Originally by: Stitcher

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I still don't agree with the practice, but it's stopped me from blowing up every macro miner I see, because at the end of the day it's taking food out of someone's mouth.

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Originally by: Stitcher

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All of which has made me a little more sympathetic to them. I still don't agree with the practice, but it's stopped me from blowing up every macro miner I see, because at the end of the day it's taking food out of someone's mouth.

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Originally by: Pitt Bull

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Originally by: Stitcher

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I still don't agree with the practice, but it's stopped me from blowing up every macro miner I see, because at the end of the day it's taking food out of someone's mouth.

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If someone relies on playing a video game to feed themselves, I wouldn't lose sleep if they died.

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Originally by: Stitcher

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All of which has made me a little more sympathetic to them. I still don't agree with the practice, but it's stopped me from blowing up every macro miner I see, because at the end of the day it's taking food out of someone's mouth.

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Originally by: Slash Arcane

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Originally by: voogru

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And feel that CCP isn't being pro-active enough against them (Raises hand)

This thread is not a debate about farmers/macros/isk sellers/isk buyers.

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Yes, it isn't a thread to debate abt farmers et al but I will comment on this petition.

You see but you don't look. Think about it for a second. Just take a look at the Character and Timecode bazaar. You see 3 things (duh):

1) People and yes even legit ppl selling GTCs for ISK.
2) People, usually the vets, buying GTCs with ISK.
3) People selling characters for ISK.

Granted there are many reasons for each, but the bottom line is that there is a way, a legit way, to use RL money to get ingame ISK, and CCP puts its stamp of approval on it. Who really, I mean REALLY buys 6 to 10 GTCs to play EVE, then goes, "Hmmm I bought too many, I'll just sell it"? Come on... the express purpose was to use real money to buy ISK. CCP might as well open up the EVE Store to directly allow players to buy ISK.

Face it, it's all about the money.

Fanfest? It's a festival for fans. To spend more money on their beloved game.

Power of 2? It's so that people can build a pvp/ind/research alt which they can then later sell off for ISK. Who really, I mean REALLY, sells characters? People who leave that's who. Character swap I understand u wanna try something different, but if u're leaving, why sell characters for ISK? Come on...

It's all about the money. If there are ways to get real money into CCP's wallet, it'll stay. Power of 2, Secure GTC transfer, portrait change, character transfer.

Your petition shouldn't be to stop farmers/sellers. Your petition should be for CCP to stop legitimising real money to ISK conversions.

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Originally by: BlackKnightMagik

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The problem with you "macro hunters" is that you automatically assume that anyone that is mining is an ISK Farmer. So I assume that is how you get the extreme numbers of ISK Farmer in your "statistics"

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Originally by: Krystal Divine

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signed

I'm beginning to wonder if CCP even checks on the Heimatar region. In a system called Ingunn the population has inflated from 10-15 players (max, at peak playtime) to over 150 players. Who are these new people? Haulers. All of them. And all of them are in the rookie corp. They run in and out of Ingunn all day, all night. What happens when you blow them up? They drop mission loot, and come right back out 15 minutes later in a fresh hauler. None ever talk or change course or ship type, or do anything to prove they're not macrohauling isk farmers.

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Originally by: Stitcher

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There was an interesting article in the New York Times about gold farmers actually. Turns out, most of them are paid depending on how much gold/ISK/whatever they generate, and the pay rate is pretty terrible. Not only that, but every time they get killed, they lose money.

All of which has made me a little more sympathetic to them. I still don't agree with the practice, but it's stopped me from blowing up every macro miner I see, because at the end of the day it's taking food out of someone's mouth.

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Originally by: voogru

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1.3m yay

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Originally by: Pitt Bull

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Originally by: Stitcher

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I still don't agree with the practice, but it's stopped me from blowing up every macro miner I see, because at the end of the day it's taking food out of someone's mouth.

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If someone relies on playing a video game to feed themselves, I wouldn't lose sleep if they died.

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