These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

EVE General Discussion

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
Previous page123Next page
 

Please CCP let us donate PLEX for Italy earthquake

First post
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Nyreanya
Serenity Labs
#21 - 2012-06-09 13:28:20 UTC
This deserves dev response.

[/sarcasm]
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#22 - 2012-06-09 13:35:35 UTC
I like what the OP is trying to do.

But for the people saying they would support it by buying plex, could I make a suggestion?

If you're willing to spend money on plex for a donation, how about you donate the money NOW instead of waiting for the chance that CCP does do this. I imagine that there are already organizations set up to take donations of all sorts.
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#23 - 2012-06-09 13:43:16 UTC
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
I like what the OP is trying to do.

But for the people saying they would support it by buying plex, could I make a suggestion?

If you're willing to spend money on plex for a donation, how about you donate the money NOW instead of waiting for the chance that CCP does do this. I imagine that there are already organizations set up to take donations of all sorts.



And how the hell do you know it's not already done for some?

I'm pretty aware of those humanitarian organisations, I'm at 15mn center Geneva and actually work with them sometimes, most of the money you send there stays for internal needs (those pay bills/salary too) and most of the OGM's have personnel that doesn't live with good intentions and awesome words, in fact most of them do it because it's financially worthy.

Humanitarian stuff? -90% jokes 10% real ones


brb
Nyreanya
Serenity Labs
#24 - 2012-06-09 13:46:40 UTC
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
I like what the OP is trying to do.

But for the people saying they would support it by buying plex, could I make a suggestion?

If you're willing to spend money on plex for a donation, how about you donate the money NOW instead of waiting for the chance that CCP does do this. I imagine that there are already organizations set up to take donations of all sorts.
Because they're buying the PLEX with ISK. Some of us have more discretionary space pixels than real money to play with.

[/sarcasm]
March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2012-06-09 14:08:15 UTC
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Luis Graca wrote:
I'm curious to see were this is going


Probably nowhere.

I should have created a shallow topic about bunnies nice weather and I'd get more feedback.

Harsh truth is: earthquakes are not rare thing. Every year somewhere something happens. So your post really is not so interesting to people.

back to topic: let me know when to donate PLEX.

The Mittani: "the inappropriate drunked joke"
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#26 - 2012-06-09 17:01:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha
See, earthquakes are common indeed .
But so far they are getting about 1 quake of 4.5+ Richter every other day, had multiple "main" 5.8+ earthquakes and now the nasty stuff decided to hit another region as well (very very minor damage there, furtunately). It's still ongoing as I write.

What is imho worth mentioning is not the quake per se, but the consequences. 35,000 factories have been stopped and many got destroyed. This created a massive humanitarian issue, because there's lots of people now in tents, in cars (since 2 weeks) many are going to be unemployed in a country where losing job = lose income for years (very high unoccupation rate).

Since a picture is better than 1000 words, let me show a tiny sample:

Look at this rift. It tells exactly what happened, no words needed.

Castles, churches, monuments, many have been destroyed or are so compromised they will have to be demolished. Vast scale destruction (in some areas it's 100 percent)

One of the thousands factories that got destroyed.
It was not some decrepit old hovel but built with anti-seismic criteria (yeah it helped a lot).

Another factory.
The region is very industry heavy.

Many houses and MANY historical buildings and monuments got destroyed.

Another house, feel free to Google for "terremoto emilia romagna" to find hundreds.

More destruction


And I am here, with tens of billions gathered exactly for these disasters and I can't do anything to help.

CCP please investigate on this event and let us donate!

EvE Online portal | EvE markets tutorials
Nyreanya
Serenity Labs
#27 - 2012-06-10 17:48:43 UTC
This deserves dev response.

[/sarcasm]
Spy 21
Doomheim
#28 - 2012-06-10 19:23:40 UTC
A noble idea....

IRL donation site for those in the US

http://newsroom.redcross.org/2012/05/29/disaster-alert-earthquake-in-italy/

S

Obfuscation for the WIN on page 3...
Nyreanya
Serenity Labs
#29 - 2012-06-11 12:16:51 UTC
This deserves a response.

[/sarcasm]
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#30 - 2012-06-12 06:40:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha
Another 4.3 Richter earthquake this night (plus other smaller 6). Factories evacuated again and people all back into tents, under hot summer temperature. Every time (basically every other day) this happens, they have to re-check what factories of the 35,000 affected are still safe for the workers to enter (we already had some crash and kill the returned workers Sad).

Since the safety check teams are too few, it means weeks with no work and further loss of customers, who demand strict timing or just go do business with other countries.

EvE Online portal | EvE markets tutorials
seany1212
M Y S T
#31 - 2012-06-12 06:55:41 UTC
March rabbit wrote:
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Luis Graca wrote:
I'm curious to see were this is going


Probably nowhere.

I should have created a shallow topic about bunnies nice weather and I'd get more feedback.

Harsh truth is: earthquakes are not rare thing. Every year somewhere something happens. So your post really is not so interesting to people.

back to topic: let me know when to donate PLEX.


This, there was a 6.1 earthquake in peru 4 days ago. Wheres there PLEX drive? They wont get the media coverage like italy will so it'll go mostly unnoticed like many earthquakes around the world.

I think this needed to be a private thing sent to CCP first because making it public just seems like you're begging and plenty of that goes on in GD as it is. Ugh
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#32 - 2012-06-12 07:07:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha
seany1212 wrote:
March rabbit wrote:
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Luis Graca wrote:
I'm curious to see were this is going


Probably nowhere.

I should have created a shallow topic about bunnies nice weather and I'd get more feedback.

Harsh truth is: earthquakes are not rare thing. Every year somewhere something happens. So your post really is not so interesting to people.

back to topic: let me know when to donate PLEX.


This, there was a 6.1 earthquake in peru 4 days ago. Wheres there PLEX drive? They wont get the media coverage like italy will so it'll go mostly unnoticed like many earthquakes around the world.

I think this needed to be a private thing sent to CCP first because making it public just seems like you're begging and plenty of that goes on in GD as it is. Ugh


I don't know how things go in Peru and I am certainly not against sharing a campaign if something disruptive happenedthere. I know that here we have lots of ancient palaces and monuments that have been promoted by UNESCO as humanity heritage and those are extremely fragile and get destroyed by smaller events than in other places in the worlds.

You know you'd might feel the hurt if a quake got to Rome and destroyed 80% of its buildings and monuments.

EvE Online portal | EvE markets tutorials
seany1212
M Y S T
#33 - 2012-06-12 07:16:49 UTC
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
seany1212 wrote:
March rabbit wrote:
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Luis Graca wrote:
I'm curious to see were this is going


Probably nowhere.

I should have created a shallow topic about bunnies nice weather and I'd get more feedback.

Harsh truth is: earthquakes are not rare thing. Every year somewhere something happens. So your post really is not so interesting to people.

back to topic: let me know when to donate PLEX.


This, there was a 6.1 earthquake in peru 4 days ago. Wheres there PLEX drive? They wont get the media coverage like italy will so it'll go mostly unnoticed like many earthquakes around the world.

I think this needed to be a private thing sent to CCP first because making it public just seems like you're begging and plenty of that goes on in GD as it is. Ugh




You know you'd might feel the hurt if a quake got to Rome and destroyed 80% of its buildings and monuments.


Not really, im smart enough to value life over buildings and monuments. Also just to reiterate my point;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157420/Seven-people-injured-earthquake-hits-Aegean-holiday-spots.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57450532/earthquake-leaves-as-many-as-100-afghans-feared-dead-after-landslide-hits-remote-mountain-village/
Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#34 - 2012-06-12 07:21:35 UTC
Mother nature playing Simcity is old news.

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

  • Richard (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#35 - 2012-06-12 07:24:31 UTC
seany1212 wrote:

Not really, im smart enough to value life over buildings and monuments. Also just to reiterate my point;


These buildings were all inhabitated, they were not a museum.

EvE Online portal | EvE markets tutorials
Nyreanya
Serenity Labs
#36 - 2012-06-12 12:38:14 UTC
I see no reason why CCP can't always have a PLEX drive going, maybe change the destination every month.

[/sarcasm]
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#37 - 2012-06-12 20:18:18 UTC
Lin-Young Borovskova wrote:
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
I like what the OP is trying to do.

But for the people saying they would support it by buying plex, could I make a suggestion?

If you're willing to spend money on plex for a donation, how about you donate the money NOW instead of waiting for the chance that CCP does do this. I imagine that there are already organizations set up to take donations of all sorts.



And how the hell do you know it's not already done for some?

I'm pretty aware of those humanitarian organisations, I'm at 15mn center Geneva and actually work with them sometimes, most of the money you send there stays for internal needs (those pay bills/salary too) and most of the OGM's have personnel that doesn't live with good intentions and awesome words, in fact most of them do it because it's financially worthy.

Humanitarian stuff? -90% jokes 10% real ones



Were do you think the money CCP would send would go?

My guess is the same places.
Graic Gabtar
The Lemon Party
#38 - 2012-06-12 20:26:35 UTC
Donor fatigue anyone?

Maybe PLEX for X should start focusing on other issues besides the last cruise liner that plunged into a random star.

Could an order be established like...

- Starving kids (multiple countries)
- Pandemic (200,000 dead)
- Natural disaster (10,000 dead)
- Malaria
- Etc.

And a long way down...

- A few broken antiquities

Once one world problem is solved the next item on the list can be tackled so we don't have to see this kind of thread again.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#39 - 2012-06-12 20:28:51 UTC
These Italian earthquakes, while bad are not very big. These rather minor earthquakes will continue for some time yet as the fault system unzips itself untill the preassure stablises. This happens every few decades and the vast bulk of building will suffer only minor damage. Italy is in the G8 and has the funds to deal with this. Plex drive should be reserved for real disasters.
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#40 - 2012-06-12 20:29:22 UTC
Nyreanya wrote:
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
I like what the OP is trying to do.

But for the people saying they would support it by buying plex, could I make a suggestion?

If you're willing to spend money on plex for a donation, how about you donate the money NOW instead of waiting for the chance that CCP does do this. I imagine that there are already organizations set up to take donations of all sorts.
Because they're buying the PLEX with ISK. Some of us have more discretionary space pixels than real money to play with.


????

You would think that I didn't make a post suggesting that people who would be willing to spend their MONEY on plex, not isk, to donate that money now instead of waiting for the offchance that CCP will do a fundraiser.

Except that's clearly what I did write, you even quoted it.




WTF is wrong with some people.
I should be the most negative, miserable ******* person on this forum, and yet some of you have me severely beat.
Previous page123Next page