Kyle Myr
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.11.21 00:05:00 -
[1] - Quote
You don't seem to get it. While you've stated that your game is mining ice, our game is killing bots that mine ice, and players that think their ice mining along side many bots in Gallente space is fun, lucrative, or both.
I don't pretend to fathom why you would mine ice. You can't seem to understand why we'd kill you, despite linking an article that articulates it very clearly. I don't understand why you would post this in Features and Ideas discussion, unless you are lauding this effort as emergent gameplay, where suicide dread pirates compete against industrialists to make a dull activity more exciting, to further our own ends.
But that, really, is the question: why do we do this? Here's a smattering of reasons, some or all of which might be lies:
-We just want you to suffer
-We're weeding out bots, so that actual ice miners smart enough to evade us or survive us can make a better margin
-We're driving up the margins on the blue ice we mine (or our pet alliances mine) in our own space
-We're driving up oxygen prices, so that our secret allies, the space Russians, will be able to mine ice to fuel their capital ship fleets.
-We're driving up oxygen prices so our eternal enemies, Intrepid Crossing, will be forced to perform this awful, hateful activity
-We're just killing you because it's lucrative to kill miners, between loot, insurance, and our bounties for kills, it's profitable and interesting
-We're killing you because this will magically make you want to come to 0.0
-We're driving up oxygen because Gallente reaction POS use Ice for T2 material production, and this fucks up their margins
-We're bored, and this is a target rich environment
-We're driving prices up so that we can sell and make a killing because our top end bought up large stockpiles before we did this.
-We're doing extensive testing on the viability of a Gallente based fleet doctrine
-We're driving up oxygen to prohibitively raise the operating expenses of Gallente capital ships, especially the Nyx, in line with the philosophy of death to all super caps.
-We're altruistically trying to convince ice miners to quit EVE in favor of a better activity.
-This is a test program for other bot elimination bits for CCP, who is secretly funding this whole activity. Technetium isn't actually that profitable.
All of this should give you an idea about the emergent gameplay wonders which might be driving this campaign. Understand the magnitude of the sandbox of EVE, and how the interaction of any two players effects the larger world. Your death in your Mackinaw is part of experimental gameplay only possible in this sort of unique game. |