Crime & Punishment

Chill, we believe u.. We are all adults, are we not?

I just cant believe what gives u high - dont like ganks in general.. Appreciate 1 on 1 similar ships and fits, but ganking.. Meh..

But hey, we are not all the same..

About the hulkageddon - i dont really care about ignorant miners loosing their expensive hulks - covetor is dead cheap in comparison.

And good thing to exterminate AFK mining. Lets see what will happen with a mining barges buff later.. should be a bit more interesting..

actually, Deamon Ceed seems to have the mentality of a child more than an adult if you ask me. Just have a look at this bio, Now, THAT is funny. I'm with you, I would find no challenge and barely any fun in rolling around with 3 guys, ganking random miners who won't fight back.

Deamon Ceed bio:
"- Ambassador to the Holy Order of the Flying Speghetti Monster

Doing bad things to good people since 2011

Quotes:


Daemon Ceed > Just let me know when your cap gets back up so I can neut it again. Thx.
Blart Agrajag > jesus christ
Daemon Ceed > You can just call me Daemon.
Daemon Ceed > No need for the brevity.

Antonious Corvinus > it's just crazy how quick you beat the **** out of my ship....
Gutless2 Kunta-kin-ta > you ripped me to pieces in seconds"


I especially like the use of the word "brevity". Apparently he threw that in there to appear smart. LOL.

This thread again........ really???

LMAO. Dude, you are hilarious! And you make yourself look stupid. A name can be shortened in the interest of brevity (i.e. using fewer words to describe or say something), and if you had the comprehension skills of something other than a housecat you could see that I was saying he could just call me "Daemon" rather than the much longer "Jesus Christ". I applied the word wrong, but the intent was obvious. If you thought you burned me, you're sorely mistaken.

And to futher your common lack of knowledge of how gankers operate, we typically have someone come in to gather up the wrecks of the Hulk, the Catalysts, and salvage all of the ships. Hulks drop some mighty nice T2 salvage. Intact Armor Plates are delicious! A typical gank Catalyst costs about 3-4mil. A single Modulated Strip Miner II costs ~6mil. If I get the Hulk loot, most of my loot and your of your delicious salvage I come out quite ahead. Most miners don't bother coming back for the loot. They are more worried about their nearly worthless 2mil can of ore that'll take them 2-3 trips in a Hauler to move out. Now that's comedy!

Derp, isn't that what I just said? I made a mistake in applying a word. OMG, nobody has every done that! Haha, smoke pole tool ;)

Oh, cool!

This is the thread we're supposed to be necro'ing tonight!

(/Me giggles madly) URP-SPLOSION TYME NAOW!!

E:

I are kyute kitten.

Could it be that hulks are designed to do things other than mine solo in highsec?
Maybe, say, in a mining fleet in a defended 0.0 system?
Could it be that there are other, much cheaper T1 ships that are more suitable for solo highsec mining which is a profession widely known to be both a vunerable and a preferential target for many?

I'm with the OP, Inda, and the rest who support less violence in High Sec. Yes it hurts Eve revenues Mall and others,
imagine what would happen in WoW if players could 'warp in" to an ongoing dungeon.. engage those inside, kill them and take their stuff.. say good bye to a vast portion of those 10M subscribers.

Sure the perps get a free lunch.. and can mock and dis those they killed, but heh.. as a business, in a very competitive market, you want to attract players not **** them off. And this causes you to lose revenues because players will say.. C Ya.

Case in point, I had 9 accounts at one time in Eve.. all started around 2003-2004. I got rid of all but 1 now.. and I only occasionally play.

Lost revenues to Eve.. $120 a month, $1440 a year... to date ~ 8 years later roughly.. $11,520 ... LOST REVENUE ON 1 PLAYER.

Lets say they capture 10% of the Wow market by making eve less violent to new players and those that don't like being ganked in high sec by perps. Eve is a kick ass space game.. they should be able to do that.


1 Million new subscribers.. each with one acct gets $15M in new revenues monthly..

and a staggering $180 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

A 21x multiply on what they are making now.. hell I'd buy stock if they did that. That doesn't even count multiple accounts. So you want to really know what the cost of allowing perps to manipulate their game environment is... there ya go.

Just imagine how mega cool this game could be. WoW clearly shows where the vast amount of revenues are... personally I think Eve senior management should reinvent their long term business strategy and wake up. Their subscriber base has not significantly increased in 9 years. Why is that? Could it be that this strategy of allowing ganking to occur completely kills their ability to grow and attract new players - between that and the long learning curve, new players don't stand a chance.

So while all the perps continue to slap themselves on the back for successful crime and misconduct.. a great game stagnates and in business there is only one outcome to stagnation.


- Majiir

It wouldn't be cool, though.

It would be a grating grind-fest based on laughably primitive mechanics, complete lack of immersion exacerbated by same, and buggered up further by an archaic, screen-hogging kludge of a UI, with gameplay that is, at best, average.

Get it through your head, for ****'s sake:

EVE =/= WoW, nor can it ever, they are completely different games, based on completely different paradigms. WoW does WoW much better than EVE could ever hope to, in any case.

No, EVE wouldn't be "cool" with an influx of stupid, over-entitled, easily-led little WoW-kids, it would be a complete effing nightmare--that would totally kill the community, and without the community, EVE would die quite quickly. Because without its community, there's just not much else there.

Oh, and EVE's subscriber-base has only grown year-over-year, with the quite-proper exception of that Incarna farce, so I don't know whose arse you're pulling that age-old, totally wrong assertion out of, but....yeah.

If you're such a fan of the "traditional/generic" MMO-model, then why don't you just go play those games? There are certainly enough to choose from. CCP is unlikely to return your phone-calls giving them "advice," regardless.

I can haz ur stuffs?

Although I may be biased as a ganker, the Hulk and Mackinaw already get the best yield. You want the yield, you take the risk of having a flimsier ship. It's a fair trade-off.