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Unc was a long time friend. Taught me everything i know of PvP And of EvE. Met alot of great guys n gals flying with uncas, had some great times and some not so (want to forget) times.

Will be relaying the link to this thread and proposal to the eXceed forums, it has already been linked to another group that know of this great fella "The Older Gamers" . Most of us knew him, flew with him and will greatly miss the sod.

Billy1 CEO eXceed Inc. [IXC]

"Endless ammo makes Un'cas a happy lad"

Hi,

My condolences go out to Un'cas' friends and family - it is a great thing to see that someone has touched the lives of so many in a meaningful way. As to your request, I am afraid that there are no new systems being created with the Inferno expansion, but perhaps you could anchor a POS named for him in his favourite system?

Sorry, but for us I believe that would be a too ethereal and temporary homage. Un'cas game mates are looking for a more permanent ingame tribute in deference to the person John, and his character Un'cas.

If a system can not be named after him, renaming an already existing Gallente Militia FDU Level V or Level IV security mission agent would indeed be a great deal for all his ingame friends, perhaps even for his RL family and friends.

And THAT would be adding an amazing bright grain to the sandbox.

Even making the RL news for its breakthough homage.

I was never involved with FW til Inferno, but I agree. a POS is not enough. Renaming an agent after him would be... touching to say the least

Couldn't a graveyard be created for players of Eve that have passed away in real life? Have it like a readable beacon that could somehow be added to? Eve promotes the creation of corporations and alliances and behind everyone of them is a real person, having them pass away is a rarity in itself but one to be remembered none the less.

It won't be ethereal or temporary if your feelings are not ethereal and temporary. If you can't be arsed to supply the POS, or to defend it when it's inevitably attacked, then it will go away, just as your sympathies did; if you do maintain it, and do rouse up "Un'cas Memorial Defense Ops" from time-to-time, replete with telling new people what a great guy he was and telling them what you'll do to them if they ignore your call to arms, then it will be a far better memorial than a system name.

After all, if your sympathies die, and you never speak of him a month from now, then nobody's going to even know that the system/agent/whatever is named after someone, nor offer more than a grunt were they told that it was named after somebody they don't know or have any reason to care about.

The main problem with the POS suggestion is that a POS is A) ugly, and B) utilitarian. Starbases are tools, they're to be used for something. If you did put a POS up, you would faced with the question of, should you anchor anything useful around it? Would it be better or worse of a memorial for being 'useless' vs. 'irreverent'?

I suggest you suggest that CCP add anchorable memorials to the game. Something that must be maintained; as giant secure containers disappear if unattended for 30 days, your memorial should disappear after a time if nobody visits it and clicks on it to view the memorial text. You should put real thought into this -- for instance, you might not like it if someone puts up an insulting counter-memorial next to yours.

EDIT: adding this after I found a nicer way to say it:



This isn't an addition to the sandbox; you're not asking CCP to give you the tools to honor your own; what you're asking for is for CCP to honor one of your own. Rather than something you put up, keep up, and maintain over time, you want CCP to do all of that - to not accidentally re-rename this agent later on, or remove the agent without some accommodation, etc. You want CCP to maybe create an EVE graveyard, police it, answer GM requests when someone tries to memorialize a major alliance leader while he's still alive, etc.

But CCP doesn't care about Un'cas. You do. To hammer it home, here's a story: a CEO is personally invited to a funeral of a member of his staff. The CEO springs into action, and so immediately tasks his secretary with 1) digging up information about the staff member, 2) writing a short speech (in the CEO's voice) expressing his condolences and making references to the information obtained in step 1, 3) attending the funeral, apologizing for the CEO's inabliity to attend, and delivering the speech written in step 2 as if it were from the CEO, and finally 4) confirming with a local country club that the CEO's dinner reservation (concurrent with the funeral) has been accepted.

It would be better for you to anchor a secure container, or start your own annual event, or start an annual event with EVE Radio's help, or every once in a while welp an entire fleet with every ship named after this guy. It would be better for you do anything but what that CEO has done.

And I think that's still too harsh, so that's all I'll say about this.

How about changing a planet name in a system he frequented? I mean most have system name+ I-XXII, but some systems have named planets so why not change a generic name to a proper on one world?
It would both honor some one and help to flesh out the universe....I mean here in the Sol system we have named all the planets in the roman tradition not Sol-I through Sol-VIII. Also were naming other planets in the milky way after other and more personal things. We have also set human president with using a genaric name("star name"+"roman numaral") then changing it later once its confermed to be there.

just my 2 isk

Now this. This is an idea. +1

yeah name an agent after him!

Good idea.