastrophic loss, just as it is with every other aspect of this wonderful game, which doesn't pander to people who want the warm blanket of safety wrapped around them at all times.

This is what EVE is. Either accept it, or go elsewhere. Seriously.

why don't you try explaining why it should stay instead of making baseless claims.

What does allowing people to screw with you in high sec missions, with zero risk and zero cost, bring to the game? Where the only defense against it is hitting d-scan every second and hoping you don't get warp scrambled by npcs for too long should you detect combat probes. Additionally, if the sociopath decides to stay in the system trying to scan you untill downtime, you are screwed.

It really is disgusting how this game rewards sociopaths and how the community encourages sociopath behavior like this. This game attracts them likes flies and we have to listen to their narrow-minded perspectives disproportionately in every thread because they usually live on these forums as well, having no other social life.

So... if the pirate can pretty much screw over the mission runner without any risk, why is the reward in ransoming and tears so great? I only see risk for the mission runner. Doesn't the scenarios laid above conflict with the greater risk, greater reward thing CCP likes? I mean, from my point of view the pirate gets to have a grand ol time with pretty much very little risk, and the mission runner gets kinda hosed for a LOT of risk.

With that said, I've not done any of the cosmos missions, so maybe there is something I'm just missing.

Because "fixing" the "problem" would necessarily involve
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