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Not Politically Correct
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Posted - 2012.12.30 01:10:00 -
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I've been playing since July of 2009. Had my ups and downs. Made a lot of ISK mining, lost a corp to an infiltrator, lost some expensive ships, blah, blah, blah.
Then I decided to start a mission running corp, and it was expanding nicely. 2.5% tax rate, Level 4 missions 18 hours a day even for people only 2 weeks old. It was a lot of fun helping them. Life was good.
Today I got an application from a 2007 player. +5.0 standing with Concord, no bounty, seemed like a nice guy, but there was a problem. He had been in both Goonswarm and Goonwaffe in 2010. So I asked him about that before accepting the application. He said that was a thing of the past, he had grown out of that phase.
Do you see where I am going now?
I accepted him and asked him along on a Level 4. He killed my CNR right outside of my home station. 994 million ISK down the tubes.
It was obviously my fault, as much for the things I did as the things I didn't do. But what's the result?
All the members of the corp are now in stasis and will be kicked as soon as they come out. Applications will be disabled permanently. I'm not going to quit the game, because I like it, but I would much rather fly solo, and auto-reject, than get another surprise like that.
'Nough said. |

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Posted - 2012.12.30 01:32:00 -
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First. I'm not going to discuss mining with anyone who obviously knows nothing about it.
Other than that, the point I was trying to make is that there is no reason to trust anyone else in the game. Doesn't matter who they say they are, where they say they come from, even if they're less than a day old.
I like to think the best of people. To give them a chance. That seems to be pretty much out of the question now. |

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Posted - 2012.12.30 01:41:00 -
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Adam Junior wrote:You've succeded in letting the "dirty gewn" cause far more upset than he'd ever planned on causing by ragekicking everyone. Well done! 
Wasn't ragekicking. How can I trust them? The answer is that I don't anymore.
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Posted - 2012.12.30 01:50:00 -
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Feledain wrote:So, you are ranting about trust and because someone made you butthurt you betray all of your fellow corp members kick em out and keeping all the isk and assets.
Lesson learned, good job.
Uh, gee. Didn't I say they are new. The most expensive things most of them had are things I GAVE them. 2.5% tax rate? Oh, yeah, I'm really ripping them off.
It's hard to take things away from people who haven't been playing long enough to have anything. Most of them didn't even do the tutorials. |

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Posted - 2012.12.30 01:51:00 -
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oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:lvl4 missions 18 hours a day lol
The fact that you can't do it doesn't mean that I can't. |

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Posted - 2012.12.30 02:00:00 -
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Rain6635 wrote:show me your 1 bil raven fit please.
Do you have any idea what the difference between a CNR and a Raven is. All I'm willing to say is that everything, except the rigs, was T2 or above.
Edit: I wouldn't know how to post it anyway, and it doesn't make any difference. I will never build another one. No need. |

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Posted - 2012.12.30 02:10:00 -
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Rain6635 wrote:show me your 1 bil navy raven fit please.
Why are you so insistent? Do you want to be able to tell me it is a bad fit? I don't really care.
Rigs: 2X Large Field Purger 1s. 1x ( some type of Calefacation module.)
Highs: 7X Caldari Navy Heavy launchers 1X Large Regard Energy Transfer
Mids: 1 X 100MN T2 afterburner 3 X Large T2 Shield Extenders 1 X T2 Mission specific shield Hardener. 1 X SEBO II with Tracking Range Script
Lows: 3 X Power Diagnostic IIS 2 X Caldari Navy BCSs
Now, please keep your opinion of the fit to yourself. It won't have any effect on me, and it has nothing to do with this thread.
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Posted - 2012.12.30 02:11:00 -
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oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:lvl4 missions 18 hours a day lol
The fact that you can't do it doesn't mean that I can't. my job ,my wife and my children are making sure ,i can,t thanking god ,that i love my underpaid job ,my wife and my children and still have time to play and love EvE
I'm a disabled veteran. I don't have any of those problems. |

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Posted - 2012.12.30 02:16:00 -
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[quote=Alavaria Fera Heavy launchers, on a raven... and faction instead of T2... interesting...[/quote]
They were a gift. :)
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Posted - 2012.12.30 02:40:00 -
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So the question, kind of, goes back to the original post in this thread. Who can an Eve player trust?
IMHO? No one. Thus my actions.
If I have to defend myself against every other player in the game, where's the trust? |
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Posted - 2012.12.30 03:39:00 -
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Feledain wrote:Hm... cant find anything. No kill, no goon ever in your corp. Only something in the Corporations section, which seems to match. >here<Looks like you pissed someone off.
Try Mael Krahn. If you can't find it, not my problem. |

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Posted - 2012.12.30 05:16:00 -
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Why is anyone concerned with the fit?
Why does anyone want to be near anything that they are trying to kill?
Sorry to bring a ray of RL in here, but I was taught not to take a knife to a fight where the other guy might be able call in an air strike.
Oh. That's right, this isn't RL. |

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Posted - 2013.01.15 16:10:00 -
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As I said, it was my fault it happened. No denying that. I thought this might act as a warning to others, though.
There are still several things I don't understand about the incident, and this thread, though.
1. I thought it was illegal for corp members, especially fleet members, to destroy ships and pod people in Hi Sec, but Concord did nothing. The Goonie stayed in the system, within 100 km of the station where this happened, for some time. Concord never showed any interest.
2. I still can't figure out why anyone would be interested in the ship I was flying, or how it was fitted.
3. It seems that several people mentioned that the character was several years old and a hot-shot PvPer. Neither is true. As a player, I started in July, 2009, but I've never really been a PvPer. Until about 5 months ago, I was primarily a miner, and I had never run into this kind of situation before. The character this happened to is still less than a year old. Fairly low skills, etc. |

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Posted - 2013.01.15 17:37:00 -
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You may have missed the part about me being webbed and scrammed and about 100km from the docking bay. I had been testing a spider capping fit with my logi pilot.
You should be able to find the answer to your last comment in your paragraph 3. |

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Posted - 2013.01.16 21:58:00 -
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I still don't see where this is coming from.
The CNR was Cruise fitted. Doh.
The member had been in the corp just long enough to fly 18 jumps. I kinda thought he might be ready to go.
I was actually testing spider capping, and hadn't accepted the mission yet. That might explain a lot to people who have played for a while.
We all know, now, that there are no ex-Goonies.
I do not fly BCL Approved ships. Many of my ships are named 'Not BCL Approved'. I fly what works for me. That ship had been successful for months. No repair bills and all missions completed. What more do you want?
I still can't understand what the ship or the fit as to do with it.
As for my poor, dis-respected ex-corp members? Many had left a few days before because of a war dec. They didn't want to follow the rules. The others? Trial accounts and people who didn't produce. Sorry. No loss there. I did keep 2.
You have to realize that a corporation should be a living, growing, organism. Not a group of solo pilots that aren't trust-worthy.
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Posted - 2013.01.16 22:09:00 -
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Needmore Longcat wrote:His raven was equipped with the following:
HIGH 06 x Cruise Missile Launcher I 01 x SMALL TRACTOR BEAM 1 01 x SALVAGER I
MEDIUM 04 x LARGE SHIELD EXTENDERS 01 x 'HYPHNOS' ECM 01 x MEDIUM SHIELD BOOSTER
LOW 01 x EMERGENCY DAMAGE CONTROL 01 x ARMOR KINETIC HARDENER I 01 x ARMOR THREMIC HARDENER I 02 x WARP CORE STABILIZER I
DRONES 02 x WARRIOR I DRONES 03 x HAMMERHEAD I DRONES
UPGRADES 01 x ROCKET FUEL CACHE PARTINTION I 01 x BAY LOADING ACCELERATOR I
Who is 'He'. Mine wasn't equipped anywhere near like that. Look above. |

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Posted - 2013.01.16 23:50:00 -
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Arronicus wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:Rain6635 wrote:show me your 1 bil navy raven fit please. Why are you so insistent? Do you want to be able to tell me it is a bad fit? I don't really care. Rigs: 2X Large Field Purger 1s. 1x ( some type of Calefacation module.) Highs: 7X Caldari Navy Heavy launchers 1X Large Regard Energy Transfer Mids: 1 X 100MN T2 afterburner 3 X Large T2 Shield Extenders 1 X T2 Mission specific shield Hardener. 1 X SEBO II with Tracking Range Script Lows: 3 X Power Diagnostic IIS 2 X Caldari Navy BCSs Now, please keep your opinion of the fit to yourself. It won't have any effect on me, and it has nothing to do with this thread. Terrible fitting. Heavy missile launchers on a raven? GTFO. Fit cruise missiles. Also, lose the tracking range script. It doesn't exist. Targeting range will work better.
My mistake. One of the reasons why the ship was so expensive is that the launchers were Caldari Navy Cruise. And you are right. It was a targeting range script.
So STFO about the ship and fit.
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Posted - 2013.01.18 14:41:00 -
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Xercodo wrote:I just noticed the OP's name is "NPC"
Translated to EVE: Don't give them roles in the corp so you can kick them the second anything hairy happens, be more selective about who you choose and what you let newer members do, and don't flaunt an expensive ship unless you're around ell trusted people, keep a cheaper but still effective ship on hand when working with people you don't have full trust with yet.
You make a lot of good points.
In my defense . . .
He did not have any roles, but he has to dock to be kicked.
He had just flown 18 jumps to add some DPS to a mission. 
He had been in the corp for less than half an hour.
Getting rid of corp members may well have been an over reaction, but I can't afford two losses like that in one week, let alone one day. The main result of the gank, for me, was just more erosion of trust in fellow players. It's easy to say that we can trust most players, but I don't think that is true, and, anyway, which ones?
If corp members can gank each other at will, and I just had a good example of that, why have corp members? Some of the corp members now have ships that are more expensive than that CNR. I have to think of their safety, too.
BTW, recruiting practices have changed drastically. Also, we have an agreement now, that anyone who targets another corp member's ship, unless he is flying a Logi, becomes target number 1. And I make that very clear to new joins.
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Posted - 2013.01.18 15:09:00 -
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Super spikinator wrote:*puts on his robe and tinfoil hat
What we have here people is a new type of awox. It is dirty, very cunning but very very dirty. I bet the OP himself is a goonswarm alt and was in a long range scam where he set up a "mission" corporation in the hopes of scamming several people out of their BPOs, Ships and other Items by using "help" and "low,low tax" as honey to draw in the poor defenseless carebears. Then invites a fellow awoxer to "gank" his ship (where is the kill mail for this, he types it out, I find that suspicious) and uses this as a pretext to "ragekick" out the carebears.
So he loses a single CNR (probably with no fit, he only needed to undock it incase a member was around the station, or maybe it was a regular raven, the carebears might not of noticed the difference) and in return rakes in billions from thft loot.
very cleaver. I give you no medals though.
Glad you put on your tinfoil hat before posting this. 
I've never been a goonie. Some of my characters have fought against the goonies, but none has ever been a member.
The corporation does not accept 'gifts' from corp members. The corp doesn't need any more ISK than we make from taxes now in order to do what it does. If corp members have ships, BPOs or ISK that are just burning holes in their pockets, they need to find someone else to give them to.
I haven't been able to find a kill mail. I guess he didn't post it, and even if I knew how to post a kill mail, why would I post a loss?
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Posted - 2013.01.18 19:58:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote: Are you saying that no Goon, not even one, can ever be successfully rehabilitated? That Goons have no chance at all of ever becoming decent human beings again? I want to see some credible demographic statistics on ex-Goon recidivism (that's the correct spelling there, I looked it up) rates. Until then, I refuse to judge my fellow man based upon mistakes he may have made in his past. Even if that includes a history with Gewns.
I'm sure there are exceptions. Too bad. The only good gonnie, active or ex-, is a dead one. They seem to attract the scum of the scum. Kind of understandable. Look at the leadership.
I refused to judge my AWOXER on mistakes in his past. Look what I got. Maybe, if you ever make the same mistake, you will learn the same lesson. |
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Posted - 2013.01.18 20:14:00 -
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Xpaulusx wrote:Ok, your first big mistake was making a thread about your loss, second was punishing the other corp members for some others actions. Any good CEO/Leader will acess the mistake he made , learn from it and move on. Trust is part of the risk factor involved with EvE, but you simply can't paint everybody with the same brush, it's a tough call, but most of us enjoy it that way, move on and have fun 
The problem is, that it isn't fun anymore.
I've shut down 3 of my 5 accounts. I didn't build those characters for 1%ers to shoot at. They all have value. Why should I waste them in an arena where value means nothing and sheer destruction means everything?
I ran a 4 ship mining team, all my characters, for more than a year. Made ISK, bought things, manufactured things. Basically tried to do CONstructive things. But that isn't what this game is about, is it?
So I tried to find a middle ground. Mission running. It's not constructive, even though it keeps ISK circulating, but it also isn't destructive. And now I find it isn't safe.
I keep playing the game because I USED to like. Not sure how long that is going to last.
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Posted - 2013.01.19 05:15:00 -
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Marius Deterium wrote:Everything else aside.... how the hell can a carebear who runs level 4's for 12-18 hours daily, has a list of ships in corp hanger a page and a half long and he can't afford a new CNR?
This the problem with bears in this game. They are horders. What is all that isk for anyways if you're not going to buy new ships with it?
The CNR wasn't my choice in the first place. I fly an SNI now. Much better for my style of play.
I'm not a hoarder. I sell off 4-500 ships at a time, when the market is right. I just don't like to sell rigged ships, and most of what I have is rigged.
I don't need new ships very often because I don't waste them doing stupid ****.
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Posted - 2013.01.19 18:50:00 -
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Eram Fidard wrote:
You could say to yourself "hey, it's a GAME, one that OTHER PEOPLE PLAY TOO...and that guy who killed me, he was just playing it the way it was intended!"
But since you are stubbornly incapable of learning even the most simple lesson about eve, you're best off with the
One of many things that I am stubbornly incapable of accepting is that that is the way the game is intended to be played.
I mean, what did he get out of it? It appears that he isn't ever going to even post the killmail. Yes, he picked up some valuable loot, but, to me, it seems like it takes a pretty sick individual to do something like that for what he got out of it.
Oddly enough, the people who I seem to get along with best in the game are people like me, who are unable to leave their senses of morals and ethics on one side of the keyboard. The others? I consider them to be kind of like poster children for the combination of genetic drift and moral decay. The goonies seem to act like a big magnet for these people.
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Posted - 2013.01.20 07:01:00 -
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Psychotic Monk wrote:I do this sort of work very regularly. I originally began doing it because it it one of the few methods to **** with people in highsec that hasn't been extensively and repeatedly nerfed.
The real question is why, in a multiplayer pvp game, do you feel you shouldn't have to defend yourself, even if only by doing something as simple as maintaining some situational awareness.
I think I have a better answer. I'm not a sociopath. I would like to trust people, or at least give them a chance. I have to admit that my shields were at less than 50% before I realized that he was serious, and I never thought he would pod me, in Hi Sec, and get away with it completely.
I'm not sure which one of us is the saddest. You, who sees everyone as a target, or me, who would like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
So rail at me for disbanding my corp. With people like this around, it was the safest thing to do.
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Posted - 2013.01.28 21:54:00 -
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News update.
Since the OP, three obvious AWOXERS have tried to join my corp. Did I make someone mad, or do they just see VEERV as a pinata? |

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Posted - 2013.01.28 22:19:00 -
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HollyShocker 2inthestink wrote:
LMAO you guys make up your mind. You have pointed out in past post that eve is multi-player now you say eve is solo. This could happen from anyone at anytime. As much as I despise Goofswarm they arent the only awoxers.
I think you posted this in the wrong thread.
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Posted - 2013.01.28 22:34:00 -
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Karak Terrel wrote:I know this thread, it was bad. It is still bad. You should all feel bad for resurrecting it!
I do. (not)
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Posted - 2013.01.29 00:17:00 -
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My my. Do I hear the quacking of 1%ers, or are you just new players. |

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Posted - 2013.01.29 16:47:00 -
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Jada Maroo wrote:I do think there needs to be an counter in situations like this since the mechanic really isn't being used as intended. The ability to freely shoot corp mates in high sec won't have any real place in the game once the duel system is introduced and should be made into a Concord infraction. Alternately, let players "leave" corps in space if under attack by a corp mate and they haven't fired back by making the stasis period engage Concord protection from corpies.
Or better yet, let CEOs decide whether member on member aggression is allowed in the corp or calls in Concord.
Corp mates aggrressing each other in my corp is not allowed. I've seen too many good ships lost by 'accident'.
One of the first things I tell new joins is that if they lock a corp mate, they become priority target number 1 for every other corp mate on scene. Our Logi pilot is the only exception, and that is because I know his ship isn't armed.
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Posted - 2013.01.29 16:51:00 -
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DrunkenNinja wrote: Maybe this revelation will help get you into low/nullsec?
I've spent a year in null sec. The number of people who can be trusted there is less than in Hi Sec, which isn't a great endorsement for either.
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Posted - 2013.01.30 16:59:00 -
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NARDAC wrote:Memories.... I too once started a new player friendly high-sec training corp doing mission running with newbs, and allowed in a few other players that said they too wanted to help out the newer players.. I figured, what do I have to lose? I didn't give out the POS roles. I had all the expensive stuff in locked down in personal hangers. http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=14915039A more experienced player wanted to run a mission with me but didn't have a ship handy.. so, I loaned him my maelstrom. Not only did he blow up my billion iSK macherial, he did it with the ship I loaned him. He also took about 300 million ISK worth of stuff from the shared corp hanger. Then he wouldn't dock up so that I could kick him from corp, so no one else could undock until they left corp. The year leading up to that point had been super frustrating, both in game (2 corps disintegrated and a 3rd moved to northern 0.0) and in real life ( was undergoing cancer treatment) that I gave up on this player base and quit EVE. It felt like, if you are not a total donkeyhole, this game just is not for you.... Took a year away before I came back.
I'm not glad I wasn't the only one. I kind of wish I had been, but maybe a few other CEOs will see this and save themselves some grief.
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Posted - 2013.01.30 17:12:00 -
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Debora Tsung wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:Adam Junior wrote:You've succeded in letting the "dirty gewn" cause far more upset than he'd ever planned on causing by ragekicking everyone. Well done!  Wasn't ragekicking. How can I trust them? The answer is that I don't anymore. You deny it and yet, in the same sentence You confirm it. 
Look at it this way. I run missions with expensive ships, and some of the new corp members also have expensive ships. So far the new members have proven to be trustworthy.
The old corp members? What did I know about them except that they were new? But new what's? New goonie alts or just new players.
Our expensive ships have value to us because of the time and effort that we put in gathering the ISK needed to buy them. It doesn't matter that we can afford to replace them. What matters is that we don't like losing them so some nimrod can get a few seconds of pleasure out of destroying them.
We would not engage in consensual PvP in those ships. They are designed to run missions, quickly and efficiently, not for PvP. No matter what the vocal minority says, the world does not revolve around PvP. Lately I've been hearing that from a lot of other people, too.
Also, as a CEO I have a responsibility to provide a safe work environment for corp members. If that means getting rid of members that I don't personally trust, it's still a responsibility, and has nothing to do with how mad that incident made me.
All things considered, I stick by that decision, and I think that any CEO in the same circumstances who doesn't make the same decision is likely to learn the same way that I did. |

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Posted - 2013.01.30 18:24:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:
Have you ever examined your choice to play EVE online? Have you examined the wisdom of playing a game with a harsh death penalty when you really really don't like losing stuff? Have you examined the wisdom of playing a game that features non-consensual pvp when you obviously don't like non-consensual pvp?
Rhetorical question, we know the answer for all types who would complain about the events you describe. The answer is no. If the goal is safe co-op space game play, why aren't you playing Star Trek online?
It seems to me that the non-consensual part has become more of a problem since I started playing. I've thought about quitting several times. I gave away all my stufz once. I cut down from 5 accounts to two.
The problem is that I refuse to accept the thought that Eve can't become a better game. Also, Eve is the only on-line game I have ever played. I don't see any reason for me to change my playing style, or move to another game, just because I don't like some of the other players in this one. |

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Posted - 2013.01.30 19:07:00 -
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Ranger 1 wrote:
I reserve the right to infiltrate your corp if I desire (and you are careless) and do terrible things. I also reserve the right for you to be able to do exactly the same thing to me or others.
The difference is that I have no use for that right. It isn't something I would get any jollies from. 
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Posted - 2013.01.30 19:41:00 -
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Ranger 1 wrote:
You would be best served by simply becoming a better player of the game... primarily by becoming more familiar with the rules and the best practices people use to succeed and enjoy themselves within that rule set.
One thing I've learned in this game is to avoid any advice that includes the word 'best'. I don't give people advice on in-game stuff, and that makes feel feel quite justified in not accepting any advice either. If I want to find out how something works, I try it. It's been working great so far . . . with a few exceptions.
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Posted - 2013.01.30 20:17:00 -
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Parsival wrote:
If you are too stubborn or ignorant to learn from the wisdom and experience of players who have more knowledge of the game than yourself expect some hard knocks.
In this game, if you listen to the advice of 'experts', I think you are far more likely to end up getting more hard knocks than I have.
Just remember that conventional wisdom is for conventional people. And that 90% of what the 'experts' in this game tell you was never true even when they started playing. |

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Posted - 2013.01.31 01:29:00 -
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Karak Terrel wrote:NARDAC wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:I gave away all my stufz once. It's like we're twins or something. Are you sure he is not just your alt and you are just very very confused? Think about it.
I know the names of all 14 of my alts. He isn't one of them. Same experience, same game, is it possible that there is a trend here?
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Posted - 2013.01.31 01:31:00 -
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Winchester Steele wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:Jenn aSide wrote:
Have you ever examined your choice to play EVE online? Have you examined the wisdom of playing a game with a harsh death penalty when you really really don't like losing stuff? Have you examined the wisdom of playing a game that features non-consensual pvp when you obviously don't like non-consensual pvp?
Rhetorical question, we know the answer for all types who would complain about the events you describe. The answer is no. If the goal is safe co-op space game play, why aren't you playing Star Trek online?
It seems to me that the non-consensual part has become more of a problem since I started playing. I've thought about quitting several times. I gave away all my stufz once. I cut down from 5 accounts to two. The problem is that I refuse to accept the thought that Eve can't become a better game. Also, Eve is the only on-line game I have ever played. I don't see any reason for me to change my playing style, or move to another game, just because I don't like some of the other players in this one. Sooooo... CCP and the playerbase should change the fundamental ideology of Eve Online so that you can be perfectly safe to run l4's in your shitfit faction raven? Otherwise you'll unsub all 50 of your accounts? Seems reasonable.
Not anywhere near what I have suggested, but thank you for your input. Now, read the thread.
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Rico Minali wrote:I hope you were providing valuable services for those mission runners since you were taxing them.
Let's see. Services provided:
1. 2.5% tax rate. (I don't need any more ISK.) 2. 20% shield boost, 10% shield resists. 3. 36 Hi Sec Level 4 agents to run missions for. 4. Ships and fittings if they need them. 5. I don't tell them what to do or when to do it. (Kind of makes their actions consensual, doesn't it?) 6. Voice comms. 7. No mandatory corp fits. They fly what they are comfortable with.
But I guess you are right. I don't provide anything for them. [irony]
EDIT: Dammit, I forgot
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Frying Doom wrote:Funny "Its all about Trust" is the campaign Australian opposition just started up against our so called Prime Minister here in Australia. Is the OP a member of the Australian Liberal Party 
No, but I have considered emigrating to Oz. 
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Nessa Aldeen wrote:Thread is misleading. You should put "Goon joined my corp and killed me ship".
Yes, it's a question of trust but you should have already known what a Goon is. Once upon a time, this lot was quite cool but over time Goons have become the anti-thesis of what they were - a collection of 'look at me look at me, I'm so cool". One day, like all organisms and organizations, it too will die.. hopefully in a painful manner.
Therein lies the issue of trust. To trust a Goon is like putting a gun to your head. Goons feed on others, hell they sometimes feed each on each other.
Don't misjudge or punish your corp mates just because of a Goon as that would mean you're no better then a Goon.
On a side note, that fit. Did you take some of form of Mexican moonshine when you accepted the Goon and fitted the ship?
I've stated my reasons above. Yeah, it was dumb, but I was the one on the bleeding edge.
As a CEO, there are a lot of decisions I don't want to make, but, if I don't someone may get hurt.
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Parsival wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:Parsival wrote:
If you are too stubborn or ignorant to learn from the wisdom and experience of players who have more knowledge of the game than yourself expect some hard knocks.
In this game, if you listen to the advice of 'experts', I think you are far more likely to end up getting more hard knocks than I have. Dude you are the one on the forum whining. If you didn't come here for advice on how to protect yourself in the future but merely to ***** about how gullible you've been then don't expect sympathy.
As said above, I don't take advice, from anyone.
Sympathy? I don't need that either.
What I intended was a public service message. Ever heard of those?
BTW, after 8 years of keeping your mouth shut, I'm glad to see you are finally coming out of the closet . . . or did you just buy the character? |

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Parsival wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote: As said above, I don't take advice, from anyone.
So why dish it out in the form of a whine dressed up as a ' public service message'? Not Politically Correct wrote:Sympathy? I don't need that either. Attention then.... whatever  Not Politically Correct wrote:BTW, after 8 years of keeping your mouth shut, I'm glad to see you are finally coming out of the closet . . . or did you just buy the character? Guess this new forum doesn't reference the posts from the old forum... bit before your time noob 
The only advice that I've given here is to be careful. And I don't believe that I even made that into a statement.
I don't want sympathy or attention. I wish that guy had never noticed me. Same with you.
I remember the old forums quite well. Posted there many times. Looks like you didn't read the OP after all.
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Posted - 2013.01.31 23:24:00 -
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Parsival wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:
The only advice that I've given here is to be careful. And I don't believe that I even made that into a statement.
I don't want sympathy or attention. I wish that guy had never noticed me. Same with you.
I remember the old forums quite well. Posted there many times. Looks like you didn't read the OP after all.
I read the OP... it was rather a boring whine mixed with a thinly veiled rant against Goons and game mechanics that pretty much everyone takes for granted but yourself. You yourself described it as a public service announcement which implies at least a limited advisory agenda on your part, no matter how vague and confused it was. I think it was something along the lines of never trust a Goon  Thread only really piqued my interest when you revealed you couldn't see anything wrong with fitting heavy launchers to a Raven and then wondered why anyone found that amusing. 2009 player.... heavy launchers on a Raven.... how much did your character cost again did you say?
I think you need to read the rest of the thread now. I didn't expect anyone to be interested in the fit, and I made a mistake. It happens . . . to both of us.
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Winchester Steele wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:
It seems to me that the non-consensual part has become more of a problem since I started playing. I've thought about quitting several times. I gave away all my stufz once. I cut down from 5 accounts to two.
The problem is that I refuse to accept the thought that Eve can't become a better game. Also, Eve is the only on-line game I have ever played. I don't see any reason for me to change my playing style, or move to another game, just because I don't like some of the other players in this one.
Sooooo... CCP and the playerbase should change the fundamental ideology of Eve Online so that you can be perfectly safe to run l4's in your shitfit faction raven? Otherwise you'll unsub all 50 of your accounts? Seems reasonable. Not Politically Correct wrote: Not anywhere near what I have suggested, but thank you for your input. Now, read the thread.
Yea gee. How could have I ever drawn that conclusion from your post?  Tell us more about the "problem" of unconsensual pvp and its effect on your numerous accounts. Tell us how Eve could "be so much better" and how you "shouldn't have to change your playing style". I think your playing the wrong game, friend. (Hint: I underlined the really awful sentiments in your post for you. Hth) 
I wish all of you people would shut up and let me play the game. Itshould be obvious, even to a moron, that you are NOT in the majority.
And I checked all of the advertisements I could find for Eve Online, and the writeups, and several other things. None of them say anything about 1%ers controlling your in-game life. |

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Posted - 2013.02.02 03:54:00 -
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Alavaria Fera wrote:
2009 player.... heavy launchers on a Raven.... how much did your character cost again did you say?
EVE 2013: Heavy Missile nerfs were not enough to make battleship launchers viable on .. a battleship.[/quote]
You, also, need to read some more of the thread. They weren't HMLs. As mentioned above. |

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Definition of a poster child for the combination of moral decay and genetic drift? See below. 
lollerwaffle wrote:
PAGING JENN ASIDE, JENN ASIDE, PLEASE REPORT TO TO THREAD. FINAL CALL FOR JENN ASIDE.
Anyway to pick apart your post: 1. You need a maturity check if players doing bad things to you results in you calling them a whole bunch of pretty names. The pure unadulterated irony of a "mature" person such as yourself calling other players immature is hilarious.
2. Your perception of the reality of the game is based on...? Actually, I'll concede that I am a generally nice guy and look to make friends. I also hang out with my friends and help each other out. But we also shoot other people, and get our rocks of shooting other people, while helping each other out and hanging out.
3. He has figured out how he wants to play it, and indeed has the right to do so. He chose to be what you yourself would call an immature jerk, and kicked everyone out of his corp because 1 person, that's right, 1 person shot him 100km off the station, in his ****-fit CNR.
4. Similarly, other people also paid their subscription fee and have the right to play how they want. Stop being a hypocrite.
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A number of things have been posted that needed to be said, and not just by me.  |

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Posted - 2013.02.07 00:43:00 -
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lollerwaffle wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:Definition of a poster child for the combination of moral decay and genetic drift? See below.  lollerwaffle wrote:
PAGING JENN ASIDE, JENN ASIDE, PLEASE REPORT TO TO THREAD. FINAL CALL FOR JENN ASIDE.
Anyway to pick apart your post: 1. You need a maturity check if players doing bad things to you results in you calling them a whole bunch of pretty names. The pure unadulterated irony of a "mature" person such as yourself calling other players immature is hilarious.
2. Your perception of the reality of the game is based on...? Actually, I'll concede that I am a generally nice guy and look to make friends. I also hang out with my friends and help each other out. But we also shoot other people, and get our rocks of shooting other people, while helping each other out and hanging out.
3. He has figured out how he wants to play it, and indeed has the right to do so. He chose to be what you yourself would call an immature jerk, and kicked everyone out of his corp because 1 person, that's right, 1 person shot him 100km off the station, in his ****-fit CNR.
4. Similarly, other people also paid their subscription fee and have the right to play how they want. Stop being a hypocrite.
So you resort to name calling when you have no argument? How cute and original 
Although I don't feel any particular need to defend myself, it's more of a statement of opining than a 'name'. |

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Posted - 2013.02.07 00:45:00 -
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TL. NPIR. Try somewhere else.
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Kanexus wrote:something happened like this when i first played...someone i met through local we talked for a few hours and he needed a corp i offered him the one i was in and to make a long story short he blew up my hulk while i was mining. i mean i dont get it myself we talked for a few hours seemed nice etc. i mean people realize that yeah they got you hahaha but they missed out on possibly great people to fly with...maybe even romances if one is a chick. i mean at least null sec and pirates u know what u getting urself into...what happened to you OP is just plain being an *******!
This is exactly the point I am trying to make. I'm hoping that no one else will do the same thing.
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Tallian Saotome wrote:OP, you are a terrible leader on so many levels. Stop being a CEO, and learn the game as a grunt. Once you have 2-3 years under your belt following someone who actually has a clue on how to lead a corp and actually learning from them(that learning part is key) then consider trying to run your own corp again.
If you want to play a game like this, but without the griefers, may I suggest Freelancer?
Your CNR fit was demanded because it is a gauge of how much you actually know about the game, which was revealed to be less than my wife who has played for a month knows, and with considerably less knowledge of how to lead.
As a final note, refusing to try another game because you have never tried another online game is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. What is wrong with you? 'This is the game I choose, and it had better be exactly the way I want it or I am gonna whine about it!' is all the rest of us hear. Maybe you should take an EVE break and actually TRY something else so you can make an actual educated decision?
Or you can continue to whine about how we are all sociopathic children, instead of growing up and learning something yourself.
I've been playing since July 18, 2009. My CNR fit was demanded, and largely provided, by the main mission runner in the corp, and was not listed correctly in earlier posts. Thank you for READING the thread. NGA.
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Winchester Steele wrote: Hey brother. This is your tear drenched post not mine.
What is really amusing here is that you brought AWOX tears to GD looking for compassion and then proceed to call other people "moron". HTFU m8, seriously.
As far as 1%ers, I have no clue what your on about. Been playing for 3 years and have never ever had my gameplay "dictated" by this supposed group. I can only assume this is some form of "goonspiracy".
I shed no tears.
My gameplay is not dictated by anyone.
I don't remember calling anyone a moron, but it could have happened.
Other than that, are you trying to make a point?
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Shawnm339 wrote:
I'd say the figure of sociopaths in eve is much higher? Why you ask? Because we normal hard working people understand that THIS IS A GAME, where we can be anyone we like..had a bad day at work? I can come on here and join a fleet and go and fly my anger out on some other poor unsuspecting souls...others decide to scam because maybe in real life they are genuine nice guys who work hard and want to play a different role....most of us accept that the people we talk to on here in some aspect may not quite be who's they be in RL in fact we might not even like them but in EVE...I'd suggest you're taking this spaceship game way too seriously
I've worked with, and gotten to know a lot of people over the years. Thieves, murderers, pimps, drug dealers, wife beaters, child molesters . . . you get the idea.
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Provence Tristram wrote:
- Would you be underhanded while playing sports?
- Would you cheat in a FPS?
- Would you hack a different MMO?
- Would you be callous while playing a board game?
Those are all game scenarios -- 'it's just a game' applies to them all.
1. I never have been, and never will be. It's a sport. Not even a game. 2. I don't do FPS because it all sux. 3. No. 4. Board games are very personal. you interact with the other players. If you don't like them, why play with them?
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Malcanis wrote: On the other hand, EVE is explicitly and openly advertised as a game where spying, treachery, piracy, theft and violent coercian are not just allowed but normal gameplay.
As stated above, a diligent search didn't show anything like that. Linky?
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TheBlueMonkey wrote:You lose not even a bill and turtle hard?
really? REALLY?
I guess it kinda depends how much fun you were having with other people although you post reads more like "I started a low tax corp so I could get tax of mission runners."
rather than, I started a corp to achieve something.
Achieve what in this cesspool? Run the galaxy? Move on to running the universe? I started a missioning corp because my miners are too expensive to use as pinatas.
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Tallian Saotome wrote: I did read the thread, saw the failfit CNR, and it proved you do not know how to play EVE. The other posted fit(which some people are mistaking and thinking was your fit, sadly) is, as explained, a joke from a long time ago.
I've been playing since 2006, but how long anyone has been playing EVE has no relevance on whether they actually know how to play, which is why I didn't bother asking how long you have been playing, or mention how long I had til now.
You might want to read the whole thread while not in possession of a giant case of mad.
If you think that a CNR, fitted with CN Cruise Launchers, and CN BCSes is a fail fit, then fly safe, good luck, and leave the thread.
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Posted - 2013.02.07 01:33:00 -
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Sverige Pahis wrote:have you tried idk not mining and running missions
That would make me a little more like you, wouldn't it? That is not a direction I am willing to go.
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Tallian Saotome wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:Tallian Saotome wrote: I did read the thread, saw the failfit CNR, and it proved you do not know how to play EVE. The other posted fit(which some people are mistaking and thinking was your fit, sadly) is, as explained, a joke from a long time ago.
I've been playing since 2006, but how long anyone has been playing EVE has no relevance on whether they actually know how to play, which is why I didn't bother asking how long you have been playing, or mention how long I had til now.
You might want to read the whole thread while not in possession of a giant case of mad.
If you think that a CNR, fitted with CN Cruise Launchers, and CN BCSes is a fail fit, then fly safe, good luck, and leave the thread.  And this is why you are failing at EVE 
I've been playing for more than 3 years. I have good, steady ISK coming in. I don't see 'fail' anywhere in that.
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Posted - 2013.02.07 02:26:00 -
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Tallian Saotome wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote: I've been playing for more than 3 years. I have good, steady ISK coming in. I don't see 'fail' anywhere in that.
You obviously don't see it, or this thread would not exist.
I'm pretty sure that you are the one who doesn't understand why this thread exists. 
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