Daf Ook
Emergent Order
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Posted - 2012.12.02 12:04:00 -
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I just wanted to pipe up real quick to mention that I had let this account lapse for about a year. When I started reading www.minerbumping.com a few months ago I thought it was so well-done and hilarious that I wanted to participate, but my two main accounts live in a deep wormhole and rarely get out to hisec. So I reactivated this account simply to train up to a Stabber Fleet Issue and practice my hand at bumping. For every few people who unsub because having their barges bumped is so emotionally distressing that they simply can't bear to play the game anymore, there will be a few people who resub or make new accounts because they heard about something like minerbumping.com, something that could never happen in any other game.
Other examples (which have already been mentioned a few times in this thread) are Hulkageddon, Ice Interdictions, OTEC, GHSC, the Eve Bank scandal, Burn Jita, Jita riots, SOMER Blink, Red Frog Freight, etc. These are the things that blow gamers' minds, that make them want to come explore this galaxy with us. To stop just playing some copy of a game on some shard with a bunch of random strangers, and to actually exist in a virtual reality, where every action can have effects on others. This is the niche CCP has successfully carved out, and it is what has make it one of the most long-lasting and legendary MMOs of all time.
And come on guys!! There aren't that many people who like to spend hours and hours every day pretending to fly internet spaceships around. We all love cool space games, and computers and MMOs and we're probably all nerdy guys... who else are we going to play internet spaceships with?? If we were in high school we would all be in the super dorky RPG and SciFi/Fantasy clubs together. We've all found the coolest video game ever made, and we are all playing it together. We're not trying to be mean to miners, we just want to PLAY!!!! :) Please please play back with us!
The New Order folks, and I'm sure James 315 himself, would be absolutely DELIGHTED if the miners actually came up with some organized, effective resistance. I would be impressed if all the miners in a New Order belt simply all switched to AB Skiffs, and laughed as the Agents swooshed back and forth missing the bump. Even better would be organized suicide ganking attempts on the Agents. Or hiring some merc corp to suicide gank us. One interesting idea I heard was organizing an anti-New Order group who would specifically only bump miners who had paid for a New Order mining permit (thus rendering our "protection" worthless). Or ANYTHING. Poor Anslo tried with his Proveldtariat site, but his problem was that there seems to be just no way to motivate these miners to try to organize or do anything creative at all. And while the silly "Code" is tongue-in-cheek, the core of it is that we really truly do want to show people how much cooler the game they are playing actually can be. I spent 6 months mining in hisec when I first started playing, and I guarantee I wish something like the New Order had come along then and forced me to see what I was missing.
Oh, and to you folks saying that the entire Eve economy is going to collapse because some miners quit is ludicrous. You people have no idea of the amount of minerals that pass just thru Jita every day. And even if so many miners actually stopped mining so as to push mineral prices up, those higher prices will entice some new (less sensitive) people to start mining for the extra profits, and the increased supply will push prices back down. That's how markets and prices work.
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