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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:To be fair though we had spent the better part of 6 years actively poaching anyone capable of any sort of elevated thought above the level of pond scum into GSF from our allies. It's like retards getting all mad because FCs want to join amok. Don't blame amok for your alliance being garbage. PookBear fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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Reverand maynard posted:I hate how people throw around the word poaching. Poaching means aggressive recruiting. Leaving a dogshit alliance like SMA for goons isn't poaching. Endie literally at one point was under orders from on high to steal every person capable of coherent thought out of other groups in the CFC and has said as much. Endie posted:
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:Endie literally at one point was under orders from on high to steal every person capable of coherent thought out of other groups in the CFC and has said as much. Funny how none of them thought his taking Bat Country to PL was a good idea. So I guess he did a good job on recruiting the coherent thinker part.
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i dunno about sma / razor, but FCON I've been there for a while, they always label themselves as mere ally to goons, but they are no goons. just sitting cornered in branch jewing all day everyday, welping fleets to wh'er and in NPC NS. when there is battle call from goons raging to fountain/delve/wherever, they always put their staging somewhere else and do different things. I won't describe that as allies, it is more like average teenage group members disobeying everyone else and keep banging their head on a wall.
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LPT: stop worrying about whether the game is dying, hand wringing has no effect on the games subscription numbers nor on anyone's enjoyment of the game If you enjoy internet spaceships, then enjoy Internet spaceships for as long as it lasts. The entire last page gave me more cancer than a million svipuls.
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Orange Red Bull posted:gently caress fcon though seriously This is too harsh. They got sucked into the content thing and gudfited themselves into burnout.
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ullerrm posted:The entire last page gave me more cancer than a million svipuls. nice meme
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ullerrm posted:The entire last page gave me more cancer than a million svipuls. I dont think it, or they, can give you cancer flanders. Cancer is not something caused by words or internet spaceships neither is aids nor any other disease, i hope that was helpful for you 
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4th Horseman posted:It's time to bite the loving bullet and allow new players a bunch of SP to spend on poo poo. Maybe 5 million. Restrict extractors to require 10m sp perhaps, but it's stupid boring how long it takes when the only way to advance is by waiting. CCP's answer to this is injectors bought with PLEX. ullerrm posted:LPT: stop worrying about whether the game is dying, hand wringing has no effect on the games subscription numbers nor on anyone's enjoyment of the game Good point. Personally I've played on and off for the better part of a decade, and people have always said the game was dying or dead. I just started playing again and a lot of the bullshit still inhabits the game, but it's still better than most MMOs that I've played. I'll ride this one out until the bitter end. somnolence fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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somnolence posted:CCP's answer to this is injectors bought with PLEX. Which is .. dumb. Getting people to 5 million and the ability to fly a useful ship would help retention. Have all the initial opportunities give like 10k sp. Also it would get people addicted to pumping in SP, probably drive plex/injector sales more than just a flat gently caress you wall like eve has now.
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FruitNYogurtParfait posted:I dont think it, or they, can give you cancer flanders. Cancer is not something caused by words or internet spaceships your posting is carcinogenic tho
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pseudanonymous posted:Which is .. dumb. Getting people to 5 million and the ability to fly a useful ship would help retention. Have all the initial opportunities give like 10k sp. Also it would get people addicted to pumping in SP, probably drive plex/injector sales more than just a flat gently caress you wall like eve has now. 
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Blazing Zero posted:your posting is carcinogenic tho words do not have that property Mr. B. Zero
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FruitNYogurtParfait posted:words do not have that property Mr. B. Zero There's this thing called figurative use of language. It's probably not beyond you, if you decide to return and get your GED.
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words don't cause cancer directly, it requires you get upset and rage like Rosie O'Donnell after reading them consistently and over a long period of time. When you catch cancer you only have yourself to blame
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pseudanonymous posted:There's this thing called figurative use of language. It's probably not beyond you, if you decide to return and get your GED. hmm this is a very weak attempt at insulting me please don't bother trying again
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FruitNYogurtParfait posted:hmm this is a very weak attempt at insulting me please don't bother trying again The only thing worse than your posting is your rancid nerd musk. (Am I doing this correctly? I'm bad at being mean.)
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Elmnt80 posted:The only thing worse than your posting is your rancid nerd musk. it's okay you're still great at giving people cancer (you're a natural)
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Reverand maynard posted:Every loving retard that didn't consolidate staging and refused to do joint fleets (SMA was running 50 man hurricane fleets along everyone else's full Mach fleets) is now dead Yeah, I can still see in my mind's eye this loving SMA FC who ran Tempests alongside our fleet. Then he warped his artillery tempest to the gate at zero to try and fight afterburning machs. Their loving fleet got slaughtered. The next time, instead of integrating, they brought drakes  YES THEY DESERVED TO DIE AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL!!!
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:Didn't know digi used to model I like how half the poo poo in that photo is now just 'your smartphone'.
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Zephyrine posted:You can't really throw crap at WoW subscription numbers when the game is 12 years old. Eve Online is 13 years old, though?
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EVE's designers have no sense of good or fun, it's that simple.
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All this "EVE is dying" talk over the last few pages was a really unenjoyable read and I thought Boats comments on the Metashow about it were pretty bad too. There's still a lot of players out there that enjoy the game and will continue to enjoy the game for the foreseeable future, myself included. The negativity Boat expressed on the stream really put me off watching it though it was nice to see him enjoying EVE later on when he started streaming it. Glad I had the option of not watching live so I could skip to that point.
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avatarinwin posted:I agree with boney that with the scale of some of the wealth organizations and the top 1% have that it's hard for an individual or small group to make a real impact. Is that bad or good?
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Elsa posted:Boat's comments on the meta show were hard to take in. He talked about EVE becoming one of those has-been games you play just because you used to play it a lot. If boat stops playing, you're hosed.
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Xolve posted:If boat stops playing, you're hosed. This is gold.
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It really seems like all CCP need to do is get rid of the initial 2-3 months of training dull as poo poo "fitting" skills, polish this SCOPE mission system up a bit, and then another B-R would boost the numbers and allow them to retain them a bit better. My first attempt to play EVE was in 2007 or something, and I gave up because I was your standard highsec pubbie trying to mine his way to riches. Then I came back in 2014 for 3 months and joined Goonswarm, and that was much better but having to train for 30 days and see almost no improvement in what you can fly/how well you can fly it was too offputting. This is my third attempt and now I'm past 12mill SP on my main it is so much more enjoyable.
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NtotheTC posted:It really seems like all CCP need to do is get rid of the initial 2-3 months of training dull as poo poo "fitting" skills, polish this SCOPE mission system up a bit, and then another B-R would boost the numbers and allow them to retain them a bit better. My first attempt to play EVE was in 2007 or something, and I gave up because I was your standard highsec pubbie trying to mine his way to riches. Then I came back in 2014 for 3 months and joined Goonswarm, and that was much better but having to train for 30 days and see almost no improvement in what you can fly/how well you can fly it was too offputting. This is my third attempt and now I'm past 12mill SP on my main it is so much more enjoyable. Scam pubbies, get isk, buy new character.
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Xolve posted:If boat stops playing, you're hosed. Boat will never stop playing eve long term. This is the only place on the internet where he can have a captive audience for his dumb bullshit.
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EVE's NPE being poo poo is a result of EVE's complexity. I've always wondered whether people got defensive over any potential changes to the NPE because they saw that as possibly dumbing down the complexity of EVE (which can be a sticking point for some of the current player-base), or if it was more a case of "we took our licks and stuck it out, so new pubbies should too". But unless EVE fixes the NPE, it could possibly be a case of heat death. As to the discussion of GSF's other allies in The Imperium... I wasn't around for most of it. I only really know what I've seen firsthand, heard from other people in The Imperium, and read about in Wikis and poo poo. At the end of the day a lot of our former allies keep restating that they have their own sense of identity and that lead them out of the coalition (or other similarly meaningless lines), but obviously leaving was about surviving as an organization in a hostile environment. But it also seems to me that GSF made a lot of their allies stakeholders in GSF's well being. Running and using sigs and squads across the entire coalition, providing logistics and financial services, and always providing body-count for whatever was going on. It doesn't seem like a lot of the other alliances in The Imperium (particularly Co2 and SMA) were run well enough to have any of their own organic development of stakeholders among GSF or other Imperium members. When you look at it from a kind of sociological or business-management perspective, it's not particularly shocking that some people would straight up widot into GSF, or that GSF would happily open the door and let people join. Reminding people of incentives they already have to make a decision isn't quite the same as poaching or head-hunting. Particularly when there didn't seem to be any dubious activities designed to subvert people's sense of loyalty to whatever alliance floats their boat. I sound like a broken-record apologist, but the fact remains GSF is remarkably well-run. That's very appealing, in and of itself. e: typos. Baculus fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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Xolve posted:If boat stops playing, you're hosed. The reddit brigade's latest victory condition is to make Mittani and boat quit the game. It's pretty funny because you can see the thought process of "yes, we must get Mittens and uh what's another goon guy OH YEAH boat, Mittens and boat." Rhymenoserous posted:Boat will never stop playing eve long term. This is the only place on the internet where he can have a captive audience for his dumb bullshit. ArcheAge  At least not for lack of trying. God does that game look awful though.
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Morris posted:The reddit brigade's latest victory condition is to make Mittani and boat quit the game. It's pretty funny because you can see the thought process of "yes, we must get Mittens and uh what's another goon guy OH YEAH boat, Mittens and boat." Not really a huge proponent of the reddit hive mind, and 'what they want' is akin to what a 6 year old in a toy store wants. While DBRB might be a FC of questionable quality, his reckless enthusiasm can win a campaign (and has) with a bit of guidance.
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Xolve posted:reckless enthusiasm Best way of describing Boat ever.
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If reddit wants to defeat GSF they should tip off the RSPCA. Mittens goes to jail and boat is released back into the wild.
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Morris posted:The reddit brigade's latest victory condition is to make Mittani and boat quit the game. It's pretty funny because you can see the thought process of "yes, we must get Mittens and uh what's another goon guy OH YEAH boat, Mittens and boat." That's a pretty dumb win condition. Hell, SirMolle isn't even gone after all these years and he lost far more than GSF has in this war. I don't really understand how DBRB is some kinda big bad for the enemy. He's Bomberwaffe, not a space tyrant. Worst thing he'll do is turn your fleet into Dresden.
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Zephyrine posted:If reddit wants to defeat GSF they should tip off the RSPCA. Mittens goes to jail and boat is released back into the wild. What's your problem with DBRB? Did the ~~oppression fleet~~ pop your cyno on the O1Y undock? Or have you fully gone feral?
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