EVE General Discussion

There are several reasons people hate miners:
1) Feeling it is their responsibility to police botting (false; it is your job to report it)
2) Feeling it is their responsibility to police AFK play (false; you can capitalize on inattention if you wish, but the way to actually combat it is to propose ways to make play more interesting, which does not include "STAY AT KEYBOARD TO MASH BUTTAN MOAR!"
3) Distorted understanding of supply and demand, wherein they appear to believe any supply at all causes out-of-control deflation (clear smokescreen for "I want easy targets")
4) Feeling miners should not "whine" on the forums (understandable, as they shouldn't but overblown because CCP does not just see whines and make corresponding adjustments. They attempt, sometimes with success and sometimes without, to bring all playstyles into balance)

There's a lot more reasons why people ATTACK miners, even if they don't hate them, with far more legitimacy even if it's just "I like killing Hulks". People that actually have a generalized hate or active dislike towards miners generally have a very distorted view of how the game works and what "sandbox" actually means. If you want to attack another player in the sandbox, that's part of the game; actively hating what they do with their sand means you are basically taking things too seriously.

(This goes both ways. Hating gankers makes little sense either.)

I gank miners because I find it enjoyable, profitable, easy and every so often I'll get a great tear-filled response.

I can't bring myself to hate someone because of a video game though. If you're legit mad over a game, you probably need to step away for a bit.

Exactly, have fun mining, doing basically nothing, sweet.

You sound frustrated? is mining too difficult for you?

Confirming that this happens.

Not that im a part of it, but it happens.

:(

Do I detect the chance of an event celebrating your love of miners being organised in the near future?

Unless there is some miraculous event giving me double my current free time (like...getting fired?) I don't see that happening in any timespan you might reasonably call "soon".



I'm always watching the miners though. Always listening.

I. See. All.

I don't hate miners. I sometimes mine but what I have noticed is miners who mine undefended. Are they just wanting to be blown up?

Miners are like that little skinny kid in school whose pant cuffs are too high, whose hair always sticks up and everyone makes fun of because they know he won't or can't do anything about it (ignoring for etiquette's sake recent violent counter-examples).
So, OP what you see in the miner is your own insecurity about yourself. You see yourself as a vulnerable, funny looking kid and you hate that about yourself. When you gank that little fella you're really trying to kill that part of you that you are afraid of and that you hate. In effect you are trying to kill yourself.
However, you will always be you and until you realize how beautiful you are you will seethe with hatred, and envy those psychology well-adjusted folks who mine in EVE.