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The Right to AFK Mine - The Dystopia of 2015 is coming

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BoSau Hotim
Uitraan Diversified Holdings Incorporated
#81 - 2012-11-14 22:22:42 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Thigh-slapping hilarious thread, especially 1st page. Lol

Best Thread of the Month



Yes, some of us think he is deserving of the "Tinfoil Hat Award" for this post...

I'm not a carebear... I'm a SPACE BARBIE!  Now... where's Ken?

Mike Adoulin
Happys Happy Hamster Hunting Club
#82 - 2012-11-14 22:50:18 UTC
I fully support the formation of 'Gooncademy' and making it mandatory for miners to attend it..;)

Also, funniest damn thing I've read since Spruillo was on the forums.

Lol

Everything in EVE is a trap.

And if it isn't, it's your job to make it a trap...:)

You want to know what immorality in EVE Online looks like? Look no further than Ripard "Jester" Teg.

Chribba is the Chuck Norris of EVE.

Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#83 - 2012-11-15 13:53:11 UTC
Nathalie LaPorte wrote:
Mara Rinn wrote:
The essay that this OP is based on was a warning about the dangers of DRM. People who are reading the OP as supporting James 315/Goonswarm/generic evil apparently don't understand hyperbole.



No one believed that the author was INTENDING to support those things. The things that he wrote did tend to support them, however. This shows that the AUTHOR does not understand hyperbole, as his attempt at it backfired.

The central metaphor that original piece starts with is "Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do." He compares that to afk-mining. Sharing books is wonderful, and afk-mining ruins the game. That comparison is farcical.


How the heck does afk mining ruin the game? Seriously, how does me playing halo 4, CoD, or Xcom on my 360 while also mining ice or minerals hurt you so? Where did the bad afk miner touch you? Grow up. If someone chooses to mine and only be semi present at the keyboard, so be it. They take a risk of being ganked and can enjoy another activity while growing their wallet a small amount.

Botting, yeah that is bad, bannable, and should stay that way. But to say afk mining is ruining eve, well, that's as bad a premise as comparing afk mining to sharing books.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#84 - 2012-11-15 14:00:20 UTC
Lady Ayeipsia wrote:


How the heck does afk mining ruin the game? Seriously, how does me playing halo 4, CoD, or Xcom on my 360 while also mining ice or minerals hurt you so? Where did the bad afk miner touch you? Grow up. If someone chooses to mine and only be semi present at the keyboard, so be it. They take a risk of being ganked and can enjoy another activity while growing their wallet a small amount.

Botting, yeah that is bad, bannable, and should stay that way. But to say afk mining is ruining eve, well, that's as bad a premise as comparing afk mining to sharing books.


AFK mining isn't bad per say (except that it inundates the market and makes miners who actually pay attention less profitable), but the price of mining AFK is that you are not paying attention when someone comes by and ganks your ship.

What makes AFK miners bad is that they feel like they should be protected from this, rather than accepting it as the consequence of their behavior.
Kenneth O'Hara
Sebiestor Tribe
#85 - 2012-11-15 14:50:45 UTC
Torvin Yulus wrote:
the right to afk mine
torvin yulus
the proveldteriat papers

for Ice Monkey, the road to revolution began in the Tolle - when Ore-inator asked to borrow his skiff. Hers had been ganked by the goons, and unless she could borrow another one, she would have to grind back up from an ibis. There was no one she dared ask, except Ice Monkey.

this put Monkey in a dilemma. He had to help her - but if he lent her his skiff, she might afk mine withit. aside from the fact that you could get permabanned for many years for afk mining, the very idea shocked him at first. like everyone else, he ahd been caught by the gooncademy that afk mining was nasty and wrong - something that only pubbies would do

and there wasn't much chance that the New Order would fail to catch him. In his gooncademy classes, Monkey learned that each ice belt had a bumper that reported when someone was afk to goon command. the next time his skiff was in a belt, goon command would send a fleetof talos to gank him. he, as the skiff owner, would recieve the harshest punishment - for not taking pains to prevent the crime.

of course, Ore-inator did not nececarilly intend to afk the mines. she might want the skiff only to mine for her pos, but Monkey knew she was of a middle class family and could hardly afford a retriever, let alone her mining permits. afk mining in a skiff might be the only way she can PLEX her accounts. Monkey understood this himself having had to take a massive loan from the Goonbank to pay for the billions in mining permits of James 315 in the hope he could make it back mining.

later, Monkey would learn that there was a time when anyone could go afk mine ina belt for free. there were independent miners who mined thousands of units of ice a day without Goonswarm Financial Grants. but by 2012 both CCP and the goons had begun charging permits to acess ice. By 2015, ice mining without a mining permit was a bannable offense.

monkey would learn that anyone used to be able to go afk while mining. there were even guides to maximizing afk minging profit, but too many non goons made money so the goons ruled that afk mining had the sole purpose of destroying the goons.

goons still needed ice, of course, but ice miners in 2015 were distributed numbered skiffs and mining permits oblt, and only to Gooncademy graduates.

it was possible to bypass the mining permits and mine some ice without paying goons and James 315. but today that would require protection from bumpers and neither Goons nor Concord would ever give you that.

Monkey concluided he couldn't lend his skiff. but he couldn't refuse to help her because ice miners are comrades. he resovled the problem by doing something even more unthinkables - he gave her his account details so the goons would think that it was him, a good citizen who NEVER afk mined.

of course if James 316 or the goons ever found out about this, it would be curtains for not only those 2 but 1000 others for making ane xample. CCP policy was to not sell PLEX to anyone on the goon blacklist so that they wouldn't be able to keep playing anymore.

The future of 2015 is coming, do not let it happen!
PRoveldetariat!

wat?

Bring Saede Riordan back!! Never Forget! _"__Operation Godzilla Smacks Zeus"  ~__Graygor _

Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#86 - 2012-11-15 15:02:40 UTC
Lady Ayeipsia wrote:
Nathalie LaPorte wrote:
Mara Rinn wrote:
The essay that this OP is based on was a warning about the dangers of DRM. People who are reading the OP as supporting James 315/Goonswarm/generic evil apparently don't understand hyperbole.



No one believed that the author was INTENDING to support those things. The things that he wrote did tend to support them, however. This shows that the AUTHOR does not understand hyperbole, as his attempt at it backfired.

The central metaphor that original piece starts with is "Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do." He compares that to afk-mining. Sharing books is wonderful, and afk-mining ruins the game. That comparison is farcical.


How the heck does afk mining ruin the game? Seriously, how does me playing halo 4, CoD, or Xcom on my 360 while also mining ice or minerals hurt you so? Where did the bad afk miner touch you? Grow up. If someone chooses to mine and only be semi present at the keyboard, so be it. They take a risk of being ganked and can enjoy another activity while growing their wallet a small amount.

Botting, yeah that is bad, bannable, and should stay that way. But to say afk mining is ruining eve, well, that's as bad a premise as comparing afk mining to sharing books.


AFK gaming IN GENERAL on ANYTHING is not gaming. If you're afk, then you're not playing. If you're not playing, then why are you here? Let's put aside the economical effects of afk ice mining with multiple accounts and characters for a second, and take a look at the basic premise of playing games - you're supposed to actually play them.

“Some capsuleers claim that ECM is 'dishonorable' and 'unfair'. Jam those ones first, and kill them last.” - Jirai 'Fatal' Laitanen, Pithum Nullifier Training Manual c. YC104

Kristopher Rocancourt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#87 - 2012-11-15 15:14:46 UTC
Torvin Yulus wrote:
the right to afk mine
torvin yulus
the proveldteriat papers

for Ice Monkey, the road to revolution began in the Tolle - when Ore-inator asked to borrow his skiff. Hers had been ganked by the goons, and unless she could borrow another one, she would have to grind back up from an ibis. There was no one she dared ask, except Ice Monkey.

this put Monkey in a dilemma. He had to help her - but if he lent her his skiff, she might afk mine withit. aside from the fact that you could get permabanned for many years for afk mining, the very idea shocked him at first. like everyone else, he ahd been caught by the gooncademy that afk mining was nasty and wrong - something that only pubbies would do

and there wasn't much chance that the New Order would fail to catch him. In his gooncademy classes, Monkey learned that each ice belt had a bumper that reported when someone was afk to goon command. the next time his skiff was in a belt, goon command would send a fleetof talos to gank him. he, as the skiff owner, would recieve the harshest punishment - for not taking pains to prevent the crime.

of course, Ore-inator did not nececarilly intend to afk the mines. she might want the skiff only to mine for her pos, but Monkey knew she was of a middle class family and could hardly afford a retriever, let alone her mining permits. afk mining in a skiff might be the only way she can PLEX her accounts. Monkey understood this himself having had to take a massive loan from the Goonbank to pay for the billions in mining permits of James 315 in the hope he could make it back mining.

later, Monkey would learn that there was a time when anyone could go afk mine ina belt for free. there were independent miners who mined thousands of units of ice a day without Goonswarm Financial Grants. but by 2012 both CCP and the goons had begun charging permits to acess ice. By 2015, ice mining without a mining permit was a bannable offense.

monkey would learn that anyone used to be able to go afk while mining. there were even guides to maximizing afk minging profit, but too many non goons made money so the goons ruled that afk mining had the sole purpose of destroying the goons.

goons still needed ice, of course, but ice miners in 2015 were distributed numbered skiffs and mining permits oblt, and only to Gooncademy graduates.

it was possible to bypass the mining permits and mine some ice without paying goons and James 315. but today that would require protection from bumpers and neither Goons nor Concord would ever give you that.

Monkey concluided he couldn't lend his skiff. but he couldn't refuse to help her because ice miners are comrades. he resovled the problem by doing something even more unthinkables - he gave her his account details so the goons would think that it was him, a good citizen who NEVER afk mined.

of course if James 316 or the goons ever found out about this, it would be curtains for not only those 2 but 1000 others for making ane xample. CCP policy was to not sell PLEX to anyone on the goon blacklist so that they wouldn't be able to keep playing anymore.

The future of 2015 is coming, do not let it happen!
PRoveldetariat!


You need to stop writing a new paragraph for each sentence. Go back to school and then and only then, come back to post on these forums.


http://killalliance.co.uk/tears/tears-holeysheet/

Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#88 - 2012-11-15 15:30:38 UTC
Remiel Pollard wrote:

AFK gaming IN GENERAL on ANYTHING is not gaming. If you're afk, then you're not playing. If you're not playing, then why are you here? Let's put aside the economical effects of afk ice mining with multiple accounts and characters for a second, and take a look at the basic premise of playing games - you're supposed to actually play them.


One may also enter a restaurant, eat an appetizer and decline the whole rest of the meal afterwards.
As long as he pays for the meal, no one has the right to tell him a iota.
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#89 - 2012-11-15 15:36:10 UTC
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:

AFK gaming IN GENERAL on ANYTHING is not gaming. If you're afk, then you're not playing. If you're not playing, then why are you here? Let's put aside the economical effects of afk ice mining with multiple accounts and characters for a second, and take a look at the basic premise of playing games - you're supposed to actually play them.


One may also enter a restaurant, eat an appetizer and decline the whole rest of the meal afterwards.
As long as he pays for the meal, no one has the right to tell him a iota.


Wrong, everyone has a right to tell him he's a dolt, freedom of speech and all that. He can either suck it up and realize that one of the prices of freedom is criticism or he can modify his behavior to fit the norms and avoid the criticism.

What he can't do is force the people calling him a dolt to shut up.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#90 - 2012-11-15 15:37:06 UTC
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:

AFK gaming IN GENERAL on ANYTHING is not gaming. If you're afk, then you're not playing. If you're not playing, then why are you here? Let's put aside the economical effects of afk ice mining with multiple accounts and characters for a second, and take a look at the basic premise of playing games - you're supposed to actually play them.


One may also enter a restaurant, eat an appetizer and decline the whole rest of the meal afterwards.
As long as he pays for the meal, no one has the right to tell him a iota.


No, but they have the ability. Welcome to EVE, where sometimes people will do mean things to you that you don't want them to do, and this is the selling point of the game.

Power is all that matters.
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#91 - 2012-11-15 15:39:36 UTC
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:

AFK gaming IN GENERAL on ANYTHING is not gaming. If you're afk, then you're not playing. If you're not playing, then why are you here? Let's put aside the economical effects of afk ice mining with multiple accounts and characters for a second, and take a look at the basic premise of playing games - you're supposed to actually play them.


One may also enter a restaurant, eat an appetizer and decline the whole rest of the meal afterwards.
As long as he pays for the meal, no one has the right to tell him a iota.


No, but they have the ability. Welcome to EVE, where sometimes people will do mean things to you that you don't want them to do, and this is the selling point of the game.

Power is all that matters.


*puts on robes and dances like dude in an Alabama Baptist Church*

Preach it Tiberious!
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#92 - 2012-11-15 15:47:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Remiel Pollard
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:

AFK gaming IN GENERAL on ANYTHING is not gaming. If you're afk, then you're not playing. If you're not playing, then why are you here? Let's put aside the economical effects of afk ice mining with multiple accounts and characters for a second, and take a look at the basic premise of playing games - you're supposed to actually play them.


One may also enter a restaurant, eat an appetizer and decline the whole rest of the meal afterwards.
As long as he pays for the meal, no one has the right to tell him a iota.


Perhaps I worded this wrong. I do that sometimes.

Let me put it this way.

If you're not playing the game, then what right do you have to dictate to CCP or other players how you should be treated in it?

What right do you have to the resources you're whisking away from players who put in the effort?

Your analogy is fallacious because it assumes that people would be stupid enough to pay for a full meal and just eat the appetizer when they could just as easily buy themselves a box of crackers and dip, or get a cheeseburger from maccas instead. People aren't that stupid, though, and EVE isn't a restaurant. The point I'm making has nothing to do with what you have the right to do - the point I'm making is what you *DON'T* have the right to expect if you're not playing the game.

“Some capsuleers claim that ECM is 'dishonorable' and 'unfair'. Jam those ones first, and kill them last.” - Jirai 'Fatal' Laitanen, Pithum Nullifier Training Manual c. YC104

Kenneth O'Hara
Sebiestor Tribe
#93 - 2012-11-15 15:49:55 UTC
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Power is all that matters.

Now are you talking ancillary, auxiliary or capacitor?

Remember, with great power comes a great bill.

Bring Saede Riordan back!! Never Forget! _"__Operation Godzilla Smacks Zeus"  ~__Graygor _

Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#94 - 2012-11-15 15:57:33 UTC
Kenneth O'Hara wrote:
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Power is all that matters.

Now are you talking ancillary, auxiliary or capacitor?

Remember, with great power comes a great bill.


Real power. Your ability to do things to others, or to prevent other people from doing things to you.

The problem with AFK miners is that they have intentionally given up that last.
Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#95 - 2012-11-15 16:00:15 UTC
Remiel Pollard wrote:
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:

AFK gaming IN GENERAL on ANYTHING is not gaming. If you're afk, then you're not playing. If you're not playing, then why are you here? Let's put aside the economical effects of afk ice mining with multiple accounts and characters for a second, and take a look at the basic premise of playing games - you're supposed to actually play them.


One may also enter a restaurant, eat an appetizer and decline the whole rest of the meal afterwards.
As long as he pays for the meal, no one has the right to tell him a iota.


Perhaps I worded this wrong. I do that sometimes.

Let me put it this way.

If you're not playing the game, then what right do you have to dictate to CCP or other players how you should be treated in it?

What right do you have to the resources you're whisking away from players who put in the effort?

Your analogy is fallacious because it assumes that people would be stupid enough to pay for a full meal and just eat the appetizer when they could just as easily buy themselves a box of crackers and dip, or get a cheeseburger from maccas instead. People aren't that stupid, though, and EVE isn't a restaurant. The point I'm making has nothing to do with what you have the right to do - the point I'm making is what you *DON'T* have the right to expect if you're not playing the game.


So by your logic, the 2nd string quarter back who may make it to the superbowl, but not play because the first string is need all game, deserves no ring? Or what of the defense? Should they only get 1/2 a ring and 1/2 the accolades because they only played half the game?

Look at what you are saying.... My way is the only way to play and my definition of playing is the only valid one. How elitist and poorly thought out you sound. Grow up and stop trying to dictate how people enjoy their free time.

Also, you obviously have no clue how ice mining works. A mackinaw holds 34 pieces of ice in its ore hold. You can mine a piece of ice about every minute. What you are saying is that the person who stares at their screen for 30 minutes watching the ice pile up is some how better than the guy who has their laptop next to them, whike watching a tv show and putting in the exact same effort. Really? It bothers you that much?

The only difference between the two us that the guy watching his screen is slightly safer because he may see a gank coming faster. Otherwise the two people are no different, they just choose to watch different things.

And what of the guy who is doing the same, but instead of tv, is flicking through images on fukung.net on the in game browser? Is he not playing as well?
Kainotomiu Ronuken
koahisquad
#96 - 2012-11-15 16:02:13 UTC
Kristopher Rocancourt wrote:

You need to stop writing a new paragraph for each sentence. Go back to school and then and only then, come back to post on these forums.

Honestly, if I had to choose the least wrong part of Torvin's 'story', it'd be the paragraphing. It's not actually that bad.
Kenneth O'Hara
Sebiestor Tribe
#97 - 2012-11-15 16:06:03 UTC
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Kenneth O'Hara wrote:
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Power is all that matters.

Now are you talking ancillary, auxiliary or capacitor?

Remember, with great power comes a great bill.


Real power. Your ability to do things to others, or to prevent other people from doing things to you.

The problem with AFK miners is that they have intentionally given up that last.

There is no such thing as "real" power in eve when it comes to the players and who has power. It all comes down to how many turrents your power grid allows you to fit to blow clones back to a med bay.

If miners want to go AFK and get all butthurt about it all, just ignore them. Plain and simple. If you come across them report them as bots and then blast them out of the vacuum. They'll learn eventually.

Bring Saede Riordan back!! Never Forget! _"__Operation Godzilla Smacks Zeus"  ~__Graygor _

Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#98 - 2012-11-15 16:06:26 UTC
Lady Ayeipsia wrote:


So by your logic, the 2nd string quarter back who may make it to the superbowl, but not play because the first string is need all game, deserves no ring? Or what of the defense? Should they only get 1/2 a ring and 1/2 the accolades because they only played half the game?

Look at what you are saying.... My way is the only way to play and my definition of playing is the only valid one. How elitist and poorly thought out you sound. Grow up and stop trying to dictate how people enjoy their free time.

Also, you obviously have no clue how ice mining works. A mackinaw holds 34 pieces of ice in its ore hold. You can mine a piece of ice about every minute. What you are saying is that the person who stares at their screen for 30 minutes watching the ice pile up is some how better than the guy who has their laptop next to them, whike watching a tv show and putting in the exact same effort. Really? It bothers you that much?

The only difference between the two us that the guy watching his screen is slightly safer because he may see a gank coming faster. Otherwise the two people are no different, they just choose to watch different things.

And what of the guy who is doing the same, but instead of tv, is flicking through images on fukung.net on the in game browser? Is he not playing as well?


Let me put it to you this way.

If I go AFK while in space, sitting in a place where anyone in the world can warp to, I will be blown up. I guarantee this will happen.

The only difference is that if I were in hi-sec and did this, the ganker has to at least consider that he is going to lose his ship. This is how it should be.

A bumper has managed to find a way to punish the AFKer while not losing his ship in hi-sec. The AFKer should be absolutely thankful that the bumper did not decide it was worth the effort to blow him up instead.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#99 - 2012-11-15 16:07:57 UTC
Kenneth O'Hara wrote:

There is no such thing as "real" power in eve when it comes to the players and who has power. It all comes down to how many turrents your power grid allows you to fit to blow clones back to a med bay.

If miners want to go AFK and get all butthurt about it all, just ignore them. Plain and simple. If you come across them report them as bots and then blast them out of the vacuum. They'll learn eventually.


I disagree. EVE has managed something no other MMO has, and that is to model how power works in the real world. My power is directly analogous to what I can make you do, or how I can punish you for doing something I don't want you to do.
Kainotomiu Ronuken
koahisquad
#100 - 2012-11-15 16:08:33 UTC
Kenneth O'Hara wrote:
There is no such thing as "real" power in eve when it comes to the players and who has power. It all comes down to how many turrents your power grid allows you to fit to blow clones back to a med bay.

If miners want to go AFK and get all butthurt about it all, just ignore them. Plain and simple. If you come across them report them as bots and then blast them out of the vacuum. They'll learn eventually.

Of course there is real power in EVE. My power over miners resides in the fact that I am able to stop them doing what they want to do (mining) regardless of their own intentions or wishes. That is power.

Lady Ayeipsia wrote:
So by your logic, the 2nd string quarter back who may make it to the superbowl, but not play because the first string is need all game, deserves no ring? Or what of the defense? Should they only get 1/2 a ring and 1/2 the accolades because they only played half the game?

Look at what you are saying.... My way is the only way to play and my definition of playing is the only valid one. How elitist and poorly thought out you sound. Grow up and stop trying to dictate how people enjoy their free time.

Also, you obviously have no clue how ice mining works. A mackinaw holds 34 pieces of ice in its ore hold. You can mine a piece of ice about every minute. What you are saying is that the person who stares at their screen for 30 minutes watching the ice pile up is some how better than the guy who has their laptop next to them, whike watching a tv show and putting in the exact same effort. Really? It bothers you that much?

The only difference between the two us that the guy watching his screen is slightly safer because he may see a gank coming faster. Otherwise the two people are no different, they just choose to watch different things.

And what of the guy who is doing the same, but instead of tv, is flicking through images on fukung.net on the in game browser? Is he not playing as well?

This may surprise you, but the New Order does not really care whether or not the miner is in front of the keyboard. For our purposes, 'AFK' means 'not interacting with the game'. If the miner is just watching his hold fill up and not chatting in Local, corp chat, private chats or interacting with any other player in this MMO, he is wasting space and we will bump him for it.