What a twisted perception you have. The people, like you, that support any of CCP’s new updates are in the minority. I have never had one reason to bitch about EVE until the ORE changes. Whats your reason for being on the forums? You one of those guys that like to hide behind a computer and stir things up?
Yea go read the ore changes, most of the responses in this post and the other update dev post that have taken place of the last month and a half. Get back to me once your done.
I see lots of whining from the usual farmers who whine and threaten to ragequit over anything that threatens their menial farming grind, but that doesn’t make them a majority. Farmers are disproportionately loud because, unlike normal players, they’re stuck in the perma-victim mentality where the only way to overcome an obstacle is to get CCP to remove it. So while normal players are busy figuring out how to exploit the new opportunities and continue to win the farmers are here on the forums attempting the only tactic they have.
Not all miners. Just the ones who incessantly whine on the forums about how hard everything is and expect CCP to give them a risk-free menial grinding game. Plenty of miners are smart and competent players who recognize that the ore changes are a massive buff to mining.
I never once ask for risk free mining. You play EVE the way you like and I will play EVE that way I like. Thats what made EVE awesome, a mostly unscripted sandbox where the player decided how they wanted to play. So if anyone is crying to change the game it would be you and the others that want to force people to play like you do. I want the sandbox experience protect because thats what placed EVE over all game. I want to continue to play the sandbox unscripted I don’t want to be force to play the game your way.
Assuming all players are equally likely to comment. In reality people with criticism are far more likely to comment than people who think everything is fine, so negative comments will always be disproportionately represented.
You contradict yourself. You claim that you don’t want risk-free mining, but then you insist that you be able to play the game the way you want to play it. If you genuinely don’t want risk-free AFK mining (or so little risk that it might as well be risk-free) then nothing I have said in any way interferes with you.
You had like 180 post in the ORE change post. Yea I would say you are obsessively trying to force your game play on me. You act like there is zero risk to miners in ships that can’t fight back. I don’t have the time to mine AFK, I’m to busy locking rocks, moving ore, watching local and on the dscan. I’m not a bot either which is your next attempt to toss all miners under the cheating no risk bus? I know 2 things about you from reading your post and you hate all miners,you think they are all bots/afk (cheaters) miners.
But even by going off your math, you have “up to” 20% of the playerbase who may be mad. That in no way supports @Tursiops_Truncatus’s claim that “Right now there are more pissed off people than not.” That would estimate to 80% who either support it or just don’t care.
Because you want me to play the game your way instead of my way. That’s why you had like 180 post in the ore change post attacking any miner that disagreed with the ore changes. Utter nonsense is that you wanting to force your game play on the sandbox. Utter nonsense is miners taking the blame for inflation created by plex, skill injectors, daily log in rewards and all the other B.S. CCP dumps into the game. Utter nonsense is all the miners being punished as cheaters, afkers, or bots.
At the end of the day, the ore changes needed to happen. They’re gonna suck for a bit as everything balances back out, but one of the big issues plaguing this game is a pretty much permanent state of surplus. We really do need ores and surpluses to be diminished. Now maybe there’s a conversation to be had about the specific methods they chose, sure, but…
I’m old enough to remember when there used to be a profitable market in doing things like capital BPC copying. Now that market is so dead from unending resources stockpiling and other changes CCP made to lower the barrier to entry that even after an ‘age of scarcity’ it may never recover.