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Worlds Within a World - The EVE Universe Monument

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#281 - 2014-02-06 07:33:38 UTC
Stitcher wrote:

So, I guess what I'm saying is that if you want the monument to be a permanent and unchanging tribute to all of the EVE players, then it should be a statue of a Megathron.


That already got remodelled, no? Better use a Dominix.

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#282 - 2014-02-06 07:42:58 UTC
Roux Michon wrote:


This guy is a CSM? ...wow.


Yep, and after that quote, he'll have my vote on the next election.

Can't even remember the last guy I voted for, I think he got kicked off CSM because he got drunk and talked **** in public. Lol

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Kasumi 'Goto
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#283 - 2014-02-06 07:58:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Kasumi 'Goto
This monument is just ridiculous!
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#284 - 2014-02-06 08:00:23 UTC
Chaotica Donma wrote:
Phoenix Jones wrote:
I don't know of many things that have had monuments erected in its name.

Warcraft? There's no Great Orc statue.


Well, actually, there is: http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/orc-statue-in-front-of-blizzard-hq-irvine-california.jpg

It sits outside Blizzard's HQ in California.


Yeah, but does it have all the names of the player characters in the game engraved on it?

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Seras Victoria Egivand
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#285 - 2014-02-06 08:07:09 UTC
Magica de Plex wrote:
Seras Victoria Egivand wrote:
Magica de Plex wrote:
Seras Victoria Egivand wrote:
SIrera Artrald wrote:
WOW! Just how selfish and uncultured can people get. . . CCP is choosing to support a local artist (who has done a fantastic job collaborating with the art department at CCP and who has a far more refined taste then the some of the people putting forth their sad ideas for an improvement) and in the process they are honoring the city and country in which all this was begun!

Yet here we get a thread of self centered and uncultured people complaining about the wasted man hours and money! You're right! I'm sure all those CCP employees are hard at work wasting development time erecting that monument withe their bare hands instead of working at their jobs improving this game.



Your missing the point between layoff's at ccp.. Them not focusing on fixing EvE No real content. And other issues We dont think right now was the greatest time to do this... While its cool and we feel honored they would do this.. We also feel that money could be better spent.

I feel the worst for the people that got laid off from ccp because they don't have the money... But they have the money for this?

Thats were were confused.


Who are those "we" you pretend to represent?

Speak for yourself, tyvm.


if it cost them between 5-10 million dollars to build.. Its taking away from eve.. With that much money u know how many developers and staff they could have kept and manned for the next year to 2 years to fix game mechanics to implement new features and so forth.. While its a great idea i don't think at this time it was a thing they should be doing.


Where do you get those numbers from? At least now you can write "I" when you mean yourself, which is progress I guess, but throwing those numbers around show once more you really are disconnected from reality. Arguments are best based on facts, or your view on facts, and not making stuff up as you go along.

Personally I think it's way cool. One day the servers will shut down, but that monument will stand.



Just so u know i was estimating low... eh it doesn't matter i never said it wasnt cool i just think the funds could be better served elseware.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#286 - 2014-02-06 08:14:17 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Jena Jamson wrote:
"This list of active, paying players will be captured on March 1st, 2014—no exceptions."

Does active, paying players, mean active players who sub with PLEXes won't be included?


You know what the answer is perfectly well.


I got one more question.

Do we need to be logged in when the names are captured (will they ever be free again?) or is it enough to have an active account?

I don't log in as often as I used to anymore.

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#287 - 2014-02-06 08:29:39 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD LackOfFaith
Hoshi Sorano wrote:
Some of the younger and/or more impressionable players may take this as some sort of signal that they have somehow done something worthwhile with their lives.

You and people like you* formed a community (willing or unwillingly) and made sure that that community lasted through the last decade. And I bet you so long as nothing unexpected happens (natural desasters etc.) it'll even last another 10 years.

What's not worthwhile about that?

*Well, maybe not you, but certain people certainly did.

{Snip. Redacted personal attacks. -- ISD LackOfFaith}

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#288 - 2014-02-06 08:37:55 UTC
Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
Gogela wrote:
Actually, now I have something to do IRL. I have to go to iceland, find my name, and PAINT FRICKIN' FLAMES AROUND IT!

Yar.

It's neat. The monument. It's a neat monument. Player built stargates would be more neat... but this is cool.


Yeah, how long before certain names are vandalized on the thing.
You KNOW it is going to happen.


Good god, where do you live?

If the people in your neighbourhood do that I want to make sure I'll never have to move there. Shocked

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#289 - 2014-02-06 08:55:22 UTC
Arwen Ariniel wrote:
CCP, you guys are awesome! Let the trolls whine, the negativists complain, ...
We built a world, and inspired millions for over a decade...

Thank you!

Oh, and give Chribba his own seperate placque on the monument.
He deserves it ;)


Someone said something that wasn't negative in GD... Worlds Collide. Shocked

Also [add statement of general agreement here].

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
mr ed thehouseofed
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#290 - 2014-02-06 08:59:15 UTC
some kids will have spray painted their tags on it by the end of the first week

i want a eve pinball machine...  confirming  CCP Cognac is best cognac
Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#291 - 2014-02-06 09:06:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Schmata Bastanold
Mike Azariah wrote:
My mother made a donation to the Trans Canada trail and my name is etched in marble, a few miles from my house. I take a bit of pride in that it will be there long after I a gone. In the same way I will like to know that my name will be on another island, far far from where I am.

I like it

m



Well, is your RL name Mike Azariah? Because this is what be etched on this monument and it has nothing to do with you being gone or not. Are you really proud to have your space name on a stone somewhere? Seriously?

Like your son will be there at some day with his children and they will go to the monument and your son will show your character's name to them and say:

"Look, this was your grandpa"

and your grandson will say:

"No it wasn't, grandpa's name was {insert your RL name here}".

And your son will explain to them that you were using name of Mike Azariah and you did something awesome under that name and that is why you ended up on monument.

And you grandson will ask:

"What did grandpa do?"

and you son will respond with pride in his voice and tears in his eyes:

"HE WAS PLAYING A VIDEO GAME".

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Esrevid Nekkeg
Justified and Ancient
#292 - 2014-02-06 09:24:03 UTC
I've seen a lot of people in this thread complain about the cost of this monument. Some even estimate it to be in the millions of dollars.....
So, because I am a curious man, I looked up the cost of the building materials. I took some rough measures and approximations. Costs are including tax and front door delivery for me as a private person in west Europe mainland.

  • Massive granite block, Black, 100 x 100 x 500 cm = € 12.000,-
  • Stainless steel rectangular tube, welded shut on both ends, 500 x 100 x 20 cm (5mm thick plate) € 1100,-
  • Polishing of steel tube € 650,-
  • Aluminium tube 100 x 100 x 500 cm (2mm thick plate) = € 2000,-
  • Black matting of aluminium tube = € 1200,-
  • Concrete 10m3 including steel reinforcement and pouring (0.5 metres underground as foundation included)= € 2100,-
  • Steel plate around concrete base 7m2 = € 350,-
  • Polishing of steel plate = € 200,-

Total = € 19.600,- in building materials. Again, this is an approximate figure

Of course this is also without the cost of making an actual statue out of it and without the inscribing of our character names.

Now please stop complaining that it is too expensive and that for the same amount of money problem X or Y in EvE could have been solved. In light of the figures above, it is a bit silly.....


In my personal opinion it is a beautiful statue and a grand gesture by CCP, regardless of cost. And I thank them for that!

Here I used to have a sig of our old Camper in space. Now it is disregarded as being the wrong format. Looking out the window I see one thing: Nothing wrong with the format of our Camper! Silly CCP......
Encephaliodes
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#293 - 2014-02-06 09:37:15 UTC
so it represents two worlds - the world of the artist and the world of eve- facing each other.

yet they are separated by a mirror and thus cannot 'see' each other, they see only themselves reflected.

private joke between the artist and himself?

I like the left structure. it looks eve, it looks caldari. the right one looks like a henry moore knockoff sponsored by the gallente.P

I would've used a curved mirror, half cylinder, placed behind the two structures. this would tie them together in the shared photons focused by the mirror, supplied by the outside, signifying how the life of both art and virtual worlds is fueled by (and dependent on) the outside world.
Sephira Galamore
Inner Beard Society
Kvitravn.
#294 - 2014-02-06 09:57:25 UTC
Schmata Bastanold wrote:
And you grandson will ask:

"What did grandpa do?"

and you son will respond with pride in his voice and tears in his eyes:

"HE WAS PLAYING A VIDEO GAME".

"He was part of a community, one of the first of its kind back when we only learned what virtual worlds mean. He and those you find here created the online community of New Eden, filled it with life and drama and joy, explored their morality and humanity, transcended national boundaries."
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#295 - 2014-02-06 10:09:26 UTC
Schmata Bastanold wrote:
Mike Azariah wrote:
My mother made a donation to the Trans Canada trail and my name is etched in marble, a few miles from my house. I take a bit of pride in that it will be there long after I a gone. In the same way I will like to know that my name will be on another island, far far from where I am.

I like it

m



Well, is your RL name Mike Azariah? Because this is what be etched on this monument and it has nothing to do with you being gone or not. Are you really proud to have your space name on a stone somewhere? Seriously?

Like your son will be there at some day with his children and they will go to the monument and your son will show your character's name to them and say:

"Look, this was your grandpa"

and your grandson will say:

"No it wasn't, grandpa's name was {insert your RL name here}".

And your son will explain to them that you were using name of Mike Azariah and you did something awesome under that name and that is why you ended up on monument.

And you grandson will ask:

"What did grandpa do?"

and you son will respond with pride in his voice and tears in his eyes:

"HE WAS PLAYING A VIDEO GAME".


Some people get more out of EVE than playing just another video game.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
FEARNAUGHT O'BREQ
Open University of Celestial Hardship
Art of War Alliance
#296 - 2014-02-06 10:17:23 UTC
I think this is pretty cool & it also adds to the list of reasons to visit Iceland.
Gonna do it ... one day. Smile
Mangala Solaris
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic
#297 - 2014-02-06 10:31:23 UTC
Debora Tsung wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Jena Jamson wrote:
"This list of active, paying players will be captured on March 1st, 2014—no exceptions."

Does active, paying players, mean active players who sub with PLEXes won't be included?


You know what the answer is perfectly well.


I got one more question.

Do we need to be logged in when the names are captured (will they ever be free again?) or is it enough to have an active account?

I don't log in as often as I used to anymore.



Just an active subscription to EVE.
Victor Andall
#298 - 2014-02-06 11:19:02 UTC
Yes, that would definitely cheapen your character name's cleverness.

I just undocked for the first time and someone challenged me to a duel. Wat do?

19.08.2014 - Dinsdale gets slammed by CCP Falcon. Never forget.
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#299 - 2014-02-06 11:36:07 UTC
Schmata Bastanold wrote:
Mike Azariah wrote:
My mother made a donation to the Trans Canada trail and my name is etched in marble, a few miles from my house. I take a bit of pride in that it will be there long after I a gone. In the same way I will like to know that my name will be on another island, far far from where I am.

I like it

m



Well, is your RL name Mike Azariah? Because this is what be etched on this monument and it has nothing to do with you being gone or not. Are you really proud to have your space name on a stone somewhere? Seriously?

Like your son will be there at some day with his children and they will go to the monument and your son will show your character's name to them and say:

"Look, this was your grandpa"

and your grandson will say:

"No it wasn't, grandpa's name was {insert your RL name here}".

And your son will explain to them that you were using name of Mike Azariah and you did something awesome under that name and that is why you ended up on monument.

And you grandson will ask:

"What did grandpa do?"

and you son will respond with pride in his voice and tears in his eyes:

"HE WAS PLAYING A VIDEO GAME".


In the future everyone will live in video games full time. Only losers and robots will be grinding real life.
Lord LazyGhost
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#300 - 2014-02-06 12:34:42 UTC
I Love it thinks its a awsome idea. think maybe sould not have a used a timer or even mentioned it.

just onvailed it at fanfest would have been a big suprize