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Ok, so then don't spoil your otherwise reasonable, though ridiculously and unnecessarily long, arguments with empty hyperbolic threats and doomcalling

buffing ganking is never useful in any MMO. I believe ganking is a necessary evil, and can never really be stopped even if you wanted to.

But making it easier is not needed, and will only result in more carebears rage quiting.

Age of Conan was a great PVP game, but they promoted ganking and made ganking and spawn camping very easy to do and impossible to avoid. After all hyboria is supposed to be a harsh dangerous play. (sound familiar) yet that game died?

EVE is a far better game than AoC ever could have been. But ganking is ganking, and carebears hate it.

Ganking needs to have a risk vs reward balance just like everything else.

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I am glad to see neither red frog or black frog will be hurt by this expansion.

I may need their services when I move back to null sec.

NO SORRY,

Regular PVP is fighting other players who fight back.

Ganking is a form of PVP, but the lowest form, and not worthy of the PVP flag.

Attacking another that has zero chance of fighting back or defending themself is ganking. High sec, low sec, null sec, W-space, it does not matter. Ganking is ganking.

Not that ganking is a bad thing, but it is not a form of game play that needs any help.

I ask who is the braver pilot, The miner who goes out in null sec to mine ore at a great personal risk, Or the ganker that goes out hunting a type of ship that can not fight back?

There is no honor in ganking, it does not make you a better PVPer.

It is fun though, which is all that really matters.

Actually the problem is that bots have the advantage in that situation. The bot can constantly scan local and will always boogie out of dodge if a neut shows up, There is also no reason to think that a bot can't watch intel channels for key info either (that or the botter just puts their own scouts in adjacent systems.

A player on the other hand gets distracted or spaces out or has to run take a **** and will occasionally miss that neut in local (know that's how I tend to lose ratting ships that and forgetting to turn the tank on). So if it is an effort to cause grief to botters then it is an extremely misguided and ill conceived one.

Not saying it doesn't need changing, but Ice mining was the one resource harvesting activity that put humans and bots on a more or less even footing. The low level of manual interaction required was so minimal that the bot gained less advantage from it's ability to respond instantly to change.

I am unhappy to adapt and give CCP $90 less a month, because I really want to see EvE get its 20 years mark. I know you don't care for them (like you don't care for me), but hey, world spins round like that.

Expenses: not so much, (mining crystals, drones, hulkageddon, corp member paychecks for showing up) but compare time and income in mining to time and income in mission whoring, ratting, COSMOS, scan sites, or just about anything else (including other passive forms of isk generation like PI). It's the least profitable thing you can be doing, grant total (and frankly, even mission whoring, who buys ammo? Make your own or use lasers)




Junior, if you think I lose something at my in game age and level of wealth if you manage to kill me (something goons have been failing at for.... five years or more now) you obviously are a noob. zomg, I lost a Bhaalgorn. There goes..... 0.012% of my total value. Woo.

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Something needs to be done with the Rorqual if they are doing all these changes to ICE and expect that 20% of the ICE is not going to be mined in highsec.

After the patch the HULK will roughly mine 200 blocks of ICE an hour with max skills and an implant... The rorqual can only compress roughly 320 blocks of ICE and hour... this is THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!

1.5 HULK TO ONE RORQUAL for compression of ICE... I CCP was trying to make this a group activity for mining in 0.0 but do you really expect a corporation of 32 Exhumer pilots to mine for 1 hour and then ALL 32 jump into a Rorqual and compress for 1 hour?

The Rorqual need a few things done... Make the Compression RATE of ICE EQUAL to the MINING rate of a HULK... then make the RORQUAL be able to support something more then 1.5 hulks... like each Rorqual should be able to support 10+ Hulks...

If you decrease the compression time by a little (by giving rorqual a compression bonus per level) and increase the number of slots to 10-11 for compression on the rorqual (either by flat number of slots or again a rorqual bonus per level) then it would make that much more sense.

Honestly the Tractor beam, scanner, and drone bonuses are total lame in my opionion and we could lose those to make up for the bonuses I suggested above.

Please do it.... so it can come out with this patch and not like 6 months later!!!!!

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Still amazed both by CCP and the "pro players": always flaunting the PLAYER DRIVEN oh holy sandbox and then both ready to give up for the low hanging fruit solution and put in a...


... fake, unrealistic, cheap TIMER. A TIMER in a sandbox. Next week we read WoW became a sandbox too, they are full of timers and instances locks after all.


Just undo the barges buffs and let PLAYERS kill miners and define supply, demand and market price. THAT's an imperfect yet sandboxy and realistic solution, not this farce.