Calla Vee
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Posted - 2008.07.30 11:38:00 -
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Edited by: Calla Vee on 30/07/2008 11:39:48
While I don't look at the issue as acrimoniously against CCP as many on this thread, and I do understand that dedicating employees at CCP to hunting these guys down is expensive as are the possible legal ramifications, I still would like more action taken against these people.
 Originally by: Sir Substance
the definition of a macro'er is someone who uses an automated script to mine while they do something else.
i have an issue with this problem that a lot of people don't realise.
i do feel strongly that we need to wipe out macro miners, but im more concerned about vigilantes.
i spend a lot of my time mining, while i browse forums, do some work etc. often for me, eve is minimised.
i also usually mine the same system, because it is convenient. more then once, someone has convo'd me. i haven't responded in the chat because im doing something else, and they go "k, macro, lets pop him!"
no, **** off. leave me alone, douchebag.
vigilantes are more annoying to me then macro miners. macro miners make it hard for me to make a profit. vigilantes usually cost me 100 mil when i encounter them.
You can dress up whatever is happening to you any way you want, but unfortunately the root of the matter is not the vigilantes. It's you. You're getting ganked because you're not paying attention. People aren't going to have any sympathy the moment you admit you're windowed out of EVE and expecting a safe, steady income flow. I usually don't support "gank" activity of "innocents" in EVE as a matter of my own temperament, but I have to say they're right in this case.
It's the same as someone deciding to afk in a supposed "safe spot" in a 0.0 system for hours on end while they go do something else (for whatever reason), then coming home and being upset when someone probed him out and popped him. Or freighter haulers who autopilot AFK warp system after system, then are surprised that someone scanned their slowboat and suicide ganked it for the goodies it carried.
I have a problem with ganking when it occurs to players who are paying attention but are helpless due to game mechanics, lag, and similar things, but you could save those hundreds of millions of ISK simply by paying attention to the game.
Yeah, mining is boring and it's so easy that you can do it while you're doing something else. But that doesn't mean you should.
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