EVE General Discussion

Yea point noted. Been thinking about going back to converter

I honestly don't think the killbord shows everything. not long ago I was soloing a mission when someone popped in to steal my loot. I blew them up, and his mate as well that was backing him up. Using only drones I kills both the scout ship and the destroyer. But the killbord only showed the scout kill. I don't really care if you beleve me or not I know what happened and I know that the killbord did not show everything. Ok 5 hulks may have been an Hyperbalaby as I can't remember every ship I lost in the past 6and a half years. But I think 5 is very close to the mark if not more

Try being dyslexic and not having the names in front of you. I have an idea of what spellings look like and I just work on it. It's kinda hard just reading everything and never hearing things. I have to just make up sounds in my head and it gets translated to something I understand. It's a bit complex but to simplfy it.... Ops

It's not lazy when you have so many things to be doing, where it be in game or out. I put through the idea of ship cabins and walking on deck mixing with crew. But it will never be integrated outside of stations because it encrougages the same attitude and results as afking

I dont really think anyone has anythign against afk mining, what you are talking about is people ganking miners. Its always happened, its always going to happen. Its what some people enjoy, dont really see it as interesteing tbh, but thats their game.
I afk mine in hisec alot on an alt and I have never once been ganked, ever. Just down to luck I guess. I tend to afk mine when im home with the kids, watching movies etc. Nothing wrong with it as longas you are doing it yourself as other have said.
I am dead against bots and like to see them exploded, then watch their pods carrying on the same cycle...

I think that for a lot of people, it's not that they have anything against afk mining. Perhaps you make this too complicated.

The reason may be simply this: people who play internet spaceship games like to blow up spaceships

This is just something I see very common in a lot of games. For example in second life their are island games where that have a deep hatred of people just loggin in and standing around. Can't see why not its their time, and it boosts their traffic. And over the past 5 or so years here on eve I've seen the same traits. Their is a stigma attached to people who afk play the game. Because people think that their under handing the system.. Well for afk gaming I'm going to buy an imicus and some light drones. Set up in a high sec ore belt and. See if I'm still there tomorrow morning or how many rat wrecks are around me

One, perhaps you ought to stop buying hulks.

Two, no one is hating on afk mining, they are simply blowing up expensive ships because they can and because they are indeed playing the game how they want to.

People worried about potential Hulk losses should buy more Covetors, for 10% of the cost.

Ganking miners is the lulzy thing to do, that's why it happens. There's also a perception, likely accurate in most cases, that miners aren't able to mount any kind of resistance. They take their losses, and move on, while the ganker pads their killboard. Miners sure aren't being targeted because they're big isk-generating machines. I think that in today's Eve economy, we all know that mining stinks.

That said, we're seeing griefing against incursions. I've yet to see an equivalent to Hulkageddon for mission runners...perhaps this is because the gankers themselves are running missions?

During one of the hulkageddons (i'd neglected to pay attention to the forums) my alt got ganked in her hulk by a swarm of thrashers. i was a mite annoyed, and the perpetrators thought it was terribly amusing.

Now, hulkageddon usually brings out the kinds of people who you wouldn't usually associate with suicide ganking, you know, mission runners, some bored anti pirates and whatnot. so, i waited a week or so, tracked their movements, discovered that all of them were pretty much carebears who liked to run missions in their pimped out CNR's and golems all day, every day.

So, i ganked every single one of them in their missions, got quite a bit of nice loot as well. navy launchers, gist XL shield boosters, you know the types of things you find on pimped up mission ships.

I must say, they were NOT amused, they flamed me, threatened to wardec me (they didn't) and all that, their tears were delicious, i must say.

the moral of the story: Don't get mad, get even