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Worlds Within a World - The EVE Universe Monument

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Wolvson
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#421 - 2014-02-26 11:54:28 UTC
A magnificent idea, CCP! I am truly astonished!

Actually, when I look at the monument, I see a gamer in front of the screen. Not just EVE player, but ANY player. Wouldn't it be a first monument built to players? And, in a way, another step towards bigger recognition for player community?

One way, or the other, I like the idea very much.
Skeecher
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#422 - 2014-02-26 18:50:20 UTC
It's a clever move by CCP, and I can see other online games copying the idea when they see the publicity it will get, and it's not so bad looking. It's certainly more acceptable than what Games Workshop have outside their HQ Shocked

The only problem it could have is the "monument" status of it. After all, it's going to have toon names on there of every active player. These aren't the names of real people, but ficticious character names. A few others in this thread have touched on the relation it will seem to have to the countless war memorials around the world. It may be seen as being disrespectful to these war memorials to have what some in the press might describe as a "parody" of them built.

Now, they say "all publicity is good publicity" but not if this monument is taken the wrong way. It may even result in it being defaced at some point in the future due to the bad taste that some will see in it's existance. You have to take into consideration the raw passion that people have for their war memorials. They're an almost taboo subject. Try to remember (for those in the UK) what the press thought of Brian Ferry's son when he was photographed swinging off the war memorial in London. So CCP needs to tread very carefully with this idea.

It may well be a marketing ploy to get players to sub the game so that they can get their names on it, but there could well be players who, because of reasons mentioned above, would rather not have their character names on it. So is there an opt-out for them?

Me? I see for what it is, just a bit of fun, but I'm just saying that others might not.
xxMACKxx
Black Rebel Rifter Club
The Devil's Tattoo
#423 - 2014-02-26 19:40:36 UTC
Will people who are active using PLEX be qualified for this?
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#424 - 2014-02-26 22:10:52 UTC
I just bought myself a inscription on this monument for the ridiculously low price of one PLEX. You really should have added the option to buy inscription for non-main characters via the AURUM shop. After all, it's a vanity shop and there's no greater vanity than building a monument to yourself.

Why not step it up? 100 PLEXes to get your bust printed out in 3D, covered in electrolytic paint, silver plated and rhodinized. Around half life sized. And 1000 PLEXes for a ful life sized statue, printed out and hand painted to be placed outside at a court leading to the monument.

Anyway, it's better than pizza, I guess.

Sovereignty and Population

New Mining Mechanics
Janden Rynd
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#425 - 2014-02-27 23:19:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Janden Rynd
Well, we're just over a day away from having the list of names for this thing frozen. It makes me wonder exactly how thoroughly that list will be vetted. CCP have said that innappropriate names will not be included, but according to what criteria? Will senseless strings of repeated letters be included as a "name?" How many cleverly and not so cleverly disguised profanities and obscenities will make their way onto this thing simply because no one paid enough attention to catch them? How many languages will the list be checked against? How many of those languages will be checked by native speakers who can catch the nuance of hidden meanings in these names? CCP already has a naming policy in place, but a quick look at local in just about any system will tell you that they don't take the time to enforce it; why should we expect them to do any better with this?

I have a feeling that when this monument is unveiled, there are going to be a lot of innapropriate names, and even more just plain ridiculous or meaningless stuff, that make their way onto its surface. Oh well; at least it will be in a place where hardly anyone will ever see it or care!

Abrazzar wrote:
Anyway, it's better than pizza, I guess.


Blasphemy!
Grimster
Reikoku
Plug N Play
#426 - 2014-02-28 14:19:35 UTC
Some arse has made my alt my EvE account main - WTF!

Support flipping the bird too with cut 'n paste responses. Nice.
Thylbana Nyx
Caldari Tax-Dodgers
#427 - 2014-02-28 20:07:40 UTC
Do we have a time on which this is happening? Upon the reset of the 1st, or the reset of the 28th because it starts the 1st, like 12:00 am begins the day? Some other time?
Herr Otto Flick
Capstone Acquisitions
Gears Confederation
#428 - 2014-02-28 20:30:04 UTC
I declare best name! You may kiss me...
Anonymous Player
Alt Shift Q
#429 - 2014-03-01 01:28:25 UTC
Is there still a chance to get in on this thing? I looked for time information and cannot find it. Did I miss a page on this thread with a GM response on the time?
Zander Kumamato
The Chaos Void
#430 - 2014-03-01 05:11:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Zander Kumamato
Make better (more)(varied) missions, Make better (more) content, Make more ships!

Finish WiS (scrap WoD and use it for WiS instead!) and put the monument on a world in the New Eden in game universe and make it so we can go down and walk around it.

Something.

That real life 'monument' is a waste of money that could have been spent on the game!

Also:

1 million years from now, the only structure left on earth is the eve online monument, the future super advanced civilizations HAVE NO CLUE about this ancient "new eden eve online" city that mysteriously vanished. *shelved next to Atlantis*
Anonymous Player
Alt Shift Q
#431 - 2014-03-01 05:52:06 UTC
Zander Kumamato wrote:
Make better (more)(varied) missions, Make better (more) content, Make more ships!

Finish WiS (scrap WoD and use it for WiS instead!) and put the monument on a world in the New Eden in game universe and make it so we can go down and walk around it.

Something.

That real life 'monument' is a waste of money that could have been spent on the game!

Also:

1 million years from now, the only structure left on earth is the eve online monument, the future super advanced civilizations HAVE NO CLUE about this ancient "new eden eve online" city that mysteriously vanished. *shelved next to Atlantis*


Personally, I'd rather be on a monument for a future advanced civilization to discover and ponder over than have some crappy monument in the game. I can already access the game, why do I need a monument with my name on it in the game?
Severed Logic
AETCO
#432 - 2014-03-01 08:35:57 UTC
Thylbana Nyx wrote:
Do we have a time on which this is happening? Upon the reset of the 1st, or the reset of the 28th because it starts the 1st, like 12:00 am begins the day? Some other time?


Indeed i'd like to know this, i'd like to give my buddy some money to resub his account, if it's not too late (8:30 eve time).
DRACOincarnation
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#433 - 2014-03-01 10:09:23 UTC
Also curious how "main" is defined....

"Wenn die Gesellschaft in Frieden und Freiheit leben will, dann braucht sie den Beitrag der Nachrichtendienste" W.S. "[...], dass die Deutschen Privatsphäre etwa so betrachten wie wir Amerikaner vielleicht Meinungs- oder Religionsfreiheit." M.H.

Thylbana Nyx
Caldari Tax-Dodgers
#434 - 2014-03-01 12:43:36 UTC
DRACOincarnation wrote:
Also curious how "main" is defined....

Your character with the highest skill points
Thylbana Nyx
Caldari Tax-Dodgers
#435 - 2014-03-01 12:44:36 UTC
Severed Logic wrote:
Thylbana Nyx wrote:
Do we have a time on which this is happening? Upon the reset of the 1st, or the reset of the 28th because it starts the 1st, like 12:00 am begins the day? Some other time?


Indeed i'd like to know this, i'd like to give my buddy some money to resub his account, if it's not too late (8:30 eve time).


Whatever it was, it's over now. Hope I get this character's name and not the one I deleted. Ugh
AkJon Ferguson
JC Ferguson and Son Ltd
Ferguson Alliance
#436 - 2014-03-01 15:08:49 UTC
Could a dev please answer the question about time (when the list was (will be) compiled)? I assume it was this past downtime but please let us know.
jin ko82
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#437 - 2014-03-01 16:29:15 UTC
******* use the money this is going to take to fix eve maybe?
Skeecher
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#438 - 2014-03-01 17:34:36 UTC
People shouldn't worry so much about whether they'll be on it or not. From reading about it, it doesn't look as if it will last that long, not when it's been exposed to the Icelandic weather for a few years.

And some seem to think it's going to be monolithic in size. Remember, it's only 5 metres to it's highest point and all the names are going to be on the base section of it, probably 0.5cm for each one, all tightly packed together.

So think "Spinal Tap" for this idea rather than some massive permanent structure Lol
Whoaness JWong
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#439 - 2014-03-01 21:08:48 UTC
I was thinking, they should post a list of name that are going to be on the monument!

Then, maybe it's bad to post people's character names? I dunno, an email verification could be good too. Seems like a big deal to not go unconfirmed if your name mistakenly got left out.
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#440 - 2014-03-02 00:52:00 UTC
Dunno about the rest who resubbed recently but for me the timing was convenient.

This monument is to celebrate EVE and all the characters that made it happen.
They chose character names because our characters are the ones being part of EVE and not our RL names.