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Do not miss the TWO statements. Side by Side. Both equally inflammatory to ‘different sides of the fence’.
AND the emoticon.
AND it did get us back on CODE, and off defending suicide ganking in general to someone who doesn’t understand it.
More banter like this and we might all be a bit less snappier and reactive to the usual
YOU ARE ALL EVIL GRIEFERS CHANGE GAME 4 ME
And that is Said by someone who was a bit reactive earlier in the thread- Me, Patti x
TLDR: Sometimes, the best way to engage with this community, is through light hearted humour and HTFU, better for us all than just close thread, so A+ Falcon (not that he needs my approval) and A+ to all subsequent responders (not that any of you need my approval). He lead by example I would say.
Better call it friendly baiting to get back on topic, than trolling?
I really do wonder how many members of CODE realize just how much they sound and act like a cult? Their relevancy in hisec comes more from their obnoxious banter than anything else.
If we didn’t realise it before, your revelatory and profound insight is bound to leave us enlightened, no?
We’re called all sorts of things, and most of them are not good things. It’s a measure of just how much folks need James 315 and the Code in their lives.
You agree that we are ‘relevant’, although you qualify the statement with a strange reference to our verbal back-and-forth, and not, for once, to any connection with suicide-ganking. I thought ‘obnoxious banter’ was one of the hallmarks of the EVE Online experience.
If HS was safer, a lot less people would know the pleasure of passing your opponent through the blasters, in the flames of FW or the depth of NS. A pleasure that is very specific to Eve and that makes it a great game.
People who are not willing to fight in a pvp game are bound to leave the game once they get bored of its very bad PVE content. CODE is willingly taking the role of the bad guy to make them want to fight back.
I know it is hard to believe but actually CODE helps this game a lot more than people in the help channel.
They LOSE money when they gank barges in HS. They don’t get anything in return, but hate messages and despise.
Just my opinion OC. You can keep thinking that CODE players are sadistic asocial people who need to kill space pixels to relieve the pain real life has put on their soul. I am not saying they are not.
I think the CODE are the miner’s friend, perhaps even more?
If one could mine in high sec with no risk, and with no chance of surprise ‘interdiction’ (cough), then
The Miner could have her heart’s desire… it would be as if all the ore was already hers for always, once she had maxed her setup which would not take long
But when there is fear and risk she can never be fulfilled- she can never Have what she Wants
And thus unsated and desiring she can actually play, instead of maximising her dependency
on AFK behaviours- ‘bot aspirancy’ if you will-
and the death of her desire.
Hardly a cult, dear? They just like to ‘play’ imho they know exactly how they come across, and it seems it’s effects are calculated,
its all part of the game, I think
Of all my time spent in hisec, I’ve never had any direct confrontation with any CODE ops. In fact, outside of major trade lanes and trade hubs, I just don’t see codeites at all! I’ve had more trouble with wardeccers and my own stupidity than gankers. The only reason I swapped from mining in retrievers to procurers was due to traveling to nullsec where the tank is required to survive the rats out there. CODE’s forces aren’t all over the place. They do, however, make a ton of noise everywhere they go (In a manner similar to some radical political groups these days) which gets people talking and for some to look at counters to the clear verbal threats to their stuff.
CODE’s playstyle actually places them very nicely into EVE’s lore. All they need is FOBs of their own and they’d actually fit in with some of the npc pirate groups like the blood raiders.
I’ll answer this as if it weren’t a troll thread (which it obviously is)
Short answer, CODE. is killing people where it matters.
They don’t give a damn about some sec-status restricted (or npc standings) site or npc miners. Because neither of those end up on the forums making threads about how they lost a ship.
Maybe if one day they develop a consciousness and start posting shiptoasts on the forum we will, but until then a regular gank is more entertaining (not that this will ever change hahaha)
Then sadly, you don’t know everything about CODE.
Nice try tho
It is really possible to adapt? Miners have been the go-to for casual kills since Eve’s earliest days.
So what’s next? Transports. The trade hubs and pipes are already taken. And do not really suit a soloist.
Missions? The Sister L4 would be the optional, but a delicate balance easily disturbed if too many opt here.
Incursions? A nut that has not been cracked yet. It does not rain purple any more.
Structures? hahahaha. no - I do not see it.
Just how many nights would you suffer lacking targets, if the trend continues?
*====
When you are going to calm down?
Will you have to disband
The targets you used to farm
Are no longer to be had
Always isn’t forever
No more bumping for you
The miners moved to null-sec now
They’re all serving in the donut blue
So goodbye to the Code
While Dogs in Mangers howl
You wont Permit outside of highsec
It’s all rorquals now
