Excuse me if this reads a little bit rushed, but I had gotten the blog banter topic mixed up with last month’s! Please, continue reading.

Welcome to the nineth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Check out the other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

Last month Ga’len asked us which game mechanic we would most like to see added to EVE.  This month Keith “Mandrill” Nielson at I Am Keith Nielson proposes to reverse the question and ask what may be a controversial question: “What game mechanic would you most like to see removed completely from EVE and why? This can get quite heated so let’s keep it civil eh?.”

I can list an endless amount of things that are wrong with EVE, and I can also list an endless amount of things that can be removed from New Eden, but I figure I should give you my best one.

No spaceships.

Wait, before you press back, think, about, it.

Keep thinking.

Yea, that is a great idea now right?

If you still do not agree, think, some, more.

Okay, now that I have you all thinking on this idea, let me extrapolate.

Do you ever feel geeky when you try to explain to your co-workers or friends what you do in your spare time? If EVE could be without its share of Ravens, Megathrons, Rifters, or Harbingers, we would be spared from calling our past time “internet spaceships”, and instead, we can deem ourselves worthy of the title “space explorer”.

Instead of so called “pew pew’ing with your penii of Thoraxes” and sounding like a wee little boy in front of your women, you can say you are “exploring the infintly vast magnitude of the universe”.  Then she will surely think she has brought home the brave and sophisticated man she met at the bar.

If these two already awesome reasons do not have you hook, line, and sinker, I will keep going.

After working in the office for a long 10 hour overtime day, is it necessary to keep plugging away at the spreadsheet, straining the eyes looking at the market tab, or getting a heart attack after being ganked by a 20 man fleet?  Would it not be easier to just sit back, relax, and look at the magnificent views that are to offer? (Normally I would add a lot of photographs here, but I am out of town; actually out of the country. Where I am, I can not reveal, but I will say the internet is reserved only for ISK farmers.)

EVE would be a much simpler game for everyone if I could say if our pods, stations, and user interfaces be removed all together.  All the game needs is a cool autopilot and take us through the systems for our viewing pleasure.

In Case You Missed It

In conclusion, CCP, if you are reading this, please remove everything in EVE and set us on a journey of a lifetime! Our eyes thank you!

Notes

By the way Specter, I want that damn keychain! Yours is good, but it is no match for the amount of eff you I have in my blog.  Feel free to deposit 1 billion ISK into my account for the keychain, after doing so, then maybe I will think about sending it to you. Good day sir!

Other Banters

• Diary of a Space Jockey, Blog Banter: Be Gone!
• EVE Newb, (EVE) Remove You
• Miner With Fangs, Blog Banter – It’s the Scotch
• The Eden Explorer, Blog Banter: The Map! The Map!
• The Wandering Druid of Tranquility, “Beacons, Beacons, Beacons, Beacons, Beacons, Mushroom, Mushroom!!!”
• Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah, Kill the Rats
• Mercspector @ EVE, Scotty
• EVE’s Weekend Warrior, EVE Blog Banter #9
• A Merry Life and a Short One, Eve Blog Banter #9: Why Won’t You Die?
• Into the Unknown With Gun and Camera, Blog Banter – The Hokey Cokey
• The Flightless Geek, EVE Blog Banter #9: Remove a Game Mechanic
• Sweet Little Bad Girl, Blog Banter 9: Who is Nibbling at My House?
• One Man and His Spaceship, Blog Banter 9: What Could You do Without?
• Life in Low Sec, EVE Blog Banter #9: Stop Tarnishing My Halo
• Cle Demaari: Citizen, Blog Banter #9: Training for All My Men!
• A Mule in EVE, He Who Giveth, Also Taketh Away?
• Dense Veldspar, Blog Banter 9
• Morphisat’s Blog, Blog Banter #9 – Randomness be Gone !
• Facepalm’s Blog, EVE Blog Banter #9: What a New Pilot Could do Without
• Memoires of New Eden, You’re Fired
• Kyle Langdon’s Journeys in EVE, EVE Blog Banter #9 Titans? What’s a Titan?
• Achernar, The Gates! The Gates are Down!
• Speed Fairy, EVE Blog Banter #9: Down with Downtime!
• I am Keith Neilson, EVE Blog Banter #9 – F**K Da Police
• Ripe Lacunae, The UI… Where do I Begin… (Eve Blog Banter #9)
• Clown Punchers, EVE Blogs: What Game Mechanic Would You Get Rid of?
• Estel Arador Corp Services, You’ve Got Mail
• Epic Slant, Let Mom and Pop Play: EVE Blog Banter #9
• Deaf Plasma’s EVE Musings, Blog Banter #9 – Removal of Anchoring Delay of POS modules
• Podded Once Again, Blog Banter #9 – Do We Really Need to go AFK?
• Postcards from EVE, 2009.07.02.00.29.06
• Harbinger Zero, Blog Banter #9 – War Declarations & Sec Status
• Warp Scrammed, Blog Banter 9 – Never Too Fast
• Ecaf Ersa (EVE Mag), Can a Tractor Tractor a Can?
• Thoughts from an Accidental Minmatar Revolutionary, EVE Blog Banter #9 – Aggression timers, WTs and Stargates
• Mike Azariah, I Don’t Put Much Stock in it…
• Rettic’s Log, Blog Banter: Overview Overload
• A Sebiestor Scholar, [OOC] EVE Blog Banter #9: Slaves
• Diary of a Pod Pilot, [OOC] EVE blog banter #9: Because of Falcon
• Roc’s Ramblings, Blog Banter #9 – Taking Things Slow
• The Gaming-Griefer, EVE Sucks, But I Love It: The Memoir of a Masochist
• Letrange’s EVE Blog, Blog Banter #9: Bye Bye Learning Skills
• Lyietfinvar, Remove That Monopoly
• Sceadugenga, Blog Banter #9
• Industrialist with Teeth, EVE Blog Banter #9