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MeestaPenni
Mercantile and Stuff
#41 - 2011-11-22 14:22:34 UTC
Cailais wrote:

I'd kick him off the mule and steal it.


Hah!!

This is EvE. You'd kill the mule and haul the spilt turnips on your own back.

I am not Prencleeve Grothsmore.
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#42 - 2011-11-22 14:38:02 UTC
Holy hell I'm not reading that.

Twitter: @EVEAndski

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths."    - Abrazzar
flank steak
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#43 - 2011-11-22 14:41:23 UTC
This was beautiful.

Can I pay you to do my homework?
Hauling Hal
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#44 - 2011-11-22 14:48:04 UTC
Embrace My Hate wrote:

Eve loosely boils down to 2 viewpoints (and I stress loosely).

Theme park players vs sandbox players. At the moment the large influx of (apparent) theme park players have a hard time grasping the sandbox world. This wouldn't be a problem except that some theme park players would rather change EVE to meet their play style instead of adjusting to EVE's existing play style. The change in play style pisses off current sandbox type players (especially long time veterans) who enjoy the sandbox as it is and would rather see the aforementioned theme park player GTFO and find a new game than try to change this one.

Not sure if that makes any sense but i wanted to rant about it anyways.




Err, the care bears are playing in the sand box. The bitter vets are crying that the care bears are playing within their bit of the sand box and not their bit. Ergo, the bitter vets don't understand the concept of sand box.

Not sure who your post was accusing of being on the arcade version, but it isn't the care bears.
Kinis Deren
Mosquito Squadron
D0GS OF WAR
#45 - 2011-11-22 14:56:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Kinis Deren
I liked the OP for entertainment value and look forward to further New Eden socio-economic revelations, musings and discussions. Smile

A good riposte to the OP's POV would be a "liberated" Null Sec dweller delivering a well reasoned account of why those that inhabit Hi Sec are, in fact, the enslaved ones.
Lexmana
#46 - 2011-11-22 15:07:30 UTC
Hauling Hal wrote:

Err, the care bears are playing in the sand box. The bitter vets are crying that the care bears are playing within their bit of the sand box and not their bit. Ergo, the bitter vets don't understand the concept of sand box.

Not sure who your post was accusing of being on the arcade version, but it isn't the care bears.


I see more evidence of the contrary tbh. Care bears are complaining all the time about ganking in highsec that disrupts their flow of ISK. I have even seen demands for a complete detachment of hig-hsec from the sandbox including removal of non-consensual combat and a pvp-flagging system. Care bears in general seems to not give a **** about the sandbox.
Carceret Rinah
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2011-11-22 15:13:49 UTC
Mostly agree. You make EVE sound more like Mount & Blade than I'd care to accept, though.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#48 - 2011-11-22 15:23:15 UTC
MeestaPenni wrote:
I love it when the [sarcasm] literati [/sarcasm] ignore the content of the post and instead grade the text like some tight-ass English teacher.

Welcome to the real world. Poorly written, formatted, and presented text gets ignored, no matter how salient the point may be.
Lucien Visteen
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#49 - 2011-11-22 15:26:07 UTC
Carceret Rinah wrote:
Mostly agree. You make EVE sound more like Mount & Blade than I'd care to accept, though.


Or the feudal era of japan.

Currently it is the Mittani that is the shogun. I wonder though who of the great clans will step up after he passes to the wind.

He have an heir, I think, but will the heir have the same powerful presence that Mittani have now I wonder.

Interresting times are ahead.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Tear Miner
Doomheim
#50 - 2011-11-22 15:29:16 UTC
Notice how JitaJane has quietly receded into the background...

Successful troll is successful. I wish I could get multiple replies about using line breaks more effectively lol.
Tear Miner
Doomheim
#51 - 2011-11-22 15:30:51 UTC
Lucien Visteen wrote:
Carceret Rinah wrote:
Mostly agree. You make EVE sound more like Mount & Blade than I'd care to accept, though.


Or the feudal era of japan.

Currently it is the Mittani that is the shogun. I wonder though who of the great clans will step up after he passes to the wind.

He have an heir, I think, but will the heir have the same powerful presence that Mittani have now I wonder.

Interresting times are ahead.


Only if the heir be as untouched and virginal as The Mittani be.
Lucien Visteen
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#52 - 2011-11-22 15:30:53 UTC
Tear Miner wrote:
Notice how JitaJane has quietly receded into the background...

Successful troll is successful. I wish I could get multiple replies about using line breaks more effectively lol.


Only peasants and bandits worry about linebreaks and not content Big smile

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Russell Casey
Doomheim
#53 - 2011-11-22 15:32:17 UTC
Jooce McNasty wrote:
You got a TLDR version? The lack of line breaks makes it hard to read without going cross eye'd


TLDR the blow-****-up crowd are self-damaging morons and the real pvpers play them like violins.
Iosue
League of Gentlemen
The Initiative.
#54 - 2011-11-22 15:34:55 UTC
need TLDR; my time is too valuable to waste on poorly constructed ramblings. if you have a point, you should make it in the first sentence, so i know whether it's worth the effort.

better luck next time.
MeestaPenni
Mercantile and Stuff
#55 - 2011-11-22 15:46:39 UTC
Tippia wrote:
MeestaPenni wrote:
I love it when the [sarcasm] literati [/sarcasm] ignore the content of the post and instead grade the text like some tight-ass English teacher.

Welcome to the real world. Poorly written, formatted, and presented text gets ignored, no matter how salient the point may be.


Yeah,

e e cummings

Ernest Hemingway

Hunter S. Thompson

William Burroughs

screw them.....illiterate oafs the lot of them.

Welcome to the real world.

I am not Prencleeve Grothsmore.
Komen
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2011-11-22 16:01:38 UTC
Greetings, fellow bourgeoisie. I too enjoy the comforts of wealth while not bowing in subservience to any lord. Nor am I a petty bandit, scrabbling on the fringes and hoping for a fat, poorly guarded caravan. Rather I travel the deep reaches; here thar be dragons. The water's just fine, the isk flows in rivers, for one to stoop, and drink their fill.

Also we sort of kill a lot of people. The loot is more of a side benefit than the reason.

Anyways! I agree with your post; people should play Eve as they wish, and not as another would have them do. For some, landholding and gallant jolly fleet brawls. For others, the cunning glint in the eye, the target unawares, falling into the chokepoint trap unbeknownst. Still others enjoy a bit of a road-trip, with drive-bys. And for the vast majority, the quiet, serene solitude of cleansing pirates, and those many, many asteroids, from the civilized territory of the empires.

I do not begrudge you your hi-seccery. Indeed, I welcome you to it.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#57 - 2011-11-22 16:05:34 UTC
MeestaPenni wrote:
Yeah, e e cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs…

screw them.....illiterate oafs the lot of them.
Welcome to the real world.
The difference is, they used all the things the OP didn't.


Well, that, and they had some kind of interesting observation or point to make.
MeestaPenni
Mercantile and Stuff
#58 - 2011-11-22 16:15:28 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Poorly written, formatted, and presented text gets ignored, no matter how salient the point may be.


Tippia wrote:
Well, that, and they had some kind of interesting observation or point to make.


It's one or the other honeybuns. Can't be both.

I am not Prencleeve Grothsmore.
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#59 - 2011-11-22 17:06:59 UTC
Interesting.

For my characters that live in null sec I pay taxes, which are used to keep the facilities updated, competetive, and in good repair for my convenience. Most enlightened societies call that being a citizen, not a peasant.

For my characters that live in high sec I also pay fee's and taxes, whenever I use station facilities, just as you do. Of course, I am also excelling in my industrial and marketing pursuits, undermining your profits for my personal gain, and amusing myself with your assumptions that the economy is dependant on people that have no null sec affiliations. Here too I would be considered a citizen.

In both environments I am creating, destroying, profiting, and enjoying more of what this game offers than yourself, while you strive to convince everyone around you that they should be satisfied with the same simple goals you have set for yourself.

I won't call you a peasant, because despite your mind set you are still a citizen and therefore entitled to your opinion... no matter how limited in scope and comprehension it may be.

(Hey, being pendantic and condescending is kind of fun. You guys should follow his example and try it too.)

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#60 - 2011-11-22 17:09:44 UTC
MeestaPenni wrote:
It's one or the other honeybuns. Can't be both.
Have you heard the term “required but not sufficient”?
Also, have you heard of the word “and”?