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Rami Tinard
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:07:00 -
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I was considering booking March 10th off as a holiday from work, but then again is it worth it?
I mean if the expansion comes out that day, then surely it won't roll live on the servers until the scheduled 11.00 - 12.00 downtime (which may well be longer than usual?). So at the very least it would mean a wasted morning of sitting reading the box & picking my nose.
Or will they schedule the downtime / expansion going live at some other time?
Plus then theres the mass of people trying to log in which I bet will increase, but there's no getting around that I suppose - just keep trying...trying..
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Berious
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:10:00 -
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Never play on patch day is a general rule for all MMOs
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Bish Ounen
Gallente
Best Path Inc.
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:10:00 -
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March 10th is a TUESDAY. Waste of a holiday. If you MUST take a day off, take Friday, March 13th. Since it's a "bad luck" day in most of the western world, I suspect that many workplaces will be light that day anyway as all the superstitious people call in sick. You'll just blend in with the crowd taking the day off.
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Zeba
Minmatar
Honourable East India Trading Company
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:13:00 -
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If previous large expansions that introduced tons of new features are any indication then wait till the weekend to put any serious playtime in as any gamekilling issues will have been squashed by then with the rest getting zapped in the following weeks.
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:15:00 -
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March 10 will most likely be a "day of downtime", so getting that day free would be a big mistake.
March 11 will probably be a day of instabilities and hotfixes, so getting THAT one free would be a bad idea too.
March 12, now you're starting to talk... but I'd probably wait until the 13th, or even just the 16th (since 14/15 are the weekend, so usually free anyway).
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Zyck
Dark-Rising
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:24:00 -
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Yep...as has been said, take the Friday or the Monday.
Patch day itself is an all-day downtime.
The day after is going to be laggy, buggy, and a general pain in the ass.
By Friday things should start to be looking up...but in my opinion, monday is your safest bet.
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Pesky LaRue
Minmatar
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:25:00 -
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i'd personally give it till at least the Thursday, just to avoid getting frustrated.
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Drunk Driver
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:27:00 -
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I think I'll tell everyone I'm going to take the 13th off to play Eve, then sneak off to ride my motorcycle.
If I stay off the main roads so the police won't notice I'm not wearing a helmet.
Damn thing gets in the way when I try to take a drink from my beer.
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SentryRaven
KIA Corp
KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:30:00 -
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Patch day itself, you should be outside, taking a glimpse at the sun (if you do not live in the UK, they simply don't offer sun there), breathe some fresh air, replenish the food stocks in your gaming bunker and do whatever you need to do that prevents you from gaming on normal days. You know, sex and that stuff....
The day after (P+1), you may want to go to work, if you are internet capable there, to read the abnormous amount of threads about "CCP broke this" "CCP nerf/fix this" and "EVE is dying".
Now, the Day after Patch Day's next day [!sic] (P+2), you may actually consider taking the day off, but do not be disappointed if you don't get the amount of "whoah!" and "wow!" and "jeeeeeeezus" that you might have expected from reading the forums on P+1, since CCP will have ninja-fixed/nerfed/boosted stuff over DT. :)
Overall... you shouldn't take a day off for major Patches... save those for more important stuff... just call in sick 
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Misanth
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
Black Legion.
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:33:00 -
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 Originally by: Berious
Never play on patch day is a general rule for all MMOs
This. Do it a day or three later.
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Korerin Mayul
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:37:00 -
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Originally by: Rami Tinard
I was considering booking March 10th off as a holiday from work, but then again is it worth it?
March 11th :D
i think ill be off work with a bad case of wormholes.
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Liz Laser
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Posted - 2009.02.25 17:42:00 -
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Edited by: Liz Laser on 25/02/2009 17:42:05
Originally by: Berious
Never play on patch day is a general rule for all MMOs
This!
Been involved in far too many lagfests and rollbacks.
Though another general rule in MMOs is:
Exploit early and often!
That rule will cause many hopeful exploiters to take the day off, especially if SiSi has helped them discover a bug or a game imbalance.
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Dark Soldat
Caldari
Heaven's Gate
Scalar Federation
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Posted - 2009.02.25 18:12:00 -
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i will take the opportunity to call in sick and exploit any way i can make isk with unfixed bugs...
but shushhh...
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Irida Mershkov
Gallente
Noir.
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Posted - 2009.02.25 18:16:00 -
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Originally by: Korerin Mayul
Originally by: Rami Tinard
I was considering booking March 10th off as a holiday from work, but then again is it worth it?
March 11th :D
i think ill be off work with a bad case of wormholes.
I think you'll be off work with a bad case of unstable server and hotfixes! 
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Miss Uylear
Caldari
The Gentlemen of Low Moral Fibre
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Posted - 2009.02.25 18:26:00 -
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But wasn't there a patch recently for the client so it can handle large amounts of date more effiecently?
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Sargeant HAmmer
Caldari
Hammers Academy
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Posted - 2009.02.25 18:28:00 -
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eve usually deploy their big patches on a tuesday or wednesday on experience.
now as some of you know they can make a mess of patch day (no offence against you guys at eve) and it has been known to go on for 3 days in the past and with a barely workable system after that for another day or so.
so basically if you take the days off at the beginning of march and eve is down then dont expect to play it.
from what i recall being said they were going to launch apocyrpha at the end of march but who knows.
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Genya Arikaido
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Posted - 2009.02.25 18:43:00 -
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First, the patch is going to be huge, 1.3GB or bigger.
Second, don't take a day off until the patch to fix the patch. By then the general game-breaking bugginess is gone or bearable.
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Sun Clausewitz
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Posted - 2009.02.25 18:47:00 -
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I always wait until the next day to patch and let the rest of you be the boot.ini discoverers
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Gunnanmon
Gallente
UNITED STAR SYNDICATE
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Posted - 2009.02.25 19:26:00 -
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March 10th - expansion day.
March 11th and 12th - patch, and patch-patch day.
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Ms Delerium
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Posted - 2009.02.25 19:32:00 -
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uh? shut down the computer and go back to work!!!!
not really, you are fired. kthx.
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Novantco
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2009.02.25 19:36:00 -
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Waste of a holiday.
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hoOWa
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Posted - 2009.02.25 19:39:00 -
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I plan to have a massive shyte on the 10th of march...along with the eve online server cluster
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Beckoner Venhatha
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Posted - 2009.02.25 19:49:00 -
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March 10 = my birthday... I intend to spend most of it in bed (with company)
My toon will be working on a 5Day+ skill at the time
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Shevar
Minmatar
Target Practice incorporated
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Posted - 2009.02.25 19:51:00 -
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Originally by: Rami Tinard
I was considering booking March 10th off as a holiday from work, but then again is it worth it?
I mean if the expansion comes out that day, then surely it won't roll live on the servers until the scheduled 11.00 - 12.00 downtime (which may well be longer than usual?). So at the very least it would mean a wasted morning of sitting reading the box & picking my nose.
Or will they schedule the downtime / expansion going live at some other time?
Plus then theres the mass of people trying to log in which I bet will increase, but there's no getting around that I suppose - just keep trying...trying..
Downtime will most likely be between 4 and 12 hours depending on if they are changing hardware as well or not. So the day itself is pretty pointless and if you are really lucky it MIGHT be a good idea to take the Wednesday off so you can play Tuesday night. But it might as well be that the cluster will be unstable as **** for a week or so (and then it would be a waste as well :>)
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Soporo
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.02.25 21:32:00 -
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I'm set to be off from Mar 12-20. |
Armoured C
Gallente
Federation of Freedom Fighters
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2009.02.25 21:42:00 -
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i booked 11th off so that i have 11,12,13,14,15,16 off anyways :P
got to love my work
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Traidor Disloyal
Minmatar
Private Nuisance
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:12:00 -
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Originally by: Rami Tinard
I was considering booking March 10th off as a holiday from work, but then again is it worth it?
Put all your characters (if you have more then one account) on a long training skill the day before the patch (at least a 4 day training skill) and go do something else.
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Zeba
Minmatar
Honourable East India Trading Company
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:15:00 -
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Originally by: Armoured C
i booked 11th off so that i have 11,12,13,14,15,16 off anyways :P
got to love my work
Hah! I'm retired so I'm off everyday.
got to love my lack of work
Yay! Got meh sig back! ♥ Weatherman |
Armoured C
Gallente
Federation of Freedom Fighters
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:16:00 -
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Originally by: Zeba
Originally by: Armoured C
i booked 11th off so that i have 11,12,13,14,15,16 off anyways :P
got to love my work
Hah! I'm retired so I'm off everyday.
got to love my lack of work
wow i hate you a little bit more everyday 
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Zeba
Minmatar
Honourable East India Trading Company
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:18:00 -
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Originally by: Armoured C
wow i hate you a little bit more everyday
*bows with a flourish* 
Yay! Got meh sig back! ♥ Weatherman |
Doctor Penguin
Amarr
Shadow Command
Tenth Legion
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:19:00 -
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I would wait until near the weekend AFTER the update week, just in case 50,000 EVE box set buyers all try and log in to check out this new MMO they've seen on the shelf at GAME on the 13th/14th/15th/16th.
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Emily Spankratchet
Minmatar
Pragmatics
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:23:00 -
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Don't take the day off.
CCP have been getting better at releasing major patches, but this one has an externally applied deadline - the launch of the boxed game. They'll be rushing to get things out of the door. They'll be sticking last minute bugfixes in when really they should be freezing and doing QA. They'll arse things up royally.
I love CCP, but some patch days (and weeks) I've know in the past have been long, drawn out horrors of epic fail and much forum whining. Remember, you don't want to be the person to post "I took my officer fitted Golem out five minutes after patch day and I lost it to a bug. WTF CCP?"
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Niccolado Starwalker
Shadow Templars
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:24:00 -
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Originally by: Rami Tinard
I was considering booking March 10th off as a holiday from work, but then again is it worth it?
I mean if the expansion comes out that day, then surely it won't roll live on the servers until the scheduled 11.00 - 12.00 downtime (which may well be longer than usual?). So at the very least it would mean a wasted morning of sitting reading the box & picking my nose.
Or will they schedule the downtime / expansion going live at some other time?
Plus then theres the mass of people trying to log in which I bet will increase, but there's no getting around that I suppose - just keep trying...trying..
As much as I would like to see a smooth patching day on the 10th of march, I will expect smaller or larger problemes to evolve anyway. Its a huge expansion, and as much as the devs are trying to failproof it, some bugs will most likely slip through anyway. Such is the real world. So most likely taking a day off on the 10th can be a "wasted holiday". No, if I where you book a day off on the friday. Then you get an extended weekend! And some of the most severe bugs should have been cleaned up. IF there where any who results in additional downtime.
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Elysarian
Minmatar
dudetruck corp
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:24:00 -
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Gonna be at least 3 days before the bugs are (mostly) squashed imho.
Don't tell me nobody else has noticed that most places are showing the boxed version release date as the 13th?
Coincidence? - I don't think so 
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Guillame Herschel
Gallente
Buffalo Soldiers
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:26:00 -
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They better get it right this time, there's a retail box release and - I presume this is the point of the retail box - lots of new players getting their first taste of EVE, or at least their first taste since 2003.
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Armoured C
Gallente
Federation of Freedom Fighters
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2009.02.25 22:27:00 -
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Originally by: Elysarian
Gonna be at least 3 days before the bugs are (mostly) squashed imho.
Don't tell me nobody else has noticed that most places are showing the boxed version release date as the 13th?
Coincidence? - I don't think so
there are no bugs just game play mechanics
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Viktor Speranza
White Wolf Enterprises
Harmonious Ascent
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Posted - 2009.02.26 05:29:00 -
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I'll set my computer up to download and patch on the 10th but I usually make it a point NOT TO EVER PLAY ON PATCH DAY. Its not worth the headache. Doubly so after that whole boot.ini issue, egads! 
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Pliauga
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.02.26 07:13:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T
March 10 will most likely be a "day of downtime", so getting that day free would be a big mistake.
March 11 will probably be a day of instabilities and hotfixes, so getting THAT one free would be a bad idea too.
March 12, now you're starting to talk... but I'd probably wait until the 13th, or even just the 16th (since 14/15 are the weekend, so usually free anyway).
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Jojo Redana
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Posted - 2009.02.26 07:16:00 -
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Muah, CCP is really enjoying our trust. Well, this is what happens if you mess up too many (read: almost all) patches. You loose something valuable. CCP is a joke when it comes to patching, they have their own league of failures. Nobody else can't even touch CCP.
I'm ready for anything, i just hope the new patch won't re-format my harddrives without a warning. Well, it might happen. You never know.
I'm going to delete my boot.ini file, so the patch can't touch that one again.
Good luck, you're gonna need it.
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Sheriff Jones
Amarr
Clinical Experiment
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Posted - 2009.02.26 07:30:00 -
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Edited by: Sheriff Jones on 26/02/2009 07:35:08
M9 - Long skill. LONG. Longer then..then...a phallic symbol.
M10 - No EVE.
M11 - EVE with caution, MAYBE change a long skill again, if you managed to miss out on M9. Light rabble on the side.
M12 - Cake day, also international "rabble on forum day".
M13-15 - PEWPEWPEWRABBLERABBLEPEWPEWPEW!!!!!
Though come think of it, friday the 13th after a big patch doesn't fill me with teddybear goodness and high hopes 
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fuze
Gallente
Chosen Path
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2009.02.26 08:56:00 -
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Just book a 10 day holiday with your better half to a sunny place and forget about it for a while. |
Reven Cordelle
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.02.26 09:23:00 -
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I hate work so... I might just take the day off regardless.
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