Crime & Punishment

Barrage of personal attacks aside, get off your high horse. I don't want a "friendly eve" but at the same time I don't want an EVE where people like you demand that every single aspect of the game be dominated by players with the better laser skills. EVE is a lot more than just pew pew.

And really, the difference between me and you is that I understand that EVE is a game, played for entertainment by a range of people with different desires, while you think anyone that isn't exactly like you should leave.

Kids these days

Wow you guys really got Lucas's panties in a bundle, nicely done.

mmhmm, you'll find that difficult to do, but keep on believing. I tend not to get emotional over video games.

I can tell by your poorly thought out replies. You are usually on point, I may not agree with you but your arguments are usually solid. Your last two replies show your frustration.

Careful. You'll get some unknown alt all rowled up about how your not pro-ganker if you say Lucas knows how to communicate.

lol, who are you and what did I say to make you all mad? Understand that all the insults in the world are only going to end up getting you in trouble with the ISDs, not make me all sad. Some random on the internet going "Grrr, Lucas is terrible" is never going to get to me. I'm an opinionated jerk in the Imperium. Let's just say I'm used to being barraged by insults from you kids when you're angry.

It was not an insult, it was stating a fact. You, like Holeysheet, are renowned for your shiptoasting on the forums. Unlike Holey, however, I granted that you do make points at times, but otherwise you do nothing but talk about how high sec is bad, etc. It's pretty much an expectation when you post that you'll tell us how bad we are for being in high sec for any reason, and how real PvP happens in null, and how yadda yadda yadda.

As for who I am...if you don't know who I am, that's your problem. I'm posting on an alt right now, but the alt is rather well-known. I've never hidden my affiliation with my main.

Holysheet has never been a good poster, he's been a raging idiot the entire time I've been aware of his existence which is several years at this point.

The funny thing is I actually sympathize with his gripes with marmite.

Don't worry, I'm not. What happens between you guys is your business. I just found it funny that with some people the historic posting quality changes when their current opinion of that poster does.

A single person with a pos has the same amount of risk as a 200 man corp with a pos, they just have less options to mitigate that risk. Your problem is that if they are able to mitigate that risk you think it's unfair. If they log on every day and run no jobs over 24 hours long and dismantle the pos if wardecced, they've simply mitigated the risk of holding that pos well.

See this is why I don't think you are talking about risk. You state here "overhead" as in the cost of operation you believe is too low. Overhead is not risk, it's cost. and both a one man starbase corp and a 20 man corp have to ask the same question: "Is the ownership of this pos and the efforts to mitigate the risk of it's loss worth the reward gained". Their size is irrelevant in that and a 20 man corp has all the same options to pull down the pos that a single person corp does, with the benefit of multiple people to help tear it down and monitor the status of wars. A one guy corp running a pos where he can't log in for a weekend could mean the loss of his pos, that's less likely to happen if there's 20 people available to deal with it. At that point both groups can corp roll if they feel that is a viable option. The difference is that a 20 man group tends to choose options which limit that ability, such as longer queues, more structures and complex roles.

What kind of peasants are producing 1 at a time? Unless I'm specifically limited by number of runs on a BPC, I'll be producing in bulk.

Why should they be punished though, that's what I don't get. It sounds like you want portions of the game mechanically restricted from use by a single person. I just don't see why that should be the case. If one person wants to do something a group can do he should be able to try. if he wants a pos he can have one and if he can find a way to make that work, fair play. if he wants to try to take and hold sov and a station, again, fair play.