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Is trolling miners becoming less cool?
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Tar'z
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-05-09 10:58:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Tar'z
What do you guys think?

One of my spy alts was in a CFC chat channel and I saw an interesting conversation between a few important-ish CFC members. They we're discussing a recent article on minerbumping.com and how funny it was, but also went on to comment on how "lame" and "old" griefing miners in high-sec is getting. They seemed amused still by the content created but seemed to have no interest in furthering their commitment in helping create it themselves.

One of the members made a comment that hit home. Loosely paraphrased he stated, "it just seems like the cool thing to do, and I have no interest grouping up with mindless sheep."

To me this makes sense. I've ganked a many dozen mining barges, freighters, orcas, marauders, but never under the motivation of simply trolling the person behind the keyboard. While I do not object to that in itself, I always wondered why miners got the brunt end of it while mission runners, haulers, PIers, manufacturers, and scores of other AFK income activities are largely ignored. IMO the most logical reason was given by the CFC members above.

Discuss!
Jena Jamson
Archangels 13
#2 - 2014-05-09 11:02:45 UTC
There's nothing to discuss. Play the game however the way you want to play it.

~ Fin ~
Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#3 - 2014-05-09 11:04:44 UTC
That explains what you wrote in another thread about trolling miners being mindless sheep activity. Let us know what CFC thinks about brainless parrots.

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Solecist Project's Alt
Doomheim
#4 - 2014-05-09 11:05:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Solecist Project's Alt
Change is coming.

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Dave Stark
#5 - 2014-05-09 11:08:10 UTC
I've never understood ganking miners, personally. mining ships are fit with things that aren't very lucrative when they drop and the tears are no different than anyone else's.

i get ganking mission runners in their blinged out ships, or freighters carrying too much cargo... but miners? ok.
unless miner tears cure cancer or something...
Octoven
Stellar Production
#6 - 2014-05-09 11:09:11 UTC
All good things...or bad for miners...must come to an end. We all knew eventually it would get boring and phase out some, until they go do something else, get bored, and come back.
Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#7 - 2014-05-09 11:11:51 UTC
it may become boring after a while.
Zappity
New Eden Tank Testing Services
#8 - 2014-05-09 11:13:41 UTC
It's just the rhetoric around it that is becoming stale.

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Dreadchain
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-05-09 11:22:08 UTC
Dave Stark wrote:
I've never understood ganking miners, personally. mining ships are fit with things that aren't very lucrative when they drop and the tears are no different than anyone else's.


Oh, but miner tears ARE much better. About 1 out of 3 miners will throw profanities at you, and maybe 1 in 20 will call real life death threats. The latter is a bit intimidating on the occasion, but mostly they are a hilarious read.

www.minerbumping.com
Dave Stark
#10 - 2014-05-09 11:23:26 UTC
Dreadchain wrote:
Dave Stark wrote:
I've never understood ganking miners, personally. mining ships are fit with things that aren't very lucrative when they drop and the tears are no different than anyone else's.


Oh, but miner tears ARE much better. About 1 out of 3 miners will throw profanities at you, and maybe 1 in 20 will call real life death threats. The latter is a bit intimidating on the occasion, but mostly they are a hilarious read.


i guess i don't have the patience to wait around for them to get back to their keyboards to send me hate mail. *shrug*
Chopper Rollins
hahahlolspycorp
#11 - 2014-05-09 11:24:58 UTC
CFC
no interest grouping up with mindless sheep
ok


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Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-05-09 11:53:37 UTC
Being a self hating miner is the new "in" thing. Nowadays I just take a big swig straight out of the bottle, fire up an alt in a Catalyst and blow my own Venture up.

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2014-05-09 12:14:39 UTC
It isn't miners... Trolling stupid is therapeutic at the end of a hard day.

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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#14 - 2014-05-09 12:18:16 UTC
"Hey guys, NPC corp alt here. I totally have a spai in the CFC and stuff, and they say they're tired of miner ganking and it's like, lame and stuff."

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#15 - 2014-05-09 12:18:55 UTC
Jena Jamson wrote:
There's nothing to discuss. Play the game however the way you want to play it.

~ Fin ~

well that was brisk of you.

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Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2014-05-09 12:22:50 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Jena Jamson wrote:
There's nothing to discuss. Play the game however the way you want to play it.

~ Fin ~

well that was brisk of you.

That's all you have to say to Jena Jameson??

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#17 - 2014-05-09 12:24:20 UTC
Like everything in Eve... it ebb and flows. People get bored of certain types of activities, move on to other things. It'll cycle around again to miners getting harassed again eventually as the hot topic. Besides, it still happens, just people don't make that big of a deal out of it anymore like they used to. Just give it a while... you'll see The New Order in the forums again, spouting how virtuous and wonderful they are when they realize no one is paying them much attention these days. Blink
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#18 - 2014-05-09 12:25:38 UTC
Next up: MAURAUDERGEDDON! Harvesting sweet tears from billion ISK 35k EHP marauders.

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#19 - 2014-05-09 12:28:51 UTC
Jena Jamson wrote:
There's nothing to discuss.

he asked a question holy god what is this world coming to so many communists in these threads i hope your foreskin falls in your soup

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Benny Ohu
Chaotic Tranquility
#20 - 2014-05-09 12:29:41 UTC
Tar'z wrote:
I saw an interesting conversation between a few important-ish CFC members.

i don't care what 'a few guys in a chat channel' think.
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