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Accidentally Myname
Myname Replacement Brokerage LLC
#101 - 2014-06-01 22:13:24 UTC
Can I haz his stuff? Big smile
Little Dragon Khamez
Guardians of the Underworld
#102 - 2014-06-01 22:21:00 UTC
IIshira wrote:
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
Kaylin Drake wrote:
I've been reading his blog since I started playing over two years ago.. I will greatly miss him. I learned a lot from his writings and he always made me think. He certainly contributed to my continued interest in the game. I think losing his blog is a huge loss to the community to those of us who did read and enjoy what he had to say.

o7 Ripard Teg


You summarize the 200+ positive answers to his departing post. Without Jester's Trek, his enemies gain nothing and EVE as a whole losses.


I did enjoy some of his posts... It's a shame he got involved in the whole E1 thing. He took down E1 but was his CSM position and the Jester's Trek blog a good trade?


It was less about politicking and more of a personal crusade. I lost all respect for him during the whole erotica1 debacle.

Dumbing down of Eve Online will result in it's destruction...
Marsha Mallow
#103 - 2014-06-01 22:31:15 UTC
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
Well, I've been following him too and I feel that in the last year he's grown aware that EVE is in serious danger. He moved from being aware that something had to be done, to be enthusiastic about CCP having a plan, to doubting that CCP Seagull could make a change in the stagnating trend, and recently he's been struggling with the evidence that EVE has started decaying.

Eve has been decaying for a while, most notably in null. If Seagull caves to the highsec carping brigade there won't be anyone left heavily invested. This is the point critics keep missing. Nullsec has been dying a slow death for years.

Empire seems fine. The 40% raven grinders are all chirpy and flocking around demanding new content, ever more PVP immunity and really just an avalanche of the most pathetic whining ever seen in a PVP centric game. If you start a war between sandbox PVPers and themepark PVEers, fine. It's been going on since the game started. Utilising metagame tactics against a group more than able to fight back is probably a really bad idea though.

Dinsdale & co would happily gather round and cheer if CCP runs the game into the ground just to prove their point. I have a funny feeling CCP would build the bonfire themselves rather than cave in, just to prove theirs. That's a degree of integrity and resilience some will never fully understand or appreciate. And I bet it's very hard to sustain.

Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
And of course, he's been taking a lot of flak about the E1 scandal.

All he had to do to retain a shred of credibility in that fiasco was wait the 5 weeks until his term as CSM ended so he wasn't accused of exploiting it. I'll whip out my tiny violin and saw on it at some point (he is a likeable person) but not today.

Ripard Teg > For the morons in the room:

Sweets > U can dd my face any day
IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#104 - 2014-06-01 23:17:37 UTC
Marsha Mallow wrote:
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
Well, I've been following him too and I feel that in the last year he's grown aware that EVE is in serious danger. He moved from being aware that something had to be done, to be enthusiastic about CCP having a plan, to doubting that CCP Seagull could make a change in the stagnating trend, and recently he's been struggling with the evidence that EVE has started decaying.

Eve has been decaying for a while, most notably in null. If Seagull caves to the highsec carping brigade there won't be anyone left heavily invested. This is the point critics keep missing. Nullsec has been dying a slow death for years.

Empire seems fine. The 40% raven grinders are all chirpy and flocking around demanding new content, ever more PVP immunity and really just an avalanche of the most pathetic whining ever seen in a PVP centric game. If you start a war between sandbox PVPers and themepark PVEers, fine. It's been going on since the game started. Utilising metagame tactics against a group more than able to fight back is probably a really bad idea though.

Dinsdale & co would happily gather round and cheer if CCP runs the game into the ground just to prove their point. I have a funny feeling CCP would build the bonfire themselves rather than cave in, just to prove theirs. That's a degree of integrity and resilience some will never fully understand or appreciate. And I bet it's very hard to sustain.

Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
And of course, he's been taking a lot of flak about the E1 scandal.

All he had to do to retain a shred of credibility in that fiasco was wait the 5 weeks until his term as CSM ended so he wasn't accused of exploiting it. I'll whip out my tiny violin and saw on it at some point (he is a likeable person) but not today.


Why do you think Eve is dying or decaying?

The real question should be how did "Jester's blog and CSM is dead" topic change to "Eve is dying" ? I seriously hope Jester fans aren't suggesting that Jester is keeping Eve alive singlehandedly.


Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#105 - 2014-06-02 00:15:11 UTC
Marsha Mallow wrote:

Btw I need someone to become the 'Eve conscience' so I can report baddies to them for griefing. I'd like to nominate Ramona. Mainly because Ramonamobile sounds awesome and I can keep the sig. I'm sure you'd do an excellent job, please consider it. (I might pay. In Fedos.)

The hero we deserve... or summat


I would be honoured by such a thing lol

Ill certainly take it under consideration

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Marsha Mallow
#106 - 2014-06-02 00:26:27 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
I would be honoured by such a thing lol

Ill certainly take it under consideration

*gotcha*

Editing sig, redirecting all scrubs to you.

Ramona McCandless wrote:

Do it again

Harder

CALL THAT A SLAP

HARDER ******

HARDER!!!


Don't steal my lines again.

Ripard Teg > For the morons in the room:

Sweets > U can dd my face any day
Sato Page
Auctor Illuminatas Infinitum
#107 - 2014-06-02 00:31:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Sato Page
EvE is a grief fest where the only metric for victory is to grief your enemy so hard that they stop logging in, or even better, unsub.

The cold hard truth is that only a small percentage of eve's player base enjoy this CCP approved play style. Most players pay subscriptions only for CCP's worst in industry PvE/indy content. But CCP is too proud or arrogant to admit this.

Why did EvE enjoyed moderate success during it's early years? I can only say it's because the utter lack of competition in the space sim mmo market.

I believe EvE will become the new ultima online where the dedicated core player base eventually drive off all casual players. EvE will become that game that everyone talk about but nobody really want to play. The only missing piece in this grand scheme is the EverQuest in space.

Is eve dying? Yes.

But, I stopped caring long ago.

Thanks Obama.

Dinsdale Pirannha for [u]CEO [/u]of [u]CCP[/u]
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#108 - 2014-06-02 00:31:46 UTC
I'm highly amused at these people who think the E1 scandal only happened because Ripard wrote about it.

If he hadn't done it someone else eventually would have.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Lido Seahawk
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#109 - 2014-06-02 00:34:20 UTC
Well, love him or hate him, he's a damn good writer. One of the few blogs I read regularly. Hope he picks it back up someday.

Fly safe, Jester!

May I have your stuff?
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#110 - 2014-06-02 00:34:33 UTC
Sato Page wrote:

The cold hard truth is that only a small percentage of eve's player base enjoy this CCP approved play style. Most players pay subscriptions only for CCP's worst in industry PvE/indy content. But CCP is too proud or arrogant to admit this. ]

Im probably being trolled...

But you say that most players pay good money to play a really bad industry model

So...

CCP isnt at fault, the players are, surely?

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Sato Page
Auctor Illuminatas Infinitum
#111 - 2014-06-02 00:37:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Sato Page
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Sato Page wrote:

The cold hard truth is that only a small percentage of eve's player base enjoy this CCP approved play style. Most players pay subscriptions only for CCP's worst in industry PvE/indy content. But CCP is too proud or arrogant to admit this. ]

Im probably being trolled...

But you say that most players pay good money to play a really bad industry model

So...

CCP isnt at fault, the players are, surely?


Hey Ramona, thank you for your response.

I can only say it's because the utter lack of competition in the space sim mmo market.

Dinsdale Pirannha for [u]CEO [/u]of [u]CCP[/u]
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#112 - 2014-06-02 00:39:49 UTC
Sato Page wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Sato Page wrote:

The cold hard truth is that only a small percentage of eve's player base enjoy this CCP approved play style. Most players pay subscriptions only for CCP's worst in industry PvE/indy content. But CCP is too proud or arrogant to admit this. ]

Im probably being trolled...

But you say that most players pay good money to play a really bad industry model

So...

CCP isnt at fault, the players are, surely?


Hey Ramona, thank you for your response.

I can only say it's because the utter lack of competition in the space sim mmo market.


I hear what you are saying, but I dunno, if you liked industry and farming and crafting, is it that important that its set in space that you would pay for it even if its broken?

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
D20 Rollings
Doomheim
#113 - 2014-06-02 00:45:13 UTC
This post was like throwing a troll net into a pokemon arena. You caught them all!!!!
Hahahaha...EPICSAUCE

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...  Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like  tears... in... rain. Time... to die...
Snupe Doggur
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#114 - 2014-06-02 00:47:07 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
I'm highly amused at these people who think the E1 scandal only happened because Ripard wrote about it.

If he hadn't done it someone else eventually would have.

Never mind that E1 did it to *himself* by posting the evidence right here on the official forums. That was an amateurish faceplant, as was the habit itself. All but the dumbest criminals know that you don't repeat your modus operandi. The mayo fetish eventually got the better of him.

But apologists always attack the messengers when they fear to address the message.
IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#115 - 2014-06-02 01:14:39 UTC
Sato Page wrote:


Is eve dying? Yes.

Now just waiting for the huge subscription decline to back this up
Solecist Project
#116 - 2014-06-02 01:19:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Solecist Project
D20 Rollings wrote:
This post was like throwing a troll net into a pokemon arena. You caught them all!!!!
Hahahaha...EPICSAUCE

reminds me of IZ.

Ewww.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Hasril Pux
Red Cabal
#117 - 2014-06-02 01:21:37 UTC
I like this blog better. Jester's Trek was fine, until that holy crusade against part of the EVE community started. Erotica 1 should never have been banned, and even Erotica's most notorious victim agrees.

In my years of playing EVE I have come to terms with being harassed, thieved, griefed, tempted into folly and stabbed to death in the dark. Face your fears. Accept your losses. It's what makes this game good. Rather than make EVE safer for new players while selling "BE THE VILLAIN" in advertisements, CCP may be better off re-designing the introduction of the game to reflect the harsh reality that makes it unique. It could caution players about some of the more unscrupulous tactics used by profiteers (like suicide ganking), and the bevy of scams that await them in the more active trade hubs (or anywhere for that matter).

On the other side of that coin you'll find some of the nicer people in this game will go out of their way to pick you back up on your feet, dust you off, and send you on your way. They may even mentor you and teach you how to be a loveable bastard, or teach you how to deal with (or evade) loveable bastards in an intelligent manner. But even in those cases, beware of those who will try to own your progress. They will steal your time and effort in more subtle ways.

Don't be intimidated by people who try to take the moral high ground. No one is superior to you, and you are not superior to anyone. We are all equal pieces of ****. And we are all amazing.

If you like any of the older ship models (original artwork) better than the redesign of your favorite hull and don't want them to be lost forever, support ship customization and this feature request.
Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#118 - 2014-06-02 01:22:14 UTC
This was some good news to see this morning with my coffee.

But, he'll be back. He won't be able to help popping back with some ****** "Told you so ;-)" post when he thinks he was right about something.

Jester's most positive influence on the Eve community was getting dunked by CCP at the CSM summit, and told his desire for more carebearification would be harmful to Eve, based on their own metrics.

Sadly for him, I don't think he really believed it, he just started ranting about griefing and wardecs to get the highsec vote, and got locked into it.

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." -Soviet infantry manual,

IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#119 - 2014-06-02 01:27:28 UTC
Hasril Pux wrote:
I like this blog better. Jester's Trek was fine, until that holy crusade against part of the EVE community started. Erotica 1 should never have been banned, and even Erotica's most notorious victim agrees.

In my years of playing EVE I have come to terms with being harassed, thieved, griefed, tempted into folly and stabbed to death in the dark. Face your fears. Accept your losses. It's what makes this game good. Rather than make EVE safer for new players while selling "BE THE VILLAIN" in advertisements, CCP may be better off re-designing the introduction of the game to reflect the harsh reality that makes it unique. It could caution players about some of the more unscrupulous tactics used by profiteers (like suicide ganking), and the bevy of scams that await them in the more active trade hubs (or anywhere for that matter).

On the other side of that coin you'll find some of the nicer people in this game will go out of their way to pick you back up on your feet, dust you off, and send you on your way. They may even mentor you and teach you how to be a loveable bastard, or teach you how to deal with (or evade) loveable bastards in an intelligent manner. But even in those cases, beware of those who will try to own your progress. They will steal your time and effort in more subtle ways.

Don't be intimidated by people who try to take the moral high ground. No one is superior to you, and you are not superior to anyone. We are all equal pieces of ****. And we are all amazing.

I couldn't have put it better!
D20 Rollings
Doomheim
#120 - 2014-06-02 01:29:18 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
D20 Rollings wrote:
This post was like throwing a troll net into a pokemon arena. You caught them all!!!!
Hahahaha...EPICSAUCE

reminds me of IZ.

Ewww.


Did you find your skirt sweetie?

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...  Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like  tears... in... rain. Time... to die...