EVE General Discussion

How hard is it to scratch anodized aluminium?

Ha! I love The Mittani's voiced disgust on that Twitter post, because we all know he's a man of such high moral fiber.

Yes, it's vandalism. No, it shouldn't have happened. Yes, it's a **** move.

Any word on how much that real life e-peen monument cost to build? Like someone said before, it's a monument to a bank account dressed up as an homage to players. Personally, I'd rather have WiS and new shiny ships than a monument. I'm sure some people let go after that 20 million euro loss would rather have jobs, too.

The point is that the focus here should be the fact that an Eve player committed an act of vandalism at Fanfest, not that an Eve player committed an act of vandalism on a phallic e-peen video game monument. All these comments like, "Oh, you're such a horrible person" and "You should be beaten severely" are just as ridiculous. Get over yourselves and your bleeding hearts. Someone scratched someone's name out on a chunk of metal, and while it's rude, classless, and petty, people are rude, classless, and petty every single day. Go to any major city and see graffiti ruining facades of historic, MEANINGFUL landmarks and cultural treasures. It's a travesty.

This is not. This is a crime, and should be dealt with as such. People have made other people literally cry in Eve, yet we all love "the tears". Scratch someone's name on a monument, post it on Twitter, and people will actually call you the famous German dictator. Go ahead...check it out...it's in the comment section of the Twitter post.

Let's get this straight: it's fine to torment people in-game to the point of tears or extreme bouts of rage, yet scratch someone's name out on a monument (again, it's a crime...but you're treating it as a crime against humanity) and all of a sudden you're outraged and all take the moral high ground.

Got it.

Let CCP clean it up and charge the guy who did it. Everyone else should save their ever-present outrage and go blow up more spaceships. "It's just the internet" doesn't apply anymore. Being a **** is being a ****, wherever you are.

I wrote a lengthy thing about how you were wrong, but realized ISD would freak with that much explosives information on the forums.

In an nutshell, the sort of thing a terrorist would use wouldn't have much effect on it, it would take specialized equipment. Iceland being what it is, there's not a whole lot of explosives and their precursors floating around.

I saw a tacobell, thats enough
Also arent there plenty of fermenting foods?
What if the monument is over a forgotten shark?

Not hard at all. Aluminium is a very soft material - it's about a 3 on the Mohs scale - you can cut it with kitchen scissors. Aluminium oxide is much harder at about 8.5-9 Mohs, but it's a thin layer anchored in unoxidized aluminium, which will give way more easily. Meanwhile, The stainless steel keys pretty much everybody carries in their pocket on the other hand are more like a 5 or 6. the same goes for the rivets in your jeans, your nickel-steel belt buckle, or heck a common piece of grit or gravel stuck in your shoe.

So, anodized Aluminium wasn't chosen for its hardness: it was chosen for its corrosion-resistance. Iceland is a wet country and freezing cold a lot of the time. Also, the monument is parked right next to the ocean and there is NOTHING quite like salt water for reliably corroding things. Rust is a landscape feature where the sea is involved.

A few scuffs and abrasions won't badly reduce the legibility of the names, but corroding away into a mess of mineral salts and oxides would ruin all the plates, and surprisingly fast.

While there probably IS something out there that could resist both the salt-water splashing of a high tide in bad weather AND the clothing of people closely inspecting the monument (or of idiots who think their internet spaceships vendetta is worth vandalising a public monument for), I doubt that substance is inexpensive.

Although it would be kind of fitting to have made the plates out of Titanium Diboride just like a Caldari ship, I guess.

Put it outside the ten year station.

You just described Yulai before the gate changes.