Noooo. The highest possible skill in Eve is Elite Watching Home & Away While AFK. It takes years to skill for this. It’s not just any old person who has the sheer skill and dexterity to hit Alt Tab every half hour to see if their ship is still there. It requires a doctorate and a Ph.D thesis and years of training on Mr Epeen’s special flight simulator. Only Top Gun AFK-ers can reach this exalted level.
There’s a stark contrast between twankers and miners.
Miners don’t impose their “play style” on others. As a matter of fact, you have to go looking for them.
They work tirelessly day after day, week after week, month after month and yes, year after year to bring to bring the minerals necessary to drive Eve’s bustling economy.
They have a job to do. An essential job.
Miners are necessary.
If every twanker quit playing Eve tomorrow, they wouldn’t even be missed…
Please try to stay on topic, Mr Epeen; it helps to promote useful exchanges. If, on the other hand, it is your intention to have the thread closed, then make the request in the usual way. It doesn’t have to come from the OP - though its efficacy might be otherwise impaired.
Did you buy this toon from him, Smarter ThanU/YHWH is Lord?
You didn’t. Most of it was true, except for the “angry” part. I have high blood pressure so I get excited once in a while.
It’s true I am dangerous though, to a-holes.
You take care now.
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They cannot do so. Miners occupy a place at the bottom of the EVE Food Chain; they know this, and so do we.
They fly to an asteroid belt, lock a rock and cycle their lasers. The coding does all the work for them.
Some gankers do this, too, and manufacture ships and modules. Does your binary-only cognitive capacity think that miners only mine and gankers only gank? You’re wrong. Again.
That’s why they have to go on forums, to stay relevant because they know no-one needs them.
They even create alts to stir up attention about themselves like them Frostpackers always talking about that trollop princess just to stay relevant and in the public eye otherwise they’d be forgotten in an hour.
I too have a storied history with WW2 flight simulators. And I have aquired quite the proficency in piloting these aerial vehicles. From Zeros to Butcher birds, Mustangs, Messerschmitts, Spitfires and Yaks. I have witnessed every skill level in this particular category. From struggling like everyone else to towering above my former equals as a god. I regularly traded blows with legends, some of them I bested gloriously, some hopelessly defeated me without mercy.
The skills and insight I have aquired from this time, still stick with me. To be truly proficent and outstanding, to outdo your opponents by leaps and bounds in a field that is highly competitive and brutally punishes even the smallest of mistakes and oversights - that is an experience that I wish to everyone. It changes you.
With that being said, there is a skill bar clearly present in the game. Every activity can be mastered to a nauseating degree. Even mining, believe it or not. To say PvP in EVE Online sets low bars, or is of very simple and menial nature, disregards the accomplishment of all combat pilot across the entirety of New Eden.
True excellency inherently comes with the ability to recognize it in others. I invite you to distance yourself from your current thoughts and re-examine your beliefs about player versus player combat in EVE Online.