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1upnate Forward Secrecy Likes received: 1	#1 - 2014-10-19 18:39:36 UTC 1 like pvp is fun yeah... but isn't it only fun when its a challenge? kinda figure its like cheating in GTA... cool for like 20 minutes then it just becomes insanely boring. anyone know the appeal of ganking miners? just curious

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Regnag Leppod Doomheim Likes received: 108	#2 - 2014-10-19 18:43:41 UTC 11 Schadenfreude

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Jim Era Likes received: 10,663	#3 - 2014-10-19 18:47:18 UTC 14 Ganking miners seems to be the equivalent of mining imo. Warp to belt. target stationary object (asteroid, mining ship, etc) hit f1... repeat for hours of boredom Wat™

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Abrazzar Vardaugas Family Likes received: 6,225	#4 - 2014-10-19 18:48:25 UTC 6 Where do you think the ice belts are coming from? Sovereignty and Population New Mining Mechanics

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Silverdaddy Ourapheh Holdings Likes received: 68	#5 - 2014-10-19 18:51:40 UTC 5 Some people just thrive off of provoking an emotional response. The problem with slavery is that only half of the manacles are visible. The Holder, supposed master, is equally bound by the gilded chains of privilege and wealth.

Adira Nictor

Sebiestor Tribe

Minmatar Republic

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#6 - 2014-10-19 18:52:31 UTC

It seems its a lot more fun for us sociopaths, then for the common folk! What?

Honestly though, it never gets old, the interactions you get from killing a squishy miner who would otherwise ignore you and the rest of the players in game if you didn't step in are great.

I like to play my MMO's with other people, shooting red crosses or rocks in space gets old, much faster then kill those people that do it instead.

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Hengle Teron Red Sky Morning The Amarr Militia. Likes received: 62,870	#7 - 2014-10-19 18:54:18 UTC 3 Cause explosions are beautiful.

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Prince Sanguine Likes received: 222	#8 - 2014-10-19 18:58:09 UTC 4 Tears are delicious. You try them sometime. Everytime you read this you are required to send 100 million isk directly to me.

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Ralph King-Griffin New Eden Tech Support Likes received: 21,564	#9 - 2014-10-19 18:58:54 UTC 8 Well there not going to asplode themselves are they. Murderers of Negotiable Motivations =]\|[=

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Solecist Project Likes received: 33,643	#10 - 2014-10-19 19:00:31 UTC 1 Regnag Leppod wrote: Schadenfreude In english please! That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia

Ralph King-Griffin

New Eden Tech Support

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#11 - 2014-10-19 19:06:10 UTC | Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin

1upnate wrote:

like pvp is fun yeah... but isn't it only fun when its a challenge? kinda figure its like cheating in GTA... cool for like 20 minutes then it just becomes insanely boring.

anyone know the appeal of ganking miners?

just curious

Actually I think it's more like mowing down pedestrians for the lols in grand theft auto , except they then sperg allover local and the forums about it afterwards in hilarious torrents of tears and accusations of psychological disorders.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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Arsine Mayhem Doomheim Likes received: 406	#12 - 2014-10-19 19:06:23 UTC 2 The whole thing eludes me. I'm guessing you have to be really bad at games.

IIshira

School of Applied Knowledge

Caldari State

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#13 - 2014-10-19 19:07:58 UTC

Ralph King-Griffin wrote:

1upnate wrote:

Actually I think it's more like mowing down pedestrians for the lols, except they then sperg allover local and the forums about it afterwards in hilarious torrents of tears and accusations of psychological disorders.

Wow another person that can't separate real life from Eve....

KnowUsByTheDead

Sunlight...Through The Blight.

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#14 - 2014-10-19 19:09:58 UTC

I prefer ganking freighters. Fleets tend to be more fun.

Got bumping, warping, scouting, and multi-system chases going down.

But you want reasons?

Main reason?

Small numbers needed, even at higher sec status. Especially considering how an anti-tanked barge is more than often what you are going to find in HS. "B-b-but........MY EFFICIENCY!!!" Single most used reason why tank is eschewed in favor of yield mods...or worse...mods that literally make zero sense. Like warp stabs or inertia stabs.

Other reasons?

Teaching the realities of a world in which non-consensual PvP exists...to people who shell up and play EVE as a single player game.

Market manipulation + target hunting. Sell your ORE Strips, and then watch list the person that buys them. Blink

Cutting out your own mining competition.

And of course, tears.

However, if tears are really what people are after, a single miner gank is facile.

Why gank one or two miners.....

....when you can just join the corp, build trust, and safari the whole mining op?

Shocked

Your effort to tears ratio goes through the roof during such events.

Big smile

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

La Nariz

Aliastra

Gallente Federation

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#15 - 2014-10-19 19:10:01 UTC

1upnate wrote:

Its not ganking its a vaccine against risk aversion.

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Ralph King-Griffin New Eden Tech Support Likes received: 21,564	#16 - 2014-10-19 19:10:06 UTC 14 Solecist Project wrote: Regnag Leppod wrote: Schadenfreude In english please! Ha ! Sol clearly hasn't heard the much catchier English word Vicariouspleasurederivedfromwatchingyouropponentsuffering . . . . Murderers of Negotiable Motivations =]\|[=

IIshira

School of Applied Knowledge

Caldari State

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#17 - 2014-10-19 19:10:53 UTC

Jim Era wrote:

Ganking miners seems to be the equivalent of mining imo.

Warp to belt. target stationary object (asteroid, mining ship, etc) hit f1...

repeat for hours of boredom

It depends on how you do it... It can be that boring if you pick easy targets but sometimes not.

Try solo ganking macks in a 0.7 system. Do you ship scan your targets? Oh wait you will tip off the target if he's not afk... You can just go in blind but it's so close anything can make you fail. He has a DC fitted... You warped in out of optimal. You took too long to target and shoot.

Yes it's not as exciting as lowsec roaming but not as boring as ice mining.


Solecist Project Likes received: 33,643	#18 - 2014-10-19 19:11:29 UTC \| Edited by: Solecist Project 2 Edit: Okay for some reason I saw her post as last ... although it wasn't. :/ Redacting. That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia


IIshira School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State Likes received: 1,332	#19 - 2014-10-19 19:12:49 UTC 3 KnowUsByTheDead wrote: Cutting out your own mining competition. I have ganked for this reason!

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Rena Toralan Wandering Spartans Likes received: 3	#20 - 2014-10-19 19:13:26 UTC 3 Less people mining = less ressources on the market Less ressources = higher price higher price = you make more cash as a good miner There you go, simple economics. Seriously, if you are getting killed while mining, its because your fit sucks. Get tankier.