Bel Amar

Bel Amar

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12 years ago @ Rifter Drifter - Faction Frigate Lottery · 2 replies · +1 points

Ticket 42 please

12 years ago @ http://eveoganda.blogs... - THUNDERDOME! · 0 replies · +1 points

Whilst we're obviously not going to agree, I think that the death of honour bound 1v1 is just something we need to live with if the only alternative is to create an instance.

About the only instance that I'd personally be happy with is a "virtual duel" via Incarna or something...

13 years ago @ http://eveoganda.blogs... - THUNDERDOME! · 3 replies · +1 points

I'm inclined to agree with Ekon. This effectively creates an instance, and (at least when in space) there are no other instances in the game. If you're in space, you should always be have other players screw up your plans.

I'd much prefer a dedicated deadspace that the players are auto fleet warped to (well maybe different entrances to the same deadspace). A deadspace signature reduction would give them time to finish their fight, but allow for someone who is really dedicated to interfere. Heck, stick turrets, NPCs etc in there that shoot and web anyone who isn't in the fight, but don't isolate the combatants from the rest of the universe

13 years ago @ A Mule In EvE - Thinking cap continued · 0 replies · +1 points

Think of a scene from Africa. There are a few lions and THOUSANDS of zebras, wildebeast etc.

The prey animals are out there, in the open, in a dangerous place, because it's worth the risk. They get food and water, and the chance of any one prey beast being picked off is small due to the numbers of them.

Low sec needs to move in a direction like that. /Decrease/ the chance of catching any given carebear coming through lowsec and you will see MORE carebears. You'll lose a higher proportion of them, but the extra numbers will make up for that.

Your suggestion moves in exactly the opposite direction. It minimises the difference between low sec and null sec, without increasing the rewards of low sec, simply ensuring that you get less carebears come through.

13 years ago @ Eve News24 - Iskbank.com Customers ... · 1 reply · +5 points

I've got a mate who just re-joined the game after playing for a couple of months years ago. He was planning on buyingsome isk once he found out it was legal to do so within the game. I pointed him to a GTC seller and unfortunately the site was down when he went there. So he put "buy isk for eve" in to google to find another site. He ended up with a non legit isk seller, but he didn't know enough to differentiate between what was legal and what wasn't.

He reversed the payment to the dodgy site once I told him it was dodgy, but the only reason he now knows the difference is because I was able to explain it, not because it was obvious...

13 years ago @ http://eveoganda.blogs... - Dinner Time at the Jav... · 1 reply · +1 points

The only issue I have with the in character element is that confusion between conversation and conservation. If she's actually spending real IC time studying this stuff, then there is no way she'd get the two confused :)

14 years ago @ Helicity Boson, Khanid... - How do I hate thee? Le... · 0 replies · +1 points

Alright, fair call :)

14 years ago @ Helicity Boson, Khanid... - How do I hate thee? Le... · 2 replies · +1 points

My subscription caught a comment you've apparently since deleted. One in where you called me an idiot, apparently for sharing your dislike of the reference to Hitler and Stalin. But now that entire thread of the conversation is gone. We managed to have an earlier discussion where we disagreed, but managed to keep it civil. Why the insult when I was actually agreeing with you, and why then silently delete that entire branch of conversation?

14 years ago @ Helicity Boson, Khanid... - How do I hate thee? Le... · 1 reply · +1 points

Oh, I get that. I am the researching industrialist type myself who came late to PvP in my EVE career. For me, risk from other players was one of the biggest drawcards of EVE. Other people are the best in game AI you'll ever find. So, that being said, I never for a moment thought you were talking about me or others like me. I fully understand you're talking about those players who choose to partake in a risk free, effortless gameplay style, and seem to resent others who bring risk in to their game.

But none of that changes my point in the slightest. Those people might mis-understand EVE, and in enough numbers, they would potentially risk one of the key points of differentiation that EVE has from other MMO's. But none of that changes my point in the slightest. Risk free gameplay is a perfectly valid game choice, even if they've chosen the wrong game. Heck, I love playing The Sims as well as EVE, and it doesn't get much more risk free than that. The mere fact that I enjoy both types of gameplay in the right context is a good example of the point I'm trying to make. The lazy, mentally deficient sort of behavior and mentality that you see in EVE says nothing at all about the person. It may be an insight in to what they are, or it may be a facet of them not understanding EVE itself, and how misguided such a style is in this context, or it may be a manifestation of things going on outside of EVE that says nothing at all about the player themself and their mentality. Yet your rant targets every single player partaking in this risk free, lazy approach to gaming, and more than that, aims at the people themselves, rather than their activity.

And saying that you hate someone for their playstyle because of the mentality it represents is equally as misguided as that person saying they hate gankers because they're all sociopaths. You're just as accurate when you call them on their mentality as they are when they call you a sociopath etc

Tell the carebears to fuck off out of your game and stop spreading their softy softly approach to a game dependant on risk all you like. But don't tell the players themselves that you fucking hate them, when the window you're looking out of to judge them is so narrow

14 years ago @ Helicity Boson, Khanid... - How do I hate thee? Le... · 3 replies · +1 points

Sorry, I have trouble with the bit where you claim that you're not angry, but that you FUCKING HATE some people. I'll grant the possibility that anger is the wrong word, but when you then describe someones mentality as utterly revolting, there is some sort of negative emotion swirling around there.

The problem is that you are simply projecting your preferred playstyle on to the game and getting frustrated that others don't share the same approach. It may or may not relate to their personality outside of EVE or it may instead relate to the amount of time they get to play etc. Any one of a thousand reasons someone might carebear about in EVE. And though you may hate the carebear playstyle, to tar every (most) person(s) taking part in that playstyle with the same brush, and with such strong emotion directed at the people themselves, comes across as slightly hypocritical to my eye.

You claim to be upset at the insults thrown your way regarding morality etc, but then you turn around and claim them all to be dysfunctional idiots for wanting to tread softly in a computer game. Even if they've picked the wrong game to indulge in that particular gaming style, the choice itself doesn't give you an eye in to their psyche any more than you being a ganker gives insight in to your personality. If you want to claim that their insults thrown at you are invalid and made out of ignorance, then you can't turn around and throw insults back at them based on the self same shaky reasoning...