en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/549523 Comments by Bel Amar http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2011/03/faction-frigate-lottery/#IDComment138824908 Ticket 42 please Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:26:32 +0000 http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2011/03/faction-frigate-lottery/#IDComment138824908 http://eveoganda.blogspot.com/2011/03/thunderdome.html#IDComment138598541 Whilst we're obviously not going to agree, I think that the death of honour bound 1v1 is just something we need to live with if the only alternative is to create an instance. About the only instance that I'd personally be happy with is a "virtual duel" via Incarna or something... Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:35:32 +0000 http://eveoganda.blogspot.com/2011/03/thunderdome.html#IDComment138598541 http://eveoganda.blogspot.com/2011/03/thunderdome.html#IDComment138204741 I'm inclined to agree with Ekon. This effectively creates an instance, and (at least when in space) there are no other instances in the game. If you're in space, you should always be have other players screw up your plans. I'd much prefer a dedicated deadspace that the players are auto fleet warped to (well maybe different entrances to the same deadspace). A deadspace signature reduction would give them time to finish their fight, but allow for someone who is really dedicated to interfere. Heck, stick turrets, NPCs etc in there that shoot and web anyone who isn't in the fight, but don't isolate the combatants from the rest of the universe Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:55:29 +0000 http://eveoganda.blogspot.com/2011/03/thunderdome.html#IDComment138204741 http://manasi.eveplayer.net/2011/03/thinking-cap-continued/#IDComment135279589 Think of a scene from Africa. There are a few lions and THOUSANDS of zebras, wildebeast etc. The prey animals are out there, in the open, in a dangerous place, because it's worth the risk. They get food and water, and the chance of any one prey beast being picked off is small due to the numbers of them. Low sec needs to move in a direction like that. /Decrease/ the chance of catching any given carebear coming through lowsec and you will see MORE carebears. You'll lose a higher proportion of them, but the extra numbers will make up for that. Your suggestion moves in exactly the opposite direction. It minimises the difference between low sec and null sec, without increasing the rewards of low sec, simply ensuring that you get less carebears come through. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:48:12 +0000 http://manasi.eveplayer.net/2011/03/thinking-cap-continued/#IDComment135279589 http://www.evenews24.com/2011/03/10/iskbank-com-customers-speak-out/#IDComment133937724 I've got a mate who just re-joined the game after playing for a couple of months years ago. He was planning on buyingsome isk once he found out it was legal to do so within the game. I pointed him to a GTC seller and unfortunately the site was down when he went there. So he put "buy isk for eve" in to google to find another site. He ended up with a non legit isk seller, but he didn't know enough to differentiate between what was legal and what wasn't. He reversed the payment to the dodgy site once I told him it was dodgy, but the only reason he now knows the difference is because I was able to explain it, not because it was obvious... Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:25:15 +0000 http://www.evenews24.com/2011/03/10/iskbank-com-customers-speak-out/#IDComment133937724 http://eveoganda.blogspot.com/2011/02/dinner-time-at-javix-house.html#IDComment131140316 The only issue I have with the in character element is that confusion between conversation and conservation. If she's actually spending real IC time studying this stuff, then there is no way she'd get the two confused :) Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:09:12 +0000 http://eveoganda.blogspot.com/2011/02/dinner-time-at-javix-house.html#IDComment131140316 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment53773672 Alright, fair call :) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:51:45 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment53773672 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment53669227 My subscription caught a comment you've apparently since deleted. One in where you called me an idiot, apparently for sharing your dislike of the reference to Hitler and Stalin. But now that entire thread of the conversation is gone. We managed to have an earlier discussion where we disagreed, but managed to keep it civil. Why the insult when I was actually agreeing with you, and why then silently delete that entire branch of conversation? Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:07:43 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment53669227 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment52833709 Oh, I get that. I am the researching industrialist type myself who came late to PvP in my EVE career. For me, risk from other players was one of the biggest drawcards of EVE. Other people are the best in game AI you'll ever find. So, that being said, I never for a moment thought you were talking about me or others like me. I fully understand you're talking about those players who choose to partake in a risk free, effortless gameplay style, and seem to resent others who bring risk in to their game. But none of that changes my point in the slightest. Those people might mis-understand EVE, and in enough numbers, they would potentially risk one of the key points of differentiation that EVE has from other MMO's. But none of that changes my point in the slightest. Risk free gameplay is a perfectly valid game choice, even if they've chosen the wrong game. Heck, I love playing The Sims as well as EVE, and it doesn't get much more risk free than that. The mere fact that I enjoy both types of gameplay in the right context is a good example of the point I'm trying to make. The lazy, mentally deficient sort of behavior and mentality that you see in EVE says nothing at all about the person. It may be an insight in to what they are, or it may be a facet of them not understanding EVE itself, and how misguided such a style is in this context, or it may be a manifestation of things going on outside of EVE that says nothing at all about the player themself and their mentality. Yet your rant targets every single player partaking in this risk free, lazy approach to gaming, and more than that, aims at the people themselves, rather than their activity. And saying that you hate someone for their playstyle because of the mentality it represents is equally as misguided as that person saying they hate gankers because they're all sociopaths. You're just as accurate when you call them on their mentality as they are when they call you a sociopath etc Tell the carebears to fuck off out of your game and stop spreading their softy softly approach to a game dependant on risk all you like. But don't tell the players themselves that you fucking hate them, when the window you're looking out of to judge them is so narrow Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:51:51 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment52833709 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment52756045 Sorry, I have trouble with the bit where you claim that you're not angry, but that you FUCKING HATE some people. I'll grant the possibility that anger is the wrong word, but when you then describe someones mentality as utterly revolting, there is some sort of negative emotion swirling around there. The problem is that you are simply projecting your preferred playstyle on to the game and getting frustrated that others don't share the same approach. It may or may not relate to their personality outside of EVE or it may instead relate to the amount of time they get to play etc. Any one of a thousand reasons someone might carebear about in EVE. And though you may hate the carebear playstyle, to tar every (most) person(s) taking part in that playstyle with the same brush, and with such strong emotion directed at the people themselves, comes across as slightly hypocritical to my eye. You claim to be upset at the insults thrown your way regarding morality etc, but then you turn around and claim them all to be dysfunctional idiots for wanting to tread softly in a computer game. Even if they've picked the wrong game to indulge in that particular gaming style, the choice itself doesn't give you an eye in to their psyche any more than you being a ganker gives insight in to your personality. If you want to claim that their insults thrown at you are invalid and made out of ignorance, then you can't turn around and throw insults back at them based on the self same shaky reasoning... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:16:12 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment52756045 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment52703414 The first thing that occurs to me reading this rant, it's equally "unbalanced" as the angry space nun you mention, and partakes of at least some of the "bat shit crazy" that makes Wal Mart employees wish you had bowel cancer. Sure, you're not wishing harm on the carebear, but you are going in to a mouth frothing rage telling them you hate them. Sure, you can pass the rant off as tongue in cheek, and maybe it is, maybe the scale of your feelings isn't truly as large as portrayed here. Even if that's so however, I'm sure you believe the sentiment behind the rant. If that is indeed the case, then this boils down to you getting upset at other people because of their playstyle. You are ranting about your dislike for certain people merely because of their choice of playstyle. It's one thing to dislike their playstyle choice and the impact that style may have on your vision of the game, but it's another thing altogether to get an emotional response and direct it at the people themselves, simply because of their preferred playstyle. To me, that becomes a case of the pot calling the kettle black Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:02:16 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#IDComment52703414 http://myrhial.blogspot.com/2010/01/concord-criticism-security-penalties.html#IDComment50916272 Well, killing a ship is not going to guarantee kill the people on it. They will have their own means of escape, even if the game doesn't show it. Of course, not all of them will get out, and many will die, but it's possible to argue the intent was not to kill anyway, just to do some economic warfare. Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:55:04 +0000 http://myrhial.blogspot.com/2010/01/concord-criticism-security-penalties.html#IDComment50916272 http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/10/join-the-tuskers/#IDComment38690160 Well, I'm not going to join, but if you're in Molden Heath, I may cross swords with you at some point :) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:07:27 +0000 http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/10/join-the-tuskers/#IDComment38690160 http://lifeinlowsec.blogspot.com/2009/10/ic-just-like-old-times.html#IDComment37769622 Nice segue in to the CCP dev video link :) Thu, 8 Oct 2009 03:03:29 +0000 http://lifeinlowsec.blogspot.com/2009/10/ic-just-like-old-times.html#IDComment37769622 http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/09/evemon-and-eft-on-your-mac-but-not-eve/#IDComment35278698 Posting just so I can subscribe to any replies. I too want to know :) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:06:40 +0000 http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/09/evemon-and-eft-on-your-mac-but-not-eve/#IDComment35278698 http://www.eve-druid.com/eve-player-blogs-opml-download-updated-29/#IDComment34976277 Do you have the feed URL for Akikio’s Plog? I'm simply manually adding people to my initial OPML subscription each time you make one of these posts, and I can't find a feed on Akikio’s site... Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:31:48 +0000 http://www.eve-druid.com/eve-player-blogs-opml-download-updated-29/#IDComment34976277 http://www.eve-druid.com/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-08-02/#IDComment29263398 Having these twitter updates would probably be more useful if there was also a link to your twitter account somewhere easy to find :) Mon, 3 Aug 2009 04:35:18 +0000 http://www.eve-druid.com/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-08-02/#IDComment29263398 http://eveguru.mygamescribe.com/2009/titan-weekly.html#IDComment28325284 Query, GSR? Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:20:46 +0000 http://eveguru.mygamescribe.com/2009/titan-weekly.html#IDComment28325284