Previously, on MinerBumping... Agent Salah ad-Din al-Jawahiri gathered valuable feedback from miners during his listening tour. But after he destroyed an unlicensed Russian miner, the whole tour was put into jeopardy: The miner claimed to be a CCP employee!
Gharik Kashada isn't the first miner who used his alleged employment with CCP as a bargaining chip. In such cases, a New Order Agent must use his finely honed instincts to determine whether the miner is lying.
The good news is, it's easy to tell when a miner is lying. Truthful miners carry permits. They don't steal from the New Order.
Caught in a lie, Gharik's fate rested in Salah's hands. Agent Rabe Raptor assisted in the interrogation. Sometimes Agents work in pairs. It's like "good cop, bad cop", except that all our Agents are always good.
Gharik refused to be lectured about his fail-fit mining barge. He retreated from the convo. The miner ceded territory and our Agents held the field; they were victorious. Gharik was petitioned for his impersonation of CCP personnel.
And so Salah continued his journey throughout highsec. He discovered the carebears were in various stages of development. Miners make progress at different speeds, but they'll all wind up at the same destination.
Salah was gratified to see that when he entered local, even the non-compliants acknowledged the need to prove that they weren't AFK. The mere presence of an Agent in local is enough to keep some rebels at their keyboards.
Nevertheless, some pockets of resistance remain. Gamma Dranic said, "You may have numbers but the rest of the world is starting to unite against your horrible cause." I'm not sure if he was talking about the New Order or Islam, or if he sees a distinction between the two things. He was a Code violator regardless.
With the passage of time, miners began to trust Salah a bit more. Lena Mendez confessed to playing another game while mining, and she promptly self-deported.
Many tongues are spoken in highsec, but the Code is the universal language. Miners from everywhere in the world recognize it now.
After ganking AFK miners, Salah solicited feedback via EVEmail. He received responses such as this one from Nox Nini. Not every miner treated the survey with the seriousness it deserved.
Ultimately, the listening tour proved fruitful. Salah was able to get in touch with all sorts of miners. Some, like Krysti, helped prove the New Order theory that highsec risk/reward is skewed and encourages nullsec players to make their money here. The Krysti character has been playing EVE for eight and a half years. She was even a well known member of the Mercenary Coalition alliance during its heyday. Now Krysti is nothing but a highsec miner.
Salah took note, and wrote down his conclusions: What the carebears of highsec need most is the continued enforcement of the Code. Mission accomplished!
Every time I feel blue, I remember Nox Nini's mail and tell myself: "But Salah, didn't you manage to suck dicks of the size of an universe? That's an achievement not many can boast!"
ReplyDeleteAnd my day always becomes a little brighter.
Anon @ 12:52PM
DeleteShow us on the spaceship doll where the New Order touched you, and the healing process can begin. You'll get through this, I promise!
Happy holidays, agent Salah - and thank you for keeping EVE a better place! Even if I can not be with you in game, reading about your tour of high-sec has given me a extra dose of holiday spirit!
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see these degenerate miners swear and cuss up a storm, I have to wonder why they even play Eve... If it's really that tense that any interruption sends them into such a state, it can't really be all that enjoyable for them...
ReplyDeleteHonestly, just shrug it off, spend some isk on a permit, get a proc or skiff and resume your business, following the Code... It's not like it's hard or anything, just pay attention to your screen :)
One question, I am deeply disturbed by the amount of IRL threats or those racist comments. Whether someone agrees to the CODE or not I feel like the kind of message that Gamma Dranic sent should be reported. Bad enough they dont understand that even Hisec isnt safe, even worse there answer. Eve would definitly be a better place without them. Do you report them?
ReplyDeleteBack in my day when I was a EVE player, I reported any and all RL threats (and I got my share of really creepy RL death threats).
DeleteThe sad part is - CCP does nothing about it. The worst they will get is a slap on the wrist and maybe a suspension for a day or two, if that. Here is hoping that in 2015 the "real life harassment" policy will be updated to something along the lines of "CCP has a zero tolerance policy for real life harassment, and those found engaging in it face a perma ban. Unless, of course, the player in question is a angry miner who just lost his internet spaceship."
:)
I think Anon@10:23 may have missed the moral of this story.
ReplyDeleteCode. Have no moral when it counts so what's the problem?
ReplyDeleteAnd since when are we not allowed to rp?
@ Anon 10:23 AM
ReplyDeleteShow me on this spaceship doll where the catalyst touched you. Then, the healing process can begin.
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