I frequent it but don't live there. Its too much of a commute to my job bringing justice to miners and saving highsec.

Don't forget you're too busy being brilliant in the alliance tournament and spending countless hours making up lies about what happened to actually be good at Eve.

This pretty much explains it all. The community is a bit on the edge with CODE anyways. The AT thing only made it worse.

I've been in Slovenia on business since Saturday so all I know is heresay besides the Clockwork Pineapple gank which is hilariously true. That all said, I'm not too busy being brilliant about anything except on interpreting the Code.

Today? It's like "GO BACK TO HIGHSEC FA**** FU***** PIECE OF **** I WILL FIND YOU RL AND ******** KILL YOU" and other creative responses like that.

Basically, "I wasn't even there, man!"

OK. Excuses from CODE. What else is new?

If you suck, just say you suck. It's ok, man.

I don't follow your logic (or the lack thereof). I haven't even logged into client since Saturday :) if that is why I suck then there's little I can do about it.

The logic is, whatever your personal situation might be is irrelevant. Your alliance has earned you the right to shut your mouth for a good long time. Your participation in the chat boards is as a representative of your alliance, which is currently obligated to hang its head in silent shame, rather than spout the same jokes about permits that haven't been funny in the longest time.

I'm still surprised why anyone uses implants.

The logic is, whatever your personal situation might be is irrelevant. Your alliance has earned you the right to shut your mouth for a good long time. Your participation in the chat boards is as a representative of your alliance, which is currently obligated to hang its head in silent shame, rather than spout the same jokes about permits that haven't been funny in the longest time.

EvE online is best played angry.

There are very few 'pirates' left in EVE. Most people living in low/null are PVPers. They want the killmail, not the isk. any loot you drop is just a bonus.

why? because there are simple other, better ways to make money. running plexes or having a highsec alt run missions/incursions.

pirating for ransoms is a terrible way to make money. it rarely pays off large.

I can't believe anyone seriously wants to bring up "pirates of yore." The "Golden Age of Piracy..." You really don't want to go that way. The only "legend" from then is found in fiction today. THEN, they were criminals just like "terrorists" today. Governments sent fleets to destroy them. They were hung on sight, and nobody - NOBODY - but them wanted to be them. Get your facts straight in making comparisons here...or not. Yeah, you can talk out your @$$. Somebody said everybody wants to be the lead singer...I was in several bands over the many years as the lead singer, and I guarantee you, the rest of the musicians weren't bum rushing the mic to see who got there first. Again, the fiction...people who have nothing to do with music think the lead singer is everything. People who haven't got a clue about the past think Jack Sparrow is the who to be.

You can't be a pirate in this game simply because that kind of behavior is sanctioned, it's not punished.
You aren't an outlaw. You're an in-law. You suffer no retribution, no ostracization, and you certainly
don't pay a price of any sort for it. In fact, this so-called piracy is so laughable it's hard to imagine anyone
wishing to see themselves as competitive and competent gamers admitting publicly to doing it.
To discuss it like you're putting a fine point to it? How delusional can you GET?

Dunnat make me laff. Pyrates...in EVE. Funny. Drink your cocoa and watch some cartoons.
School starts up in a week...kids.

I've been in Slovenia on business since Saturday so all I know is heresay besides the Clockwork Pineapple gank which is hilariously true. I was not eligible for AT this year so i didnt really follow much regardless. That all said, I'm not too busy being brilliant about anything except on interpreting the Code (though I appreciate the compliment all the same.)

"the Clockword Pineapple gank is hilariously true"

We believe you. *wink*

*pats Rabe on the head and gives him a cookie for a nice try

Since I presume you have access to the killboards you can pat in vain if you prefer. and I dont mind the cookie; call it a bonus on a 21 bil freighter gank.

From my experience in null/lowsec, it seems to me that the only way to survive is to come out guns blazing in a battleship. The issue with this is that there's really no economic opportunity's for anyone who's flying a non-PVP ship (miner, hauler, etc.). There's just too much ganking/gate camping, and why is that? There's more money in classic pirate ransom than blowing up anything that flies in space, and I'd take ISK over ship explosions and killboard numbers any day. With the "if it moves, it's dead" tactics it limits the growth of that area. It makes it too dangerous for anyone without a PVP fit. At least if I pay 50% of my ship value to a pirate, I get to keep my non-pvp ship and not recieve money from my horrible "platinum" policy which actually covers 1% of my ship value. That brings me into another matter. Insurance is broken. CCP's "anti-fraud" insurance backfired. Why does my super-durable procurer have a "100%" value of 2 million ISK, but my frigate insurance worth the real 100%? I think when CCP designed nullsec/lowsec, they didn't expect that ganking would become so popular, and insurance needs a big overhaul. Once nullsec/lowsec becomes more ISK centered and insurance becomes useful, people will begin going there more often.

http://evedarklord.blogspot.ca/2014/03/carebear-to-killer.html
Check it out, Grim Hood. A small frigate can do horribad/wondrous things when applied properly. Ransoms, tears, loot, or whatever your metric for success can be achieved.

Yarr