EVE General Discussion

Have you heard the news? CCP will introduce instant CONCORD intervention in hi-sec, to be released in next patch...

Ooops, hasta la vista baby CODE.

CODE guys: you sound like a scratched record from 2012 : "calm down miner...crrr, calm down miner...crrr, calm down miner...crrr, calm down miner...crrr". Give us something new !

Dearest Vanessa, Clockwork Robot is correct in pointing out your non sequitur. I'm obliged to him.

I've an idea why you were reduced to putting together such a vapid comment; you were utterly unable to address a single one of my 3 statements.

There are 2 possibilities (well, 3, but the 3rd is easily dismissed). One is that you disagreed with what I said but couldn't summon the effort to respond properly.

The second possibility (and the more likely one) is that you understood not a word of what I was saying. To cover your incomprehension you dashed off what appeared to you to be a suitably combative response.

Alas, combative the response may have been, but it bore not the faintest relation to what I was saying.

I'm sure you're an intelligent and engagingly thoughtful person, Vanessa. It's just a shame that so little of those qualities is on display this afternoon.

.....and yet, still you fail to respond to my comments.

I, however, was brought up to answer my critics; so, I shall answer this one.

I am not a housewife. They're rare now, but were very common during my childhood. I had and have a great deal of respect for them. They did a lot more than 'clean the dishes' - and most of the ones I knew were proud of their homes and their role in home-making. Things are different now. No-one wants to do the dishes, so it's install-a-machine time!

I'm never bored, being one of those people whose mind generates interest like a running tap. What you call 'verbal diarrhea' is simply my manner of writing; my 'style', if you like. I'm sorry it taxes you.

I work largely from home, but do take walks abroad, in fair and foul weather alike. My keyboard is my slave, not my master.

If you want a break from me, dear Vanessa, it can be easily achieved by your taking your own advice. Or, if you really can't abide my being in the same thread as your esteemed self - why, block me!

I await your response to my original post, and anything you can come up with to this one (always presuming that you've understood it). You can use any words which come into your head; just make sure they're the relevant ones.

I think, they sing "We shall overcome" all day long and hug some trees.

*eats popcorn while using tears from carebears

CODE. is just a bunch of in-game sociopaths who get their kicks by picking on the easy targets of Hi Sec.
They do add texture to the game though. I don't think Eve would be Eve without allowing groups like them.

I just think the balance has been a bit too much in their favor the last 6+ years, ever since the original destroyer buff.

Who are you to tell us how to play this game? If you want to enforce your laws or morals on us feel free to shoot us or plex our accounts, till then, you're not the boss of me, thats what a sandbox is all about!

Also, well done fellow agents on getting him to reveal his location and how long his seditious rebel organization has been operating. Excellent work, great interrogation skills. Fantastic.

We apply pressure to the laziest and most egregious bot-aspirant players in the game. Without player-imposed consequences for pure-yield, AFK and botting-style play, there would be no game left in highsec. You would have a bunch of silent players sitting in max-yield fit exhumers, mining while watching Netflix, not interacting or doing anything engaging, just than staring blankly at their computer screen watching a mining hold fill up. There needs to be consequences for fitting choices, and players who do keep some awareness of the universe around them and spend effort on their defense should be rewarded by having their competitors exploded for them.

You may not see it, and will never admit it, but the Code is designed to save you from your worst impulses. Like many short-sighted miners, you appear to want mining to come with no risk nor require any thought or effort spent on defense. Despite your inclinations, if CCP changed mining to be like your ideal, the game would suffer immensely. New Eden, and its economy are founded on conflict, and if everyone decide to hang up their weapons of war and sit around holding hands and grinding stuff into the universe now in safety, the economy, and thus the motivation for so many people to play, would just collapse and the game grind to a halt.

Someone has to provide player-driven risk in highsec to create content and serve out consequences on bad, lazy, greedy and clueless players, and that thankless job has fallen to the New Order of Highsec as one of the last sources of player-created stories for highsec. Feel free to keep imagining that the 100% safe highsec you yearn for would be good for the game, but both CCP, and the New Order know what is best for you and will continue to keep you at risk and actually playing a player-driven, competitive sandbox PvP game (as opposed to a single-player FarmVille clone) like Eve Online is intended to be.

People are sick of different things. I -for one- love to read the site and the jolly threads of the New Order.

Speak for yourself, or make a poll at least if you want to pose as the voice of majority.