EVE General Discussion

Have to say I loved how much you put in there. Gives me stuff to read and learn from. I still stand by what I said, doing what everyone else has done but LOUDER is not emergent. The "Miner, pay me or I make your life hell by bumping," is as old as eve. I don't need to think at a deeper level to call it what it is, recycled and redressed.

I like to think he once saw a log over a creak and when he saw London Bridge or the Golden Gate he was like that's not impressive, I saw that before, logs have been doing that for years.

Miners have been bumped for ages. You can find examples on Youtube of the mechanic being exercised prior to the Jamesian Era. Pilots have been being extorted since the beginning of Eve. Nikki Rahhl (sp) was doing this just last year in Aydoteux (sp). He/she ran a protection racket and herded the miners beneath her/his wings like lost sheep. It was a little sad to hear them calling for their "sheriff" when other miners tried mining their rocks or made that sad in local. Goons pulled this during the last interdiction; you could buy a pass from the local Goon boss to ice mine. Not sure if it was honored but the "mechanic" was there. The idea of using your target's frustration as a means to extort ISK is the foundation of certain AFK system camping, bumping, some aspects of the ninja salvaging, mission item theft, etc... All use the same basic tool; I will get in the way of what you are doing until I frustrate you enough for you to pay me to leave. The tool is ingenious but hardly new.
James jumped on the bandwagon of blaming the miners (hisec dwellers) for their own ills; a flavor of propaganda popularized again by Goonswarm prior to James's grabbing the script. I am sure with some research into the forums you would find similar diatribes against mission runners, Incursion runners, etc... Even the Roleplaying aspect is fairly recycled. One of the most interesting things in Eve is how the most basic aspects of "fascism 101" are used to great effect on an amnesia prone audience unable to remember that the same stunt was pulled on them during the last expansion cycle.

Ok, my soapbox is cracking and I should get down.

Why wasting time trying to explain what you are unable to understand?

Some people have tried countless times and you're still fixed with same nonsense arguments so, :crazyfrog: says "rrrintim tim tim tim"

Wow.....I have to agree with dev, who was phone.

James 315 is a boss-hog. I have enjoyed his blogs and lol at all the awesomeness that he provides. Seeing how much fun James 315 is having while playing spaceships gives me one more thing to do if i start to get bored with what ever i am currently doing. Hats off to James 315 for playing how he wants to play.

Hater gon hate.

It would've been epic if he was James 304.
"Consider ships: they are so large that strong winds are needed to drive them. But pilots direct their ships wherever they want with a little rudder."

What about just increase the barge/exhumer mass by 1000x.

which would fail.

It'd be an interesting change. My favorite part would be that you could no longer get barges/exhumers through wormholes as they'd be too massive, unless you carried them in an orca or other ship with an SMA, in which case you could fit 2 or more at a time no problem.

In return for your fine suggestion, I'd like to suggest:

fixing nullsec industry by increasing the volume of frigates by 1000x.

fixing afk cloaking by increasing the time taken to travel using a jump bridge or by a jump-capable capital by 1000x.

fixing the problem of imbalanced highsec income by increasing the blueness of Jita's sun by 1000x.

'treated as an attack'...what?

Which one is the attacker, and which one receives the attack? Faster ship? Lighter ship? Ship where the collision was nearest to their prow? The ship that belong to a larger alliance?

Any of these lets you concord someone else just flying along minding their own business.