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Rab See
Stellar Dynamics
#141 - 2014-06-02 10:49:43 UTC

Yes - it happens and comes to us all.

2 recent account retirements for me. Names I carried with me for 8 years doing nullsec and boy was it a blast. But null is so seriously blue and so heavily nap! Hey ho. I can scrape along with 1 char and an alt - Jesters Trek will be missed, I know what the 10% is.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#142 - 2014-06-02 10:50:06 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
D20 Rollings wrote:
Lido Seahawk wrote:
Seven Koskanaiken wrote:


The Tipper Gore of Eve Online.



This is unfair. Tipper Gore is no way, shape, or form, smart enough to play Eve. To compare anyone in this game to that bimbo is an insult against all of us. Take it back!


From Wikipedia

She attended St. Agnes (now St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School), a private Episcopal school in Alexandria, Virginia, where she excelled in athletics and played the drums for an all-girl band, The Wildcats.[2]

She played sports and beat on things. Here in 'merica, that's a celebrity.

This really is Infinite Ziona.

Hey guys, look who I spotted!

Hmm tempted to send you your own paranoid response, though Im sure you have your evidence like I have mine about that other thing.

Still, this one is not as vitriolic and hatefilled towards everyone yet, so that's probably why I havent seen it.

And yes, I appreciate the hypocrisy in calling anyone else vitriolic and hatefilled.

Its just what makes me so so sweet and loveable

"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
ElSuerte Diego
Los Perros Hermanos
#143 - 2014-06-02 10:54:26 UTC
Ripard was probably one of the best ambassadors for the game EvE Online ever had. Certainly better them anyone CCP has ever hired. His blog was one of the main things that kept me coming back whenever my interest started to wain.
Solecist Project
#144 - 2014-06-02 10:55:18 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Hmm tempted to send you your own paranoid response, though Im sure you have your evidence like I have mine about that other thing.

Still, this one is not as vitriolic and hatefilled towards everyone yet, so that's probably why I havent seen it.

And yes, I appreciate the hypocrisy in calling anyone else vitriolic and hatefilled.

Its just what makes me so so sweet and loveable
I remember Eternum from the past and although I didn't scan through his posts,
he doesn't try to project domination onto everybody, like Salvos did.


This, otoh ... well ... besides the posts, one actually needs only to compare older portraits of IZ with this one.

I'll make sure to save a local copy...

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
Dave Stark
#145 - 2014-06-02 10:59:44 UTC
ElSuerte Diego wrote:
Ripard was probably one of the best ambassadors for the game EvE Online ever had.

no, he wasn't. not even close.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#146 - 2014-06-02 11:04:28 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Hmm tempted to send you your own paranoid response, though Im sure you have your evidence like I have mine about that other thing.

Still, this one is not as vitriolic and hatefilled towards everyone yet, so that's probably why I havent seen it.

And yes, I appreciate the hypocrisy in calling anyone else vitriolic and hatefilled.

Its just what makes me so so sweet and loveable
I remember Eternum from the past and although I didn't scan through his posts,
he doesn't try to project domination onto everybody, like Salvos did.


This, otoh ... well ... besides the posts, one actually needs only to compare older portraits of IZ with this one.

I'll make sure to save a local copy...


Well, while I feel thats exactly what he was trying to do, having reread the OP fromt hat thread and his responses to those agreeing with him, Id have to say your right, but only because he can make sense and be relatively polite when he chooses.

In regards to AVs, yeah I understand, I have a few other suspects Im tracking in the same manner.

"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
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#147 - 2014-06-02 11:23:31 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
IZ
Shocked
hmm.. I'm not sure. The posts lack the bad grammar and poor spelling... but then I didn't search too deeply. I mean there are some spots, but it seems more intentional and thought out, while less condescending in general. Well, if IZ does surface in some form, I don't think he/she will be able to conceal his identity for very long, certain meltdown given enough time. Roll
Then we'll know Blink

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#148 - 2014-06-02 11:24:27 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:
IZ
Shocked
hmm.. I'm not sure. The posts lack the bad grammar and poor spelling... but then I didn't search too deeply. I mean there are some spots, but it seems more intentional and thought out, while less condescending in general. Well, if IZ does surface in some form, I don't think he/she will be able to conceal his identity for very long, certain meltdown given enough time. Roll
Then we'll know Blink


I agree. Someone like that can only hide their illness for so long.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

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Solecist Project
#149 - 2014-06-02 11:43:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Solecist Project
I want to add that you people mentioning this will make IZ aware of it,
leading to changing her behaviour.

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
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#150 - 2014-06-02 11:53:27 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
I want to add that you people mentioning this will make IZ aware of it,
leading to changing her behaviour.


Observation may change the result

IZ is a quantum particle lol

"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
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#151 - 2014-06-02 11:53:36 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
leading to changing her behaviour.

I was careful with my quotes, but if we talk about it too much, we'll be discovered... hide!
Oh, and if that were the case, it wouldn't be IZ Blink
It would be like trying to defuse a live landmine under a tank tread P

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#152 - 2014-06-02 12:09:38 UTC
Kinis Deren wrote:
I'm disappointed in you, I believed you might be one of those players that might have taken a greater interest in the game than just who was being braodcast as primary. Assuming you are not just trolling, of course.
Wait, so if you don't like Riptard, then you don't take an interest in the game?
He is one random guy with one opinion, an opinion which a lot of people tend to disagree with. HE's a fan of making it easy for the easy guys and diluting down the downsides to the point that we have wow is space. How is wanting to keep the parts of EVE that make it a tough game and give it it's unique flavour not taking an interest. I get that you like him, but that doesn;t mean that we all have to, and it certainly doesn't mean his opinions are more valuable or more correct that anyone else's.

Since his most recent claim to fame is abusing his position on the CSM to get rid of a single player he didn't like, his blog going into the trash is no loss to the game. It's just a shame all of his characters aren't following.

But I know right, my opinion differs to yours so I'm just a troll and/or have no interest in EVE.

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Solecist Project
#153 - 2014-06-02 12:18:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Solecist Project
Noobs. You don't really understand.

Fine.


*shakeshead*

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
Prince Kobol
#154 - 2014-06-02 12:24:06 UTC
ElSuerte Diego wrote:
Ripard was probably one of the best ambassadors for the game EvE Online ever had. Certainly better them anyone CCP has ever hired. His blog was one of the main things that kept me coming back whenever my interest started to wain.


lmao.. I love these kind of posts

Please explain how he was an "ambassador" for Eve Online
Prince Kobol
#155 - 2014-06-02 12:25:11 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
Kinis Deren wrote:
I'm disappointed in you, I believed you might be one of those players that might have taken a greater interest in the game than just who was being braodcast as primary. Assuming you are not just trolling, of course.
Wait, so if you don't like Riptard, then you don't take an interest in the game?
He is one random guy with one opinion, an opinion which a lot of people tend to disagree with. HE's a fan of making it easy for the easy guys and diluting down the downsides to the point that we have wow is space. How is wanting to keep the parts of EVE that make it a tough game and give it it's unique flavour not taking an interest. I get that you like him, but that doesn;t mean that we all have to, and it certainly doesn't mean his opinions are more valuable or more correct that anyone else's.

Since his most recent claim to fame is abusing his position on the CSM to get rid of a single player he didn't like, his blog going into the trash is no loss to the game. It's just a shame all of his characters aren't following.

But I know right, my opinion differs to yours so I'm just a troll and/or have no interest in EVE.


This 100%
Solecist Project
#156 - 2014-06-02 12:27:01 UTC
Prince Kobol wrote:
ElSuerte Diego wrote:
Ripard was probably one of the best ambassadors for the game EvE Online ever had. Certainly better them anyone CCP has ever hired. His blog was one of the main things that kept me coming back whenever my interest started to wain.


lmao.. I love these kind of posts

Please explain how he was an "ambassador" for Eve Online
You never noticed that carebears always claim weird **** that lacks any actual substance?

And then the carebear gets told that he's wrong and that actual,
real life data indicates that he has no understanding of how people work or what's good for the game.


Wow, that's some dent to the personality of a wannabe-good-person I'd never talk to,
because they indeed are just wannabe.

People without substance, who see themselves as good.

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
Kinis Deren
Mosquito Squadron
D0GS OF WAR
#157 - 2014-06-02 12:56:31 UTC
Prince Kobol wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Kinis Deren wrote:
I'm disappointed in you, I believed you might be one of those players that might have taken a greater interest in the game than just who was being braodcast as primary. Assuming you are not just trolling, of course.
Wait, so if you don't like Riptard, then you don't take an interest in the game?
He is one random guy with one opinion, an opinion which a lot of people tend to disagree with. HE's a fan of making it easy for the easy guys and diluting down the downsides to the point that we have wow is space. How is wanting to keep the parts of EVE that make it a tough game and give it it's unique flavour not taking an interest. I get that you like him, but that doesn;t mean that we all have to, and it certainly doesn't mean his opinions are more valuable or more correct that anyone else's.

Since his most recent claim to fame is abusing his position on the CSM to get rid of a single player he didn't like, his blog going into the trash is no loss to the game. It's just a shame all of his characters aren't following.

But I know right, my opinion differs to yours so I'm just a troll and/or have no interest in EVE.


This 100%


Nah, not even 1% right.

Congrats on the selective quoting in leaving out Prince Kobol's original question and my larger reply. I guess context doesn't matter to you in the slightest. But hey, this is EVE O GD afterall - the home of trolls and blowhards - my bad for thinking it might just be different in this thread vOv

Btw, who the **** are you again and why should I give a damn what a nobody thinks?
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#158 - 2014-06-02 13:01:04 UTC
Kinis Deren wrote:
Prince Kobol wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Kinis Deren wrote:
I'm disappointed in you, I believed you might be one of those players that might have taken a greater interest in the game than just who was being braodcast as primary. Assuming you are not just trolling, of course.
Wait, so if you don't like Riptard, then you don't take an interest in the game?
He is one random guy with one opinion, an opinion which a lot of people tend to disagree with. HE's a fan of making it easy for the easy guys and diluting down the downsides to the point that we have wow is space. How is wanting to keep the parts of EVE that make it a tough game and give it it's unique flavour not taking an interest. I get that you like him, but that doesn;t mean that we all have to, and it certainly doesn't mean his opinions are more valuable or more correct that anyone else's.

Since his most recent claim to fame is abusing his position on the CSM to get rid of a single player he didn't like, his blog going into the trash is no loss to the game. It's just a shame all of his characters aren't following.

But I know right, my opinion differs to yours so I'm just a troll and/or have no interest in EVE.


This 100%


Nah, not even 1% right.

Congrats on the selective quoting in leaving out Prince Kobol's original question and my larger reply. I guess context doesn't matter to you in the slightest. But hey, this is EVE O GD afterall - the home of trolls and blowhards - my bad for thinking it might just be different in this thread vOv

Btw, who the **** are you again and why should I give a damn what a nobody thinks?
Speaking of nobodies, who the hell are you?

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Feyd's Survival Pack
D20 Rollings
Doomheim
#159 - 2014-06-02 13:02:32 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
D20 Rollings wrote:
Lido Seahawk wrote:
Seven Koskanaiken wrote:


The Tipper Gore of Eve Online.



This is unfair. Tipper Gore is no way, shape, or form, smart enough to play Eve. To compare anyone in this game to that bimbo is an insult against all of us. Take it back!


From Wikipedia

She attended St. Agnes (now St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School), a private Episcopal school in Alexandria, Virginia, where she excelled in athletics and played the drums for an all-girl band, The Wildcats.[2]

She played sports and beat on things. Here in 'merica, that's a celebrity.

This really is Infinite Ziona.

Hey guys, look who I spotted!


You got me....Roll

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...
Matilda Cecilia Fock
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#160 - 2014-06-02 13:02:37 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
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.


You have this game. 20% of your players get it right, stay for 4 years, then leave. 80% of your players never get it right, stay for 2 years, and leave.

Some claim that the way to improve the game is to make the 20% stay for 6 years rather than 4 (more better PvP)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to get rid of the 80% altogether (but CCP may disagree to downsize)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to lure the 80% into becoming part of the 20% so the split is like 70-30 or 60-40 (that's what CCP is attempting)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to provide the 80% with all they want and screw the 20% (but I never found anyone seriously claiming that)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to lure a new demographic who would rather walk an avatar than fly a spaceship so the game becomes 80+20+40 (but those are mostly dead)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to make the 80% stay for 4 years rather than 2 (more better PvE)

EVE is complex and there is no simple solution, and what all the above have in common is that they will rather kill EVE and sabotage each other than let anyone else save the game...


Here's a list of MMOs that didn't die after abandoning their existing playerbase and design ethos to chase a new market by copying everyone else:



EVE is in no danger to change its course, frankly. CCP is already doing the right thing (in their view) and it's a matter of life or death to them, so there is no way they will change it.

Of course, I think that they're wrong and should do otherwise, but that just puts me in a large club of armchair game designers...

Whatever the future brings, I will be missing Jester's Trek and Ripard Teg's voice on it.

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