always seems odd to me that griefers are just about the most risk averse people you can find. this might actually be worth a thread if they went after some of the more serious incursions bears like sk33t or SSN

quoting you saying that highsec incursions dont make much ISK followed by you saying high sec incursions make 30 - 40 billion ISK AN HOUR.

but seriously, incursions pay out to well not just in isk but in LP as well, the main problem in it is that as long as you dotn kill the mother ship you can keep getting the sites to spawn over and over, there should be a cap on how many sites can spawn for each incursion till you 'have' to kill the mother ship and end the incursion.

Joining Sansha isent so bad, you get great health care.

Of course we ransom most the incursioners we catch, but very few actualy pay us to let them go, a few have payed tho and they have been allowed to warp away.

How much rope did they have?

Well they wernt Spelunkers so not sure why they would have brought rope, care to elaborate?

The only use for "payed" is in regards to rope, and it's a very obscure usage of the word

lol, I'm just in the mood to nit-pick.

The only use for "payed" is in regards to rope, and it's a very obscure usage of the word

Interestingly enough, and in Gaz's defense, "payed" seems to be a completely acceptable (although far less common) version of the past tense for pay, according to American Heritage Dictionary, Merriam Webster, and Dictionary.com.

Perhaps you should better choose which nits you pick...

~Andrei.

Whilst we're all in a nitpicking mood....

American Heritage Dictionary,Merriam Webster,and Dictionary.com are all American websites. The Americans (bless them) have butchered our great language for hundreds of years.

The Oxford English dictionary however, states that payed means

verb (past and past participle payed)

[with object] Nautical]

seal (the deck or seams of a wooden ship) with pitch or tar to prevent leakage:an open groove between the planks had to be payed by running in hot pitch from a special ladle


Carry on hehe

This is a much stronger argumentative stance than that of Barakkus, and as far as I can tell the only use of payed that isn't an irregular verb; however, it's irksome to see people on the internet arguing points that cannot stand on their own feet. Using an irregular form of a verb is not the same as misspelling that verb. If you want to play grammar/spelling **** (fan of WW2 Germany, for the filter), at least read a book first.

To close my case, I will simply side with Henry Fielding:

"In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."

If you don't like Gaz's use of payed, or my defense of it, take it up with the great English novelist... Oh, and don't be so quick to blame the Americans, eh?

~Andrei.

Apparently, if enough Americans mis-spell a word, it becomes a correct variant spelling.

I think I'll stick to speaking English.

The word is 'paid'.

Apparently, if enough Americans mis-spell a word, it becomes a correct variant spelling.

I think I'll stick to speaking English.

The word is 'paid'.

Apparently, if enough Americans mis-spell a word, it becomes a correct variant spelling.

I think I'll stick to speaking English.

The word is 'paid'.

What is funny is that you think that your "English" language is some set language. It is actually a bastardized version of old Germanic languages. So to say that your "English" spelling is correct when your "English" language has been just as bastardized as the Americanized dialect, is about as hypocritical as you can be.

What is funny is that you think that your "English" language is some set language. It is actually a bastardized version of old Germanic languages. So to say that your "English" spelling is correct when your "English" language has been just as bastardized as the Americanized dialect, is about as hypocritical as you can be.

That would be 'bastardised' and 'Americanised'.

The English language has evolved and changed over time. No prizes there. What annoys me is when a language evolves from sheer ignorance and laziness. Thanks America!

Good luck with your English subdialect.

Interestingly enough, and in Gaz's defense, "payed" seems to be a completely acceptable (although far less common) version of the past tense for pay, according to American Heritage Dictionary, Merriam Webster, and Dictionary.com.

Perhaps you should better choose which nits you pick...

~Andrei.

Yeah Btl pub was really quiet aswell lastnight :( shame, I guess all the incersioners isk presses broke down.

Oh and as far as im concerned the internet (and texting) has created it own language, like lol. Its all about using terible gramer and spelling which was widly adopted world wide, fancy that.

So if everyone promises to stop using text speak, we can all go back to using high english on the marrow good sir.

Gazmin actually constructs proper sentences in corp chat. I give him 8/10 for garnering so many negative responses to his use of the English language. *discuss

Getting back on topic now; at one point we (Skunks) had complete control over the local incursion channel for the better part of 2 hours. Both BTL and TDF channels seemed confined to non fleet-forming chatter as well. Mostly people just talked about different strategies and fittings for their favorite shiny faction BS or t3. This could mean several things: We've frightened enough incursionbears into not pursuing their favorite past time, it was just an off night, or maybe they are hanging out in the opposite high-sec incursion. Personally I think that public fleets aren't being formed as often.