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AaronP
Omega Fleet Enterprises
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.26 16:16:00 -
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Hehe all i hear is Nerf this, Nerf that. Especially since Kali came out.. so, where did the word Nerf come from?
I checked Wiki, and all it came up with was this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerf.
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Exiled One
Amarr
Imperial Shipment
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Posted - 2006.11.26 16:17:00 -
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Edited by: Exiled One on 26/11/2006 16:18:04
 Originally by: AaronP
Hehe all i hear is Nerf this, Nerf that. Especially since Kali came out.. so, where did the word Nerf come from?
I checked Wiki, and all it came up with was this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerf.
Nm.
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Jim McGregor
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Posted - 2006.11.26 16:19:00 -
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Here's one origin I found:
"Nerf - A slot car is not a nerf mobile, but you can't tell that to some racers. Technically speaking, a nerf is when one car, usually the one on the inside lane, slides up into the lane next to it and causes the car in that lane to de-slot. With just a little practice, an accomplished "nerfer" can perform this function at just the right place and time. I have been asked many times of the origin of the word NERF, and after extensive study have found it to be derived from a Greek word meaning "Steersman". Which is most likely why Princess Lea called Hans Solo a NERF HERDER in the Empire Strikes Back. The Greek word is it's origin, but in modern computer gaming, the term means to take away someone's power. This definition has it's derivation from the Nerf Ball and Nerf Gun, where something with power was made less powerful. I think either definition could apply to the Slot Racing World since when you "Nerf" someone, you are both "Steering" them in a different direction, and removing their power to win the race."
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Lucifer Fellblade
Caldari
Ore Mongers
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.26 16:19:00 -
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Edited by: Lucifer Fellblade on 26/11/2006 16:20:08
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Plutoinum
German Cyberdome Corp
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2006.11.26 16:19:00 -
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Edited by: Plutoinum on 26/11/2006 16:22:02
There was a link on that page refferring to computer games. Linkage
Remember that I've looked it up too there some time ago, but I knew the term already from other MMORPGs, just didn't know its roots.
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Larg Kellein
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Posted - 2006.11.26 16:20:00 -
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Edited by: Larg Kellein on 26/11/2006 16:20:10
Should have gone one click further on wiki
for your gaming terminology pleasure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerf_%28computer_gaming%29
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Roy Batty68
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Posted - 2006.11.26 16:22:00 -
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Definately not an EVE term. Came long before.
urbandictionary
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The term "nerf" comes from the online gaming world of Ultima Online.
At one point in the game, the developers reduced the power of swords in melee combat.
This resulted in players complaining that it was like they were hitting each other with nerf bats, not swords.
From then on, if ever something gets made less worth while than it had been originally, it has been considered a 'nerf'.
"Oh man, they reduced the dmg on the berserker class and now it's totally nerfed!"
"****, the Devs nerfed those axe's real good!"
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Onubis
Quantum Labs
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Posted - 2006.11.26 16:40:00 -
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Everybody knows that Nerf is a long lost Biblical term brought into prominence by the prophet TomB 
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Nir
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2006.11.26 17:16:00 -
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Edited by: Nir on 26/11/2006 17:18:53
What sort of childhood did you people have?!? You'll be telling me you never heard of supersoakers next. 
I still have my semi automatic nerf launcher up in the basement somewhere. 
It comes from FPS games where, if a gun got changed people used to say "I might aswell shoot you with a frickin' nerf gun"
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Sapphron Dei
Gallente
Solid Ind.
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Posted - 2006.11.26 17:23:00 -
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Doesnt nerf come from a game?
Called nerfball?
Nerfing = softening things up.
Nerfball = a game where 2 teams play a taglike game where they hit each other with a very soft ball a.k.a. nerfball.
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
Imperium Technologies
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2006.11.26 17:27:00 -
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The Wikipedia article on nerfing in computer games.
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turnschuh
Eye of God
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Posted - 2006.11.26 17:28:00 -
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its a common term within the mmorpg communitys
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infraX
Caldari
Finite Horizon
The Red Skull
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Posted - 2006.11.26 17:35:00 -
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'Nerf' refers to those toy guns that shoot foam projectiles. The term has been around a lot longer than EVE. The act of 'nerfing' something is to make it as useful as a foam bullet or a chocolate fireguard, i.e. less powerful.
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Xyliana
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Posted - 2006.11.26 17:44:00 -
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*reads infraX's mind
or Nerf bats those things you used to wack your siblings with growing up
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Archaeus Staranger
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Posted - 2006.11.26 20:56:00 -
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Nerfing was used as a description of deliberately damaging a competitors car in motorsport as far back as I can remember (long time). probably the slotcar thing came from that
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MinorFreak
Amarr
Ordo Ministorum
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Posted - 2006.11.27 08:36:00 -
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motorsport, huh? first i heard of it used was ultima online way back in the day.
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Hanns
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2006.11.27 09:07:00 -
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Originally by: Nir
I still have my semi automatic nerf launcher up in the basement somewhere.
Oxymoron?
sorry but that made me laugh, i had visions of you living in a hole you dug inder your house.
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Anatolius
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2006.11.27 09:10:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
The Wikipedia article on nerfing in computer games.
Glad to see wikipedia and urbandictionary both have the origin wrong.
"Nerf" predates Ultima Online by years. 
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Farrellus Cameron
Sturmgrenadier Inc
R i s e
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Posted - 2006.11.27 09:21:00 -
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Edited by: Farrellus Cameron on 27/11/2006 09:25:21
Edited by: Farrellus Cameron on 27/11/2006 09:21:25
NERF = Non-Expanding Recreational Foam
It refers to anything made out of Non-Expanding Recreational Foam. There are nerf frisbees, guns that shoot nerf balls, and nerf bats. Nerf makes things safe. Cover a bat with it and you can beat the crap out of someone without doing much real damage.
That's the concept behind using it in game terminology. When they nerf something in a game it means they made it less powerful, less dangerous, i.e. 'safer.' It's used in pretty much all MMO's because developers are constantly making changes to balance things out. However, it's been used long before MMO's and in many different contexts.
Devs in this game often use the phrase: "bringing out the nerf bat."
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Karl Chroimcer
Forum Moderator
Interstellar Services Department
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Posted - 2006.11.27 10:02:00 -
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Tiridus
Gallente
Wolf Organisation
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Posted - 2006.11.27 12:10:00 -
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Surely it just comes from those Nerf toys, like the nerf launcher and the nerf bat? Those silly foam things?
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Verus Potestas
Caldari
Perkone
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Posted - 2006.11.27 12:50:00 -
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Originally by: Anatolius
Originally by: Dark Shikari
The Wikipedia article on nerfing in computer games.
Glad to see wikipedia and urbandictionary both have the origin wrong.
"Nerf" predates Ultima Online by years.
Show me an earlier reference in computer gaming.
Between corps atm, the NPC one is strictly a temporary thing.
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KingsGambit
Caldari Knights
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Posted - 2006.11.27 17:00:00 -
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I was under the impression that the term nerf was brought into prominence by Charles Darwin in his acclaimed book of much reknown and disrepute "The Nerfing Of Species".
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Kalahari Wayrest
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Posted - 2006.11.27 19:58:00 -
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I had a nerf bow
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Qece
Gallente
Dead End Zeroes
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Posted - 2006.11.27 21:03:00 -
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Originally by: KingsGambit
I was under the impression that the term nerf was brought into prominence by Charles Darwin in his acclaimed book of much reknown and disrepute "The Nerfing Of Species".
I have a quote from that book
Chapter six, page 82 "LOL DoDo g0t nURf3d"
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Posted - 2006.11.27 22:57:00 -
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Originally by: Anatolius
Originally by: Dark Shikari
The Wikipedia article on nerfing in computer games.
Glad to see wikipedia and urbandictionary both have the origin wrong.
"Nerf" predates Ultima Online by years.
A mmorg that the term nerf was used that predates ultima online please show me. The only MMORG i can think of before hand is "The Realm online" and that game had so few people playing it i doubt it would have started anything.
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Worms Corp
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Posted - 2006.11.27 23:39:00 -
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and here i figured it came from Everquest as far as the gaming version of Nerf.
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