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Frug
Repo Industries
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Posted - 2008.12.04 05:06:00 -
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This thread wasted 2 minutes of my life and now I'm depressed about it.
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Dr Omelette
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Posted - 2008.12.04 07:01:00 -
[32]
 Originally by: Maximum Cash
Africa is a very tiny country, there could'nt possibly be anyone playing from there.
It's a continent, like the USA.
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Cyprus Black
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.12.04 07:31:00 -
[33]
Um, didn't the dev team go to Africa on a business trip some time ago?
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ZinderX500
Caldari
Mythos Corp
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.04 07:34:00 -
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Originally by: Cyprus Black
Um, didn't the dev team go to Africa on a business trip some time ago?
Yes. They wanted to try lions instead of hamsters.
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Michella Obamama says "will you please brotha baracka in michella's place so that michella can take a break-a"
Anytime.
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Dire Lauthris
Caldari
Body Count Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.04 07:45:00 -
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Edited by: Dire Lauthris on 04/12/2008 07:47:21
Originally by: Virtuozzo
There's quite a few folks who connect from the african continent. Unless I'm mistaken there's an SA in BDCI,
There's 4 of us.  I'm a South African though I grew up in Zimbabwe. The connectivity in Zim has gone backwards in the last 15 years to the point where I didn't even bother trying to log in the last time I was there in May. But... when it's hot and sunny and the beer's cold and the meat is on the braai who cares. 
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Mordiss Nex
Eve University
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Posted - 2008.12.04 08:27:00 -
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I'm from South Africa.
I wish we had better connection infrastructure. My wireless broadband lags to the point where fleet operations are disrupted. I might switch to ADSL sometime but that is also mostly satellite based.
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Ombey
Mirkur Draug'Tyr
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2008.12.04 08:53:00 -
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Originally by: Aslam Nuk
A 256kbps link cost about $40 US which makes it tough.
 Damn, it can't be easy with costs like that.
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ZinderX500
Caldari
Mythos Corp
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.04 09:27:00 -
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Originally by: Ombey
Originally by: Aslam Nuk
A 256kbps link cost about $40 US which makes it tough.
Damn, it can't be easy with costs like that.
Well, it was like $80-90 here around 3 years ago  . Now it's better though but the infrastructure still sucks bad in most areas. I live in Greece btw. 
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DeLaBu
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Posted - 2008.12.04 09:27:00 -
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Edited by: DeLaBu on 04/12/2008 09:28:12
Errr, a bit more than four from South-Africa, really. We have around six (or is it seven?) South-Africans in our corp alone.
It is a bit tought, though. Lag's a bit more than what Europeans and Americans are used to. And it's hard operating the mouse, keyboard and beat off the elephants and lions at the same time. But, somehow we manage. 
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Furb Killer
Gallente
Paxton Industries
Paxton Federation
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Posted - 2008.12.04 09:30:00 -
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That people seriously think they were the first one to play eve in africa 
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Originally by: Neth'Rae
Military experts are calling this a troll.
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John Marley
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Posted - 2008.12.04 09:46:00 -
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Im also one of the corp members with DeLaBu in South Africa. The wild animals here are a huge frustration, we need to wrestle them off constantly to get our mouse back.  . Apart from our corp I know about a few people just in 1 city playing the game.
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Bambazonke
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Posted - 2008.12.04 11:04:00 -
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Ja your right about the wild animals here in the boonies, had to shoot another lion this morning, bloody thing was chowing on my pc's power cable. Also the dammed cobras keep taking all the mice at least one every two days...
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Karille
Gallente
Cold Templars
Templar Initiative
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Posted - 2008.12.04 11:24:00 -
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You think you're cool playing EVE in Africa? How about performing an amputation via text message in Africa?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7761994.stm
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Something Random
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2008.12.04 11:40:00 -
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I play from Wales, so this by definition entitles me to a Tesco 5 bag of cookies and hopefully they're on a BOGOF offer so cookie heaven.
Weirdly in Egypt this fact makes me Russian.
I like Vodka though so no bad thing.
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Ackwell
Imperial Pharmacy
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Posted - 2008.12.04 11:42:00 -
[45]
Originally by: Bambazonke
Ja your right about the wild animals here in the boonies, had to shoot another lion this morning, bloody thing was chowing on my pc's power cable. Also the dammed cobras keep taking all the mice at least one every two days...
Go Springboks! :)
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Rachel Silverside
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.04 12:17:00 -
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you know there is over one million people in johanisburg (check the spelling please) and only a couple thousand last names
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Zuel Furion
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.12.04 13:29:00 -
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you know there is over one million people in johanisburg (check the spelling please) and only a couple thousand last names...---
LMAO, where did you get your info? Jita? ask for your money back...
Proudly South African playing from Johannesburg.
512k ADSL line...no issues.
Time is a Human created measurement to best judge the distance between 2 Events.
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Thats why time slows down when nothing eventfull happens.
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ArmyOfMe
4S Corporation
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2008.12.04 13:52:00 -
[48]
Originally by: Avalira
FYI Africa isn't just bush, famine and mud huts.
Being South African myself, it really annoys me when people (mostly naively) make comments like that. I've been in Canada for 3 years now and every time I meet someone new I always get some weird reaction or hilariously depressing comment.
Anyways, have fun and enjoy your stay  .
blame hollywood.
that works for most things actually
Originally by: deadmaus
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Sheriff Jones
Amarr
Clinical Experiment
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Posted - 2008.12.04 13:56:00 -
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Originally by: Avalira
FYI Africa isn't just bush, famine and mud huts.
Being South African myself, it really annoys me when people (mostly naively) make comments like that. I've been in Canada for 3 years now and every time I meet someone new I always get some weird reaction or hilariously depressing comment.
Anyways, have fun and enjoy your stay .
Interesting FYI too; egypt isn't considered "mudhuts and bushes", but it's in africa
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NeoTheo
Dark Materials
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Posted - 2008.12.04 14:12:00 -
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IN THE JUNGLE THE MIGHTY JUNGLE....
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Aion Amarra
Minmatar
New Eden Research Organisation
StarFleet Federation
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Posted - 2008.12.04 14:19:00 -
[51]
Originally by: Ticondrius
ISS, eh? Let's see...1026ms ping, one way, just to get to earth at radio's light speed transmissions, + normal lag of about 200-400ms, taking on another 1026ms for the return...
If you played EVE on the ISS, you would have a ping of around 2500ms on the BEST of conditions. Also, you're orbiting the Earth so fast, that you would either need to add in a lot more lag for satellite relays or endure Dis/reconnects every 8-12 minutes.
If you did play from the ISS, I highly recommend that you never undock.
Fail. Lol, the ISS is not on the moon. It orbits at a height of about 350km. A lightspeed transmission needs around 1ms to bridge that in the ideal case of the station being directly above the reciever. Of course things aren't as easy, considering the ISS orbits the earth like 15 times a day, so you'd have constant reciever station switching. Without some serious internet trickery that'd make playing from up there impossible. But not due to the ping. |
Ilda Mrika
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Posted - 2008.12.04 16:51:00 -
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South Africa is above the rest of the continent in terms of web connection. In countries like Ivory Coast, Senegal, Angola and many others, it's very hard to get a decent connection. I imagine playing EVE in those places is a hard task to achieve. If you compare Africa's technology infrastructures to any other continent, you will see they are way bellow the avarage. But things are changing, at least in places I know better, like Angola. A lot of money is being spent to improve technology and comunications infrastructures.
But it's always lame to see people talking about Africa like it's the lost world. I live in Europe btw. |
Glassback
Body Count Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.04 17:04:00 -
[53]
Originally by: Aslam Nuk
Brought my laptop on a biz trip to play Eve on it.
Fixed it for you. ;)
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Reacz
Caldari
Havoc Violence and Chaos
The Church.
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Posted - 2008.12.04 17:32:00 -
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South African accents are really cool.
Not quite as cool as the traditional British ****ney accent though.
Sorry guys. :p
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BeesBoer
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Posted - 2008.12.04 17:41:00 -
[55]
Originally by: Maximum Cash
Africa is a very tiny country, there could'nt possibly be anyone playing from there.
Just so you know, Africa isn't actually a country.
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Ehranavaar
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Posted - 2008.12.04 18:11:00 -
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Originally by: Maximum Cash
Africa is a very tiny country, there could'nt possibly be anyone playing from there.
now who would have known sarah palin played eve
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Gatiep
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Posted - 2008.12.04 19:02:00 -
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Edited by: Gatiep on 04/12/2008 19:02:30
No complaints from this South African. s'long as you have dsl it's not a problem. I still kill everything i get my hands on :) But honestly, it's not such a big deal, I'm sure there are 100+ South Africans playing eve. Just gotta find them all :D
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Spurty
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.12.04 19:08:00 -
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Originally by: 5pinDizzy
There's only me and a guy from Africa since we made a corp together, and he's a great guy. Speaks perfect english etc... He has money troubles though and I've often heard of him talking about bad gangs around where he lives, mugging people such as his father got mugged once visiting his mothers grave.
Is he the Nigerian guy that keeps e-mailing me for help moving money?
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5pinDizzy
Amarr
Umpteenth Podding
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Posted - 2008.12.04 19:12:00 -
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Bearing in mind OP's suggested preconceptions, maybe this will convince him there are numerous computer users in Africa if anything.
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ScaR97731
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Posted - 2008.12.04 20:49:00 -
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Just as I suspected. You are all dim-witted, racists, emotionally disturbed, bed-wetting, mama's boys.
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