Bing Bangboom
DAMAG Safety Commission
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Posted - 2016.05.23 17:49:09 -
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Whoa! You can't close sekert Code threads until the actual New Order posters get their say.
To the OP,
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
You may not realize it but Sabriz was the person who actually gave you the best advice in this whole thread. She gave you an honest and factual account of what the effect of AFK mining in highsec would result in. You should always pay more attention to the person who says WHAT they are going to do than to some of the posters who fell they can say WHY we do what we do.
There is a long history of threads like these with commenters who simultaneously claim that highsec ganking is no big deal while giving a page and a half of advice on how to avoid it. The truth is if the gankers want you they will get you. The best you can hope for, and this applies across Eve, is to be able to regroup, learn from the experience and move on forward. The comments that imply that the gankers are somehow harmful, or at the same time, ineffective, or localized or "griefers" don't properly direct you in the best path forward to a long and successful Eve career.
Contrary to your OP and later comments, and reinforcing comments from the risk-adverse crowd, the best thing you can do in Eve is lose ships. Early and often. Once you see them as throwaway items, useful for their life but easily and quickly replaced after their loss, you will find the excitement and enjoyment that long time players find and that keeps them coming back. Trying to nurse a Retriever to survive for a miserable month of AFK mining is going to ruin the game for you. Same goes for flying Procurers. You are somewhat right in your assertion that no normal person could stand mining AT keyboard for very long but still, if you are going to play a game, you should at least, you know... play it.
Other posters have also alluded to the debate as to what the true purpose of highsec miners is in Eve. Some say, as you have, that its a way for new players to get their feet wet and to get enough ISK to move into PvP. This turns out to be foolish when you look at the results. Newbie highsec miners become veteran highsec miners or they quit. Mining skills do not translate to other ships, mining attitudes are a combination of risk-adversion and maximum gain for minimum effort thinking. Neither of these is the training a future null-sec pvp god should nuture, or frankly even starts off with. The very best you can hope for is to become one of the pets of the null sec pvpers where you grind the minerals needed to provide ships to the real wolves of your organization. No matter whether you are working for the Caldari State or TEST, you are still a slave.
So, for frees and with no expected repayment, I will explain to you what a highsec miner exists for.
He exists to be shot. Like AFK haulers, autopiloters, and drone armed mission runners across highsec their purpose is to be hunted down and killed by the pvpers. Think about it. If you were designing a game and you wanted plentiful targets you would create a low skill requirement, inattentive, easily located and easy to kill prey . You would make them fun to kill by rewarding the killers with loot, angry tears and a feeling of superiority. You would limit the reward for the pilots who choose to fly the target ships in order to get them to move on to other things so they won't quit from actual alternatiing boredom and sheer terror. What's that sound like to you?
It sounds like highsec mining to me.
But there's good news. You don't actually have to ever mine to move forward in this game. Shoot red crosses if you must but even better, get a Catalyst, train a handful of days, and then go shoot someone in the face. Because this is New Citizens I can't TELL you where to go learn all about this in the text. Fortunately, the rules are somewhat looser about what appears in the Post script. I advise you to at least look it over. Even if you continue mining for a bit longer, its much better advice on how to survive the situation than you get from random gank victims.
Highsec is worth fighting for.
By choosing to mine in New Order systems, highsec miners have agreed to follow the New Halaima Code of Conduct.-á www.minerbumping.com
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