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Petition for system name change for Vile Rat

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Iosue
League of Gentlemen
The Initiative.
#81 - 2012-09-12 20:15:50 UTC
m0jo wrote:

No. Just no. What Rashmika Clavain said. Playing EVE for me is to escape reality, just as I assume it is for everyone else. So a constant reminder of real life would just plain suck. If you really want to make an impact on his EVE career then just post here or on another thread and let go. Its a part of life to accept death.


i dunno, i don't really see it as denying death, just acknowledging that EVE is what it is because of the actions of its players, much like the real world. to me, looking at a map and seeing systems named after great EVE pilots would add much depth to this game. learning about who they were and what they did would create a level of depth that no fiction RP story could emulate. just my 2 isk.
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#82 - 2012-09-12 20:16:43 UTC
I feel your pain guys, but doing this will cause a ton of problems. It's not like people are going to remember him less if a system is not named after him. Even a statue will create problems. We have capability to change station names and more importantly the ability to donate real funds to help his wife and children.

What would be more fitting is if CCP allowed us to PLEX for the donation fund that is being setup. I don't know the exact details, but I'm sure something can be worked out. An ongoing way to PLEX for anyone that has departed us would also be nice. That would eliminate favoritism and any other kind of backlash.

It is times like these that I realize we do have an amazing community. Don't create wedges between us.
Jimmy Gunsmythe
Sebiestor Tribe
#83 - 2012-09-12 20:19:22 UTC
Mittani, please do this...

The Vile Rat Annual Memorial Free For All Event...let people sign up and pay a nominal fee to participate in one (or all, if they wish!) of the four ship classes, being frigate, cruiser, battlecruiser, and battleship. Hold the event in the system where Rat currently resides, and give all participants a one day pass to get to that system. The rules would be simple...only one makes it out alive in each ship class. Shake the heavens themselves to let him know that we will not forget a man such as him.

While this goes on in game, you could hold s real world event as well, golf tournament, barbeque, whatever he liked to do. I know I didn't know him, but I'd participate in such an event to keep his memory alive, and to honor a man that served his country selflessly for so long.

o7

John Hancock
Arec Bardwin
#84 - 2012-09-12 20:24:59 UTC
First of all; a tragic event, in a world filled with equally tragic events. But this is a game. I don't want to be reminded of rl religious hate and terrorism when I log in to EVE.

If goons want to make an in-game remembrance of one of their dead comrades let them give his toon a spanking medal, a glorious title or rename all their stations in his memory. Even rename all their ships in his memory for the rest of the game's existence.

Goons wanting special care taken for the passing of one of their own isn't really all that fitting; goons haven't exactly been overly sympathetic with other players rl strife and tragedy in the past.
Jim Era
#85 - 2012-09-12 20:27:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Jim Era
*snip*

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Iosue
League of Gentlemen
The Initiative.
#86 - 2012-09-12 20:36:54 UTC
Arec Bardwin wrote:
Goons wanting special care taken for the passing of one of their own isn't really all that fitting; goons haven't exactly been overly sympathetic with other players rl strife and tragedy in the past.


i am not now, nor have i ever been a goon; i just think this would good for the game. and i certainly don't think it should be reserved for goons. this may be just a game for some, but others pour their lives into it, and it all make this game what it is. EVE wouldn't be the same without the effort and toil many have put into it over the years. IMO, to have a little something to remember those by wouldn't lessen it in any way; on the contrary, it would make it more meaningful.
stoicfaux
#87 - 2012-09-12 20:38:03 UTC
Bizzaro Stormy MurphDog wrote:
Best idea in this thread was the deadspace pocket next to the EVE gate that would operate as a sort of IRL graveyard for EVE players who passed on.

It's poetic and wouldn't affect gameplay in any real way. The EVE gate is the most tangible "connection" between the EVE universe and our own - the point where our universe got severed from the game universe. I like the thought of memorializing anyone who played EVE by giving them a virtual resting place just on the far side of the EVE gate - as if, in death, a small part of them passed on, and made it into the EVE universe itself.


Here is the Features and Idea thread for the Eve Gate Memorial Graveyard. Please +1 the request if you support it.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#88 - 2012-09-12 20:47:24 UTC
Max Butched wrote:
his main being in a Erebus, a titan-monument sitting wherever goons want it to be would be pretty fit


Yeah good idea (spoken with a touch of sarcasm). You know goons will want it on Jita undock.
Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#89 - 2012-09-12 20:47:32 UTC
Arec Bardwin wrote:
First of all; a tragic event, in a world filled with equally tragic events. But this is a game. I don't want to be reminded of rl religious hate and terrorism when I log in to EVE.

If goons want to make an in-game remembrance of one of their dead comrades let them give his toon a spanking medal, a glorious title or rename all their stations in his memory. Even rename all their ships in his memory for the rest of the game's existence.

Goons wanting special care taken for the passing of one of their own isn't really all that fitting; goons haven't exactly been overly sympathetic with other players rl strife and tragedy in the past.

Why are you making this about Goonswarm? There are plenty of people (myself included) that dislike and despise Goonswarm for what they are in EVE...this has nothing to do with that. This has to do with the passing of a man who did great things for EVE regardless of the alliance he was involved with. The request made by the OP in this thread has evolved at this point to being more than just a request for a monument of one man but a monument to all of EVE pod pilots that have passed.

Bounties for all! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2279821#post2279821
FDIC Agent
Doomheim
#90 - 2012-09-12 20:56:31 UTC
Why is it that goons go to extreme measures to mock the death of other players and even getting on stage demanding action be taken to cause someone to kill themselves... but when one of their own dies, it is serious business??

How about you guys treat all death with respect and don't harrass those grieving.
Shirley Serious
Gutter Press
#91 - 2012-09-12 20:59:00 UTC
Verone wrote:
Players who've died out of game have never been awarded CCP endorsed monuments to keep arguments over favouritism out of the game.


what about the agent Jeremy Tacs ? I thought they were named after a player that died ?


Monuments have a problem with people vandalising or defacing them, to provoke other people.
A monument to Sean Smith / Vile Rat would become a thing for some people to vandalise, to provoke Goonswarm.

I didn't know the man, but he was a person that cared a lot about EVE and the community, as evidenced by being on the CSM, and for all that to be reduced to a thing that petty people vandalise in order to antagonise Sean's friends, I'm not comfortable with that.

Just the facts.
Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#92 - 2012-09-12 21:02:28 UTC
FDIC Agent wrote:
Why is it that goons go to extreme measures to mock the death of other players and even getting on stage demanding action be taken to cause someone to kill themselves... but when one of their own dies, it is serious business??

How about you guys treat all death with respect and don't harrass those grieving.

Again...this has nothing to do with "The Mittani's" fiasco at FanFest. Why even bring that into this? Besides...that issue has long since been resolved. He recieved his punishment and life goes on. He misspoke and this is about a valuable member of the EVE community and the CSM for several years who actually passed away.

Perspective people!

Bounties for all! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2279821#post2279821
Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#93 - 2012-09-12 21:04:55 UTC
I feel bad for Sean Smith and his family, but I could care less about Vile Rat.
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#94 - 2012-09-12 21:07:10 UTC
Inxentas Ultramar wrote:
How about player-owned monuments?


I support this.

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Ginger Barbarella
#95 - 2012-09-12 21:29:55 UTC
Nothing is stopping those who want to from dropping a GSC someplace visible, tagging it, and venturing back once a month to refresh it as a sign of remembrance.

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Moostang
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#96 - 2012-09-12 21:43:26 UTC
Signed.


CCP - Please do this for our fallen hero!! He has had a massive influence on this game, this sandbox, this life, that we know as Eve-Online.
Muul Udonii
THORN Syndicate
Northern Coalition.
#97 - 2012-09-12 22:13:03 UTC
Vile Rat isn't dead. And if he paid his sub by credit card the account will be active for a while yet.

There is just nobody left to log into it :(
Heimdallofasgard
Ministry of Furious Retribution
Fraternity.
#98 - 2012-09-12 23:25:35 UTC
In-Game Monument for Not just Vile rat... but for all of those who are no longer with us. but by all means... Vile Rat has been the catalyst.
Cyrek Ohaya
Blazing Sun Group
#99 - 2012-09-12 23:42:22 UTC
Respawnable coffin with loot, go.
Sinead Arzi
The Motley Crew Reborn
#100 - 2012-09-12 23:45:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Sinead Arzi
perhaps if anyone has a Vile Rat Corpse, and any corpse of other eve players that have since passed away give them to a CCP DEV who could put it in a non destructable Space Grave yard in one of the High Sec systems near Jita



OR when CCP makes new missions have an NPC character named after any eve player that has since passed away so that they can live forever like an eve capsuleer does. A fitting tribute for their contributions as eve online customers.