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Frying Doom
#1241 - 2013-10-28 21:06:55 UTC
Good to see CCP is doing everything in its power to protect Somer Blink.

Shame the game has no meaning now, after all why earn isk ingame when you can just buy it for bugger all.

As I said before if 1 in 10 members of TEST had bought GTC from Somer and donated it to TEST, the goons would have lost.

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!
Anya Klibor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1242 - 2013-10-29 05:03:14 UTC
Shai 'Hulud wrote:
wrote:
Until this matter is resolved internally and a statement is prepared and released, the decision has been made to disallow any new transactions of this nature.

It is against the rules to quote petition replies, so that's not what this quote is. I had my friend read it to me, and I am quoting him. He doesn't play EVE so he will be left nameless.

See what I did there?


The cut of your jib.

I likes it.

Leadership is something you learn. Maybe one day, you'll learn that.
Dark Magni
The Church of Awesome
#1243 - 2013-10-29 08:57:03 UTC
But Somer transactions are allowed?
TheGunslinger42
All Web Investigations
#1244 - 2013-10-29 10:55:18 UTC
Somer is RMT and CCP explicitly allow it.

End of story.

End of subscription.
Anomaly One
Doomheim
#1245 - 2013-10-29 12:11:51 UTC
ye it's over..
Dark Magni
The Church of Awesome
#1246 - 2013-10-29 12:35:10 UTC
Somer is RMTing with special privileges, has been given hundreds of billions in rare ships, and receives constant CCP endorsement.

And CCP is taking the 'totally ignore all the complaints' approach.

lol.
Frying Doom
#1247 - 2013-10-29 12:43:19 UTC
Dark Magni wrote:
Somer is RMTing with special privileges, has been given hundreds of billions in rare ships, and receives constant CCP endorsement.

And CCP is taking the 'totally ignore all the complaints' approach.

lol.

Well at least they are consistent.Lol

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!
Ace Boogi
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#1248 - 2013-10-29 15:04:38 UTC
Dark Magni wrote:
Somer is RMTing with special privileges, has been given hundreds of billions in rare ships, and receives constant CCP endorsement.

And CCP is taking the 'totally ignore all the complaints' approach.

lol.

don't forget that they got the first set of the new monocles before anyone else did, back when they were worth like 20b each.

everyone keeps forgetting that part lol.
Slappy Andven
Gildinous Vangaurd
The Initiative.
#1249 - 2013-10-29 15:04:57 UTC
Eve is going to be a much better place when all of the whinging people do quit.

Here's a hint: Eve is like reality in one aspect. That being, that life isn't fair. People have advantages over other people. That's called life. Instead of throwing your rattler out of your crib and crying until CCP gives it back to you, why not just do exactly what everyone else has done? You want something? Work for it. Somer, I'm sure, started with nothing just as I did, and figured out a fair business model that worked. It worked so well, that there are nearly 64 pages of people whinging about it now.

Do you whinge like that when you PVP? Do you whinge like that when you get podded? No?

THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING SO NOW?


I started in this game with nothing. I have worked my way up over the last nearly 3 years, and I have an alliance that I run, a corp I head, capitals I make, and a nicely positive wallet. Quit bitching, and get back to work.

-- 

Slappy Andven

CEO Natural Born Killas
Ace Boogi
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#1250 - 2013-10-29 15:10:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Ace Boogi
Slappy Andven wrote:
Eve is going to be a much better place when all of the whinging people do quit.

Here's a hint: Eve is like reality in one aspect. That being, that life isn't fair. People have advantages over other people. That's called life. Instead of throwing your rattler out of your crib and crying until CCP gives it back to you, why not just do exactly what everyone else has done? You want something? Work for it. Somer, I'm sure, started with nothing just as I did, and figured out a fair business model that worked. It worked so well, that there are nearly 64 pages of people whinging about it now.

Do you whinge like that when you PVP? Do you whinge like that when you get podded? No?

THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING SO NOW?


I started in this game with nothing. I have worked my way up over the last nearly 3 years, and I have an alliance that I run, a corp I head, capitals I make, and a nicely positive wallet. Quit bitching, and get back to work.

doesn't bother you at all that while you did all that hard work, the devs just secretly spawned out the equiv. of 30 supercarrier hulls at the time to gift to one corp behind everyone else's back? Roll

doesn't bother you at all that while you would get banned at the slightest hint of RMT, that very same corp that got free ships was allowed to RMT for years, was endorsed by the devs, and had their competition locked out for doing the same exact thing? Roll
Shai 'Hulud
#1251 - 2013-10-29 15:30:13 UTC
Slappy Andven wrote:
Eve is going to be a much better place when all of the whinging people do quit.

Here's a hint: Eve is like reality in one aspect. That being, that life isn't fair. People have advantages over other people. That's called life. Instead of throwing your rattler out of your crib and crying until CCP gives it back to you, why not just do exactly what everyone else has done? You want something? Work for it. Somer, I'm sure, started with nothing just as I did, and figured out a fair business model that worked. It worked so well, that there are nearly 64 pages of people whinging about it now.

Do you whinge like that when you PVP? Do you whinge like that when you get podded? No?

THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING SO NOW?


I started in this game with nothing. I have worked my way up over the last nearly 3 years, and I have an alliance that I run, a corp I head, capitals I make, and a nicely positive wallet. Quit bitching, and get back to work.

Everyone has their limits... their "lines in the sand." If you don't, you're just a sheep.

And if you don't stand up when such lines are crossed, you're worse: a coward.

The most useful slaves are those that believe themselves to be free
Frying Doom
#1252 - 2013-10-29 15:30:40 UTC
Slappy Andven wrote:
Eve is going to be a much better place when all of the whinging people do quit.

Go throw your Video card in your oven.

No why not whingers stopped your video card melting.
How about getting killed by gold ammo? no whingers stopped that too.
More has been achieved in this game by whinning and unsubbing than anything else.

So before you start complaining just remember, the only reason any of your capitals or your wallet are worth anything at all are those people that have whinned and unsubbed.

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!
Ace Boogi
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#1253 - 2013-10-29 15:33:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Ace Boogi
Frying Doom wrote:
Slappy Andven wrote:
Eve is going to be a much better place when all of the whinging people do quit.

Go throw your Video card in your oven.

No why not whingers stopped your video card melting.
How about getting killed by gold ammo? no whingers stopped that too.
More has been achieved in this game by whinning and unsubbing than anything else.

So before you start complaining just remember, the only reason any of your capitals or your wallet are worth anything at all are those people that have whinned and unsubbed.

he seems to be content slaving away to build a carrier at a time while the devs spawn entire supercapital fleets for others Lol

i'm tempted to put a nice wardecc or two on his corp. just for posting that stupid ****
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#1254 - 2013-10-29 15:34:41 UTC
Slappy Andven wrote:
Eve is going to be a much better place when all of the whinging people do quit.

Here's a hint: Eve is like reality in one aspect. That being, that life isn't fair. People have advantages over other people. That's called life. Instead of throwing your rattler out of your crib and crying until CCP gives it back to you, why not just do exactly what everyone else has done? You want something? Work for it. Somer, I'm sure, started with nothing just as I did, and figured out a fair business model that worked. It worked so well, that there are nearly 64 pages of people whinging about it now.

Do you whinge like that when you PVP? Do you whinge like that when you get podded? No?

THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING SO NOW?


I started in this game with nothing. I have worked my way up over the last nearly 3 years, and I have an alliance that I run, a corp I head, capitals I make, and a nicely positive wallet. Quit bitching, and get back to work.

Does this have an effect on me directly, given my non-alliance-type playstyle? Nope. Not a bit. ...but there is a type of player in EvE that serves as the foundation of everything that happens in this game. Like him or hate him, alliance heads like mittens drive the game. They really do. Regardless of how you play, it is the big corporations and alliances that drive the market, that move huge groups of players across the map, that consume vast quantities of finished products, and that destroy huge numbers of ships. It is they who are screwed if an opposing faction all of a sudden gets half a tril injected into their war chest. Imagine if TEST got an extra half tril when they were getting pounded in Fountain. Think it would have changed TEST's decisions? I bet it would. So why play that game? There's no point... because the strategy part is rendered almost moot.

If the alliance heads walked away, EvE would become almost all grind. The markets would collapse. People would stop building smack b/c there'd be no profit in it. EvE would just be boring.

What I've noticed in life is that people who say "life isn't fair" tend to be people who make a lot of excuses and fail to achieve their goals. If people could do what SOMER did, that would be fine. ATM you get banned for trying.

Signatures should be used responsibly...
Gallente Citizen 827473904528
Doomheim
#1255 - 2013-10-29 15:57:34 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:
ShadowandLight wrote:
Here's the million dollar question

what else has CCP secretly given out to pilots, communities, player run organizations?



Secretly...nothing. And what we've given out as rewards or prizes doesn't generally come in big bundles which is one of the key reasons eyebrows were raised over this incident.

It's worth keeping in mind that Internal Affairs has complete oversight over every single item spawned or transferred on our server and monitors all staff account activity closely as is their purpose.



Icluding the days when CCP were giving T2 blueprints out....

All this has happened before and will happen again. Slightly different scenario but CCP seem to have a thing for favouring certain groups.





TheGunslinger42
All Web Investigations
#1256 - 2013-10-29 16:06:48 UTC  |  Edited by: TheGunslinger42
Slappy Andven wrote:
Eve is going to be a much better place when all of the whinging people do quit.

Here's a hint: Eve is like reality in one aspect. That being, that life isn't fair. People have advantages over other people. That's called life. Instead of throwing your rattler out of your crib and crying until CCP gives it back to you, why not just do exactly what everyone else has done? You want something? Work for it. Somer, I'm sure, started with nothing just as I did, and figured out a fair business model that worked. It worked so well, that there are nearly 64 pages of people whinging about it now.

Do you whinge like that when you PVP? Do you whinge like that when you get podded? No?

THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING SO NOW?


I started in this game with nothing. I have worked my way up over the last nearly 3 years, and I have an alliance that I run, a corp I head, capitals I make, and a nicely positive wallet. Quit bitching, and get back to work.


EVE is not like reality: EVE is manufactured and designed by people, ostensibly to provide a level playing field for people to mess about with.

Comparing what has happened here to losing a ship in a fight is moronic. It's not comparable at all.

If the people trying to keep this insane crap in check all leave, then EVE wont be better. It'll be a shithole in which the developers give their pets (who the rules you must abide by don't quite apply to) extravagant gifts - while you must work for it all. You can't compete with them, because there's no way for you to.

I cannot comprehend how you defend this - you *work* for your goals, building capitals etc, while a competing organisation is not only gifted 30 super capital hulls, but also officially endorsed and promoted.
Slappy Andven
Gildinous Vangaurd
The Initiative.
#1257 - 2013-10-29 16:52:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Slappy Andven
Gogela wrote:
What I've noticed in life is that people who say "life isn't fair" tend to be people who make a lot of excuses and fail to achieve their goals. If people could do what SOMER did, that would be fine. ATM you get banned for trying.


Rather just the opposite. I say life isn't fair because that's a reality. Sometimes the journey of a thousand miles DOES end very very badly. The point however, is not to give up. Yes, the game is rigged, fixed, unfair. Whatever. It's the journey that matters, not the destination. Much like the World of Darkness (a game I have played for more than 10 years), the value is in the struggle - there is no "win" condition.

-- 

Slappy Andven

CEO Natural Born Killas
Slappy Andven
Gildinous Vangaurd
The Initiative.
#1258 - 2013-10-29 16:59:31 UTC
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
I cannot comprehend how you defend this - you *work* for your goals, building capitals etc, while a competing organisation is not only gifted 30 super capital hulls, but also officially endorsed and promoted.


It's not a defense, so much as it's a VERY different way of looking at it than I think most here do. Markets are self sorting. Yes, artificial controls can exist, but in general the market will take care of itself. The same is true here.

If people don't like what CCP does, they can (and I'll bet do) play other games. These are substitute goods for Eve itself. If the perception is that Eve has lost some utility in terms of value, then other goods become more attractive. People then opt to go play Star Wars, World of Tanks, WoW, or whatever. Good on them. I hope they enjoy it. I like Eve, and this tempest in a tea pot is nothing more than a distraction. Don't like it? Vote with your feet.

And remember: When a player leaves Eve for WoW, the IQ of both communities goes up. ;-)

-- 

Slappy Andven

CEO Natural Born Killas
Slappy Andven
Gildinous Vangaurd
The Initiative.
#1259 - 2013-10-29 17:01:06 UTC
Gallente Citizen 827473904528 wrote:
All this has happened before and will happen again. Slightly different scenario but CCP seem to have a thing for favouring certain groups.


I have no problem at all with this. Life is like that. Compete and enjoy the game, or don't. I do. My opinion simply differs from that of the majority of you, even the moron who wants to wardec me for daring to have an opinion.

-- 

Slappy Andven

CEO Natural Born Killas
Ace Boogi
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#1260 - 2013-10-29 17:06:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Ace Boogi
Slappy Andven wrote:
Gallente Citizen 827473904528 wrote:
All this has happened before and will happen again. Slightly different scenario but CCP seem to have a thing for favouring certain groups.


I have no problem at all with this. Life is like that. Compete and enjoy the game, or don't. I do. My opinion simply differs from that of the majority of you, even the moron who wants to wardec me for daring to have an opinion.

nah, i changed my mind, a war would be too simple.

but you might wanna watch your recruitment for the next couple months, because now i may be putting a couple of awoxer toons in for when the time is just right Twisted