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So CCP, how about giving us a hard number

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Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#1 - 2013-10-02 17:42:41 UTC
How about one of your devs run a SQL command and give us a snapshot of what the High Sec Custom Offices overall taxes were for the month of Sept, so the community understands the size of the pie being discussed.

I imagine you have already run that command several times already, given you have been fooling with the tax rates and you would not mess with them without knowing the hard numbers behind it.

So why can't you simply publicize the numbers?
Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2013-10-02 17:43:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Benny Ohu
ask 'em on twitter?

e: they actually talk about stats on twitter, or they used to? is that still a thing ccp does?
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#3 - 2013-10-02 17:44:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Miilla
Because their ruse will be ruffled.

CCP stopped giving us meaningful numbers, now we are like mushrooms, covered in manure and left to grow in the dark.
Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#4 - 2013-10-02 17:46:07 UTC
Benny Ohu wrote:
ask 'em on twitter?

e: they actually talk about stats on twitter, or they used to? is that still a thing ccp does?


Because while a small percent of the player bases fuse the forums, and even fewer read Twitter.
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#5 - 2013-10-02 17:50:06 UTC
Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
How about one of your devs run a SQL command and give us a snapshot of what the High Sec Custom Offices overall taxes were for the month of Sept, so the community understands the size of the pie being discussed.

I imagine you have already run that command several times already, given you have been fooling with the tax rates and you would not mess with them without knowing the hard numbers behind it.

So why can't you simply publicize the numbers?

Why would they?

More importantly, why *should* they?
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-10-02 18:12:49 UTC
Miilla wrote:
Because their ruse will be ruffled.

CCP stopped giving us meaningful numbers, now we are like mushrooms, covered in manure and left to grow in the dark.



I was left in the dark covered in manure once.

That also marked the last time I said to a girl: *sure, Ill try everything once*.

BoBwins Law: As a discussion/war between two large nullsec entities grows longer, the probability of one comparing the other to BoB aproaches near certainty.
Mr Pragmatic
#7 - 2013-10-02 18:16:52 UTC
I can assure you of one thing. It is over 9000.

Super cali hella yolo swaga dopeness.  -Yoloswaggins, in the fellowship of the bling.
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-10-02 18:18:39 UTC
Mr Pragmatic wrote:
I can assure you of one thing. It is over 9000.


Well duh.

Dodixie > Hek
Malcolm Shinhwa
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-10-02 18:18:54 UTC
Benny Ohu wrote:
ask 'em on twitter?

e: they actually talk about stats on twitter, or they used to? is that still a thing ccp does?


Yup they do. I've even seen CCP Fozzie say something like, "hey, too big an answer for twitter, here I made a forum post about it instead."

[i]"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental[/i]."
Vaju Enki
Secular Wisdom
#10 - 2013-10-02 18:19:58 UTC
Themeparker Carebears, this kind of species knows alot about SQL commands, but unfortunately they know nothing about Sandbox MMO-RPG's.

The Tears Must Flow
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#11 - 2013-10-02 18:20:36 UTC
Benny Ohu wrote:
ask 'em on twitter?

e: they actually talk about stats on twitter, or they used to? is that still a thing ccp does?


Not since Diagoras left. Been gone for almost 2 years now tbh.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Laserak
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2013-10-02 19:05:19 UTC
Came for a Dinsdale Piranha post

Left disappointed when RMT/Goons were not mentioned Cry
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#13 - 2013-10-02 19:29:35 UTC
Laserak wrote:
Came for a Dinsdale Piranha post

Left disappointed when RMT/Goons were not mentioned Cry


I dunno, maybe it's me, but when I read that post I kept getting the feeling that he was barely restraining himself from typing something snide about CCP, null sec, goons or null sec (not a typo there, Dinsdale hates null sec twho times).

I just imagine a "not" conspiracy/hate filled post was hard for him to crank out. Somehow, his sig ("Most people viewed Orwell's writings as a warning. The harper regime and the goons treat them as a guidebook.") tells me everything i need to know about the guy behind the keyboard.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#14 - 2013-10-02 19:30:11 UTC
uh huhuhuhuhhhhhuhuh....


hard....



uh huhuhuhuhuhh uh huhuhuhuh.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings
#15 - 2013-10-02 19:50:14 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
Laserak wrote:
Came for a Dinsdale Piranha post

Left disappointed when RMT/Goons were not mentioned Cry


I dunno, maybe it's me, but when I read that post I kept getting the feeling that he was barely restraining himself from typing something snide about CCP, null sec, goons or null sec (not a typo there, Dinsdale hates null sec twho times).

I just imagine a "not" conspiracy/hate filled post was hard for him to crank out. Somehow, his sig ("Most people viewed Orwell's writings as a warning. The harper regime and the goons treat them as a guidebook.") tells me everything i need to know about the guy behind the keyboard.


The conspiracy post is pending; either they give him numbers for him to fit his conspiracy to, or the conspiracy becomes not giving him the numbers.
Kalishka Askulf
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2013-10-02 19:54:52 UTC
And they owe you this demand because...?

Betty White knows it
Chitsa Jason
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#17 - 2013-10-02 20:21:21 UTC
I would never give those numbers out tbh. It is open game. Go figure it out its not so hard.

Burn the land and boil the sea You can't take the sky from me
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#18 - 2013-10-02 20:37:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Plastic Psycho
Domanique Altares wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:
Laserak wrote:
Came for a Dinsdale Piranha post

Left disappointed when RMT/Goons were not mentioned Cry


I dunno, maybe it's me, but when I read that post I kept getting the feeling that he was barely restraining himself from typing something snide about CCP, null sec, goons or null sec (not a typo there, Dinsdale hates null sec twho times).

I just imagine a "not" conspiracy/hate filled post was hard for him to crank out. Somehow, his sig ("Most people viewed Orwell's writings as a warning. The harper regime and the goons treat them as a guidebook.") tells me everything i need to know about the guy behind the keyboard.


The conspiracy post is pending; either they give him numbers for him to fit his conspiracy to, or the conspiracy becomes not giving him the numbers.

Sort of a "'Heads' I win, 'tails' you lose" proposition. Which is why I'd never give those numbers out, myself. If I'm going to be the butt of a conspiracy theory, I'd be damned if I'd give the whacko any information. Let 'em work for it. Can't see as CCP is going to be any more accomodating than I would be.
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#19 - 2013-10-02 20:38:42 UTC
1 is a hard number. It's also got sharp pointy edges.


Anyway, Eve needs some Sharknado's.
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#20 - 2013-10-02 20:42:52 UTC
Miilla wrote:
1 is a hard number. It's also got sharp pointy edges.


Anyway, Eve needs some Sharknado's.

Pi, OTOH, is a kinda fuzzy number. Sorta fades off in the distance, whereever you get tired of calculating.
Pie, on the other other hand, is not a number at all. Nor has it sharp pointy edges.

I have been threatened with being 'stabbed in teh face' with Pie, but never with Pi. I wonder why that is?
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