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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2012.03.20 17:58:00 -
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I've noticed the same thing in the systems I mine.
I'm always alone now....it's nervewracking. Scan shows only combat ships. Chat is silent where there used to be idle chatter from fellow miners. I've gone entire sessions (3 hours or so) without seeing another miner in systems that used to have many.
Well, at least there's ore now :)
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Ana Vyr
Vyral Technologies
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Posted - 2012.03.20 18:30:00 -
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Cipher Jones wrote:What if its piracy they want? Should they play a different game? Don't you want Eve to be a sandbox? Cipher Jones does.
What piracy, Cipher? All they do is blow you up and wait for you to rant on the chat about it. |
Ana Vyr
Vyral Technologies
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Posted - 2012.03.21 14:51:00 -
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Mining is quite a bit more exciting today than it used to be simply because you will lose your Hulk if you aren't on your toes all the time.
I'd much prefer it was exciting because of cool gameplay mechanics though...you know: comet mining, belts that move or have to be scanned out, multiple ore types in single rocks where you have to use some form of scanning to get what you want, pirate mining groups that have to be dealt with before you can move into a belt, asteroids that will damage your ship if they hit it and the entire belt is in motion....that sort of stuff. |
Ana Vyr
Vyral Technologies
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Posted - 2012.03.21 21:02:00 -
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The fact that it's so popular to gank miners says to me that these folks are plain old bored to tears with other aspects of the game. Ganking miners would be a total waste of time if there was something better to do.
Nullsec is a blobfest, dominated by massive alliances where individual players are like worker ants. Lowsec is just useless anarchy. Highsec is where the game is (for the non-worker ant players) these days, as sad as that is. Everyone who can't get into alliance style gameplay is there.
CCP really has to figure out a way to make lowsec into a place where "casual" PvPers play, with meaningful things to shoot at.
When people talk about EvE they always say its a game where individual players can make a difference. Maybe that was before these massive alliances took over null?
Does blowing up miners actualy make a difference that isn't negative to the overall game? In some ways, we players are spoiling a great game with this sort of trivial gameplay. |
Ana Vyr
Vyral Technologies
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Posted - 2012.03.22 14:36:00 -
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Tallian Saotome wrote:Ana Vyr wrote:
When people talk about EvE they always say its a game where individual players can make a difference. Maybe that was before these massive alliances took over null?
Common misconception. CAN != WILL An individual player can change the game, look at the Mittani, or Chribba. Just because you can doesn't mean you will, and people don't seem to understand that. I know I personally have changed the course of the game, by providing a pivotal role as a logi pilot, which has cause my guys to win fights we would not have(sometimes even in the face of superior odds!) yet I am one of the nullsec 'drones', not even a corp officer(tho I did get my CEO to name me official shiptoaster of our corp  ). If you think you can't make a difference in the game, its just through a lack of personal imagination and ambition.
Sure, and I've made tens of thousands of hobgoblins which I sold on the market to other players, so I've changed the game too 
There's no question that personal drive plays a role, and that folks like Chribba and Mittani have changed the game in a big way, but seriously, what percentage of the playerbase gets into these roles? Do you think you can play casually and be a Mittani? |
Ana Vyr
Vyral Technologies
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Posted - 2012.03.22 14:43:00 -
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Evei Shard wrote:Ana Vyr wrote:The fact that it's so popular to gank miners says to me that these folks are plain old bored to tears with other aspects of the game. Unfortunately that is completely wrong. It has nothing to do with boredom. They are ganking miners for one or both of two reasons. 1) It's very profitable to do so within the current game mechanics 2) Because they enjoy the reactions they get out of the players they do it to.
OK, if I'm wrong, you are saying that one of the best (most exciting) and very profitable playstyles in EvE is to go around punking mining boats? That's pretty damned lame for a game as complex as EvE.
As a career industrialist, I just don't see the appeal in doing that at all. Maybe, I just have the wrong mindset for that activity. |
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