EVE General Discussion

Gambling is also for entertainment :D If not that then for what?
The podcast had advertisment (for SOMER Blink, hehe), that means the listeners were the product.
If you want to take part in a Tournament you also need to have an active account.

Do ISK doublers (the scammers) give out billions of ISK for ingame events?

I had no problem with the issue of the IWScorps since they conferred the recipients with no in game advantage (gold ammo style). I feel that the ISK value arguement is weak, since the value is based upon unfounded speculation on how rare those ships will remain.

I would urge CCP to continue to reward individual players, or organizations, as they see fit and with the appropriate oversight. I would suggest that any community reward is published to curtail any malicious suggestions of secrecy.

Thanks for the reponse, although not entirely sure why you bothered thanking the CSM, if their role had any value surely they would have been consulted beforehand.


Just an additional question that has come out of this, apologies if this is off-topic but it seems that any thread with the word Somer in it should be kept to one thread at the moment.

Are Somers GTC selling activities acceptable with regard to the EULA?

I.e. Could I, provided I set up a website:

A) Sell a GTC + 100m ISK for $5 profit

B) Sell a GTC + 100m ISK value of lottery tokens for $5 profit

C) Sell a GTC + 10bn ISK for $200 profit

D) Sell a GTC + 10bn ISK value of lottery tokens for $200 profit

I'm taking a dinner break. Going home for pizza and then I'll check in again! Thanks for the responses so far.

That is what I seriously don't get.

The ship is not better in any other way, it's just like a golden monocle thats locked in a station somewhere.
It does not give you any ingame benefit, even if they decide to undock it, no?

if you have pineapple as a topping, you're a terrible person.

I personally don't care about this whole Somer Blink issue, I think it has been overblown, but I do have reservations about spawning in-game items as rewards.

If CCP really wants to spawn in-game items as rewards, then the items must be non-transferable, and there needs to be transparency about the award. Not just for auditing purposes, but because as an EVE player I want to know who is doing what for the EVE community. I'd love to see a site showing all the IWS people with a brief description of what the award was for! I'm amazed that so many community heroes may not be getting any recognition beyond the reward.

I also dislike limited editions of anything, example: tournament ships, Quafe fanfest shirts, etc.

What I do approve of, and think is incredibly cool, are things like the Jita & Amarr monuments with names forever emblazoned on them, even after the events are long forgotten. I was disappointed to see those removed after the Incarna riots. I could imagine a CONCORD system set aside for just such a NCO museum.

"as long as it doesn't affect my corner of the sandbox" is a bad justification.
either the rewards should affect the sandbox, or they shouldn't.

nobody massively cared that they got scorpions, the fact that CCP seem to be showering blink with benevolence and half of which was done in secret is what made eyelids bat. mostly the combination, individually i doubt either would have stirred up much interest either.

I honestly feel this is a ridicilous decision.

It's really sad to see that cool things CCP does are now impossible due to a jealous, whining and selfish community that can't accept another player receiving special recognition from CCP and the rewards associated with that.

If anything CCP should increase its contribution to people, websites and initiatives that offer a certain (unique) service to the community, to further incentivize these.

These giveaways do not negatively impact me personally, nor do I feel that they negatively impact the EVE universe. I actually feel that the people that have received something from CCP so far have more than deserved it, and have, in most cases, enriched my experience in the game through their community contributions.

The only critique that may be deserved here is that there could be some more transparancy on the matter. An example to make it more transparant could be the following; a publication in the EVE newsletter detailing ''player abc'' has received a special reward from CCP for his/her contribution to the game, with details of what this reward is, and what contribution was deserving of such a reward (e.g. special event organized in the game).

Anyway I would hope that CCP reconsiders its stance on this subject and resumes its reward program in the near future.

and spaceships can be purchased with the isk furries will pay for the monocles. as i said, it either affects the sandbox, or it doesn't.
that's basically why it's still an issue with the scorpions even though they're crap and refine to 1 trit. you can sell them and fund an entire fleet of ships.

a whole fleet of ships certainly affects the sandbox. an extra fleet could be the tipping point for an otherwise evenly matched fight.

but whatever, we're straying from the point here.