So, we calling Polo "Hoofball" now?

Of course, that would still including basketball. I dunno, I don't make this stuff up. I just share it with the class.

The real problem comes when we start calling employing the term skatepuck, and then realise that field skatepuck is actually football.

No.

Eve is not an ecosystem. We, the players, are the only non-static entity. Nothing revolves around us, changes, or relies on us, that would continue to exist if we were not here.

Daft question, I've seen some Aussie rules football, it looks fairly similar to Rugby and Gaelic Football, what are the differences?

Well, humans are a part of the ecosystem though, n'est-ce pas??

I am somewhat dismayed by the abscence of immatures comments here. Someone used horsies and balls in the same sentence, godammit! Has everyone but me grown up?

Between rugby and AFL, rugby is played in more or less of a line, whereas AFL is more akin to soccer in the positioning of players. Rugby is about getting over a line with the ball to score a try, whereas AFL is about kicking it through two posts to score a goal or two outer posts to score a point. Goals are 6 points.

There is a rift in Australia as to which is more skillful. I feel AFL is more skillful but rugby needs the guys to be harder. At the end of the day they are both as bad as American football for the whole handegg situation (all though AFL less so as they kick it a whole lot more).

Now what was this thread about again?

This thread is going fun places.

The world outside of the US and Canada would beg to differ.

... and would most likely beat the OP into a bloody smear on the sidewalk if he said it to their faces.

... and would most likely beat the OP into a bloody smear on the sidewalk if he said it to their faces.

Depends, if the "World" he spoke to was English, they'd just burn down their own stadium in protest. If it was French, they'd just boo him off the field. If it was Italian, they'd fake an injury a second or so later to get the ref to send OP off field.

So, we calling Polo "Hoofball" now?

... and would most likely beat the OP into a bloody smear on the sidewalk if he said it to their faces.

The world outside of the US and Canada would beg to differ. Those countries have their own sports called football, so they refer to it as soccer. Pretty much everywhere else calls it Football, soccer is a derivative of Association Football, which is the game that is played internationally. While American Football (henchforth known as Handegg ) is played outside of the US it's very much a minority sport internationally.

I take exception to American football being called "handegg" unless you opt to refer to Rugby by the same term. Both are games which fall under the category of a game played on foot with a ball, hence "football" (as opposed to games played on horseback).

For the record: It's called football because the ball is a foot long. (American obviously)

Yes

Mined minerals are free because i'm not f**king paying for them!! If i get given vegetable seeds and plant them...then the f**king carrots are free.

The fact I could be doing something else with my time to allow me to buy carrots is irrelevent.

I get given a Venture
I mine the ore
That ore didnt cost me ****!

Where you yanks have got it right is ice hockey! Quality game and one I wish the UK got more involved with.

Eve is not an ecosystem. We, the players, are the only non-static entity. Nothing revolves around us, changes, or relies on us, that would continue to exist if we were not here.

Making highsec safer will not make the game better. It will make it even more stale and boring than it has become. What it lacks is proper conflict drivers, and common sense between highsec dwellers on safe fitting/hauling guidelines.

Ratting with drones is not harder post Retribution 1.0 in december, it is easier. Fit an ecm or RR module, activate it, and all the rats will stay focused on ships activating Ecm or RR in regular anomalies and most missions.

Yanks? Check your map, lad.

Come spend some time in the "Great White North", on a frozen lake in the middle of winter, and we'll show you how it's really played. Fresh bodies on the ice are always welcome.

Oh, and bring spare teeth. First thing to go is usually the teeth.

... and would most likely beat the OP into a bloody smear on the sidewalk if he said it to their faces.