EVE General Discussion

The only thing he achieved was to push it underground.

The player is still playing and bonus rooms are still running.

There's just much less information on them now and much less warning material available to players that believe ISK doubling could be legit.

Not a great outcome really.

Just great.

Now I have to find someone new to send the carebears to when they get upset that I blew up their mining barge after they get all angry and demand I replace their ship.

Before this I could just say "Ripard Teg handles all cases of bullying and will replace your ship and give you ISK, just contact him for replacement."

Now I have to find someone new to run my ship replacement program. Anyone up to the job?

Jester did a lot for the EVE playerbase. What have you ever contributed apart from snide one-liners?

he lowered the player count by at least 1 making it easier to get in/out of jita!

Ok so Icarna happened and CCP fully well knew they weren't going to put effort into EVE itself for 18 months. According to your... logic the people who started raging and shooting monuments about it were the problem and we should have just let CCP (the lumbering, blind and mostly incompetent hulk) do as they wanted.

Never raise your voice people, your owners and leaders know what's best for you.

I'm thinking of starting a blog. Not to write anything, because I can't be bothered. I'll just stick up a space for people to post their sob stories then ask for their stuff. Title something like "EvE Counselling Service" with the tagline "Feel violated / harassed / emotional? GOOD. Stuff to me, there's the door". Then I can get people to yell to the Marshamobile.


Of course the comments will be overwhelmingly positive on the blog. Even critics - if they are reasonable - don't particularly like to see players burn out and start restricting their interraction. Only the most petty will go on there and remark negatively. It's not 308 positive comments here though is it, and GD only represents a fraction of the playerbase. We know Ripard is popular based on his CSM election results. So is the Mittani & Gevlon to certain groups so not sure what that proves, other than that a variety of people can gain support regardless of their position.

Pay attention to this comment, it suggests Ripard managed to annoy some members of CCP in a similar way to people here. I wonder how.

You see, I disliked what E1 was doing however it was plain to me that CCP were well aware of what was going on and were okay with it.

Most people who knew anything about E1 knew what he was doing.

It was nothing new.

The easiest way to deal with somebody like E1 is simply not to play his game. If nobody plays his game then it stops, it was that simple.

If people chose to play his game then more fool them.

Then comes along Riptard and uses his position on the CSM to create a carefully planned storm by making number of well over the top incendiary comments to maximised the outrage to get 1 person he did not like banned.

Whether you liked E1 or not, the fact is Riptard abused his position on the CSM to settle a personal vendetta. Some may say CCP didn't have to do anything to E1 but considering the amount of outrage being expressed and that it had appeared on a few external gaming news sites, CCP had no choice.

Riptard put CCP in a no win situation.

So yeah, boo hoo that somebody who abused his position on the CSM to get 1 person banned has stopped his crappy blog.

Yes, CSM members have full control over what CCP does and thinks, also he's the only CSM member so he alone gets to say where CCP goes. There's not other CSM member who, if necessary, could oppose his position and at no point does CCP have the option to ignore what that single CSM member has to say.

You have now switched from being deliberately obtuse to using considerable hyperbole.

Most likely that if Ripard hadn't become involved, CCP would have brushed it all under the carpet. As is their habit.