I've been reading his blog since I started playing over two years ago.. I will greatly miss him. I learned a lot from his writings and he always made me think. He certainly contributed to my continued interest in the game. I think losing his blog is a huge loss to the community to those of us who did read and enjoy what he had to say.

o7 Ripard Teg

You summarize the 200+ positive answers to his departing post. Without Jester's Trek, his enemies gain nothing and EVE as a whole losses.

You summarize the 200+ positive answers to his departing post. Without Jester's Trek, his enemies gain nothing and EVE as a whole losses.

let's face it jester's trek readers have about as much independent thought as climate change deniers

I heard climate change alarmists were unpatriotic racists.

I did enjoy some of his posts... It's a shame he got involved in the whole E1 thing. He took down E1 but was his CSM position and the Jester's Trek blog a good trade?

Who are you and why should anyone bother answering you?

And of course, he's been taking a lot of flak about the E1 scandal.

I did enjoy some of his posts... It's a shame he got involved in the whole E1 thing. He took down E1 but was his CSM position and the Jester's Trek blog a good trade?

Well, I've been following him too and I feel that in the last year he's grown aware that EVE is in serious danger. He moved from being aware that something had to be done, to be enthusiastic about CCP having a plan, to doubting that CCP Seagull could make a change in the stagnating trend, and recently he's been struggling with the evidence that EVE has started decaying.

And of course, he's been taking a lot of flak about the E1 scandal.

Eve has been decaying for a while, most notably in null. If Seagull caves to the highsec carping brigade there won't be anyone left heavily invested. This is the point critics keep missing. Nullsec has been dying a slow death for years.

Empire seems fine. The 40% raven grinders are all chirpy and flocking around demanding new content, ever more PVP immunity and really just an avalanche of the most pathetic whining ever seen in a PVP centric game. If you start a war between sandbox PVPers and themepark PVEers, fine. It's been going on since the game started. Utilising metagame tactics against a group more than able to fight back is probably a really bad idea though.

Dinsdale & co would happily gather round and cheer if CCP runs the game into the ground just to prove their point. I have a funny feeling CCP would build the bonfire themselves rather than cave in, just to prove theirs. That's a degree of integrity and resilience some will never fully understand or appreciate. And I bet it's very hard to sustain.


All he had to do to retain a shred of credibility in that fiasco was wait the 5 weeks until his term as CSM ended so he wasn't accused of exploiting it. I'll whip out my tiny violin and saw on it at some point (he is a likeable person) but not today.

Btw I need someone to become the 'Eve conscience' so I can report baddies to them for griefing. I'd like to nominate Ramona. Mainly because Ramonamobile sounds awesome and I can keep the sig. I'm sure you'd do an excellent job, please consider it. (I might pay. In Fedos.)

The hero we deserve... or summat

I would be honoured by such a thing lol

Ill certainly take it under consideration

Do it again

Harder

CALL THAT A SLAP

HARDER ******

HARDER!!!

The cold hard truth is that only a small percentage of eve's player base enjoy this CCP approved play style. Most players pay subscriptions only for CCP's worst in industry PvE/indy content. But CCP is too proud or arrogant to admit this. ]

Im probably being trolled...

But you say that most players pay good money to play a really bad industry model

So...

CCP isnt at fault, the players are, surely?

Hey Ramona, thank you for your response.

I can only say it's because the utter lack of competition in the space sim mmo market.

I'm highly amused at these people who think the E1 scandal only happened because Ripard wrote about it.

If he hadn't done it someone else eventually would have.

Is eve dying? Yes.

This post was like throwing a troll net into a pokemon arena. You caught them all!!!!
Hahahaha...EPICSAUCE

I like this blog better. Jester's Trek was fine, until that holy crusade against part of the EVE community started. Erotica 1 should never have been banned, and even Erotica's most notorious victim agrees.

In my years of playing EVE I have come to terms with being harassed, thieved, griefed, tempted into folly and stabbed to death in the dark. Face your fears. Accept your losses. It's what makes this game good. Rather than make EVE safer for new players while selling "BE THE VILLAIN" in advertisements, CCP may be better off re-designing the introduction of the game to reflect the harsh reality that makes it unique. It could caution players about some of the more unscrupulous tactics used by profiteers (like suicide ganking), and the bevy of scams that await them in the more active trade hubs (or anywhere for that matter).

On the other side of that coin you'll find some of the nicer people in this game will go out of their way to pick you back up on your feet, dust you off, and send you on your way. They may even mentor you and teach you how to be a loveable bastard, or teach you how to deal with (or evade) loveable bastards in an intelligent manner. But even in those cases, beware of those who will try to own your progress. They will steal your time and effort in more subtle ways.

Don't be intimidated by people who try to take the moral high ground. No one is superior to you, and you are not superior to anyone. We are all equal pieces of ****. And we are all amazing.

reminds me of IZ.

Ewww.