I’m scared to death while mining.
Looking over at d-scan and focusing on local to see who is in system to come and try to integrate me.
I am not a ganker.. Here is the thing. I do not want anywhere to be a “safe” zone. Why? because EVE stands for Everyone Versus Everyone. It is literally the name of the game. You want safe? Then take the precautions of having situational awareness. Have enough respect for yourself to pay attention to your overview and dscan.
What is being proposed is nothing short of teaching a bad habit. Why learn to pay attention to your overview and dscan. When one did not have to do it before. Why bother even leaving the safe zone at all. When you can play a PVP game without the risk of being in a PVP situation.
The problems in the game is many without a doubt. But the last thing this game needs is to bubble wrap new players. I started playing this game a little over a year ago. What made me go Omega was that there really is no place that is safe. You do not find many games that actually live up to being pvp. Most say they do. Then put conditions on when, where, and even sometime for how long. A few are truly PVP. With fewer still that has an engaging lore to go along with it.
This game has never been about safe. It about going out into a very hostile environment and making your mark. It is unapologetic about the consequences that your decisions brings. Both good and bad.
I have posted all this before in one form or another. This topic has been gone over. I do not know what you expect from posting the same topic again and again, but here we all are once more.
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I like to use these recurring conversations as an opportunity to puff myself up a bit and gloat a little. It’s a good time.
Birds puff their feathers to show off their colours.
I do a bunch of AFK mining in Minmatar space. Now granted I don’t do in in Hek, but where are you guys mining that you constantly get jumped and live in fear of the constant ganks? Is it in Jita? It might be fun to mine there.
These threads confuse me. Some people claim that Eve is dead, there is no one out in high sec, and even Rens and Hek have been abandoned, and others make it sound like every high sec system is a wild west shoot out every minute with barges and orcas being blown up constantly and Concord not able to keep up with the ganker menace.
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Like any gaming forum. There are those that claim the game died the day it went live or shortly thereafter. I semi regularly travel to Dodixie and Jita. I see a lot of player ships. I get chased now and again. Sometimes holding my breath as a ganker is trying to close in on me and hoping that I jump before that player gets in range.
As for living in fear. Well that is certainly not me. The OP that posted this is the one that could answer that one better. But then again I doubt you will get a straight answer anyways. A straight answer rarely happens.
You AFK mine? You are what I call a customer. You are the target that gankers look for. In fact I do know of one twitch channel that hunts AFK miners. For the s— & giggles.
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It usually leads to words of encouragement from CCP to take your attacking of rookies elsewhere, in the first instance. I have reported a few rookie griefers, and all have moved their activities to more appropriate venues.
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Ah…my ’ you have spotted a logical fallacy’ neuron needed a bit of exercise…
The “false consequence” fallacy, also known as the “appeal to consequences” or “scare tactic,” is a logical fallacy where the validity of a premise is argued based on the (often negative) consequences that would follow if the premise were true, rather than on whether the premise is actually true or false. Essentially, it tries to make a claim seem untrue or unacceptable by pointing to undesirable outcomes, regardless of whether those outcomes are logically connected to the claim.
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