EVE General Discussion

You, sir, have no gained me as a fan.

I can tell the difference between a game and real life quite fine. However, clear and precise prose and communication in general is not medium-reliant. Like I said earlier, you have no place expecting people to understand what you're even on about if you can't say it in such a manner that makes it clear and concise.



Mine was science. Irrelevant. If you're going to write a paper, be it science or history, and expect to get it published or even considered for peer review, you're going to need punctuation and proper sentence structure. In fact, it doesn't matter what degree you go into at university, your first year always includes a unit on essay writing that covers the importance of literacy (in Australia, anyway). Usually, this unit is just a rehash of stuff you should have already learned in 10th-12th grades though.



I can pay attention just fine. First you have to give me something to pay attention to, but I wonder if you've noticed your own self-contradiction in admitting you have poor punctuation while claiming to have done college-level work in seventh grade. Because no self-respecting college or tertiary institution of any kind would want to burden you with such complex learning without first being sure you could handle, at least, basic language skills.

For the record, I never claim to be superior until you started trying to big-note yourself as something you simply are not. You tried to discard my criticism of your lack of punctuation by claiming to be intellectually superior enough that it doesn't matter to you. That is terrible logic, for one, and for another, doesn't do much to prove you're intellectually honest enough to admit your faults. In which case, how can we be expected to take anything you say seriously?

It's hard to understand what the point is when it's delivered with no punctuation...

That being said, your concerns have already been addressed. As so many miners like to point out, EVE is a sandbox in which you're allowed to do whatever you like with the tools you have. This, of course, needs to be clarified: if you cannot hold on to the tools you have, then your sandbox options become more limited. You also have to weigh up the risk vs the reward, and you try to utilise whatever expertise, tools and manpower you have to mitigate any risk taken as much as possible while trying to maximise that reward. That is EVE, in a nutshell, regardless of your activity, be it mining, missioning, faction warfare, and even ganking and miner bumping.

That means, if you encounter direct competition from other players, then you need to figure out how to maximise their risk and reduce their reward as much as possible in order to make you less worth competing with. Raising market prices won't do that, because the moment you raise ore and min prices, everything else those ore and mins produce goes up in price as well, which levels the field again, because my Catalyst might become (rough figure for posterity's sake) 10% more expensive, but so will your barge. You do the math: 10% of 10 mil (average Gankalyst) = 1 mil more expensive, 10% of 40 mil (average Retriever) = 4 mil more expensive. That does nothing to mitigate your risk or maximise your competitions'.

Why?

You should all form a new-new order, and demand the new order people pay you for the privilege of flying in your space. You just need to then constantly go on and on about how the new-new order owns all of highsec, about how anyone in the new order that doesn't purchase your licence is breaking the rules if they attempt to bump, gank or otherwise attempt to get isk from players. All you need then are a few self-important ego-maniacs at the top of your structure to constantly bang on about how it's your right, and you're bringing order and stability and blah blah blah, and you've got yourself a nice little scam just like the new order.

At this point I don't believe that will solve his problems.. well, not all of them at least. Pretty sure his need for a permit has been bumped to the back burner as far as priorities go.

Oh look it's call for hi-sec unity #23,083

I sum it up thusly.

Many have tried, all have died.

Canibal Kane is one scary dude. I was in a corp that tried to fight him and we all died a horrible death. Nice fella though, he gives as good as he gets but has honour.

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