EVE General Discussion

Translation: "Can't be arsed, CCP please fix the game to defend carebears from something that might happen once in 6 months"

Hi Indah, not sure about your overall views but I'm responding just to your post here.

What you are describing is a known limitation to the amount of fun you can have as an escort, or a gank sabotager (note my clever use of avoiding a tired buzz word).


However, if there is the occasional shipment where the cargo is absurdly valuable, I think it makes sense to have a friend along to help you. I think webbing or scouting is a better investment than ECM or Logi.. but there are many strategies.

Also, "maybe once in six months" is an acceptable fail rate as a player in an MMO isn't it? We should all be so lucky to die ingloriously just twice a year..

well you know... because of the children. And stuff. Did I mention children?
Do it for the bears goddammit! They need to afk in peace, not pieces.
It's absolutely absurd that they should have to put forth the rediculous amounts of effort needed to provide the necessary security to allow them to safely autopilot to their various destinations without fear of GREIFERS coming to RUIN thier enjoyment of the game they would be playing if they were'nt so busy watching netflix or any of the various other video channels that are far more important than watching to make sure their cargo arrives intact!
Anyone interfering with the timely and profitable delivery of their AFK cargo is obviously a basement dwelling sociopath who exists solely to ruin the game for their fellow players, and is in on the vast conspiracy to kill EVE due to AFK players unsubscribing. EVE IS DYING, PLZ HALP.

There, did I do that right? Do we need another take?

If it's as common as the whiners consistently fail to demonstrate, then it should definitely be worth-while. After all, it's no different than spending time sitting in a station or at a safe in space, waiting for hours for your scout to find a good target that is headed your way.

But if it's as rare as once in six months that you even get any kind of reason to perhaps do something, then there's simply nothing that even remotely resembles something that, after a bottle of booze and after having lost your glasses on your way to (what you hoped were) the toilet, might be confused with a problem-lookalike.

They still would anyway they seem to have trouble seeing things from any other view point

See, I don't know how often happen ganks.

The point is that defending another player would be very boring when he wasn't attacked, which as far as i know, it's the most usual occurence ingame. Most of the time most of the players are not ganked, hence the "once in six months" reference.

One of my pet concepts is that players should be allowed to use NPC for tasks whose opportunity cost is too high for a human player. Say, bringing NPC anti-gank right when you need it, for a price that compensates the loss inflicted on gankers. Would you spend a 500 millon one-shot NPC anti-gank to laugh at a flight of ganknados? Would you gank if you knew that X is known for using NPC anti-ganks? (These are rhetorical questions, btw)

Anyway, this is just a stupid debate since the start. CCP doesn't wants a game different than it is now. And if they could make a better game, they would be making it.

People in EVE do huge amounts of boring things if the reward is high enough. Believe me, I ran a Jump Freighter service.

If HS haulers are unwilling to do this, either they believe that the reward isn't high enough (i.e. ganking is too rare to be bothered), or they're stupid. Especially since it only takes 1 friend or alt to keep you safe from any sized gank fleet.

Anyway, if nobody attempts to gank you because you're protected, OP ******* Successful.

This post brought to you by the Redundancy division of the department of redundancy, subsection in charge of things redundant. IE, bring a friend. Have him peek to see what is in next room. Don't die to things you don't have to encounter.

That is all, carry on. I'mma go to bed now, and my alcohol stream has too much blood in it.

This thread reminds me of just how important a service gankers provide to the community.

Without gankers, we'd never have had this 28 pages of utter hilarity.

Dying in high sec in a spacecraft designed to haul stuff into low/null sec cloaked isn't a gamesystem fail but a user one.
High sec isn't 100% safety, people in these forums say it often over time to understand this fact.
We are all responsible of our own mistakes in this game, it's even the part of the fun this game provide.