Tyberius Franklin wrote:Considering that many of the observations you have associated with miners apply equally to most isk making activities; easily (pseudo)botable, endlessly repeatable acts which can be used for purposeless/endless accumulation of isk, which pretty much encompasses all activities that spawn resources or direct isk as well (These arguments apply equally to just about all PvE and PI as well), why have you singled out mining? Or have I misunderstood the core of your reasoning?
This is another classic tactic of the highsec miner. They realize they have no counter-argument. They're guilty. Their only recourse is to create a distraction that prevents people from focusing on the highsec miner problem.
In other words, you're trying to justify your own bad behavior by pointing to someone else's bad behavior.
If we followed your "reasoning" to its logical conclusion, we could never kill the highsec miners because first we would need to go attack the highsec missioners. And we could never kill them because we need to first eliminate the alleged botters in nullsec, and so on, and so on...
The rational thing is to focus on killing all of the highsec miners. After they're all gone, we can handle whatever problem is left. Until then,
deal with it.
Of course there's good reason to believe highsec miners are the worst of the worst. They are natural botters, and as I proved in the Manifesto, they all
want to be botters. The whole point of mining in highsec, as opposed to nullsec or even lowsec, is to be able to mine AFK. While it's theoretically possible that someone is running a bot in nullsec, if it were so practical, wouldn't
all of the bots be in nullsec--where the most valuable ore/ice is located? But they're not. They're in highsec, where people get to be AFK and pretend they're invincible. And unlike people who run missions or incursions, no one enjoys mining. There's a reasonable argument to be made that no one
should enjoy missions, but there are some who get a cheap thrill out of it like you would by stomping a Koopa Troopa. But no one enjoys mining. It's all about botting.