ShardowRhino
Caldari
Legion 0f The Damned
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Posted - 2009.02.15 12:46:00 -
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Edited by: ShardowRhino on 15/02/2009 12:52:49
 Originally by: FinnAgain Zero
Oh, I agree and made similar points in my piece on the subject. I do think that in many ways, higher prices are a good thing. Ships and fittings mean more, ransoms mean more, kills mean more, loot means more, etc...
The sky is falling-evil macro article Published 26 November 08
First off some linkage to the evilmacroer article on www.Eve-mag.com. I doubt Silicon covered any of the 90 responses to the article itself, including replies from the author of the article. I haven't listened to the podcast yet so there may be additional points by the author in the comments that were not covered.
When losing means nothing. A gentler,kinder eve Published 2 December 08
Heres a link to my response article to "the sky is falling". Additional comments from some of the readers at Eve-Mag.
Finn, I have no idea where your article was published. Any chance for some linkage? I'd like to compare the points you made in it.
As for the issue of macro miners, until ccp can with 100% accuracy point out the macro miners and show records on the amount of minerals they have pumped into the economy, we'll never be able to know the effect it has had. Its a lot like the drug trade, we don't know how many people are producing nor how much. We don't know how much is reaching the streets or the number of people that are using. We can't determine the effect it has had on the lives of the user as well as those around them.
We do know however that as long as any of it is reaching the "economy" and that it is being used, there is a negative impact on a large but unquantified number of individuals to some degree.
Of course someone could attempt to simulate the effects of an individual macro miner or a group of ships. However we could only see the amount of isk they would pull in based on today's going rate for minerals. We cannot rewind the economy pulling out every ill gotten mineral that has been introduced by macrominers. We can't roll back the prices to exclude these mineral and then allow supply and demand to level out the prices.
Just because we as individual players without access to any of ccp's records cannot calculate the impact macroed minerals have had doesn't mean that macroing is not cheating. macroing isn't pvp, at best its pvCCP where the macroer is trying to beat ccp, its rules and ability to detect the cheater.To me that is belligerent,towards CCP as well as the playerbase.
I could go on but i'd just be repeating the gist of my article. but ill leave it with...
 Read the articles
Read the comments
Listen to the Podcast
 Discuss
 Profit
As for the idea that its unsure how many people will react to the macro article, I have a few things to say.
1.We got a lot of hits at E-M for the article.
2.The article has the highest comments count of any article thus far.
3.It has some of the most vehement response to be found at E-M from both sides of the argument.
4.Regardless of how many hits we got at Eve-mag.com the vast majority of EVE players have not seen it but should see it. To see it in its entirety, which I mean the article + any response articles from any number of writers and comments by the readers.
cat and mouse game or not, most players should really consider the effect it has on themselves as well as those they know. It should be something CCP makes clear,obvious and forceful moves to counter, constantly.
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