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http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/...-190533986.html Imagine spending years devoting your time and your finances to acquiring an impressive video game spaceship, one of the biggest and most valuable the gaming world has ever seen.
Now imagine all of that work being destroyed in minutes.
One player of the long-running online game EVE Online experienced that horror Sunday, when an ambush destroyed his supercarrier valued at a whopping $9,000.
The massive world of EVE Online is all about buying, piloting and blowing up spaceships. It’s not for the faint at heart, in part because its in-game currency, called ISK (Interstellar Kredits), carries a real-world value. The Revenant -- one of only three ships that big in existence -- carries a value of 309 billion ISK, making it among the priciest bits of code in the game.
That also made it quite the target.
The ambush played out with plenty of intrigue. Players in the Pandemic Legion received an SOS and assumed it was a player in distress. It turns out the player they had put in charge of leading their fleet was actually a spy for an opposing group, who led them directly into a bunch of dreadnaughts and supercarriers. The owner of the Revenant, a player named TSID, could do little to stop the virtual bloodbath, and the rest is EVE Online history.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet." Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."
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whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet." Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."
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This has been around for ages. I think it was in one of Cracked.com's columns.
But yes, funny.
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Douches are always losing money on EVE. This is a new one.
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-biggest-dick-moves-in-history-online-gaming/Reported in Mxy's own publication in 2011. ("CRACKED" recently registered its trade mark in Australia. In addition to Mxy not publishing my supergood article, he didn't engage me to do the legal work. He's so in my shitbox. Whatever a shitbox is.)
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(In that link, there is the "literal dick attack" story, from Second Life. Every time I read it, I'm reduced to fits of laughter.)
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Pouty Stick Insect Alert.
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(In that link, there is the "literal dick attack" story, from Second Life. Every time I read it, I'm reduced to fits of laughter.)  Tee-hee.
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-biggest-dick-moves-in-history-online-gaming/
Reported in Mxy's own publication in 2011. Yeah, that's a different EVE dickery story. There's also the time a bunch of players lost $50,000 in an EVE ponzi scheme: http://www.cracked.com/article_20283_5-bizarre-ways-online-gaming-affecting-real-world_p2.html("CRACKED" recently registered its trade mark in Australia. In addition to Mxy not publishing my supergood article, he didn't engage me to do the legal work. He's so in my shitbox. Whatever a shitbox is.) A shitbox is where you have your dinner.
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dinner? I barely knew her!
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EVE sounds like a fun place. I should check it out.
This from the man who set up the First Imperial Bank on Shartak, asked people to deposit gold coins as "shareholders", made some nominal "interest"/"dividend" payments, waited for the players to leave/forget, and ended up with 40000 gold coins which were used to fund wars and a casino for the next two years. (The casino bankrupted the only other bank in the game.) It'd be evil, if it wasn't so incredibly nerdy.
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Dave: There's also an MMOFPS EVE tie-in called Dust 514 that may be worth a look.
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EVE sounds like a fun place. I should check it out. It is, but it's basically spreadsheets in space. You have to have an appreciation for crunching numbers and disseminating supplies and ships. Obviously, you have the engagements as well, but the game's set up to discourage any loss of ships--obviously. Maintenance is the primary focus. Homeworld was always so much better for battles. Damn I miss that game.
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Dave: There's also an MMOFPS EVE tie-in called Dust 514 that may be worth a look. Thats not a PC game. Its a PS3 game, and you can now fuck off and die.
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Dave: There's also an MMOFPS EVE tie-in called Dust 514 that may be worth a look. Thats not a PC game. Its a PS3 game, and you can now fuck off and die. My mistake; for some reason I thought it was PC/PS3.
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thats because you are a cunt who knows nothing
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EVE sounds like a fun place. I should check it out. It is, but it's basically spreadsheets in space. You have to have an appreciation for crunching numbers and disseminating supplies and ships. Obviously, you have the engagements as well, but the game's set up to discourage any loss of ships--obviously. Maintenance is the primary focus. ... book-keepers in space? Sounds dreary when you put it like that. Some guys over on the Shartak board are playing Tales of the Old Republlic. Tempted to join in.
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I wouldn't call it dreary. You just have to enjoy the upkeep. thats because you are a cunt who knows nothing Did you play that game by the way? I like the premise, but I hear you have to really have an appreciation for the game's connection to Eve to actually have any fun with it.
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I wouldn't call it dreary. You just have to enjoy the upkeep. thats because you are a cunt who knows nothing Did you play that game by the way? I like the premise, but I hear you have to really have an appreciation for the game's connection to Eve to actually have any fun with it. I haven't heard much about the attachment with EVE inasmuch as I have that it suffers from a lot of the same pitfalls as most "free to play" games; either you invest a massive amount of time into getting equipment or buy a bunch of shit, and even then, in terms of skill development, it's easy to fuck up/spread your skills too thinly.
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I wouldn't call it dreary. You just have to enjoy the upkeep. thats because you are a cunt who knows nothing Did you play that game by the way? I like the premise, but I hear you have to really have an appreciation for the game's connection to Eve to actually have any fun with it. I just saw it as another FPS. Was ok, but nothing special. I was part of the original Beta testing phase, and for a free game you cannot complain.
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I wouldn't call it dreary. You just have to enjoy the upkeep. thats because you are a cunt who knows nothing Did you play that game by the way? I like the premise, but I hear you have to really have an appreciation for the game's connection to Eve to actually have any fun with it. I haven't heard much about the attachment with EVE inasmuch as I have that it suffers from a lot of the same pitfalls as most "free to play" games; either you invest a massive amount of time into getting equipment or buy a bunch of shit, and even then, in terms of skill development, it's easy to fuck up/spread your skills too thinly. I havent heard much about you except that you are a cunt who has an opinion on everything, even when you know nothing about it.
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