EVE General Discussion

It's not that they can't take a joke, it's that they just don't like you. You know that awkward moment when someone you really don't like tries to tell you a joke? Yea, that.

RIMMER: So there we were at 2:30 in the morning; I was beginning to wish
I had never come to cadet training school. To the south lay water --
there was no way we could cross that. To the east and west two armies
squeezed us in a pincer. The only way was north; I had to go for it
and pray the Gods were smiling on me. I picked up the dice and threw
two sixes. Caldecott couldn't believe it. My go again; another two
sixes!

LISTER: Rimmer, what's wrong with you? Don't you realize that no one is
even slightly interested in anything you're saying? You've got this
major psychological defect which blinds you to the fact that you're
boring people to death! How come you can't sense that?

RIMMER: Anyway I picked up the dice again... Unbelievable! Another two
sixes!

LISTER: Rimmer!

RIMMER: What?

LISTER: No one wants to know some stupid story about how you beat your
Cadet School Training Officer at Risk.

RIMMER: Then -- disaster! I threw a two and a three; Caldecott picked up
the dice and threw snake eyes -- I was still in it.

LISTER: Cat, can you talk to him?.

CAT is sitting with big pieces of cotton wool plugged in to his ears. As
LISTER talks to him he takes one of the pieces.

CAT: What?
RIMMER: Anyway, to cut a long story short I threw a five and a four which
beat his three and a two, another double six followed by a double four
and a double five. After he'd thrown a three and a two I threw a six
and a three.

CAT: Man, this guy could bore for his country!

LISTER: What I want to know, is how the smeg can you remember what dice
you threw at a game you played when you were seventeen?

RIMMER: I jotted it down in my Risk campaign book. I always used to do
that so I could replay my moments of glory over a glass of brandy in
the sleeping quarters. I ask you, what better way is there to spend a
Saturday night?

CAT: Ya got me.

RIMMER: So a six and a three and he came back with a three and a two.

LISTER: Rimmer, can't you tell the story is not gripping me? I'm in a
state of non-grippedness, I am completely smegging ungripped. Shut the
smeg up.

RIMMER: Don't you want to hear the Risk story?

LISTER: That's what I've been saying for the last fifteen minutes.

RIMMER: But I thought that was because I hadn't got to the really
interesting bit...

LISTER: What really interesting bit?

RIMMER: Ah well, that was about two hours later, after he'd thrown a
three and a two and I'd thrown a four and a one. I picked up the
dice...

LISTER: Hang on Rimmer, hang on... the really interesting bit is exactly
the same as the dull bit.

RIMMER: You don't know what I did with the dice though, do you? For all
you know, I could have jammed them up his nostrils, head butted him on
the nose and they could have blasted out of his ears. That would've
been quite interesting.

LISTER: OK, Rimmer. What did you do with the dice?.

RIMMER: I threw a five and a two.

LISTER: And that's the really interesting bit?

RIMMER: Well it was interesting to me, it got me into Irkutsk.

I'm inspired to name a ship the "smeghead"

I am reminded of the hallucinogenic suicide inducing squid episode.

Wait... what if the Despair Squid has got us all, and we are from THAT universe, but bieleve we are in our "real" world playing a simulation of life in New Eden?

Alright, so here's my image of the future of WiS in two parts.

Establishments and Exploration.

Exploration first, because adding as much content in the first iteration is important to add more things to be done in the Establishments. High risk, high reward, lots of new content, manufacturable implant resources and new BPCs to be found inside. I want to explore hazardous environments, and wait inside to trap other capsuleers, and have friends in nearby systems ready to fly in and steal the ship they left docked at the structure. Plenty of opportunity for grief (the happy CCP condoned gamplay heavy type of grief of course). More or less exactly as Team Avatar described it.

Then Establishments, bought and rented by corporations or individuals with customizable interiors. Buy up slay tables and put taxes on people's winnings that go into the pocket of the owner of the establishment (the house always wins), sell specialized boosters only available off-grid(away from the prying eyes of CONCORD) and have API programmable screens to display system statistics, killmails, corporate measures of success, or the Open Tournament or Mad Ani streams. Maybe an exotic dancer for aesthetic purposes. A back room that shows the streamed screens of a few fleet scouts so that I can see if war targets are undocking without having to leave my seedy back room poker table (or needing a second screen and an alt). At this point it would be good to have some aesthetic items (or not purely aesthetic) addable to the Establishment that can only be found in Avatar exploration and traded in person (because CONCORD doesn't like them for whatever lore reason).

Edit: What would be really great would be to make these Establishments a new mobile structure "Habitation Module", that can be shot at and reinforced. It would also mean they would have to be built and contribute to the new POS system when it comes around. Although that level of customization on a structure that can be shot/pulled down/moved might be a problem.

Yeah, I sure hope CCP stops working on real Eve content so you guys can sit in a bar and watch strippers.

Every single post you've made lately has the word "Jenn" in it. Keep that up and eventually you'll be sitting in front of a doctor holding a stuffed animal that should prove instrumental in pointing out where you may or may not have been touched by someone over the internet.

Not mad, just find it funny to see the guy sniping at me when we haven't had a discussion about anything in the last year and a half but he's still sniping angrily from the sidelines lol. I thought butt hurt had a statute of limitations (or at least a half-life)

Well then Rhes your in luck, they already went half way and made the outfit. It slipped onto and got noticed on the test server a few times.