Two abaddons and a cormorant...? Wow..

At least make it interesting and give yourself suspect flags.

Actually, KuroVolt, you have a point.

I carefully thought about my wording before not wanting it to appear like that.

The post you quoted came together as an answer to several people who have asked me why I am shooting the monument as something I can point them to.

So naturally, it has been written from a personal point of view.

Neither do I mean to be a leading figure in any of this - what is there to lead anyway? - nor do I care to "shine" by doing this.

People who would like to voice a certain opinion through symbolic means can come and shoot the monument, they don't need me or have to interact with me at all. They can shoot it without me even being there, when I need to log off or need to do other things.

I just kicked it off, since nobody seemed to have started it yet this time, although "monument shooting" has been referenced in some others threads on certain topics recently a few times.

Im just saying: if you really want to leave an impression on CCP, find something new to act as a symbol of everyones frustration with this event.

Dont repeat something that happened in the past, it both reduces the uniqueness of the first event and it also wont affect CCPnearly as much as the first time.

Its like hearing a funny joke for the fifth time, its just not as funny as the first time...

stuff

Fellow Eve players!

Allow me to draw your attention to the following few articles, which might shed some light on some, if not many of the reasons why people are starting to gather around the "Protest Monument" again:

http://www.minerbumping.com/2013/09/ccp-forbids-pretending-to-be-affiliated.html
http://www.minerbumping.com/2013/09/my-official-response-to-new-rules.html
http://themittani.com/features/james-315-responds-new-anti-scamming-rules
http://www.minerbumping.com/2013/09/ccp-audits-somer-blink-gives-them-free.html

Yours faithfully,

Janine Frost
NEW ORDER DEATH DEALERS/CODE.

SO how do you know that somer doesnt have to give a certain amount of the ISK to CCP as big sink?
Or that there wasnt a NDAed choice option between them and eveapalous or others?

That's the point, nobody knows anything about the history of Somer, nor the exact details of the agreement between CCP and Somer.

What we DO know however, is that only 1 account per IP address is allowed. This means, if you have flatmates or a partner etc who plays EVE, only one may have a Somer account. More than one account per IP, means a ban from the games.

We also know that no matter what the agreement, this is still a very unfair way of distributing said goods. In effect, the leader of Somer has the final say of who gets the ships, and who does not. Agreements or not, that's a very unfair advantage to give to one person in a finite sandbox. Remember, we STILL have to pay Somer in order to have a chance at winning a ship. No matter how you look at it, that's not fair.

Well we know CCP did plex bidding to get in to the tournament so its possible they held a similar lottery as to which site could play.

The IP thing is up to Somer and I really dont get why seeing as each account is API linked, username and pwed, instanced and finally they make profit even if some one clicks off every single box with a well coordinated VPN (yes I am going into IT)
so really it just sounds like a reasons thing and maybe a mild give everyone a fair shot by preventing multiboxing, which is very much an eve thing.

Do people get a suspect flag for shooting the monument? And, if not, why not!

This is stupid. If you want to have an effect on CCP, "demonstrations" are useless. They've said as much themselves. If you want to make an impact, log off. If the Goons actually care about this (as their thread would suggest), then having an entire alliance logoff for a weekend would be a much better indicator to CCP.

Some goons care about it and others don't. I really don't see why that's so hard for you people to understand but it obviously is.

Maybe your leadership shouldn't name threads like Devswarm Op, implying a choherent, singular world view.

No. But I don#t know why

I think they (perhaps wrongly) think that most people who will read them are able to perceive and understand irony.

The fact that James 315 is crying about it too makes it all the more awesome in my opinion.

Maybe your leadership shouldn't name threads like Devswarm Op, implying a choherent, singular world view.

Edit: besides, the whole thing is over. CSM thread is out

They enacted the impersonating rules because they planned on giving those shinies to SOMER, and didn't want anyone to scam people by impersonating SOMER people. Would make CCP look bad. That's my opinion anyway.

And oh yeah... only 2 people shooting the monument that I can see. Not much of a protest yet.

No, they tightened up the language because a player edited Eve wiki pages to make it look like (a) his character was one of Chribba's alts and (b) that the ISD endorsed that alt. He then proceeded to steal trillions of isk in escrow funds as well as the super caps the victims thought they were trading, damaging the reputation of the big C in the process.

Just like in the real world breathtaking douchebaggery on that scale triggered tighter restrictions.