EVE General Discussion

AFK dudes are much easier to gank, is all.

This is bs and you know it.

Everyone is fine with you doing afk whatever you want. You can go afk in this game as much as you are prepared to pay the afk bill. But please do not come here on the forums crying because you chose to make an easy target of yourself, an easy prey for anyone coming along.

You want to go afk? Fine. Take the risk for this decision and stand up to your choices. Use a cheap retriever, if you cannot afford to lose an exhumer.

Gankers and bumpers could even start roleplaying and pretend they were some crazy environmentalists fighting for the poor defenseless roids in space. That they would blow you up or extort you because you're harrassing, griefing these beautiful helpless belts out in deep space. Would this help to make you feel better?

But the simple truth is that "do not make yourself an easy target" is one of the basic rules in EVE, besides "do not fly what you cannot afford to loose". If you do, suck it up, embrace it even, buy another ship and try to learn something from it. Do erveything you can, to let someone else look like the juicy target in this beautiful, but cold and harsh universe CCP created for us.

And please stop thinking of Highsec as being safe. It is not.


I'm a very casual gamer. That's the reason why I stay in highsec.

It might also be worth considering that forcing the newbie with civilian mining laser to compete with with 23/7 AFK bot-aspirant in semi-invulnerable t2 mining ship might be unreasonable.

It might even make them rethink investing their free time and money on Eve.

Why ban half of highsec when they could just make mining turrets not auto-repeat?

Do you never go afk while a fleet is forming up?

Both are a long boring process and both have people go afk.

Well ok I don't AFK mine I don't use macks but anyway on with the show.

You mean like how they can compete with traders or PI bosses doing the same thing?

Oh. Wait. They can't.


Personally I don't see the issue, you afk fine - you pays your money you takes your chance of waking up in a station. Working as intended imo. It's not like ice rakes in big money, or even small money tbh.



@Mallak Azaria: The fortnightly crying about afk cloaking would suggest there ARE rewards for AFK cloaking....

Your understanding of this game is seriously lacking.

Nope .. since this game has the serious problem of those players who just want to have some fun with friends and to something that is NOT stressious lets say something like mining or missioning or what ever .. but then come those who [voice beavice and butthead]'have unterstood the game'[voice off] and press THEIR style of game on me. In all MMOs there is part PVP and part PVE. Some solved it well, others not so well .. and guess what .. I think EVE is NOT the crown of MMO evolution How that ?
If some idiots can just fly into newbie territory and harrass noobs without getting any kind of harrassment back. Well then I call it unbalanced, in other games you will get banned for such behavior. If every pyscho and siciopath can do as he wants .. well then this is def. not my game. I take the consequences and leave. If now the bashing of miners continues I hope more people will leave.
I think EVE has some great potential but nobody tries to make something out of it. Too bad. I will try out other upcoming games like star citizen and elite ... maybe they solved the gap between PVE and PVP. In EVE it's NOT solved.

Is this seriously the best you can do? Pathetic.

You need to understand that the reason these people are getting bullied and pushed around and picked on and having their stuff stolen and their ships blown up is because they fail so utterly at defending themselves. And in EVE the defenseless are targets, pure and simple.

If you intend to do something about it, you need to get off your ass and start putting in some time, some effort, some thinking and some goddamn chutzpah. And then you can go and blog about it. Whining like a spoiled brat is still whining like a spoiled brat when you do it on a different domain name. Show us some substance. Show us some action. Create some actual goddamn in-game content instead of sperging your sad fantasies around.

You disgust me.

*spits*

They should make shuttle drones that carry your minerals to stations. AFK mining is okay with me because I have this suspicion that everyone does it. Why not make it official? Tell me.