did you intentionally create a game in which there is one RUS powerblock with a series of pets (PL/NC./TEST/GOONS/et al) who will rush to the rescue of a single reinforced station while filling their wallets IRL via RMT? Or was it completely by accident?

did you intentionally create a game in which there is one RUS powerblock with a series of pets (PL/NC./TEST/GOONS/et al) who will rush to the rescue of a single reinforced station while filling their wallets IRL via RMT? Or was it completely by accident?

Fact is, if you're not RUS or a RUS pet, you're stuffed in this game. Time to crack down on RMT and bots CCP.

OK. I'll ask since no-one else is. What did you lose?

Reserved.

This guy has something cooking.

Reserved.

The Russian "block" didn't happen overnight. Neither did the western block. There's quite a bit of reading to do if you really want to get into how that came about. Mostly though the alliances were able to capitalize on several mechanics and so not-so-EULA compliant practices.

Bots and moon goo provided a fllod of money to those that could get it. Super capitals have been over powered or years but ZCCP just now got around to looking at this. Sov mechanics are terrible.

The thing is, there's a tipping point for in-game weaelth that permits unrestricted growth. Once you hit this then there's no limit to the size of the fllets that can be sent to fight even the smallest threat. Dozens of supercaps could be lost without blinking an eye. No small group in null or low sec can do anything about that so people stopped playing. Faced with invasion, they might shoot a bit but they just leave. There's no point to combat since the outcome is predetermined. Thus, null has died.

Those still in null are lashing out at high sec even though they are the cause of their problems. They have become everything they claimed to hate.

He went to Russia along with his father and his friend Magn+¦s +Porsteinsson.

A report published in Denmark noted that the Committee on External Economic Relations in Saint Petersburg Mayor's office was responsible for foreigners. The committee's chairman was Vladimir Putin between 1991 and 1996.[2]

The Icelandic businessmen, together with Russian partners, founded bottling company Baltic Bottling Plant, which was sold to Pepsi. Next they founded a brewing company. -P-P-P "-ó-+-Ç-¦-+-¦-ï-¦ -¦-+-+ "-á-P-í-É" was registered in March 1995 and changed its name to Bravo OOO in February 1996 (address was also changed). It further changed its name to Bravo International OOO in August 1996 and Bravo International JSC in December 1997.[2] Founders of Bravo were six companies registered in Limassol, Cyprus - Bj+¦rg+¦lfsson was president of all of them.[2] Bravo Brewery became a success on the premium beer Botchkarov.

An article in The Guardian (2005) wondered where Bj+¦rg+¦lfsson's money comes from and noted that in the 1990s the Icelanders "were not only ploughing money into the country but doing it in the city regarded as the Russian mafia capital. That investment was being made in the drinks sector, seen by the mafia as the industry of choice."[3] Competitors in the Saint Petersburg brewing market faced problems. For instance, Ilya Weismann, deputy director of competing beverage company Baltic, was assassinated on January 10, 2000. Later Baltic director general Aslanbek Chochiev was also assassinated. One competing Saint Petersburg brewery burned to the ground.[2][3]

The company became the fastest growing brewery in Russia. Heineken bought the brewery for $400m in 2002.[2][4]

He returned to Iceland to gain interest in numerous ventures there.

NP ehf. and Novator ehf. are investment companies beneficially owned by Bj+¦rg+¦lfur Thor Bj+¦rg+¦lfsson.

The owner or owners of Novator are hiding behind a web of companies which includes companies in places such as Cyprus, Cayman Islands, Delaware, Gibraltar, Tortola (British Virgin Islands), and Luxembourg.[1]

Investigations published in Denmark suggest that the underlying companies are linked to Russian companies.[2]