Mining Barges for Alphas Megathread

[Archer_en_Tilavine]

@Ridley_Rohan

suggests a desperate and pathetic need to make things up as a basis to lash out at someone

I’m not lashing out at anyone. Not you and not OP. I’m engaging in dialogue, which can include all thread participants, not just OP. And while I did quote only a tiny segment, I made my statements with full awareness of your commentary on the other thread in which you’ve said, among other things, the following:

@Ridley_Rohan

I may be muddying the waters here but I can suggest two alternate routes to simply giving alphas barges for anyone interested. 1) Considering the relative lack of variety of mining ships, push for and even suggest some new types. One thing that I always thought bizarre was that (at least in my time) there are no race specific true mining vessels with unique traits, if we don’t consider corvettes to be mining vessels (and I don’t). Even increasing the number of ORE mining ships would be cool. Maybe even introduce a vessel that blows up (larger) asteroids into chunks and then you pilot that manually to scoop up or tractor said chunks for reprocessing or sale or something. 2) Rather than just ask for mining barges, combine that with some serious nerfing of the T1 venture. The venture is WAY too good/advanced for its position in the mining vessel line up. That simple fact probably helps explain why alphas cannot get something even better in the barges.

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@Ridley_Rohan

I never said anybody “needed” anything.

I did not say or imply that “Ridley says Alphas need more mining ships”; however, you did in fact provide suggestions. I did not say that you indicated the suggestions are necessary or that you even back those suggestions, I only said that you raised them - that cannot be disputed because you literally said

@Ridley_Rohan

I can suggest two alternate routes

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@Ridley_Rohan

Again, I never said there was a problem.

Again, I never said that you said this was a problem.

I feel like you are misinterpretting my meaning and intent - I was not lashing out at you - and are overreacting on the basis of a misunderstanding. I don’t know if you remember me but I was very empathetic and supportive of you in your Steam payment thread - while I am not taking your response here personally (I am making an effort to de-escalate), I want to point out that this is not the way to make friends and allies on the forums or in EVE in general.