It's like Burn Jita/Hulkageddon. Given how much lead time I get in hearing about it, I have plenty of time to plan ahead - avoid Jita, cease mining operations, and, in this case, warm up the ol' "block" and "block and report for spam" commands. Too easy.

First, get an editor. The amount of typos and grammatical errors made reading this almost physically painful.

Second, speaking as a former real world intelligence analyst, I don't care if your "asset" (I think you've watched a few too many spy movies, bro) did reveal himself to your targets: You NEVER, EVER reveal sources and methods. I don't care if everyone does it; this is basic operational security stuff, you moron.

You'll be back. Perhaps not as Mynxee, but you'll be back. They always come back, eventually.

In all seriousness, good luck, fair weather, and never forget that risk is your business - wait, that's Star Trek. Ah, hell, it works.

Side note first: If you're playing Oblivion or Morrowind (or Fallout 3 or New Vegas, for that matter) on PC and you're not at least looking for mods, you're doing it wrong. Do a Google search for something like "top essential mods" and add the title of the game, and you should get a good start.

Primarily, I wanted to mention that I agree - I love sandbox games like Oblivion, or Fallout, or EVE, for that matter - and I think it's essential that any game include at least some level of ability for you to choose your methods. I understand that not all games will have that - a game like Splinter Cell or Alpha Protocol would only offer you the sneak/shoot/charm methods to finish a mission (or as I call them, the Bond/Bourne/Bauer Trilogy) whereas Skyrim will basically give you an objective and let you decide how/when/if you complete it. Sadly, game makers feel a lot of the time as if they need to cater to the lowest common denominator and make a game that any 10/14/18 year old can pick up and not get horribly lost - one of the major complaints I hear about EVE, especially from people who are used to theme park MMOs.

Different strokes, I suppose.

So they don't rule it out entirely - "no plans right now, but it's something we may kick around internally and bring up to the CSM again as we rework the idea to try and make it more acceptable to you." I don't think a lot of us would be really happy about it, but it would be a fair bit better, to me, than simply ignoring the figurative elephant in the room.

I'm not saying your're wrong. In fact, on a lot of levels I hope you're right! But the thing for me is, if things are being taken out of context, and we are all overreacting... why hasn't CCP said so yet? It wouldn't take long for someone to get onto Twitter and say "Hey guys, we're still working out how to address everybody's concerns, but short answer: no plans for non-vanity microtransactions." Or post that in the forums. The fact that they have not for some reason worries a lot of folks, including me.

Hopefully, we're all panicking about nothing, and come Monday things will get settled down and we'll all go back to the pew-pew.

It's game over, man, game over!

Huh? *Googles*

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Okay, mea culpa. I could have sworn you were on CSM5. Mea maxima culpa.

A certain former CSM delegate stripped the security from the file and reposted it for those having problems. http://www.mediafire.com/?n8ohtufd1mtamgb

Post updated with an actual link to DaiTengu's post. Protip: Don't blog while half-asleep.