EVE General Discussion

Three months ago I purchased 3 months of playing time for my three 6 year old accounts . At that time you allowed Goonswarm to circumvent high sec game mechanics with hulkmania. Hulkmania used to last a week and was not a problem. They made it a month and then permanent. That is a big problem. I tried everything I could to fight these pirates. Its hard to fight and mine at the same time. I thought after hulkmania this would stop but Goonswarm continues to have bounties on mining ships. Its been three months and pirates are still attacking my ships in high sec space with imunity. Almost all these pirates have at least a -5 security standing. How can you justify allowing players with -5 security standing into high sec? I have over 250 billion ISK so ISK is not the problem. Being able to read my newspaper while peacefully mining is all I want to do. I created several petitions explaining my problem but you did nothing! From your responses to my petitions I know my 3 accounts mean nothing to you. You thought hulkmania would only last a short time and players would not quit. You are wrong!! How many other players are having the same problem? How many have already quit or will quit in the near future? In a few days my playing time will expire. I hope EVE dies and you lose your jobs!!!

I dont give a fu.. how you players respond to this thread. In a few days all of you and EVE wont matter. In a few years EVE wont matter to the gaming community. It will be just another mmo that died a slow death.

Gimme some.

@OP You go girl!

I am so sorry I killed you. Please don't leave.

I also have 250bil and wish to make a whine thread about losing ships to the value of 0.1% of my liquid ISK

Please pick one of these obligatory responses to your whine thread, they are all suitable:

1. Harden The F.uck Up (HTFU)
2. Dont s.hit fit your ship
3. Dont fly what you cannot afford to loose.
4. Go Back To WoW (GB2W)
5. Can i have your stuff?
6. Post with your main


Personally number 1 and 4 are my personal favorite but you choose what you are comfortable with. Number 6 is there cause its obviously not your main since he has 2 caracol losses and no Hulk losses, so either this is just a troll thread or your not man enough to show your main.

You been mining in the game for what 2 years? And your sick of getting ganked? You poor delicate little snowflake you... I often wonder about this threads iv been mining in this game for over 7 years and have never once been suicide ganked, and iv done it in high sec, low sec and null sec.

Also your paltry 250bisk is nothing! I have at least 800bisk pfff your so common.

Goons goons goons goons goons goons goons.

Goons gooned my goon and gooned me when I wasn't gooning. Goon the goons or I'll goon this goon next goon!

This is why GoonSwarm should take ISD's place. These forums are pretty much all about us as it is.

For content, I'll suggest what I always have. First, pay attention to the game you're playing.

Second, form a low or nullsec corp and recruit like-minded players and mine together. There is safety in numbers. We mine in null all the time in dozens of hulks in goonspace. I watch star trek while waiting for a laser to cycle. Never been ganked once. We have a great intel channel that alerts us to potential threats systems before they reach us. There is NO reason you can't do the same. None at all. Stop whining at CCP to get rid of the gankers for you, all the tools you need to do it yourself are in the game, and have been for some time. Play the game for once.

Stop mining in high sec, you carebear mining retards. You know it isn't safe. You know you will get ganked. So ******* stop it. I know its excruciating, but you are going to have to change your playstyle if you want to continue mining. And hey, good news! Mining in low and null is quite a bit more profitable! There is no reason, none at all to remain in highsec. I know you think it SHOULD be safe, but the fact is, it isn't, and every single ******* one of you knows it.

A few friends and I decided to convert a bit of security standing into fun by trying out this apparently hilarious new trend among the young people of today: Suicide ganking.

So we loaded up some cheap T1-fitted catalysts and had a go at a mack sitting in belt with some friends and an orca.
As it turns out, as soon as we locked, the orca started shield repping and our catalysts died to concord, scoring zero kills.
When we warped our pods out, one of the miners wrote in local, "Lol, noob suiciders" - Or something to that effect.
That stung, badly.

So I guess it's not entirely impossible to defend a mining fleet, although two or three catalysts more might have tipped the scales. But still.
Rather humiliating experience, I must say.

Right, and they should have to play the game within the same parameters we all do. They want to mine, they need to form a mining corp to do it for protection. High Sec is not meant to be safe, I don't know how many times you pubbies need to have that rammed into your dense skulls. If what you are trying is repeatedly failing, then stop trying, and think of something else. Plenty of people mine unharassed because they make use of the resources given to them by CCP to do it safely.

Make a mining corp in low or null sec. There, you can preemptively strike without getting concorded. You can set up intel to warn you of threats and a station to dock up in.

Seriously, this is a sandbox. Yes, you can play however you like, but that doesn't mean we have to let you. If we want to **** on your sandcastle, we're free to do that too. It's up to you to protect yourself here. You have the tools to stop us, though. Do what I said, let go of your ****** veldspar and just go to low or null sec. You'll be a lot safer, and you'll make a lot more money.

This is called "Playing Eve", and while a lot of you don't really understand it, I recommend giving it a try. This is a game of survival, and only the strong survive. If you can't adapt, then you die. That's the whole point of the game. Play it, or go play WoW.

Or I suppose you can sit in highsec and whine for CCP to overcome all your in-game obstacles for you.

My vocabulary is not extended enough to understand the word pubbies but i agree somewhat with most of what you wrote. My point is, or actually something that's worth discussing is: Should it be possible to mine safely in Highsec, just as it is safe to run Missions ? Or in other words, did CCP intend to make a place where it's perfectly safe to mine ? If not, then you're in most parts right.

As a sidenote, i'm not a miner, and actually would recommend to remove Concord altogether, just to be clear on this, if you're talking about a REAL sandbox then remove any NPC restrictions. I just like to see the other side of the argument as well thats all, and i'm ready to be convinced by the opposite if i'm wrong. The style of arguments that most people in here use though shows clearly that they rather bang the wardrums and show their e-peen instead of having an interesting discussion.

I have to agree with the op.

He choose to be a miner, that's what eve is to him. If he has a quarter trillion isk he could do pretty much anything. The fact that People are destroying what eve means to him and others is something that ccp should take note of.

Yes it's a sandbox but because it is one it gives him and others the choice to mine were ever and how they want. No one group should have the right to dictate how others play their game.