Hulk Smash!

// July 3rd, 2010 // Fluff

I responded to Massively’s post on the upcoming Hulkageddon event in Eve Online. Where player corps give our prizes for ganking miners around the game. My reply as follows.

I don’t really feel passionate about this one way or another, which is ironic since I’m a miner. Eve is a sandbox game and players do what they want, fair enough. I do think this highlights some very poor game design elements on CCPs part however and conceptually it’s never good when players shut down an aspect of the game by bullying other players.

The biggest problem is really that this just highlights what a joke mining is in Eve as a profession. I make way more ISK doing other things than mining, I get most of my rare ore from reprocessing salvage and things like can flipping seems to be at an all time high. Mining ships are among the least interesting, least versatile and least useful in the whole game.

Wouldn’t it be more interesting and there be more combat options in the game that were designed for combat ships to be hanging out in space for length of time instead of shut up in stations? That’s not the design in Eve though as combat and all other high value ships are shut away and resources horded inside of stations while the least defensible ships are designed to be the only ones sitting out there in space.

Given the reality of the game then why not Hulkageddon? It’s not new news that CCP doesn’t give a fig about miners, why should the players?

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