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Miners - Why such hatred?
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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#21 - 2012-10-30 17:02:06 UTC
Because they're so handsome and charming.

Damn their good genes!

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Sentamon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2012-10-30 17:04:19 UTC
Lots of angry people that can't figure out how to mine. :P

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Ghazu
#23 - 2012-10-30 17:30:01 UTC
Because soon you too will start to whine.

http://www.minerbumping.com/ lol what the christ https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2299984#post2299984
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#24 - 2012-10-30 17:34:08 UTC
Metal Icarus wrote:
people who ***** about miners are ******* retards with nothing better to do. Seriously. They get mad at you for mining just because you are mining.

James315 makes his living bumping miners in highsec.

Pussies hate miners.


Oh sheeeyt! Getting told off by Tribal Band!

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Metal Icarus
Star Frontiers
Brotherhood of Spacers
#25 - 2012-10-30 17:41:20 UTC
Alpheias wrote:
Metal Icarus wrote:
people who ***** about miners are ******* retards with nothing better to do. Seriously. They get mad at you for mining just because you are mining.

James315 makes his living bumping miners in highsec.

Pussies hate miners.


Oh sheeeyt! Getting told off by Tribal Band!


Shh... they don't know Im in yet....
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#26 - 2012-10-30 17:42:05 UTC
Metal Icarus wrote:
Alpheias wrote:
Metal Icarus wrote:
people who ***** about miners are ******* retards with nothing better to do. Seriously. They get mad at you for mining just because you are mining.

James315 makes his living bumping miners in highsec.

Pussies hate miners.


Oh sheeeyt! Getting told off by Tribal Band!


Shh... they don't know Im in yet....


I hope you like to lose ships.

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Casirio
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2012-10-30 17:42:35 UTC
Robert De'Arneth wrote:
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
Casirio wrote:
Most of it stems from hatred of AFK isk makers. Because a lot of miners mine afk, and then whine and complain when they come back to their keyboard ganked or bumped off their belt. People have a problem with anyone who can make isk without having any risk or any involvment in the game. I know not all miners are afk miners, but afk anything, I believe, should never be possible in the game.


How do you know that a 'lot of miners mine afk'?

I have no more idea how many miners mine afk any more than you do.

Too many opinions, too few facts.



They make these claims to somehow make themsleves feel important and all knowing.


lol you got me bro P i feel so important now that i'm quoted P
*goes back into wormhole* ill leave the highsec shenanigans to james 315 and his fanbois here who obviously have nothing better to do while they afk mine
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#28 - 2012-10-30 18:10:23 UTC
Hatred of miners by a few vocal asshats pulled from the 2% of the player base that post in the forums can be safely ignored since it in no way reflects the opinion of the majority of the players.

Mr Epeen Cool
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#29 - 2012-10-30 18:13:33 UTC
Some Rando wrote:
Speedkermit Damo wrote:
What I would really like to know is why is there such frothing, swivel-eyed hate for miners in general?

The more you mine, the more you want to be "left alone" to AFK, because mining is literally the most boring **** anyone ever coded into a game. Because people want to be AFk while "playing" the game they turn into entitled, sniveling little whiners who eschew any interaction whatsoever from other players, self-victimize, and generally whine at the game developers to change PvP mechanics to suit their "needs".

Bottom line: Don't mine. Ever.


As you can see, the anti-miners are significantly worse whiners than any miner.

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Robert De'Arneth
#30 - 2012-10-30 18:19:06 UTC
Arduemont wrote:
Some Rando wrote:
Speedkermit Damo wrote:
What I would really like to know is why is there such frothing, swivel-eyed hate for miners in general?

The more you mine, the more you want to be "left alone" to AFK, because mining is literally the most boring **** anyone ever coded into a game. Because people want to be AFk while "playing" the game they turn into entitled, sniveling little whiners who eschew any interaction whatsoever from other players, self-victimize, and generally whine at the game developers to change PvP mechanics to suit their "needs".

Bottom line: Don't mine. Ever.


As you can see, the anti-miners are significantly worse whiners than any miner.



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Viktor Fel
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#31 - 2012-10-30 18:20:28 UTC
I don;t hate miners, they are as much a part of the EVE universe as pirates. I find miners quite profitable too.

Who is Viktor Fel?

Killboard
Random Majere
Rogue Fleet
#32 - 2012-10-30 18:25:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Random Majere
The best part in mining is when you kill the guy that flipped your can. Miners that can defend themselves are the real reason why so many hate miners. The miner haters say they hate miners because to many mine AFK or do not fit a tank. But that is BS. In reality it is because they got killed by a miner and are to shameful to admit it.

The only valid reason to hate a miner is when he is botting.
Shizuken
Venerated Stars
#33 - 2012-10-30 19:05:22 UTC
Robert De'Arneth wrote:
Arduemont wrote:
Some Rando wrote:
Speedkermit Damo wrote:
What I would really like to know is why is there such frothing, swivel-eyed hate for miners in general?

The more you mine, the more you want to be "left alone" to AFK, because mining is literally the most boring **** anyone ever coded into a game. Because people want to be AFk while "playing" the game they turn into entitled, sniveling little whiners who eschew any interaction whatsoever from other players, self-victimize, and generally whine at the game developers to change PvP mechanics to suit their "needs".

Bottom line: Don't mine. Ever.


As you can see, the anti-miners are significantly worse whiners than any miner.



More true words have never been posted in these forums ever!!



Indeed. So many of the replies here lament how the miners whine so much that CCP gave them some love. BUT all of the whining on here these days is by the gankers/griefers. Do a survey of the threads in GD and you will see that most of them are targeted at whining about how miners have it too easy and that gankers are doing the right thing for being dicks to them so CCP should make ganking easier.

The whining is all theirs, because they are too chicken **** to go to null for a real challenge. They just want broad access to easy targets that wont fight back.
Ioci
Bad Girl Posse
#34 - 2012-10-30 19:19:31 UTC
It's the only element of the industrial chain that is required to undock.

It's sort of hard to hate a ship builder when most of them haven't seen the outside of a station in 4 years.

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Serf of Hurlbat
Duckfleet
#35 - 2012-10-30 19:22:00 UTC
There's also a food-chain element to it also. The miners are the ones shooting lasers at rocks all day ---> the industrials use the mined rocks to build ships ---> The PVPers have fun and blow stuff up ---> The industrialists have to build more to rebuild stuff blown up ---> the miners have to mine more to facilitate the industrialists building ships ---> repeat

Waddle on in.
Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#36 - 2012-10-30 19:22:37 UTC
People hate miners because they lack the stoic patience to blast rocks.
It might be low risk, but its also low fun.

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Serf of Hurlbat
Duckfleet
#37 - 2012-10-30 19:24:28 UTC
Kult Altol wrote:
People hate miners because they lack the stoic patience to blast rocks.
It might be low risk, but its also low fun.


The actual gameplay involved with mining is not what makes it fun. What makes it fun is the meta-game and role-play element to mining asteroids - I certainly get all excited when I remind myself that these rocks I'm mining are supplying some massive war in null sec. There's also nothing like the feeling when you've just completed a corp mining operation and you're handing over the rocks to the industrialists. Miners will understand what I mean.

Waddle on in.
Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#38 - 2012-10-30 19:25:12 UTC
Ioci wrote:
It's the only element of the industrial chain that is required to undock.

It's sort of hard to hate a ship builder when most of them haven't seen the outside of a station in 4 years.


If the arguments put forward to justify hating miners are really true, they'd hate ship builders even more for that reason.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
Kainotomiu Ronuken
koahisquad
#39 - 2012-10-30 19:27:23 UTC
Serf of Hurlbat wrote:
Kult Altol wrote:
People hate miners because they lack the stoic patience to blast rocks.
It might be low risk, but its also low fun.


The actual gameplay involved with mining is not what makes it fun. What makes it fun is the meta-game and role-play element to mining asteroids - I certainly get all excited when I remind myself that these rocks I'm mining are supplying some massive war in null sec. There's also nothing like the feeling when you've just completed a corp mining operation and you're handing over the rocks to the industrialists. Miners will understand what I mean.

That's an interesting way of looking at it, but why don't you just join a nullsec corp and actually fight in the war?
Dave Stark
#40 - 2012-10-30 19:28:16 UTC
Serf of Hurlbat wrote:
Kult Altol wrote:
People hate miners because they lack the stoic patience to blast rocks.
It might be low risk, but its also low fun.


The actual gameplay involved with mining is not what makes it fun. What makes it fun is the meta-game and role-play element to mining asteroids - I certainly get all excited when I remind myself that these rocks I'm mining are supplying some massive war in null sec. There's also nothing like the feeling when you've just completed a corp mining operation and you're handing over the rocks to the industrialists. Miners will understand what I mean.


no the fun bit is watching your wallet tick higher and higher as your orders are filled when you fly out of jita having just dumped a load of minerals on the market at 0.01 isk below every one else.