Eve Online Political Betrayal Results In Record-Breaking Theft (about $20,000) - Sensationalist Headlines

I'm actually feeling kinda sad for the guys that were looking forward to a major PVP engagement of taking down one of the new massive citadels. Now the war itself will probably be a lot less interesting for the players involved. I think this hurts the current PVP content of the game more than anything.

[QUOTE=Crimor;52679215]If I remember right, ingame currency is legally owned by the company that made the game, not the person playing.[/QUOTE] And EVE is quite open in stating that scamming, theft, and backstabbing are all not only allowed, but actually encouraged.

Honestly someone named "The Judge" screams trouble to me.

[QUOTE=Bonde;52683538]I'm actually feeling kinda sad for the guys that were looking forward to a major PVP engagement of taking down one of the new massive citadels. Now the war itself will probably be a lot less interesting for the players involved. I think this hurts the current PVP content of the game more than anything.[/QUOTE] I think it's pretty damn cool, actually. It plays into that advert they ran about the EVE Online "causality" where the actions of a single player can ultimately echo throughout the entire in-game universe. This one dude fucking over his corp for a laugh could end up collapsing a major leg of an alliance-wide war effort composed of thousands of players, changing the outcome of the battle, and potentially changing the face of the entire EVE universe as systems change hands and alliances fracture. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGplrpWvz0I[/media]

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52683592]I think it's pretty damn cool, actually. It plays into that advert they ran about the EVE Online "causality" where the actions of a single player can ultimately echo throughout the entire in-game universe. This one dude fucking over his corp for a laugh could end up collapsing a major leg of an alliance-wide war effort composed of thousands of players, changing the outcome of the battle, and potentially changing the face of the entire EVE universe as systems change hands and alliances fracture. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGplrpWvz0I[/media][/QUOTE] Never underestimate a Merlin or its pilot

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52683570]Honestly someone named "The Judge" screams trouble to me.[/QUOTE]i dunno i think inviting a guy named "Herald of Ruin" into your faction is always a perfectly good idea

[QUOTE=Socram;52679089]I love (the idea of) Eve but it is also terrifying when this much "real" value is getting stolen. I wonder if anyone has died because of beef in Eve. Imagine $20,000 of stuff being stolen from your company by someone you trusted, and you know exactly who did it. You have legal and law enforcement options in the real world as well as insurance, what do you have in Eve? Not remotely defending the gigX guy's response which is pretty moronic and somewhat psychotic, but it is a difficult situation to comprehend from the outside I'm sure.[/QUOTE] As all those dramas always play out in the lawless part of the univserse (so-called nullsec), the only option you have is to shoot your enemy to death if they cross you.

[QUOTE=Moreto;52679850]Eve's code is [url=https://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/new-eve-exploit-gives-wormhole-corp-incredible-advantage/]fucking incredible[/url] for the bugs it has. Pretty sure there's a big issue with the POS code where it's hooked into so many things that the game just dies if you remove it.[/QUOTE] Last time they tried to remove a large chunk of legacy code, everyone in the entire game was unable to undock :v: I started playing EvE shortly after wormholes came out, but mostly stuck to being a carebear running L4s in HS (in fucking awful battleship fits lol), then became something barely different in nullsec (i.e, a nullbear), then spent some time in WSpace and had buckets of sociopathic fun there before being abandoned by the people I was playing with. haven't really got terribly back into it since. The new citadels are pretty fucking cool though, and have let me make massive profit by just vaguely keeping an eye on the game and doing PI every now and then to flip into station components. Shortly before I checked out last time I had accrued a positively ridiculous quantity of BPOs and BPCs and was about to get into the capital manufacturing game (made me feel like some shady dude profiteering off war, kinda). I've thought of going back, but it hasn't happened. [I]yet.[/I] EvE is the Hotel California, you can check out for a few months or even years but you can never leave permanently now's a better time than ever before to give it a shot, the new player experience has gotten loads better and the free-to-play stuff gives you a decent taste of things that can be fun, like simple pvp brawls. frigate pvp and destroyer pvp is the most fun, its cheap and quick and doesn't turn into tidi fuckfests like nullsec wars. i'm partial to wh pvp too, but thats beyond the means of most alpha pilots and its been too long since I've been there. no fucking idea what the meta is anymore. [QUOTE=TheTalon;52683655]Never underestimate a Merlin or its pilot[/QUOTE] Hero tackle! Everyone loves hero tacklers. Sure, you get popped, but usually you can hold down something shiny long enough for the rest of the fleet to give it the ol' helicopter dick. it is customary for the tackler to get a big lump sum of the ISK made selling the loot, along with appreciation payments from the rest of the fleet and undoubtedly a replacement vessel. EvE players get a bad rep, as a whole: there are some absolute fuckwits who take advantage of newbros, but most players are keenly aware how vital newbros are to sustaining this game so they tend to get treated quite well. Especially once you get into a competent/friendly corp. [editline]edited[/editline] obligatory: [URL="https://cerlestes.de/eve/explained/"]eve explained in gifs[/URL] [URL="https://cerlestes.de/eve/explained/round2.html"]eve explained in gifs, part 2[/URL]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52683570]Honestly someone named "The Judge" screams trouble to me.[/QUOTE] on the other hand, having someone with a name like that, let alone whatever reputation preceded him already, [i]on your side[/i] sounds better than the contrary I'm sure a lot of big groups would still see him as a powerful asset, even after this event

I thought Goon Swarm was getting it's ass completely kicked and was losing large areas of their territory?

[QUOTE=Crimor;52681327]Oh please, that bug was barely a blip on the shitstack code radar :v: [url]https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/about-the-boot.ini-issue/[/url][/QUOTE] That reminds me of when I was in the beta for test drive unlimited 2 (I think that's what it was anyway). When you uninstalled it, instead of deleting everything in the tdu2 directory, it deleted everything from C:\ instead. :v:

[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;52684995]I thought Goon Swarm was getting it's ass completely kicked and was losing large areas of their territory?[/QUOTE] The problem is though, goonswarm doesn't need large amounts of territory to do what they do :v:

[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;52684995]I thought Goon Swarm was getting it's ass completely kicked and was losing large areas of their territory?[/QUOTE] Goons were indeed kicked out of their space up North, but they set up shop down in Delve and turtled up. They've basically rebuilt everything they lost and it's back to business as usual. They're easily the richest dudes in the game right now.

Delve is pretty nice as far as regions go, at least back when I played in TEST. Ratting was easy for newbies, I ran an Oracle with barely any skills learned, you could just keep at range 100km on the slow rats and then blap the fast ones coming right for you. The large ones couldn't shoot far enough to hit you. Fountain with a Naga was slightly better though, if I remember correctly.