Cool.

Cool.

news, and tremendous for the Eve community.

Losing Jester's Trek is like losing your favorite expat bar: It will only be missed by the right people, and those who won't miss it don't matter.


PS: Sad news indeed as he's letting Ripard's subscription lapse, too.

http://jestertrek.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/no-tank-lasts-forever.html

"Now before you ask, I'm neither quitting nor rage-quitting EVE Online..."

How on earth could someone possibly get burned out on trying to do anything for the EVE community, it is such a mystery to me I cannot understand it, anyone got any ideas?

http://themittani.com/features/xnym-or-everybody-needs-somebody

I realize that a lot of you out there really want to keep New Eden as your own private little club, no noobs allowed, go back to WoW, et cetera ad nauseam. But some of you must feel differently. If you want the game to succeed, how do you not worry about it? Are we so enamored of griefing people that we subconsciously want EVE to flame out and die so we can sit down with some popcorn and watch it happen? In my darkest moments, I feel like this is exactly it. There are lots of current and former EVE players that seem positively gleeful at the prospect of watching CCP implode spectacularly.

Haters gonna hate & it didn't take long for the usual suspects to comment on this post.

I agree with OP, this is a body blow to community provided content & Jester's Trek will be sorely missed - especially by those that are capable of independent thought.

Who is jester and why should anyone care?

Very very sad news, and a tremendous loss for the Eve community.

Godpseed sir.

I know. He's right. The OP is one of them.

If Jester might read this thread, don't let the forum trolls (anyone above minus Malcanis) get to you.

Why.. in what way does 1 random guy stopping his in my opinion poor blogging effect what happens to anybody in game?

How does this 1 guy stopping his blog make the entire game and community worse off?

Please explain because I just can't figure it out?

Because you felt compelled to comment and in a clearly negative manner.

Ripard is not 'some random guy' - that description aptly describes every goontard (or their dangleberry blowhards) btw.

but now who do we complain to when we feel tortured?

Who am I going to take the **** out of now

/squints at Malcanis

Yet you haven't given any explanation as to why he is not just random guy nor have you explained how him no logging blogging effects anything that happens in game or the community.

(Underlining is mine)

Ripard Teg was never really part of the CCP '' in crowd'' anyway so the only-thing he looses is 1 plex per month for his blog efforts. I hated his views on the game it was all nerf PVP and leave the bears alone coupled with give pet players free **** which is pretty much everything I was against, SO YEAH UHM GOOD RIDDANCE!

Now if we could just get Mynnna to stop talking shite then today would be a pretty good Sunday.

Although I like that Erotica is no longer part of the eve community, Jester will always be remembered for being a whiney carebear to me, and is the antithesis of the spirit of eve. The reason people like eve is that the community are treated like adults, not kids that need to be given a cookie when they make a mistake and start to cry. I didn't listen to the audio clip, as I don't want to waste my time listening to the garbage which Erotica spews. Everyone else should have just done the same.

I'm disappointed in you, I believed you might be one of those players that might have taken a greater interest in the game than just who was being braodcast as primary. Assuming you are not just trolling, of course.

Ripard Teg, the playing character behind Jester's Trek, was elected onto CSM 8 on a popular ticket that didn't require block votes. Indeed, his popularity was so high that he achieved the position of Vice Chair. Through Jester's Trek, Ripard kept everyone up to date with the goings on of the CSM on a weekly basis - something that has never been done before (afaik) and set a very high bar for CSM9 members to emulate.

Through Jester's Trek, Ripard intelligently, diligently & thoroughly covered most aspects of life in EVE Online - he covered lots of the meta goings on, Quotes of the Week, Fit of the Week and produce many new player friendly guides. Jester's Trek wasn't just a blog, it was a magazine and reference document all rolled into one. The man was a blogging machine - he had the ability to post quailty content almost on a daily basis. There was even the occaisional sightings of his alter ego, Garth, who liked to comment on some of the more controversial aspects of the game and wasn't afraid to pull any punches. There was always something for everyone and this is why it will be missed.

Tell me why I should care?

Losing Jester's Trek is like losing your favorite expat bar: It will only be missed by the whiners, and those who won't miss it are the smart ones.

Your opinion tells more about you than about Ripard...

most people commenting here are a collection of *********

If I were a potential new player and had a look at the forums first (which are public) before trying the game itself (which you have to download and register for first), I would shy away in an instant.

Wow. Ive often noticed how the supposedly griefer-dominant community of Eve really only exist in the forums itself. Sure, there are griefers in the game, but you are always given ways around them, or through them by the game mechanics. Never has someone ruined my day if it wasnt partly my own fault.

But those forums? Im sorry to say, but most people commenting here are a collection of ********* and most of them represent themselves in nearly every thread that comes along. If I were a potential new player and had a look at the forums first (which are public) before trying the game itself (which you have to download and register for first), I would shy away in an instant.

My god, people...

Back on topic: Ripard, all the best to you. Your blog was, for better or worse, always an interesting read!

But those forums? Im sorry to say, but most people commenting here are a collection of ********* and most of them represent themselves in nearly every thread that comes along.

Good riddance. No one ever drumbeat harder about the "EVE is dying" rhetoric, not even Dinsdale. Nevermind the incessant, incredibly obnoxious carebear advocacy.

EvE's own NIgel Farrage is stopping his hateful blog?

Worrying about facts like this (PCU trend) and this (New character trend) is not "drumbeating" bad news.

Worrying about facts like this (PCU trend) and this (New character trend) is not "drumbeating" bad news.

It will only be missed by the right people who think much too high of themselves, and those who won't miss it knew that it was the same crap as all the other blogs anyway.

Wow. Ive often noticed how the supposedly griefer-dominant community of Eve really only exist in the forums itself.

But those forums? Im sorry to say, but most people commenting here are a collection of ********* and most of them represent themselves in nearly every thread that comes along. If I were a potential new player and had a look at the forums first (which are public) before trying the game itself (which you have to download and register for first), I would shy away in an instant.

My god, people...

Don't read too much into what Ramona and her ilk post here guys ..... their collective butt is still hurting from the whole Erotica thing. I think' New Order alts detected' applies to the rabble.

This is obviously not true. Try asking for help in New Citizens Q&A, W&T, Market, Skill, Ships&Mods or Industry subforums. Everybody will go out of their way to help you.

GD is a bit different, sure but there are lots of smart, funny and helpful posters here too.

This is obviously not true. Try asking for help in New Citizens Q&A, W&T, Market, Skill, Ships&Mods or Industry subforums. Everybody will go out of their way to help you.

The implosion when his detractors have nothing else to do with their time will be spectacular.

You had a blog? I never knew.

Who? I'm too busy pewpewing when I play eve to care.

Don't read too much into what Ramona and her ilk post here guys ..... their collective butt is still hurting from the whole Erotica thing. I think' New Order alts detected' applies to the rabble.

How on earth could someone possibly get burned out on trying to do anything for the EVE community, it is such a mystery to me I cannot understand it, anyone got any ideas?

http://themittani.com/features/xnym-or-everybody-needs-somebody

*noms apfelstrudel*

(Underlining is mine)

Very very sad news, and a tremendous loss for the Eve community.

Godpseed sir.

Haters gonna hate & it didn't take long for the usual suspects to comment on this post.

I agree with OP, this is a body blow to community provided content & Jester's Trek will be sorely missed - especially by those that are capable of independent thought.

I wasn't going to post today but the irony of this statement...oh my....
Far be it from me to begrudge a man a pitchfork Blog but i think he ruined that for himself.

A lot of what he posted was complete rubbish. Many times he posted about events which was so far removed from the truth it was fantasy.

As for the rest, none of it effects anything that happens in game. Nothing in Eve as we know will change. Nobodies play style will change due him no longer blogging. No Alliances will fall, nobody will leave, subs will not dramatically fall, the world will not end.

Everything will go as normal.

Far more influential players have completely left the game and you know what changed.. nothing. Eve went on as normal. So please spare me the dramatics that some guy who has stopped his blog is a terrible event and we will all be worse off.

There are many who have contributed and whose actions have more effect on Eve then Ripard could ever dream of doing.

As for his term on the CSM, he even admits that his Blog was created in order to get him elected. Now he has been there and done that his blog no longer serves any purpose.

He is no longer relevant. (If he ever was to begin with)

or go in to any of the in-game channels that the 'griefers' frequent, and they'll be more than happy to help you as well.

Under certain circumstances you may be eligible for reimbursement for your loss. If you feel this barge destruction was improper, please contact Ripard Teg.

Under certain circumstances you may be eligible for reimbursement for your loss. If you feel this barge destruction was improper, please contact DeMichael Crimson.

I've been putting this at the end of all the emails I send to gank victims:



Kind of sad to see him go. Hope he helped some of the guys I killed. Until a new false savior of hisec arises, I guess I'll go with this for awhile:

I love it!

I wonder if his involvement in crushing erotica1 has anything to do with him quitting the blog

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.

Who is jester and why should anyone care?

a tremendous loss for the Eve community.

The Tipper Gore of Eve Online.

This is unfair. Tipper Gore is no way, shape, or form, smart enough to play Eve. To compare anyone in this game to that bimbo is an insult against all of us. Take it back!

Good riddance Rippard.

Please dont come back.

The community is better off without you

You forgot to change alts between posting?

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.

And nothing of value was lost.

Did I just read an informative Dinsdale post? Yes I did.

You have this game. 20% of your players get it right, stay for 4 years, then leave. 80% of your players never get it right, stay for 2 years, and leave.

Some claim that the way to improve the game is to make the 20% stay for 6 years rather than 4 (more better PvP)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to get rid of the 80% altogether (but CCP may disagree to downsize)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to lure the 80% into becoming part of the 20% so the split is like 70-30 or 60-40 (that's what CCP is attempting)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to provide the 80% with all they want and screw the 20% (but I never found anyone seriously claiming that)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to lure a new demographic who would rather walk an avatar than fly a spaceship so the game becomes 80+20+40 (but those are mostly dead)
Some claim that the way to improve the game is to make the 80% stay for 4 years rather than 2 (more better PvE)

EVE is complex and there is no simple solution, and what all the above have in common is that they will rather kill EVE and sabotage each other than let anyone else save the game...

Here's a list of MMOs that didn't die after abandoning their existing playerbase and design ethos to chase a new market by copying everyone else:

From Wikipedia

She attended St. Agnes (now St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School), a private Episcopal school in Alexandria, Virginia, where she excelled in athletics and played the drums for an all-girl band, The Wildcats.[2]

She played sports and beat on things. Here in 'merica, that's a celebrity.

This really is Infinite Ziona.

Hey guys, look who I spotted!

Hmm tempted to send you your own paranoid response, though Im sure you have your evidence like I have mine about that other thing.

Still, this one is not as vitriolic and hatefilled towards everyone yet, so that's probably why I havent seen it.

And yes, I appreciate the hypocrisy in calling anyone else vitriolic and hatefilled.

Its just what makes me so so sweet and loveable

Ripard was probably one of the best ambassadors for the game EvE Online ever had.

I remember Eternum from the past and although I didn't scan through his posts,
he doesn't try to project domination onto everybody, like Salvos did.


This, otoh ... well ... besides the posts, one actually needs only to compare older portraits of IZ with this one.

I'll make sure to save a local copy...

IZ

hmm.. I'm not sure. The posts lack the bad grammar and poor spelling... but then I didn't search too deeply. I mean there are some spots, but it seems more intentional and thought out, while less condescending in general. Well, if IZ does surface in some form, I don't think he/she will be able to conceal his identity for very long, certain meltdown given enough time.
Then we'll know

I want to add that you people mentioning this will make IZ aware of it,
leading to changing her behaviour.

leading to changing her behaviour.

I'm disappointed in you, I believed you might be one of those players that might have taken a greater interest in the game than just who was being braodcast as primary. Assuming you are not just trolling, of course.

Ripard was probably one of the best ambassadors for the game EvE Online ever had. Certainly better them anyone CCP has ever hired. His blog was one of the main things that kept me coming back whenever my interest started to wain.

Wait, so if you don't like Riptard, then you don't take an interest in the game?
He is one random guy with one opinion, an opinion which a lot of people tend to disagree with. HE's a fan of making it easy for the easy guys and diluting down the downsides to the point that we have wow is space. How is wanting to keep the parts of EVE that make it a tough game and give it it's unique flavour not taking an interest. I get that you like him, but that doesn;t mean that we all have to, and it certainly doesn't mean his opinions are more valuable or more correct that anyone else's.

Since his most recent claim to fame is abusing his position on the CSM to get rid of a single player he didn't like, his blog going into the trash is no loss to the game. It's just a shame all of his characters aren't following.

But I know right, my opinion differs to yours so I'm just a troll and/or have no interest in EVE.

lmao.. I love these kind of posts

Please explain how he was an "ambassador" for Eve Online

This 100%

Nah, not even 1% right.

Congrats on the selective quoting in leaving out Prince Kobol's original question and my larger reply. I guess context doesn't matter to you in the slightest. But hey, this is EVE O GD afterall - the home of trolls and blowhards - my bad for thinking it might just be different in this thread vOv

Btw, who the **** are you again and why should I give a damn what a nobody thinks?

This really is Infinite Ziona.

Hey guys, look who I spotted!

Here's a list of MMOs that didn't die after abandoning their existing playerbase and design ethos to chase a new market by copying everyone else:

Speaking of nobodies, who the hell are you?

If you were anybody then ... oh wait, nvm ..... **** off back under your bridge vOv

A lot of what he posted was complete rubbish. Many times he posted about events which was so far removed from the truth it was fantasy.

As for the rest, none of it effects anything that happens in game. Nothing in Eve as we know will change. Nobodies play style will change due him no longer blogging. No Alliances will fall, nobody will leave, subs will not dramatically fall, the world will not end.

Everything will go as normal.

Far more influential players have completely left the game and you know what changed.. nothing. Eve went on as normal. So please spare me the dramatics that some guy who has stopped his blog is a terrible event and we will all be worse off.

There are many who have contributed and whose actions have more effect on Eve then Ripard could ever dream of doing.

As for his term on the CSM, he even admits that his Blog was created in order to get him elected. Now he has been there and done that his blog no longer serves any purpose.

He is no longer relevant. (If he ever was to begin with)

Nah, not even 1% right.

Congrats on the selective quoting in leaving out Prince Kobol's original question and my larger reply. I guess context doesn't matter to you in the slightest. But hey, this is EVE O GD afterall - the home of trolls and blowhards - my bad for thinking it might just be different in this thread vOv

Btw, who the **** are you again and why should I give a damn what a nobody thinks?

LOL, yes, I'm a nobody, but you aren't, right? And Ripard isn't either? Who decides who is and isn't a nobody? Who decides who's opinion is and isn't relevant? Opinions differ mate, so grow the **** up. If you can't handle the fact that Ripard isn't going to be globally accepted as a god just because you'd like to give him a reacharound, the exit is over there ->.

If you were anybody then ... oh wait, nvm ..... **** off back under your bridge vOv

EVE is in no danger to change its course, frankly. CCP is already doing the right thing (in their view) and it's a matter of life or death to them, so there is no way they will change it.

Of course, I think that they're wrong and should do otherwise, but that just puts me in a large club of armchair game designers...

Whatever the future brings, I will be missing Jester's Trek and Ripard Teg's voice on it.

Witness the intellectual might of the sebiestor as it tries feebly to understand such concepts such as the fact other people may disagree with him and are not trolls.

DISBAND. used to be cool

What happened?

This is what happens when you teach them to read,
seriously people,
learn how to oppress a culture probably or stay out of the ******* slave trade.

This is what happens when you teach them to read,
seriously people,
learn how to oppress a culture probably or stay out of the ******* slave trade.

Who the hell allowed them to breed in the first place

Your bio needs adaption. It makes every legitimate coward look like a winner too.

Can't be serious about this.

What?

Sig. Edited post, but too late.

Thats what I thought you meant

Still don't understand what you said

What is an illegitimate coward?

(1)Your sig puts the cowards into the same bucket as the smart ones.
(2)Not everyone who doesn't fight is a winner,
(3)unless you consider cowards and bigmouths as winners too.

Not trying is worse than trying and losing.

Lack of spine and dignity doesn't make people winners.

Trying though, does, in the long run.

properly*

And please don't copy my writing style. -.-'

Hey, I got a new hatemail from Priestess Lin.
Another mighty and brave warrior!

And no, Baiting the Roleplayers is a long standing and honorable pastime.
The aim is to get one to break character.

And the quote in Ramona's Sig is about knowing the engagement envelope of your ship/fit, you might be mis interpreting it.

Four years ago, EVE players were very much "Us against the world! Woo!" Now we've learned the rest of the world doesn't care and it's become "Us against each other."

One thing he said in that 'final' that always amuses me when i see it, the whole "nostalgia" reaction people have:

Four years ago EVE players were every bit at each others throats as they are now. Hell, if anything, EVE Online is a kinder/gentler place that it's ever been. I see a lot of people saying things like this (ie "when i started playing there wasn't all that much scamming or suicide ganking" and "back in the day you could get a solo pvp fight easy, now solo pvp is dead")..

By stopping the blog, he is torturing his fanbase.



The circle is complete.

I should write a blog about that.

Ironic that he criticizes the sense of disunity in our community, when he himself bears much of the responsibility for creating it, through his constant attacks against playstyles which aren't his own. Nevertheless, I do respect his willingness to stick his neck out and express unpopular ideas. It shows a degree of e-courage, even though his ideas tended to be unpopular for good reason (because they were terrible).

I think he is making the right decision and I applaud him for it. Video games are supposed to be fun, and if this is no longer fun for him then it is time for a change.

Still, though, I do feel some obligation to claim victory for the New Order against the greatest champion of bot-aspirancy that EVE has ever known.

Victory for James 315! Death to his enemies!

His blog was awful anyway

That line is pretty tired. Come up with some original content for once.

Profound insight!

I think it's a little bit sad that this thread has devolved into a "screw you Ripard" fest.

I don't.

I think it's more sad that people think we should have to fawn over him and say nothing but nice things just because he wrote a few paragraphs every so often on a blog.

It's not like people are pulling out the pitch forks and flaming brands and chasing him out of town. besides, he's better at that kind of thing than us anyway.

For me I will miss having a place to go to read somebody else's opinions on Eve. Whether I agreed with them or not is almost irrelevant.

For me I will miss having a place to go to read somebody else's opinions on Eve. Whether I agreed with them or not is almost irrelevant.

I would then suggest either Bacon's blog, or Feyd's depending on how Hooah you are.

And there is always Minerbumping, which is both very well written and awesomely inspiring. Not to mention uproariously hilarious.

I read all of the above. I am not here with an axe to grind.

I know you feel the need to dispute my post because :forums:

So yeah - crack on celebrating someone stopping contributing to the overall mess.

I think it's a little bit sad that this thread has devolved into a "screw you Ripard" fest.

*deep breath*
Well abusing you second hand sofa status to force an issue on your personal agenda by whipping up a particularly vicious frenzy that polarized the community and trivialized serious issues by comparison to digital activities while dragging some poor (if gullible) bloke into the middle of the aforementioned **** storm will likely to have that effect.
*gasp*

some poor (if gullible) bloke into the middle of the aforementioned **** storm will likely to have that effect.
*gasp*

Says the NPC corp alt...

Just acknowledging someone who put a lot of time and effort into the game.