Bel Amar
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12 years ago @ Rifter Drifter - Faction Frigate Lottery · 2 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ http://eveoganda.blogs... - THUNDERDOME! · 0 replies · +1 points
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'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
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
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
14 years ago @ Helicity Boson, Khanid... - How do I hate thee? Le... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Helicity Boson, Khanid... - How do I hate thee? Le... · 2 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Helicity Boson, Khanid... - How do I hate thee? Le... · 1 reply · +1 points
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
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...