EVE General Discussion

u mad?

I run an indi corp that often works directly with miners, and im sad to say that i do indeed hate miners. There are as always exceptions but i find nearly every miner i come across to be pretty petty about absolutely everything. They have a big carry on if they get ganked in an untanked retriever in 0.5 and whinge that they have no options but to die...well hello procurer. I ask for a small donation after several hours boosting in my orca (3%) and they red me until they need a new boost...which they bloody well wont get.

Not to mention this constant mindest that what they mine is free...so they build cheap crap out of it and screw up the prices in my area, love the forethought guys. Hell, the only good thing i find about miners is the stress relief i get when i bring out my ganking alts.

Sorry. I don't "hate" anyone, especially in a video game. There's enough hate going around IRL, no need to bring that **** into Eve.

I do however strongly disagree with the notion that Eve is a) a single-player mining simulator and b) should be made perfectly safe. This attitude seems prevalent amongst miners. I would have a beer with anyone of my gank victims though -- no hard feelings, it's just a game.

Chribba smackdown, worst smackdown.

There are two kinds of miners I hate, and more often than not, they are actually the same person:

-Miners who have taken high-sec Ice Mining to a ridiculous extreme with enormous multibox fleets.
(Not so much their own fault however, its more CCPs Ice Belt design that needs to be brought in line with standard Ore Anomalies)

-Miners who want to change game design in their own selfish favor, by turning high-sec mining into an even lower risk activity than it is already.

Miners can fight back, it's called making yourself an unattractive target by being hard to kill.

I've ganked miners with others on another character, I associate with people who gank miners because they're good for my income via the market demands they trigger. Most of them will tell you the following:

If you're flying a ship that requires too much investment or effort to gank you'll generally be left alone, unless of course you make yourself a target through other means, like being a gobshite.

Same. If you want my mining ship dead, it's going to cost you; at the very least the replacement value of my ship, and it's fittings. But you'll get a GF in local and some decent conversation if you want some.

No mining - no catalysts
No mining - no archons
No mining - no titans
No mining - no trading
No mining - no cheap ships for pvp

No missioning - no rigs to fit your pew ships with
No missioning - no meta to give you shiny T2 gear


Like it or not, EVE has a real economy and in real economy every link counts. If someone wants to shoot rocks all day, let them. Cheaper ships for me.

Who gives a flying fu*k why you hate or like anything?

Gunmining. Reprocessing loots. Salvaging post-human wrecks.