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Gold Farming? I Taut I Taw A Puddytat!
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Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#41 - 2013-02-22 20:43:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Dersen Lowery
Leon Ronuken wrote:
No one has yet speculated on the second point : why did they all depart so suddenly?


A couple of reasons spring to mind:

1) the fleet was Retrievers, which have jetcan-sized ore holds. Generally, the best way to mine with a Retriever is to pick a station system and warp to station when the holds are full, empty them and warp back. Given identically fitted Retrievers and identically- or nearly-identically-skilled toons, the holds will fill at the same rate and the fleet will all warp at the same time in response to a fleet warp command. The Ventures were probably newer toons that warped with the Retrievers for the sake of simplicity.

2) gankers and bumpers are known to warp scouts into belts in mining ships so they won't arouse suspicion. If you warped in in a barge and lingered, without starting to mine yourself, the guy might have decided that discretion was the better part of valor and docked everyone up.

Both of these are entirely possible within the EVE EULA.

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Leon Ronuken
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#42 - 2013-02-22 23:42:49 UTC
Ohanka wrote:
Leon Ronuken wrote:
Kate stark wrote:
sounds normal to me, i do it all the time. turn up to a belt, strip it clean, repeat.


Can you run 12 ships at once? And would you have the entire fleet leave the system just because a lone miner showed up and lingered for a couple minutes?


You must be new around here.


Of course that should have been evident from the initial post. Yes.
Leon Ronuken
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#43 - 2013-02-22 23:44:36 UTC
Jason Xado wrote:
Please do not confuse multiboxing with botting, or in this case "Gold Farming". Thanks.


Gold Farming is a relatively well known phenomenon in the MMOG genre, and generally a problem depending on how the game is designed to handle it. So its not my word; didn't know how else to describe the possibility presented by what I saw.
Leon Ronuken
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2013-02-23 04:11:50 UTC
Dersen Lowery wrote:
Leon Ronuken wrote:
No one has yet speculated on the second point : why did they all depart so suddenly?


A couple of reasons spring to mind:

1) the fleet was Retrievers, which have jetcan-sized ore holds. Generally, the best way to mine with a Retriever is to pick a station system and warp to station when the holds are full, empty them and warp back. Given identically fitted Retrievers and identically- or nearly-identically-skilled toons, the holds will fill at the same rate and the fleet will all warp at the same time in response to a fleet warp command. The Ventures were probably newer toons that warped with the Retrievers for the sake of simplicity.

2) gankers and bumpers are known to warp scouts into belts in mining ships so they won't arouse suspicion. If you warped in in a barge and lingered, without starting to mine yourself, the guy might have decided that discretion was the better part of valor and docked everyone up.

Both of these are entirely possible within the EVE EULA.


Excellent post.
Doddy
Excidium.
#45 - 2013-02-28 20:23:41 UTC
Leon Ronuken wrote:
Doddy wrote:

Hate to tell you this . . .


Unclear why telling the thread or me this is something you hate to do.


Because its kind of embarassing to play a game that attracts such individuals.
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