EVE General Discussion

Speaking of sandcastles, there are two kinds of players in EVE.

Why does the right tower of this castle look like a ......

You can have a personal problem with me, or you can grow the **** up. Your choice, Captain Salty. Either way, I am speaking for myself, along with the demonstrable majority of PVP'ers in my area. Don't believe me? Spend five minutes in Aridia and see how you hold up against the Russians there. Everything's a target. If it's not, you're doing it wrong.

I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if you were doing it completely wrong.

THIS.... in capital letters.


It has nothing to do with how you play the game. It has nothing to do with "hate", and it SURE as hell has nothing to do with "CODE" and there ridiculous manifesto.

They don't even believe what they are spouting. They get paid to do it...... PAID WELL to do it. Look at their site.... where do you think all that money comes from....

The big null-bear alliances, the ship-makers, and the traders. Anyone who benefits from high mineral prices, high-ship prices, and chasing new miners, new manufactures, and new "competition" out of the game.


It's like the first episode of Justified.

"I know your too damn smart to believe that Bull S%$t your spouting. You just wanna make money and blow s&it up. "

Everyone has a opinion on this. Myself, well, I do not really enjoy mining to much, but fitting a mining ship out with something other than what is needed for mining can be fun, just sit at a belt and see who shows up to shoot at you. The reaction you can get is just something that makes you feel good from your implants to your toes. It is always a thrill to see someone's ship explode and they have a bad reaction to it. Especially having that ship exploded by what looks like a helpless target.

I do however sometimes mine, but I just use the mats from it to build something to go shoot other people in.

Having a mining skill can also be used for something else.

Bait

My personal favorite, Place a nice target in a field and surround it with some cloaked bombers, there is always some poor sucker that will try to take that worm off the hook.

So, yes, mining has it's uses. So I do not hate miners.

The point being, use what you have available and make the most of it. Stop hating and start using whatever it is you dislike and make it work for you.

I do. The best thing about having a mining vessel already in belt is it makes an excellent scout to warp to with an alt.

Hate is far to strong a word to use in a computer game.

Aspbergers intensifying. You merely adopted the rus. We were born in it. Molded by it. Trained to be rus stronk and crush enemies like skull of pig)))
If the pvpers around you are like you then top ******* lol no wonder you kept losing **** to the same people. Rage revenge eh?

Scrub.

Kestral, i know exactly what you're talking about. when i started playing eve, i was a miner. i spent all my time training mining skills and mining. back then, i didn't know how else to make ISK. i don't mine any longer, and spend the vast majority of my time PVPing on this toon.

to be honest, i've never understood why there seems to be so much animosity towards that career path. maybe it's because at the core, eve is a PVP-centric game, and hard core PVPers see miners as people who don't want to participate in the game play they consider to be fun. of course, that's a childish way of looking at the game, but there are some they don't understand the fact that eve has so much more to offer other than PVP, and some people enjoy other avenues.

whatever the reason, i see miners as performing a task in eve that benefits everyone - especially PVPers. after all, where do people think all these ships come from? there are a lot of players that think they just appear on the market magically, and aren't aware that miners provide the raw material from which everything we use is created.

so, my advice is to play the game the way YOU want to play it.

I would like to point out that when you mine and sell minerals you are competing against other players trying to make ISK on the mineral market.

Therefore mining is technically PVP.