With the recent completion of the 3rd installment of the Hulkageddon last month, @CyberinEVE, author of Hands Off, My Loots!, asks: ”Griefing is a very big part of EVE.  Ninja Salvaging, Suicide Ganking, Trolling, and Scamming are all a very large part of the game.  What do you think about all these things?  You can talk about one, or all…but just let us know your overall opinion on Griefing, and any recommendations you may have to change it if you think it’s needed.”

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For a capsuleer, it is quite a shame to fly from system to system in New Eden and see celestials swarming with industrialists. So many of them, together, huddled, sucking off the rocks floating in space. What a shame, being forced to work instead of enjoy pursuits of pleasure and fun.

I think most would agree that the fact these poor souls have to work so hard creates a very negative view of New Eden. What we need to do is to determine a more useful existence for the average industrialist.

My proposal is to not stop with those actively sucking roids from space but to all industrial types; the planetary interactors who never leave stations, the manufacturers who let others get dirty and bring their raw materials to them, and finally the worst the lot, the “researchers”.

After a month of being new industrialist capsuleers we need to provide for them so they are not inclined to loiter in the asteroid belts and blot d-scanners with their massive ships. We need to rescue them from their disease.

Here is how it breaks down, you take a set number of industrialists, say 50,000. 5,000 of the original lot say they contribute to New Eden and without them things would come to a halt, yet only 500 of that lot actually do the work. Another 4,000 from this list is removed because they will get themselves blown up. What do we do with the remainder? They are the least productive and the most vocal.

We know that a young industrialist does no good at all and hardly have the skills to provide for anything.

This is my proposal.

I have it on good authority by an Amarrian friend of mind that an industrialist that is allowed to grow for a year is a very juicy lump of space debris. Often, their holds are full and fatty, ready for consuming.

I would then like to offer my proposal to Jita Speakers Corner, for the CSM to help pass into law; 20,000 industrialists shall actually be reserved for doing the work in New Eden.  Another 20,000 shall be retained and allowed to ‘get fat’.

The key is a full cargo hold.

Since they are losing to pirates and griefers, this should be of no consequence to the industrialists.

The loots will be available all year-round but most plentiful in the fall return to school and the start of summer vacation, before the family might take its holiday.

Those who seek to help rear the young industrialists shall do so with compensation, a cost of 2,000,000 isk per month spent nursing the young.

Should you want to be more frugal and not completely devour the young industrialist, asking them to eject from their ship so it can be later sold, is a very viable solution.

The advantages to all this are simple, a. less crowded asteroid belts, b. a new market is created, c. increased loot averages, d. less noobs to bother everyone in local, e. increased “quality” piracy, and f. it will create a more caring and productive industrialist class.

This proposal, if it works, could be applied to many other facets of New Eden, such ast he swarms of mission runners seen in some systems.

I am not so arrogant to assume that another could not come up with a better idea, I say whether one does have then we all shall listen. It is our duty!

I stand to gain nothing from this, as I have no industrialists under my employ, yet we all will gain in better quality cargo containers.

This month’s topic comes to us from Mynxee of Life in Low Sec. She asks “ Alts and Metagaming: Is playing two accounts who are logged in at the same
time and work together (hauler/miner, explorer/combat associate, trade alts in trade hubs) a form of metagaming that is “ruining the game”?”

This month’s EVE Blog Banter comes to us from Manasi of A Mule in EvE. Manasi asks “How do we, EVE bloggers, adapt to changes as they are thrust upon us (speed changes, no more ghost training, all the Dev blogs, etc), or as our lives make playing the game different (more time, less time)?”

Venom’s Thoughts:

Like many other’s, I am too new to have fully realized a “nerf” or change.  Although, as I’ve said in several comments to other’s posts, changes are what I like.  To fully anticipate what is going to happen, is not a challenge, we often can get stuck in ruts, usually because we spent three months training for a specific setup.  I like change, it’s what I manage on a personal level, it’s what makes companies grow to great heights.  

Yet having said that, I’ve never lost my bread ‘n butter stealth bomber function or my ability to use a MWD.  I might become irritated if I had but my nature is to go with the flow, use change to become better.  In the case of EVE, I use change as as a way to stay fresh in the game.  Which reminds me of other ways I stay fresh in gaming, often after beating an XBOX or PS3 game, I’ll go back and add some more challenge.  Like completing Rainbow 6, on the insane level, with just handguns.  So yea, change I dig.

But because change ruins so many people’s days, let’s remember what Buddha might say: “Change is inevitable, is it really change that is causing you such suffering?”.  Now, ponder that for a while, then come back and I’ll make you sit in lotus position for like 8 hours, only then will we have another conversation, which will go like this:

You, “Hello Master Venom, I have sat for hours pondering change”

Venom, “Yes, and what have you figured out”

You, “Well that my legs hurt, my mind won’t stop jumping around from the grocery list to how much I really want to play EVE vs. sit in meditation”

Venom: “What did you gather from this then?”

You, “Well, my mind jumps around a lot, and it’s not very kind while doing so, oh and my legs stopped hurting after a while, mostly due to falling asleep”

Venom, “Ahh see, all things pass, even the pain in your leg, that change was inevitable, yet for the future, feel free to move your legs, they do not need to fall sleep to gain enlightenment.  What’s more important than the fact that change is inevitable, is that you found the root of your suffering…..your mind”

You, “Damnit!!!!” 

-Venom

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