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Grunanca
Doughboys Overload Everything
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Posted - 2014.07.01 06:33:00 -
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On the ransom side I remember catching a navy raven who had gone astray in low sec. Turned out he was a pimped mission runner with a 1 bil fit. We scanned him and saw the setup and let him go after an 800 mil ransom. We saw he was going into another group of pirates on hsi way out, so we decided to tell him to dock up and let us escort him out of low sec (as he would otherwise have perished in a fire 1 jump later)
I also had a corp m8 give a random new guy in the help channel 200 million some days ago after he had asked some questions.
I remember a guy I killed in low sec who asked me how he could have avoided it. Ended uo with us talking over mail for some weeks, with me teaching him the basics of survival.
If you act friendly. you will often be meet the same way, the problem is that a lot of people have a hard time understanding its a game and the guy who just killed you really havent got any reason to dislike you, hence why you can still talk to him. |
Teinyhr
Venlith Taal
410
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Posted - 2014.07.01 10:02:00 -
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Back when the world was new, and Teinyhr was but a wee lass, pirates would occasionally reimburse your ship, particularly if you were new. New being a flexible definition, a pirate in good ol' Amamake/Osoggur gatecamp gave me ISK for a new Stabber when I was about two months into the game and gave me pointers on not getting blown up as often. I have a feeling this is no longer the case, but I hope someone proves me wrong.
Generally, people can be very helpful if they believe you are a genuine person and not one of the thousands of sob-story scammers. |
Debora Tsung
The Investment Bankers Guild
1149
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Posted - 2014.07.01 10:33:00 -
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Shortly after i started some random troll came my way and gave me all his stuff because he wanted to quit.
Felt quite awesome I got my first blue cloak and an enchanted axe... Oh wait, that was Dark age of Camelot...
Nope. Only Nice things I ever experienced in eve was either from my corp or... Hm... I guess there was that one guy that didn't pop my Golem after i shot him accidentally in that mission and he only charged 250M isk for it, I guess that was nice of him.
Also that was my first trip ever in a Golem, so one could even say that was extra nice.
Thanks extra nice dude which name I forgott. xD Stupidity should be a bannable offense.
Also This --> https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=216699 Please stop making "afk cloak" threads, thanks in advance. |
Nose' Feliciano
13
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Posted - 2014.07.01 11:16:00 -
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Nice people exist in EVE, you just never hear about them because they are overshadowed by the butt-wipes. Ladies, you know what they say about guys with big noses right? Heh-heh!! That's right, it means they are either Jewish or Italian.
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Kaarous Aldurald
ROC Deep Space The ROC
7560
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Posted - 2014.07.01 11:21:00 -
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Nose' Feliciano wrote:Nice people exist in EVE, you just never hear about them because they are overshadowed by the butt-wipes.
I would argue that as being down to the wildly different responses between the two acts.
If someone is nice to you in EVE, you might pay that forward a few times, but you largely just remain thankful.
When someone is mean in EVE, all the social justice warriors are lined up to come have a big emo circlejerk about it, each trying to outscream the others about their theoretical moral outrage at people being mean in a videogame. "Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
Clean Up Local 2014.-á |
BrundleMeth
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
168
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Posted - 2014.07.01 11:30:00 -
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A guy I barely knew quit EVE and gave me 2 Billion ISK.
But I have given away countless Drakes, Noctis, ISK and the occassional Tengu and Navy Scorpion and Navy Raven...
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Debora Tsung
The Investment Bankers Guild
1149
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Posted - 2014.07.01 11:36:00 -
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Oooo, reading Erzwal's post made me remember tha one cool thing ^^
I had a trial account in around 2005.
I had a new catalyst and ad some other guy wanted to fleet up with me t kills some belt rats. Guess we both had the same plan, only I fumbled with the UI and so he shot me first and won. ^^
Looks like we even had similar fits and skills. :P
Well, I flew around in my old frig again a for a bit until someone sent me an email and traded me my old stuff back. Back then I didn't even knew that anything dropped at all. :P
Got an invite to his corp, was a little bit wasted on my trial account since I didn't have a credit card and time codes weren't available at our local store, but that actually was nice. ^^ Stupidity should be a bannable offense.
Also This --> https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=216699 Please stop making "afk cloak" threads, thanks in advance. |
Grimpak
Shifting Sands Trader Cartel Bleak Horizon Alliance.
1611
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Posted - 2014.07.01 11:50:00 -
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J'Poll wrote:Intar Medris wrote:I had been playing EVE maybe 2-3 weeks. I was pecking away at some Veldspar using an industrial, this was way before Ventures came along. All of a sudden... whoosh!!! Rawr!!! bright orange beams from a Hulk, didn't know at the time what one was, shot over my nooblet head. Scared the **** out of me at first. I then convoed the pilot of the ship asking what kind of ship he was flying. He told me then proceeded for a few cycles of mining some ore for me. I would eventually have a Hulk of my own, but now I have forever left the carebear way of life behind. Uhm NO Before the Venture the way to mine was using racial frigates bonused to mining (ooh, good old Bantam mining). If you mined with an industrial you were just doing it wrong. actually before barges were introduced (I think mining frigates came after that), there was only 2 ways to mine in EVE: you either locked a rock with your industrial and went afk, while the single miner filled up the cargo hold, or you would get an apoc.
yes, that's right, the mighty apocalypse class battleship was the best mining ship ingame before mining barges were introduced.
no, we didn't had tier3 battleships back then either. [img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |
Julius Rigel
178
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Posted - 2014.07.01 11:54:00 -
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There's this guy in Aliastra who will log on every now and then and give anyone who asks a bit of ISK. That's pretty much all I've got.
Oh, and there was a guy who had a bunch of ships in Arnon, and he dumped them all out of an Orca in dozens of trips. He also flew an Orca full of POS modules into nullsec and got popped by a roaming gang, though. So I don't know if he was kind so much as... had a screw loose. Do YOU like to undock? |
Saji'us
Debauchery Inc.
16
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Posted - 2014.07.01 13:21:00 -
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Brutus Le'montac wrote:let me tell one of my encounters.
i was planning on going to nullsec, but really really low on isk, so i couldnt buy the dominix i wanted for ratting, one of the people in an incursion community i run with, asked me what i wanted, and give me the money not for a normal domi, but for a navy one
That guy didn't do you any favors, trust me.
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Durbon Groth
Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic
102
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Posted - 2014.07.01 13:27:00 -
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I pirate in lowsec from time to time, my rule is generally if I kill someone new, I'll convo them and if they're cool about it I'll re-imburse them for their loss, give them some pointers and stuff. Once killed a 2 day old character in a venture then podded him but we chatted and I felt bad so I dropped him 20 mil. The guy was cool (except for posting the mail I sent him on reddit - I got the **** taken by my corpies for a while about that one). The guy I killed did pay me the isk back about 3weeks later which I wasn't expecting and I like to think I helped him enjoy the game a bit more.
However, it's not entirely selfless. Most people here will remember that 4 year period where lowsec was empty as all hell, when carebears would go straight from hi to null and there was never any good hunting. By makinh new player's first trips to lowsec less traumatic you encourage more targets/pilots to come around in the future, and the more confident they are, the bigger ships they'll be flying...
So it's sort of like an investment for the future. I was surprised to read in the reddit thread I mentioned above that a lot of eve players think like this! |
BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie
Unleashed Pestilence
767
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Posted - 2014.07.01 17:40:00 -
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Brutus Le'montac wrote:hey everyone,
before i started playing eve, i have been reading a lot about eve. in general, eve is considerd one of the most harsh games out there.
i'm wondering if we can get a threadnaught going on, disproving eve as a very mean and harsh game. Because even after encountering scammer number 9213 or awoxer number 4527, there are random acts of kindness in eve.
so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess, which can reach from an pirate honoring a ransom, to someone helping you out form day 1.
lets hope people read this, and that it can help people find their way in eve, and its harsh, but sometimes very pleasant community. I agressed a friend's BC in an enyo. Was losing the fight, and when I hit hull he stopped attacking. That was very kind of him. I have a pretty kill mail now. New player resources: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Main_Page - General information http://www.evealtruist.com/p/know-your-enemy.html - Learn to PvP http://belligerentundesirables.com/ - Safaris, Awoxes, Ganking and Griefing-á |
Bael Malefic
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
102
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Posted - 2014.07.01 18:09:00 -
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I jumped a new-ish player doing a null data site in a Helios. Just as I got through his shield he started singing a verse from Major Tom in local.
I fully refunded his loss. |
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
5367
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Posted - 2014.07.01 19:08:00 -
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Brutus Le'montac wrote:
so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess,
I said GF once...and meant it.
Mr Epeen
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. You just saved one of them by typing 'u' instead of 'you'.-á Congratulations, dumbass! |
Varathius
Enlightened Industries Goonswarm Federation
73
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Posted - 2014.07.01 19:10:00 -
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Brutus Le'montac wrote:hey everyone,
before i started playing eve, i have been reading a lot about eve. in general, eve is considerd one of the most harsh games out there.
i'm wondering if we can get a threadnaught going on, disproving eve as a very mean and harsh game. Because even after encountering scammer number 9213 or awoxer number 4527, there are random acts of kindness in eve.
so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess, which can reach from an pirate honoring a ransom, to someone helping you out form day 1.
lets hope people read this, and that it can help people find their way in eve, and its harsh, but sometimes very pleasant community.
If I solo kill a person that is new to eve, which happens a lot, and I see during the fight that they struggle, but at least they stay for the fight (unless so many other cowards that run away in superior ship types), then I usually reimburse them 10x the amount of their ship loss, sometimes 20x, depends. That is as much as I can do to encourage new guys to get into solo fighting because oh boy, that is desperately needed.
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Kaorixx Midumulf
Useless Incorporated General Tso's Alliance
0
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Posted - 2014.07.01 19:16:00 -
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To be fair, I have never experience random kindness. So I have that going for me. Which is nice. |
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc. Arctic Light
290
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Posted - 2014.07.01 19:31:00 -
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I was once escorted out from a semi-hostile wh after I lost my Arazu on a failed attempt to beat a moros closing the aforementioned w-hole. The closed w-hole "remains" and decloaks you if you warped to 0 and it's closes while in warp, being new to W-holes I learned this the hard way. Anyway surprisingly I wasn't offered 'a pod express' but a hole leading to high sec.
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Tilly Delnero
Licorne Ventures Ltd.
149
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Posted - 2014.07.01 20:17:00 -
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I used to buy pirate ships just to see what they were like, fly them a couple of times in highsec then give them to friends or random people in my NPC corp. The reaction of some people when they realised I was serious about giving them away was priceless and very rewarding.
I tried to think of an act of kindness that was visited upon me in game but... I couldn't think of a single thing. |
Ralph King-Griffin
Lords.Of.Midnight The Devil's Warrior Alliance
2385
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Posted - 2014.07.01 20:25:00 -
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I used to regularly dump my crap jet -can the low meta stuff in newby systems, im not going to use it, he'll id be more like to just trash it sometimes , "Confirming EVE is hot, batshit crazy, and puts out." -Omar Alharazaad "CAKE CANNOT HOLD UP TO BEING A CHARACTER DAMNIT." --áUnsuccessful At Everything |
Zappity
Stay Frosty. A Band Apart.
1193
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Posted - 2014.07.01 20:28:00 -
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Durbon Groth wrote:I pirate in lowsec from time to time, my rule is generally if I kill someone new, I'll convo them and if they're cool about it I'll re-imburse them for their loss, give them some pointers and stuff. Once killed a 2 day old character in a venture then podded him but we chatted and I felt bad so I dropped him 20 mil. The guy was cool (except for posting the mail I sent him on reddit - I got the **** taken by my corpies for a while about that one). The guy I killed did pay me the isk back about 3weeks later which I wasn't expecting and I like to think I helped him enjoy the game a bit more.
However, it's not entirely selfless. Most people here will remember that 4 year period where lowsec was empty as all hell, when carebears would go straight from hi to null and there was never any good hunting. By makinh new player's first trips to lowsec less traumatic you encourage more targets/pilots to come around in the future, and the more confident they are, the bigger ships they'll be flying...
So it's sort of like an investment for the future. I was surprised to read in the reddit thread I mentioned above that a lot of eve players think like this! This is the post I was considering writing. I treat noobs in lowsec well. Why scare them off?
I still blow them up, obviously. But I will convo, share fits, give them the 'you shouldn't get podded in lowsec' lecture, maybe send a little isk. Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec. |
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Pix Severus
Deeper Feelings Inc.
1088
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Posted - 2014.07.01 21:57:00 -
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I sometimes buy a random ship, take it to a safe, and then eject and leave it for people to scan down and find. My lord. |
Raviel Oxidans
Imperial Dawn Ineluctable.
1
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Posted - 2014.07.01 22:06:00 -
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It was my first time in a wormhole, i pretended to hack relic and data sites in a probe withouth knowing those sites were escorted by sleepers, in the middle of my probing (the old probing, while you must move a probe one by one), a Loki appeared and crushed my ship, i escaped in my pod to high sec, then docked, the player talked to me and reimbursed my loss with 5M, also he gave me tips and that the same happened to him when he first entered in a wormhole. |
Felicity Love
Ka'ra Shabuir Inc.
1980
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Posted - 2014.07.01 22:14:00 -
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... I consider it a great act of kindness when people unanchor faction POS towers, six or seven at a time, then "race" around in a freighter (of all things) to apparently save trips by picking up all the structures and towers by only making one trip to each moon...
Suffice to say, they no longer own said faction towers and the hundreds of structures involved... but I appreciate the generousity all the same.
"Psssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh" -á-- That ambiguous and pseudo-technical term used by management to describe, to staff, how frakking cool something looks inside their own heads.
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Marsha Mallow
1199
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Posted - 2014.07.01 23:38:00 -
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Tilly Delnero wrote:I tried to think of an act of kindness that was visited upon me in game but... I couldn't think of a single thing. Same. I've tried to repay it by spending time in rookie chat and answering queries where possible (forums/channels etc). Someone gave me 5m early on for answering questions there, but being recruited by someone watching channel was more useful. Advice seems way more helpful than raw ISK, although I sometimes give stuff to newer industrialists if they poke certain alts with queries.
Sometimes I refund random ppl stuff they've bought (usually around Christmas). Even vets seem quite pleased by that, it doesn't just have to be about helping new players.
People I pop are often too busy squawking in local to stop and give advice to so I usually just pod them to stop the racket. Although I've invited a couple to ingame channels to chat to people if they weren't too rabid. Reading some of the comments here I'll pay a bit more attention to the age of the character. There are still players and corps who frown on piracy/ganking or attacking rookie ships/haulers because they had bad experiences when they started.
People who are friendly and have a good sense of humour will get help from unexpected players. The 'harsh universe' thing is in part a myth and I'm not sure the flipside is advertised properly. Strong corps and alliances survive because they look after their members and form close ties. Even solo players can form ties if they don't take things too seriously. TO THE RIPARDMOBILE! |
WASPY69
Hard Knocks Inc.
295
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Posted - 2014.07.02 01:48:00 -
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I will be forever grateful to a group of belligerent skunks who war dec'd the corp I was in when I started playing EVE. If it hadn't been for them, I would never have opened my eyes to what EVE truly is about and the possibilities of content creation it offers. Because of that war dec I've come to love EVE like no other game.
So in my eyes, this was the greatest act of kindness that happened to me, personally, in EVE. <3 |
Deebo Singleton
Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2014.07.02 02:02:00 -
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I once decided to go dunking indies in my stealth bomber and got my prober lol'd by some wh residents while I wasn't paying attention. Turned out my main had left is probes at home like a fookin legend on gin alley, so I convo'd the gents to see if they'd sell me an exit since they'd closed the door behind me. Pretty much expected them to boosh my ransome and have me warp to the sun for an honourable send-off in my pod, but after 15 mins of witty banter they told me I was a chillbro and gave me a free pass.
Couple months later I ended up back in the same hole, with my probes this time and not welping my scanner. Passed on the opportunity to suprisesex two of their innocent little newbros tryharding a site in two drakes. Started chit chatting them again when another day-tripping snoop showed up and had a go at the drakes. I warped in just in time to save one of them and helped him dunk the offending bastard back to his clone station. At this point they've sort of smitten with me, all kinds of thanks and highfive in chat. Feeling that the debt was repaid, I made my way out.
Not sure if I won't violence them next time I happen by, but having some random newbros like pet goldfish is pretty neat. |
Unezka Turigahl
Det Som Engang Var
237
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Posted - 2014.07.02 05:09:00 -
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I gave a noob a Drake and a Retriever.
I gave someone a Pithum C-type Invuln and two Fed Navy Webs for their Vindicator.
I gave another someone the same mods for their Vindicator.
Someone gave me a Machariel.
But he was drunk, so I gave it back a couple days later. |
Hakaari Uisen
Legion of the Southern Cross
2
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Posted - 2014.07.02 06:54:00 -
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Great thread. I was mining with a buddy and an orca showed up in the same belt (plus mining ships).
The orca pilot convo'd us an offered his bonusus. Turned out to be a husband and wife duo who were playing the game together. Nice people. I've also been given Isk when I was new.
I hope someday to pay it forward. |
Ja'kar
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
7
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Posted - 2014.07.02 11:53:00 -
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Many moons ago I killed rifter in 0.5, he sent me a convo and asked how I was able to kill him as his corp told him it was 'safe' space.
He congratulated me on my kill and we had a laugh about eve and things.
So I had a few spare ships and fittings I sorted him out and sent him few quid.
My one and only good deed! |
Solecist Project
Deeper Feelings Inc.
2531
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Posted - 2014.07.02 12:58:00 -
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There are so many sad and lonely people around, who simply try to be nice and happy to have friends somehow ...
... it's quite saddening.
Not a single day in the last weeks went by, when I haven't met a new person that's actually only looking for a friend to share thoughts and feelings with.
Kindness isn't enough. What's needed is dedication. My current portrait: http://imgur.com/a/q6zRU#10 Sol.freeform: http://imgur.com/a/eFlYD Hey CCP fix your server please! :p
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