EVE General Discussion

This is why the idea of "transferable kill rights" is popular. It would bring good PVP to all those suicide gankers who talk up how great PVP is and how the game is all about that and anybody who can't handle it should to back to WOW.

(funny though the gankers are always silent on the idea).

I started off my eve career as a miner and I still do it along side my other ventures into null and stuff to supply myself and other with ships caps etc. I have been ganked 2 or 3 times.

I dont ice mine anymore as its become more of a target especially since mackinaws are squishier than hulks. Key is to find a quiet system thats usually has less people in local and keep an eye on local and dscan. Also helps if theres no station or if there an ice belt as gankers tend to go after ice miners more atm. Just the other day I had a nice 5-6 hour mining session with my mates at the end of which i saw 3 thrashers enter local. Pretty good time to quit so I did. Better safe than sorry. Also helps to join or make friends with local mining corporations as they will have intel on which charatcers/corps are known fro suiicide ganking allowing you to set their standings and notice them faster.

This game is about interacting with others not afk mining for hours on end then getting butthurt when you walk back you your screen and see a pod floating in space.

If this game wasn't about ganking in the first place and actually required some form of player interaction rather than just botting accounts then people wouldn't be raging so much in the first place.

I have to say that I'm surprised at the responses I received so far. I don't remember seeing 'Moar tears' even once.

Yes, I made a lot of mistakes on this operation, but, believe it or not, some of them were related to the newer game enhancements.

Normally, when I mine ice, I use a hardened Orca with a Siege Warfare Mindlink, a Mackinaw, a hardened Iteron V, and a BC. I can't run that many clients anymore though.

Estrelita flies Myrmidons, but only T1 fittings. This also affected the possible Mac fittings I could use.

I've spent a year in 0.0, mining, and my impressions are that the corps and alliances that hire you usually end up stealing more from you than you lose on ships. Maybe it's just bad luck, but I've been down there with more than 10 different corps. Everyone of them sucked. My last trip out nearly broke me. It cost more to get my gear out than I made there.

'Stop being a victim', to me, means stop playing the part of the game I enjoy, and start playing a part that I don't like at all. I would quit playing before I did that.

But what are the game alternatives? I haven't found anything close to Eve.

I've posted before, with other characters, that what I was looking for, when I started playing Eve, was a full immersion simulation of civilization spreading out through a new area of space. We seem to be getting farther away from that.

Good point about that player being older than I am. My impressions of the new players are based on experiences I've had recruiting. Not on the ganker's actions. However, it does seem, to me, that more than half of the new players attracted to the game are people I would not want to have as a next door neighbor, either in-game or out. Maybe it's just that, "I just want to blow things up,' attitude that I have problems with.

Edit: A couple of things I didn't mention.

System population when I went out to the belt was 4.

I don't AFK mine.

Total time in the belt was less than 4 minutes.

I think that you were bored and that the recent events you experienced was a tipping point for your decision to leave the game. You should probably take a break from Eve and come back in a few months with another strategy.

That would be you boy, as you can't even get the distinction between the adjective 'looser' and the noun 'loser'.

I don't remember saying that the game I want to play is the right one for anyone else. It's just the right one for me.

So what if I'm a loser in RL? This kind of lesson isn't going to help me much, I don't think.

I'm one of the rare ones who don't think that RL ends at the keyboard.

You know what would be a cool forum feature? Being able to filter out threads with the words "Loss" "Gank" or "Quit" in the OP. How about that for a paper cut?

This ^

Big time. WTF has happened to us? It's like a sparkle pony alliance came from the sparkle pony online community and decided to take over eve. Almost makes the goons look good!

If you have a problem disassociating a fantasy game from reality that is a seperate issue.

While this post is obviously a troll (3 years, lost 50 ships in that time, I'm a miner, first time I've been ganked = doesn't add up) the simple solution for one is this situation is to train up your "Situational Awareness" and "Evasion" skills a bit. Frankly, even a miner (or whatever) must needs have a grasp of certain aspects of combat simply in order to avoid it.

Carry on.