Missions & Complexes

Two reasons for me, find it relaxing to start with and secondly to fund my account. RL Money is tight right now (everything decided to break down at the same time in my house :p) so I've had to switch over to plexing for the next couple of months.

I grinded for a few days to get low grade virtue set for cheap.. man, was that boring! i hope i will never have to do that again.

To pay the bills of my nullsec main.

Yes I could rat or run anoms or w/e else, but like most smaller null corps the space we have isn't very good and we have to move around a good bit. Being able to funnel in a steady stream of cash without worrying over when the next chance I'll have to run things into empire or try to hock something at a good npc station is a crutch I would'nt want to live without. I'm sure it is diffirent for the long-standing established alliances out there, but for the peasantry highsec alts (incursion farming not withstanding) are a fact of life.

Most ironic is that half of these people, folks in my own corp included, will smack highsec all day on the forums. They don't really hate mission runners or anyone else I think, they just hate the fact they feel obligated to do it themselves. I think they hope if highsec income is sufficiently nerfed they can actually live off nullsec as more people moving there would improve some of the sporradic local npc economies. Unfortunately, and those of us who have lived out there the longest can tell you, that simply would not happen regardless of what ccp did to highsec. The logistics of keeping one of our home stations stocked is halaioursly difficult. When PL or some other big-dog isn't in down camping and ensuring our carriers can't arrive with resupply we still have to deal with our neighboring small corps who try to do the same thing on a smaller scale. Growing the economy in an area where massive bubble blobs are a fact of life would simply not happen on the scale required to get rid of highsec alts.

So try as we might, I think most of us are related by one degree or another to the highsec bears. If we don't have one, we depend on one to keep us flying the ships we love to get blown up. I have a bit of disdain for incursions generating so much raw isk and thus inflation, but mission runners are ok by me. I may grief some of them on occasion, but I dare not consider their pastime some kind of irrelavence. Anyone who thinks the "single-player," mission runners dumping impossibly large numbers of faction modules on the market (and thusly sinking tons of isk into the LP store and our of the EVE economy) have no effect on the game are woefully stupid.