Wormholes

Unfortunately for you, the burden of proof rests with the one making assertions, not the one disputing them. You are claiming that population is declining and more centralized, so you need to deliver something that demonstrates that. As it stands now, you made a claim and you demand from others to disprove it. As you perhaps know, its not possible to prove a negative on its own.

As far as my observations go, I dare say I am in reasonably good position to assess both centralization and overall population of wspace. As a diplomat for major wh corp, I am in contact with all other large and many small wh groups and follow their developments (like standings changes, alliances reforming, etc) and it gives me good handle on the former, while being wh realtor and watching how both supply and demand for various classes of holes and statics changes gives me at least as good insight into the latter. So I would say my observations arent exactly baseless and are the very reason why I call BS on yours and demand evidence for them.

I've done no such thing, and seriously, how long ago were you educated? It's terrible, it's like you think tossing out buzzwords and smirking is going to win you an argument.

The burden of proof is irrelevant because neither of us can prove anything at this point. The method we have to use is to demonstrate evidential support for our claims, to demonstrate that the claims are not baseless (neither of our claims are baseless, they're both founded on observation). It's like if I walked up to you and claimed there's a unicorn blowing a leprechaun in the backseat of your Shelby Cobra, and you don't believe me. Why? Because it's completely baseless.

Then, we compare the claims for assumptions or needless complexity. For you to believe what I insist to be observation, that a unicorn was blowing the leprechaun, you'd have to assume the existence of both leprechauns and unicorns, as well as the existence of this Shelby Cobra you didn't know you owned, the modification of a backseat to a car that does not have the frame for a backseat, the ability for a unicorn to fit in the backseat, the capacity for a unicorn to blow, and the desire for a leprechaun to get blown by a horse. On and on it goes.

And here we hit a bump. Neither of use have facts, and neither of us have documented evidence. They're equally useful and useless. The next step would be to verify the evidence, but there's nothing to test except replicate the observations, something nobody is willing to do. Here's the part where your facts would come in handy, but alas, that was only a delusion.



I have met plenty of w-space diplos, and 90% of them suck. It's unbelievable how careless we are with diplomacy, just because everyone's so pompously superior and afraid of becoming nullsec. As far as I can tell, being a diplo in w-space is claiming trashtalk rights in local for the vast majority of players. And of course your observations aren't baseless, they're based on what you observed. So you claim that, because you're a diplo, your claims are assumed to be true, and my claims are bs and you need evidence for them to even be considered? I'm a diplo too, you know, what does that do for your principles? I'm normally active daily on wormholesales.com. OMG I make billions trading, that has something to do with demand and supply, right? Hell yeah, I'm an expert on random irrelevant things too. So tell me, mister diplo, what is the population of wormhole space? I skipped that lecture at diplo school.

Having been a diplo myself at one point, I can say there is far more involved than just trash talking. I also can't deny the trash talking you speak of. It really just depends on the person you are dealing with. I've been fortunate enough to deal with more decent diplos than terrible ones. Really though, it's not an overly complicated job provided you aren't running a big blue donut type deal or your group has a generally **** reputation.

As far as the state of wh space goes, it's the same as it always has been. Groups that are lazy, don't scan, or sit there and chain roll their static all night aren't going to find anything to do. That doesn't mean wh space is dead. It means said groups didn't do their part to create any content for themselves.

I sincerely hope that my thread has instigated an invasion. At the same time disappointing. My last threads were trying, this one was the love child of mountain dew and vodka. A marriage born in hell.

I observed all your mommas' getting nailed by QT.

An that's FACT.

(I never had my glasses on though)

Hi there :)