tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962276924342174960.post7029890145962860265..comments2023-10-18T10:25:47.859+02:00Comments on Emergent Patroller: OOC Entry 30 - The ThunderstormEmergent Patrollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01210394924909245177noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962276924342174960.post-67247744776105925752012-07-03T23:01:47.264+02:002012-07-03T23:01:47.264+02:00You are right, of course. But sometimes it takes ...You are right, of course. But sometimes it takes a fire to start a fire. Though you are right in the assessment of the mannerisms of the common Eve pilot, and have the proof of history in the most likely human response to aggression and tyranny, I still must disagree and maintain my position. Over the cheering and roaring coliseum, one faint cry might be heard, Stop! Stop! And as the blood of of the bold impresses in the heart as deeply as the feather's ink on the papyrus; the masses will pass on, but all it took was one man to empty an entire theatre. History may forget. Legends and fables might take their place, but the words and the speaker, one man or many, seem to defy the law of nature, defying the limits of the firmament and becoming an unstoppable force that cannot die. Once the fires of the heart are lit, no storm, however mighty or expanseful, can ever have the hope to extinguish it. We remember humanity by the special virtue and unbridled vices of a few. By these things the many find solace, sound guidance, discretion, and our posterity wellbeing, if we do not forget them. Many people find numerous things in life comparable to Eve, but within all these the fragility of humanity will forever amplify all these things, thus surpassing it by far. Perhaps CCP could adjust a few things in line with the heavy handed theme of Eve and have Concord destroy both Vessel AND pod in a high security act of violence on a neutral target, making at least a jump clone necessary while adding a new ISK sink for high level players.Zematus737https://www.blogger.com/profile/10846268229949483566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962276924342174960.post-66632933218736119742012-07-03T13:14:38.455+02:002012-07-03T13:14:38.455+02:00Oreb! My favorite literary pilot. We missed you,...Oreb! My favorite literary pilot. We missed you, come back. Your argument - if I can discern it right, pre-coffee, is of course false. The masses, RL and in game, never fight the oppressive force. They join but go to great length to explain why they can do so without affecting their morals. These excuses range from the obvious ("whats a man going to do, I have to feed my family and they provide a (brown) shirt and work") to the elaborate ("we really don't like the goons but we side with them until we have a footprint in their space, then we go independent" - the historical parallel to that was the Freicorps Doenitz and we all know how that turned out). Anyway. <br /><br />The masses never rise up against their oppressors as long as the oppression acts where it doesn't hurt, i.e. free speech, deportations and gassing of neighbors and creation of an internal spy state. East Germany endured 40 years of that without blinking. What brought down the state in the end was a a lack of bananas (really). Pane et circensis. And the goons know that as well as the Stasi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962276924342174960.post-48178001136343522432012-07-02T18:54:12.544+02:002012-07-02T18:54:12.544+02:00My apologies. A lot of what I wrote goes under th...My apologies. A lot of what I wrote goes under the bridge of a fun conversation Sir Splatus and I had. What ai should have concluded with was that, in the spirit of sportsmanship we should be double glad to have such a tremendous force worthy of a fight, though we might be far from giving justice to the task as a significant adversary. We should not contend with bickering or false disinterest, but like any river, chip away at the mountains. The fight, and the glory, is best when the odds are against you. To GF's! and a faster te-shipping. -orebZematus737https://www.blogger.com/profile/10846268229949483566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962276924342174960.post-23043375359450201892012-07-02T00:33:53.865+02:002012-07-02T00:33:53.865+02:00Bird Good! :)
Hello Oreb Wing.
While I like your ...Bird Good! :)<br /><br />Hello Oreb Wing.<br />While I like your prose, I am not quite sure what you are saying with all of this. I am confused.Emergent Patrollerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01210394924909245177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962276924342174960.post-36786918554399753822012-06-30T07:29:18.006+02:002012-06-30T07:29:18.006+02:00o/ Splatus, sir. Small world. This is Oreb Wing....o/ Splatus, sir. Small world. This is Oreb Wing. I can agree with you on most references to the empires of real earth, but the great beast that is the CFC is not so much a people or a place, nor even so much an idea, as the slain but ever present phantom of the Republic. It is a style of vision and a way of life that contends with everything, yet has no maker. The bastard child of havoc recognizes no king, but like the wolf, only the dominant Alpha that leads the fold to plenty. But it is not food for the stomach here, but blood for the eyes and New Eden has never seen the kinds of fires of what is come. The fires of old. Will a white knight arise in such a Gomorrahn utopia? Can one? It defies the very structure of EvE, which will undoubtedly be ridiculed by its very foundations. I recall a time when I knew not of New Eden, before I knew of Something Awful, I saw the clouds of Destruction and Chaos cover the valleys of Warhammer Online like a shadow of a storm with the wind behind it. Unlike Eve, who the enemy was is clear, and the ally and the coward. The otherwise mindless zerg rush attacked us with uncharacteristic precision and strategy; where I would have seen pockets of brawls and skirmishes throughout the plains and forests, there were stopgaps of blitzed objectives, routing and even our reinforcement lanes were cut off by a separate Warlord. I saw morale sink into the mud with a dying gasp, hope vanish like the morning dew before the fires of the Rift spawn that came. I saw brothers turn to other servers to join enemy ranks and abandon the skull throne to the encroaching horde! (mostly due to silly player skins being more sinister/provocative on Destro). Seeing such opposition filled me with hellborn lust to die valiantly, but alas! not many shared my excitement for the challenge of odds. Though I fail at EvE pvp at the moment, I ranked 1st in dmg in scenarios with even a skirmisher hybrid Shadow Warrior. Before the multishot got nerfed, I was an unstoppable force, a hunter of vile creatures and defender on the wall. Someone will pick up that dusty flag in Eve, of fellowship, of selflessness, of integrity! Perhaps someone in a frigate.Zematus737https://www.blogger.com/profile/10846268229949483566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962276924342174960.post-61171871519549174092012-06-26T16:10:18.216+02:002012-06-26T16:10:18.216+02:00Thanks for the post. As we both live in WH space,...Thanks for the post. As we both live in WH space, the shenanigans in K-space are fairly irrelevant to us - the only thing I really see having an effect is the price of ice products. Is it just me to do you also see more abandoned towers in W-space? It looks to me like a contraction out of the only space where people _must_ live out of POS towers. <br /><br />Dominance is of course the whole point of EVE Online and the game caters overtly to making the strong stronger until only 2 or 3 solidified power blocs remain. That is inevitable. A radical change of resources (Tech moons run out eventually and new Tech deposits are discovered on moons elsewhere and in belts) would be akin to breaking the lock of OPEC by drilling for shale oil. Sucking revenue from Goons will reduce their ability to fund Hulkageddon for example and I am sure CCP is watching it with interest. Question is, how much are CCP in the pocket of the Goons who are their most vocal customers and are wielding rather significant power over real money revenue. <br /><br />Lastly, powerblocs tend to fracture eventually, collapse under their own weight. Inkas, Rome, China, US, all have experienced that exact mechanic. For the Goons to thrive, they may want to consider to reset the rest of CFC and get "moar" fights. People yearn for conflict. If there is no one outside to fight, the aggression turns inward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com