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Posted - 2008.02.28 22:17:00 -
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 Originally by: Death4free
do carebears not relaise how easy it is 2 b a carebear....
you can sit at a belt all day mining and farming isk for absoliutely nothing
but when a bunch of players decide to interrupt your farming you get all upset and start crying on forums
now id b the first to destroy goons if i had the chance but what they are doing is funny and it wakens the carebears up to the dangers of playing an internets spaceships game
go goons!
Funny? No. It is good the macrominers and isk sellers are getting their dues; but that is a result of epic fail on CCP's part of cleansing the universe of said evildoers.
As it is, suicide ganking has no tangible consequences that matter. I'd be willing to bet that if CCP implemented some 'realistic' (for an advanced society) rules such that suicide gankers were not only popped but also podded by Concord, and then had to spend 48 hours of gameplay in a Concord brig for said action during which no other characters on their account could be played, Goonswarm wouldn't think it so funny either. They'd be whining about how their poor defenseless targets are getting to play when they can't. Though in the real world you suicide bomb, you aren't around to go do it to someone else.
The Anti-Carebears like to think how priviliged we are, but we aren't all swimming in the lap of luxury. There are macroers and isk sellers, which I don't consider to be true carebears...they are evildoers and any actions against them are justified. True carebears make their isk the hard way, they're sitting in that hulk that took them a couple months to sc*****every isk together to fit and field, trying to eek out a living in a universe that doesn't want them in it. A universe that without the carebear wouldn't have ammo or ships to fly. But they do it to enjoy escaping from real life, perhaps getting together the minerals to assemble their next ship which maybe, just maybe they'll go out and do some PvP in. Or maybe they'll put it on the market where someone else can buy it and PvP with it, or upgrade it to a T2 ship for a PvP'er.
As an interesting aside, anyone who thinks that carebears who actively mine or mission for their money are getting it the 'easy' way should step back and look at Eve's economy, skills, and possibilities. There's at least one way to make billions per month, with next to no risk. No Hulks to lose, no Battleships to lose, maybe a few risks with the initial 5 million or so it might take - which anyone who knows anything about EVE can get within a character's first day running basic level 1 missions. The rest is just training time and profit, and no "I'm going to jihad joo carebearz makin' da ez munnie" is going to stop it. You'd have to shut down the server. And well I doubt griefers would be able to handle losing their fun of crashing other people's fun. But still...mining is slave labor compared to other methods that are available... |