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Its looks like Pirates want to have their cake and eat it. Being a pirate is not supposed to be easy.

Why don't you just hunt/camp in the roid belts and then kill/pod/rape/exploit there.

Despite the best attempts by the devs to "control" pirate activity you always seem to find away around it. I have faith in you bastards, and I am sure you find some exploit and/or tactic to allow you to do your dirty work.

If you want to go on strike, fine by me, I am sure others will come along and take your place. I suggest that more people have left the game due to pirates and their use of exploits to kill Newb and non agressive players.

This game is not just PvP and neither is it just for carebares. Its all a question of balance. If you can screw the system you will and have done many times in the past and I am sure will do so again.

I am dissapointed that you would put up the surrender flag, I thought you where better than that. Your sounding more like a griefer than one of the most well known and respected (hated as well) pirate.

Think again before you quit and check out the "fix" if there is one, before you make your mind up.

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What do you expect from us carebears? That we mine like hell to get into a battleship and then jump into a blockade? I really dont see why i should waste my time just to commit suicide.

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Edited by: Zraahd on 24/10/2003 18:36:22
Obviously you aren't quite the great pirate of the space lanes you think you are. My main character is out raiding the commerce lanes every day. He is part of a war effort and catches about 4 to 5 haulers a night.

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I guess the point that you are missing tank is that this is not a game about individuals. Take that 200 player support you have stated you have and form a mega corp of your own. Then "together" go take over a region, you'll have plenty of PvP action till on side gets the upper hand. Once you have your region don't fall down again by thinking small, grow your corp. You can be the baddest player in the game but the wimp at the head of the largest corp can crush you at anytime and thats what the game is about. Set a few lofty goals, ie like gather your 200 fold of bad doers and go take over a region. Once you have done that and start to see what real impact you have on the game then come back and post your thoughts. Right now you are just a chicken s**t ambusher who pod's people that haven't even loaded back into the game. NO one is going to miss that if you go on strike!!!!!!!!!! but players will miss having a dangerous preditor lurking out there in space. Think about it.

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Just for your info, I play about 5 hours after work during the weekdays. Weekends I never know if I am playing or not, but I usually get in at least a few hours. If you haven't ever done this sort of hunting then you cannot say I am full of anything.

USE your map it will show you right where the lanes for the bistot mining is happening.

Damn do I have to explain how to do this step by step? You guys are smart fill in the blanks for yourselves. Hell you might even figure out a better technique than I have.

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".4 SPACE REVOKES YOUR NEWBIE LISCENSE SO SHUT UP WTH THE NEWB CRAP. "

Typical septic tank language from the King of the Septic Tanks himself.

How many times have you been banned now Tanky?

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Ok, because most people in this thread don't seem to understand what's going on, I'll explain it once again, in detail, point by point...

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hehe, and people debate in these forums as if they think someone at CCP will actually read it.

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Where is Tank CEO afk mining in empire space?

I will come there and personaly pod his sorry ass.

And i finaly get his version of piracy.

Kill helpless with no risk to himself.

He is now officialy nominated for "Lamer of the Year Award" too.

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Tank ... To many people hate you and your comrades for eve to give in to quickly ...

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My reaction is regarding the Game balance:

In real life, for every predator there are 1000's of prey.

Without this the prey will die, and extinct leaving the predator without prey. With this balance there is harmony in the system.

EVERY aspect of this in the real life goes the same for EvE, if there are only pirates in the game there is no isk made, no ships build, no guns found and no implants.

Basicly the community has 35000 players, maximum.

From this there are around 500 pirates, as far as i can count.

So for every pirate there are 500 prey in this game, thats way too low ammount to sustain the current grow of the economy and maintaining satisfaction at paying customers who dont like PvP or fights. The so called: Economic players.

You can call them carebears, weak, but they did build ships for the pirates or a target to blow up.

If i still see people having a battleship, but are not able to replace it after its shot down, this implies two things:

- There are too many pirates
- The economy is drive by ppl who arent money wise.

I mean with this:

- There are too many pirates, who cause a ship to be blown up before it has been made back.
- People invest money in items that cost alot but dont consider losing it and a backup plan.

IMHO there are too many pirates at the moment, and even if there were enough pirates for the prey base... The prey can hardly fight back. This is by the current systems used by Pirates:

Lag effects, deploying a drone _ONLY_ so the other guy lags isnt fighting but weakness. Same goes for anchored containers and such.

The Devs are handling THIS issue, and basicly with exploiting those lag features the pirates got themselves ONCE more taken away a feature of their profession...

I cant say i feel sorry for those who used these lag features.

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I wanted to reply to this thread and the various discussions here but as it got steadily more and more complicated I realised it would take an essay to present what I actually wanted to say;

So I wrote one.

The History of Piracy in Eve

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