Hah knew it
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Iām totally fine with this tactic, but most of these adrenaline pumped nerds running through nullsec in the moment are not opponents, just a bunch of seal clubbing hooligans. They have no interest in sov, warfare or domination, they are just gangs of braindead looters.
lowsec is the place where those creeps belong to.
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If you are in Null-Sec i would suggest that you arenāt a āsealā anymore.
And its ZERO-Security space, if you mine, do it with some protection.
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Which means they are actually playing the game, not afk farming
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Question doesnāt make any sense since CCP donāt usually fly ships in NS to kill miners.
Sure. But itās just a waste of time to discuss this with people who donāt have a clue what that means.
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The problem is in Low Sec as well in WH-Space the the other guys will shoot back and probably kill them.
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It seems odd to me that weāre just over six hundred posts from an autolock, but I still havenāt seen a decent discussion on the actual effects this Blackout will have if it persists.
Economical impact.
Bears should truly be rejoicing, because this is about to have a bunch of beneficial effects for them. With significantly reduced botting and afk ratting, youāre going to see PLEX prices drop as demand gets overshadowed by the increased supply from those now dropping plex on the market to fund their rejuvenated PvP endeavors. Reduced DED site farming will significantly increase the price of rarer modules, and reduced ratting in general will reduce the impact of inflation while increased PvP will increase demand for bearing products in general.
This should be a time to fuckinā rejoice and cheer if youāre a bear. Your activity is suddenly going to be worth something compared to the absolute waste of oxygen and bandwidth youāve been so far, your competition suddenly became a whole lot fairer and the opportunities for your star to rise are queuing up outside your airlock with gusto and joy de vivre.
For the ratters, this is when actively putting in some effort and skill to run those escalations will start paying off as the markets change. For the miners, this is when getting the PvPers in your social circle to use you as bait will let you still mine in pretty much perfect safety while getting vastly greater returns on your time investment and ores than ever before. Industrialists have never failed to seize opportunities like these before anyway, so I donāt even have to mention those guys.
Long story shortā¦ this is your time to shine.
ā¦ or, you know, cry, bawl, throw the baby out with the bathwater and unsub. That works too, improving the lot of your competitors even further.
Blackout is easily the best thing CCP has done in a decade and a half. If they keep it up, thereās hope for Eve after all.
Which areā¦ none.
Ganktarding is not pvp.
afk ratting and botting was the least reduced, so bots are rejoiced as ISK they made now has double value.
Which hits consumers of those modules - the bears themselves.
Which was barely the case, with active ISK delta dropping (except May).
Except it didnāt increase.
Ganktarding is not pvp.
Except you canāt log in because you literally canāt do anything in game.
Except you can do nothing but be a spodbrain under supercap umbrella.
Mining in anything but rorqs under umbrella is DEAD.
Nobody will man the bait 23/7 and it wonāt work anyway as ganktards will just bring more numbers to deal with it, after sacrificing a corvette to see what your fleet is.
This is our time to unsub and go alpha.
So why is online at 2006 levels? Probably because everyone is too happy to log in, right?
Thereās hope for all of us to win eve, even those who donāt want to.
Yes, bots are quite happy with the changes.
Haaaah, you remain adorable. āGanktardsā. Itās like watching someone run around shoving a doll at every strangerās face and going āTHIS IS WHERE THEY TOUCHED ME!ā unprompted.
I have never seen this much consistent salt from someone, over such a long period of time.
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Yeah, no RL money was paid and no content for hunters was provided! 
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This is baseless claim, have a better one here: Those who join are contributing nothing but pvp-avoiding risk-averse skill-free effort-free ganktarding, generating 0 content.
Those who leave were contributing subscription at least. Those who join for blackout will leave again when ganktarding will get less than 100% safe, and nothing of value will be lost.
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Yep 
Max (24h): 26,239 (2019-07-15 18:50:00)
So youre here to āprovideā the āsalt cheeringā that used to be in local - putting down others instead of trying to understand the debate or contribute to a serious discussion on what the real and or unintended consequences of the blackout are. Maybe we should start campaigning for it to be even yet easier for cloaky T3C gangs to kill people who already pose zero threat to them and their oh so āriskyā gameplay? How about some autotargeting āgoldā missiles with a BVR 300km range, no wait, 500 km range - only available to leet bittervets with more than 100 T3Cās lost or bought maybe? is that it ? Letās make hard EVE so easy for the bittervets that ALL of them will return for a month each year. Thats GOTTA āsaveā EVE āgameplayā at this pointā¦
So yeā¦ but no. Nerf the rorq mining if you think thereās too much resources in nullā¦ but otherwise your āargumentsā are just inane.
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I got a better post with dumped data, search for ādumped eve-offlineā in this thread. It has all the numbers on bad days of eve (hint: only 3 sundays that bad within a decade).
Yesterdays Data:
As you can see from this data it drops below 20k pretty fast ā¦
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cry? why thatā¦ you us google translate for my post?)))
You know how little sense that makes with a 6 month PCU of just 24k - That means the average online per day is ONLY 24K over a 24 hr period- A very very long way from even the top 4 alliances membership online every day for the last six months.
Reminds me of another game i play - They boast about 1.2 million registered players world wide - Yet most servers were so low on active players they merged 30 odd servers into 6 and still (active) player numbers are low.
Eve years ago passed 600K accounts - Sadly Iād guess, less than 10% of that number are active at any one time.
NB; CCP canāt tell the world they only have 24K active accounts for much of the year and many of those are multiboxers - That is just really poor business sense, so they lie.,.
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Before dt on weekdays was my usual pve run time - itās probably the only time we didnāt get a stream of reds passing by. Iām no bot, so I could get like 1 hour max, well, not in blackoutā¦
The question is - āare those logoffs BOTS that canāt operate anymoreā?
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