Intergalactic Summit

Perhaps part of the problem lays with the difficulty of raising funds, due to the volume of scammers. So many infact, that it's not even worth scamming anymore; the margins are too low - too many people are doing it. We just need some true innovators to bring something ambitious and far fetched that the community wills to succeed.

I would like capsuleers to start sending me minerals so that I can start on this dyson sphere project I've had running through my head.

I beg your pardon, but I fail to see the need for personal attacks; I have no history because I'm a do-er, I don't spend all my time at summits venting hot air about people who have no history of venting hot air!

I have actually conversed with Mr Shogaatsu many years ago. While I could have mentioned his most infamous scheme, I deliberately left it out as I wanted to convey a tone of a productive nature, to project that ambition and hope that the ISS brought in it's prime.

However, I can appreciate that a big project of the like is extremely fragile and while that bored bunch of geeks are flying around blowing stuff up "because they can" I can't hold out much hope of anything being built that'll attract the attention of the community at large and not those yahoos simultaneously.

Oh, I'd scheme your collective butts off... if it still felt exciting. I fear I'm in a bit of a funk. A depression, really. It seems the more of these blasted "skill points" I accumulate, the more depressed I become. It feels like... the more of them I have, the less I can do with the sum total of them.

Why don't modern ship designers consult with capsuleers when releasing new models? They give us ships and expect us to adapt ourselves to them, rather than adapting the vessels around their most critical and I dare say, most handsome component - in this case, me? The Legion's power grid can easily support another turret battery, yet excessively conservative shipwrights limited it to six guns in gunboat configuration. I've been lobbying for years to get the Retribution's secondary mid-range bay enabled and powered in the common market blueprint - a small victory I claim full credit for - but there's so much else to do...

I find myself pining for the early days of capsuleering, before those idiotic safety regulations regarding the chaining of six heatsinks together made fitting more than four pointless. You know what I really miss? The first releases of the Tech 2 line. First the interceptors... oh how I loved the Crusader. It felt like it had teeth. Then the Heavy Assault class launched, and I was in heaven! Oh how I relished each skillpoint gained in the pursuit of specialization! I felt like a predator in the Zealot!

I've lost that feeling entirely, to be frank. I feel impotent in our modern day's top-of-the-line. Toothless. It feels like for every advantage these new-fangled ships come with, there is a hobbling drawback. Oh good, you lost your tech three, enjoy the brain damage. I used to be a predator in space, and nowadays every third-rate third-generation puke can match cannons with me simply by specializing in a tiny sliver of my encyclopaedic knowledge, or by bringing a friend. There is no edge to capture. No goal to strive toward.

Perhaps there's your grand venture: create a council of capsuleer shipwrights in the vein of the CSM, but devoted to giving us the vessels we ourselves envision, not these back-of-the-line Sleeper scrapings that fry neurons just as frequently as power relays. Give people like me the weapons we desire, and you will make a great many powerful friends.

I'm sure Cyberstrike and many others would be happy to have your money for "community development." Why don't you go ahead and start donating your personal finances and let me know how that goes.

Working with total strangers on anything involving your own resources is probably the textbook definition of 'gullible."

I've got some lovely oceanfront property on a volcanic world I'd love to sell you, as well.

Whereas the textbook definition of "cynic" is probably "One who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing."

... Though perhaps we can add something about one who imputes a con artist's motives to one who has, as of yet, merely mentioned money without ever having even suggested it be provided to any person or entity. At the moment, all I'd feel secure in suspecting him of is wishful thinking.

It would be nice to see some grand project in the works. There have been a few, and not so long ago-- but they all fizzled, one way or another.

I'm not sure that's quite reason enough to say that it's bad to think grandly, though.

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Make that wishful thinking and trying to produce grand projects vicariously by merely suggesting that it would be neat to produce something grand.

My lord, every time we talk, you always bring up Sansha Sansha Sansha. It's like you look at me and cannot see anything else.

You think about Sansha more often than most National's do. You should think about that.

I have never once, in any of our conversations, brought up Sansha's Nation. You do it. Every time.

When you are thinking about the Master more often than the people who want to be his slaves, you should probably reconsider which side you should actually be on.

Anyways, a dyson sphere, or something like it, is going to be required for humanity at some point. I would be happy to discuss the topic with you at some point.

However, you did serve to adequately prove my point about ganders and geese. Thank you for that.

The Arek'Jellan project already attempted this and failed.