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Congratulations on completely failing to comprehend my post.

Generalizing FTL.

As you might check on years and years of my posting and EvE blog, I am fairly "big" with Nitrogen Isotopes. Trading and (in the past) mining freighters a week of that.

Do you actually believe I could have kept my operation running for years without attracting attention, wardecs, CODE, Gankageddons etc. etc., in some of the most trafficked, rare ice systems in Caldari space?

You might wonder why I'd just not pay CODE, then.

First of all they are hardly the only "actors" on the scene, so what's the point getting a "permit" if the remaining 80% of gank corps keep doing their business?

Second, my home country had (and still has, in some areas) some omni-present, heavy IRL racketing and I hated that.
Outside of EvE, racketing is not funny stuff, they shoot your relatives and burn your home / shop / factory if you don't toss loads of money to their sharks. Hence I made a point to never, ever submit to racketeers, even if this is "just" a game.
I prefer paying 500M a week to an high sec corp - out of my OWN decision - than 10M a year to racketeers.

Oh c'mon now.

I suppose that's a matter of opinion...and you are entitled to yours...though I would suggest a single player game for those that want to "play by themselves". There's nothing wrong with mining alone..or doing some PvP solo..but in the long run, if you do not have any kind of social or meaningful interaction with other players, it is only going to hurt your Eve experience. After all, one can't do everything alone in Eve...but that's just my opinion.

I agree that outside of EVE protection rackets are heinous entities.

But you know what else is heinous IRL? Massacring conscripts without allowing them to surrender, which is exactly what mission runners do every day of the week. Those Serpentis battleships you blow up for a 400k bounty have 4-6 thousand people on them, a good number of them unwilling.

RL morality matters because out of game, the consequences of ruthlessly competitive behaviour are serious. In game, all that people lose are consumable space pixels.

And you think your 'expendable' gank ships do not operate with a crew also!? How dare you undermine their efforts to make a career serving on your ship, when you just destroy it immediately?

Everyone dies with fighting here, not just non-Capsuleer vessels.

So you can just be thankful that when bounty hunters destroy the most powerful pirate vessels, the ship is most likely capsuleer-fit.
And you can be even more thankful that the Serpentis Corporation are pirates, and not innocent civilians of your own Empire.

Most of everything in EVE would be morally wrong in real life, in some way. So with an OOG voice, I agree with you 100%

Yeah.. I know... I skim-read the post initially. Bad things happen when you do that.

First thing first, read the ganking guide in the mentioned website (is the only interesting posting), or was a guide about ganking exhumers in themittani, i dont remember, inform yourself in the way this people act, and you will realize that .5-.8 is their threshold, 14000 points of damage are their limit and in general that they are just jerks that invented that code thing to justify their inner void, they will kill you if they feel bored even if you pay the permit, they will kill you if they feel like it even if you paid ransom, so all their role playing about their laws is meaningless, stay in 1.0 or 0.9 get away from ice belts and for godsake stay away from their territories, i mine 20 - 30 millions daily 2 - 3 hours after work till around 12 pm, most of the time while doing something else, am i a bot wanna be? no im not, because if i were i would be making 150 millions daily, i dont need them, i produce and sell passively, are they butthurt because people gain hundreds of millions docked in stations playing the market, of course they are, but they cant do anything about it. So, mine far away from them and be smart dont give them free advertising... ive yet to be ganked by them but when they do i wont say anything, just because is meaningless.

You're behind the ball my friend, real men don't fly cats anymore.

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