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Intigo
Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED
87
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Posted - 2012.05.27 07:47:00 -
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CVA & 4th were practicing in a wormhole too. They were considering joining a single corporation to facilitate testing just as we did because they thought it was well within the rules (just as we did). "We discussed forming 1 (ONE) corporation to make these training in wormholes possible; if we wouldnt merge, 4th would have been forced to spend days and days to setup their own pos, to do this." 2 separate teams considered doing the same thing HYDRA & Outbreak did - how can you justify banning 2 teams who thought it was within the rules? |
Time Funnel
Ars ex Discordia Test Alliance Please Ignore
155
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Posted - 2012.05.27 07:57:00 -
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Intigo wrote:CVA & 4th were practicing in a wormhole too. They were considering joining a single corporation to facilitate testing just as we did because they thought it was well within the rules (just as we did).
CVA and 4th were imitating last year's champions and doing everything that last year's champions did. By your wording I assume that they did not actually join the same corporation. You are now guessing their intentions? Don't you hate it when other people do that?
They were following your lead. My starting point was doing the same thing, taking all your setups I could find and watching all the matches. Obviously wormholes are too much :effort: for us.
If you want to be successful you will generally find an archetype that has been successful and imitate them.
Life is unfair. At least you have next year to look forward to.
You can also whine until your account gets muted and then deleted. Then you can get more mad and burn a bunch of alts until they eventually ban you completely. Then you can get even madder and make a bunch of threats and insults against CCP employees. That is the path to freedom! The only way to win EVE. |
Intigo
Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED
87
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Posted - 2012.05.27 08:05:00 -
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Guessing their intentions? No, I'm basing it off a post by a CVA member that states they were planning to do so until the banhammer landed on HYDRA & Outbreak:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=113071&find=unread
Your posting is so aggressive when you know I'm right. :') "We discussed forming 1 (ONE) corporation to make these training in wormholes possible; if we wouldnt merge, 4th would have been forced to spend days and days to setup their own pos, to do this." 2 separate teams considered doing the same thing HYDRA & Outbreak did - how can you justify banning 2 teams who thought it was within the rules? |
Time Funnel
Ars ex Discordia Test Alliance Please Ignore
155
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Posted - 2012.05.27 08:11:00 -
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I think you are wrong. Completely in the wrong on this whole issue.
And I also think you are in the minority. You can rally all the noob corp supporters you want, and start as many threads as you want.
You don't have the mass you need to make a threadnaught, and you are slowly alienating the same people who will decide if you are ever let in again.
But it is your life m8. o7
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Intigo
Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED
87
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Posted - 2012.05.27 08:24:00 -
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This is not about gathering support, it's about getting a response from CCP on the issues we've presented to them. You post much like Sreegs, ignoring every fact presented to you only to try and make petty jabs instead.
Also, there were very few threads made by HYDRA people in here. We consolidated most of the questions in already created threads (which were then locked, for no apparent reason).
You seem to be a tiny bit confused. "We discussed forming 1 (ONE) corporation to make these training in wormholes possible; if we wouldnt merge, 4th would have been forced to spend days and days to setup their own pos, to do this." 2 separate teams considered doing the same thing HYDRA & Outbreak did - how can you justify banning 2 teams who thought it was within the rules? |
Dr Robertson
ImpeviA
6
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Posted - 2012.05.27 08:34:00 -
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Time Funnel wrote:I think you are wrong. Completely in the wrong on this whole issue. And I also think you are in the minority. You can rally all the noob corp supporters you want, and start as many threads as you want. You don't have the mass you need to make a threadnaught, and you are slowly alienating the same people who will decide if you are ever let in again. But it is your life m8. o7
I doubt they will want to try ever again, there will always be chance they will be banned without proper reasons, they already trusted senior GM and it turned out to be bad decision.
Everyone here knows posts wont change anything in this case, so tbh there is no point in posting here (:effort:), i guess most people who posted already are: hydra/ob members - hydra/ob haters, friends on both sides, trolls + people who appreciate work done by both ally on making eve more interesting place (esp. in solo/skirmish pvp). While following a few community forums i can see most people disagree with CCP on this case, especially on way how CCP handled this one.
Also LuLz @ CCP deleting posts including dev replies. |
Ladel Teravada
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve The Fourth District
3
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Posted - 2012.05.27 08:44:00 -
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Intigo wrote:CVA & 4th were practicing in a wormhole too. They were considering joining a single corporation to facilitate testing just as we did because they thought it was well within the rules (just as we did).
Bah. Gotta answer this.
What actually happened (as I was in charge of communications with CVA) was that we agreed to run a few practices with CVA. We had a system that we were gonna run this in and everything was cool. CVA however was really worried about spies and had a wormhole of theirs setup. They offered us to use it if we wanted and if we needed access to their pos instead of setting up our own, we would have to join them. I said no both to using WH and to joining corp and that was it. A suggestion that was never realized.
But please continue to use this as your favorite personal injustice Intigo. I for one am sad Hydra/Outbreak isn't in as I enjoy fighting you and if we (not very likely at all) win, it won't be without keeping in mind that we never got to meet two of the best teams. |
Intigo
Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED
89
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Posted - 2012.05.27 08:50:00 -
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Ladel Teravada wrote:Intigo wrote:CVA & 4th were practicing in a wormhole too. They were considering joining a single corporation to facilitate testing just as we did because they thought it was well within the rules (just as we did). Bah. Gotta answer this. What actually happened (as I was in charge of communications with CVA) was that we agreed to run a few practices with CVA. We had a system that we were gonna run this in and everything was cool. CVA however was really worried about spies and had a wormhole of theirs setup. They offered us to use it if we wanted and if we needed access to their pos instead of setting up our own, we would have to join them. I said no both to using WH and to joining corp and that was it. A suggestion that was never realized. But please continue to use this as your favorite personal injustice Intigo. I for one am sad Hydra/Outbreak isn't in as I enjoy fighting you and if we (not very likely at all) win, it won't be without keeping in mind that we never got to meet two of the best teams.
I was just basing it off the post in question, thanks for clarifying. I am not trying to spin it one way or another, I just feel that the fact that others have felt the rules were very vague was a good indication of how harsh the ruling was after ignoring all attempts at communication.
Why did you decline? Did you feel it was too close to the colluding rule? If so, I guess only CVA was confused about the rule as well as HYDRA & Outbreak.
I am not trying to dig you into a hole here, you guys did nothing wrong - I posted something wrong, my apologies. :) I feel bad for the CVA guys who spent so much time preparing in their wormhole only to have the guy who was supposed to bid for them not actually bother showing up for the auctions, it seems. "We discussed forming 1 (ONE) corporation to make these training in wormholes possible; if we wouldnt merge, 4th would have been forced to spend days and days to setup their own pos, to do this." 2 separate teams considered doing the same thing HYDRA & Outbreak did - how can you justify banning 2 teams who thought it was within the rules? |
michael boltonIII
192
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Posted - 2012.05.27 08:55:00 -
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Gunnar and Intigo, if you wish to have a logical argument for your case, I feel I have made a particularly solid argument in post #9 of this thread that has gone completely unaddressed by proponents of your cause. |
Ladel Teravada
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve The Fourth District
3
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Posted - 2012.05.27 09:01:00 -
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We declined because honestly... Why bother? The top metagaming teams (and they do exist, trust me.. I received notes from Raivi on Hydra-team at8) are focusing on spying on the biggest/"best" teams. We're not one of them. CVA isn't one of them. No spies ever showed up for our irregular excercises. Another reason is also our pride. We love CVA and they've been among our closest allies for the past 7-8 years, but we don't leave our corps to join another alliance. Not on TQ, not on SiSi. If we had been spied on and went to a WH, we would have set up our own base instead. |
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Halarach
Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED
35
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Posted - 2012.05.27 09:05:00 -
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If hydra and outbreak really wanted to collude to win this tournament against the new rules, they would have appeared to train completely separately but would have shared stuff outside of game, forums voice comms etc. instead.
Anybody saying otherwise is just making a fool of himself.
Garmon and Zara are smart people you know (albeit naive this time for thinking being open with CCP was the way to go I guess, they wanted to trick us anyway and did so) |
Wheedily
Megaton Inc.
3
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Posted - 2012.05.27 09:55:00 -
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Halarach wrote:If hydra and outbreak really wanted to collude to win this tournament against the new rules, they would have appeared to train completely separately but would have shared stuff outside of game, forums voice comms etc. instead.
Anybody saying otherwise is just making a fool of himself.
Garmon and Zara are smart people you know (albeit naive this time for thinking being open with CCP was the way to go I guess, they wanted to trick us anyway and did so)
This, "they got *caught* breaking the rules" is just silly here, of course CCP can monitor their own test server and anyone knows it so if Hydra+OB engaged in something on there they had to assume it will be ok for CCP even with the unanswered emails. Blahblah |
Gunnar Twenty
Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED
20
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Posted - 2012.05.27 15:19:00 -
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michael boltonIII wrote:Gunnar and Intigo, if you wish to have a logical argument for your case, I feel I have made a particularly solid argument in post #9 of this thread that has gone completely unaddressed by proponents of your cause.
I don't see what there is for me to address from that post.
I have already conceded to everything you brought up. I will repeat what I said from the first post, which is that I accept Hydra/OB did not meet CCP's definition of playing by the rules.
You mention, and I paraphrase, that a big alliance could do a stunt where they enter 8 fragment teams using the same practice methods if Hydra/OB were unbanned. As I said, I would not mind seeing a combined entry from the two teams. I would also not mind seeing any alternative form of sanction that does not prevent them from competing in the aspect of the game they most cherish.
As for your giant alliance trying to enter 8 teams in the future using the same methods, well at worst they would be similarly apprehended and forced to merge all 8 into 1. But given that there has been no precedent in the Hydra/OB case, whereas after this current incident CCP's letter of the law will be much more transparent, I am not so sure that future alliance can claim to misunderstand CCP's intent on the matter.
So to conclude, there is nothing in your argument that suggests it would be a bad idea to at least let Hydra/OB enter one team for the upcoming AT. |
Cheryl Nome
The Scope Gallente Federation
2
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Posted - 2012.05.27 15:22:00 -
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Gunnar Twenty wrote: So to conclude, there is nothing in your argument that suggests it would be a bad idea to at least let Hydra/OB enter one team for the upcoming AT.
Well you were one team afterall, so I don't see a problem with that. |
Wheedily
Megaton Inc.
5
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Posted - 2012.05.27 16:14:00 -
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Cheryl Nome wrote:Gunnar Twenty wrote: So to conclude, there is nothing in your argument that suggests it would be a bad idea to at least let Hydra/OB enter one team for the upcoming AT.
Well you were one team afterall, so I don't see a problem with that. Indeed one team, in AT IX. But I agree with the sentiment that if CCP felt so strongly that "they were just going to one team it again" forcing Hydra/OB to enter one combined team like with RvB would have been the best compromise, instead of this bullshit. Blahblah |
Cede Forster
Graffa
5
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Posted - 2012.05.27 16:38:00 -
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They decided to risked it.
After all is said and done, they took the risk, knowing that it might get them into trouble.
If you take a risk, you do it for a reason, for profit. If you do not take a risk, you do it for a reason too, you do not want to take chances.
They decided to go roll the dice and they lost. The lesson is quite simple, if you have doubt its allowed you know that you take a chance, you know you might get the profit and you know that it might go bad.
It went bad, deal with it. Maybe next time more luck or maybe you decide to play safe because that is what EVE is about, taking risk and getting burned.
On a final note: If you have a rule created (and informaly named after you), you might know better then to test the exact limits because they WILL burn you if they get a chance, that much was clear.
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ScoRpS
0utbreak Outbreak.
37
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Posted - 2012.05.27 17:23:00 -
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Time Funnel wrote:For those of you following along:
1. SHOCK & DENIAL
2. PAIN & GUILT
3. ANGER & BARGAINING
4. "DEPRESSION", REFLECTION, LONELINESS
5. THE UPWARD TURN
6. RECONSTRUCTION & WORKING THROUGH
7. ACCEPTANCE & HOPE
I think we're at stage 4.
Time to HTFU and move to stage 5. nice list. |
TheGunslinger42
Bite Me inc Exhale.
27
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Posted - 2012.05.29 11:14:00 -
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I heard that in AT 11 only PL and PL subteams are going to be allowed in the tournament, all other alliances are being disqualified/banned under the not-PL rule.
can anyone confirm this |
Nevigrofnu Mrots
15
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Posted - 2012.05.29 11:27:00 -
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Gunnar Twenty wrote:Preamble
It's no secret that people at the top of most skill-intensive activities tend to be ones with an imbalanced lifestyle. You have to dedicate yourself fully if you want to be the best at something, often at the expense of life's other priorities. Principally for this reason, I have only ever played EVE intermittently and casually. I was always enticed by "internet spaceships" and its associated community on an abstract level, but the hands-on experience of EVE's game mechanics, the logistics, and the long hours of commitment required to reap the rewards of good PvP somehow always wore me down in short manner.
I was on a longer than typical hiatus from the game when I was informed that Hydra had been disqualified from AT10. My heart sank with this news. Some pilots in Hydra I've known intimately for over a decade (in fact I convinced Duncan Tanner to stick with EVE after he initially found it unbearably dull and lifeless running L3 missions in his Brutix), some I now socialize with outside of the game as a result of it, but near unanimously I have become acquainted with the kind yet driven nature of the members in this Alliance.
Immediately I started mulling on how I might possibly lend help to Hydra's plight. I figured my best bet would be to write an impassioned speech and resub so I could login and post it in the EVE Forum. So here goes.
A Call to Reason
I am going to try my best here to inject some much needed perspective into this issue. There's a lot of hateful fumes flowing around, and this is my attempt to clear the air. It might well be a futile one, but I intensely hope Sreegs, the AT10 governance team, or even someone higher up at CCP perusing these forums might be impacted to remediate, despite their current reluctance to negotiate.
First I will ask you to consider how these measures will affect the long term health of this game. I mentioned before my casual attitude towards EVE earlier. The elite members of Hydra who practice in preparation for AT10 adopt an entirely opposite attitude. Many of them spend more hours on EVE than they do at their day jobs. Such zeal is often either respected or ridiculed, but one thing's for sure - nobody ever achieved anything great while half-assing it. These people want to achieve great things through EVE. As ridiculous as it may appear to the rest of us, EVE is the most important conduit through which they define their achievements in life. So how do you think it makes them feel when you callously impose such sanctions? Most are going to feel grief only matched by their prior passion for the game. I imagine most will quit when they realize how little their effort and enthusiasm for the game is reciprocated in the form of appreciation by the developers. I will do likewise, as I cannot condone an organization who shows such little consideration for its most ardent supporters.
Big deal you say. The mere tens of Hydra subscribers lost will be too insignificant to count. But surely there will be a ripple effect. These are the players who most newcomers strive to eventually emulate (at least when it comes to ship combat). They understand the finer details of the game, and have achieved a level of mastery worth learning from. They form part of the hardcore contingent. From what I gather, the rest of Eve's seasoned veterans are in unanimous support of Hydra and OB (In my humble opinion, the few who mock and revel in their current plight, or feel that appropriate justice has been meted, are distant and casual observers without a firm grasp of the facts and implications). It's common business sense not to **** off your hardcore supporters. In Eve this is doubly true, as it is very casual-unfriendly. These seasoned players have stuck with Eve through all vicissitudes. They are immensely loyal to the game, always putting into perspective temporary missteps by developers and persisting imperfections in the game by emphasizing enjoyment of the big picture. They form the backbone from which newcomers can perch on and benefit from years of accrued insight into the well hidden rewards of playing Eve for the long run. They are the best endorsers of Eve that money can buy, and you get their services free of charge! The current PC games market is gravitating towards Free to Play. With the intense competition for market share and the abundance of choice available to the casual experimenter, does it make sense to take on the burden of Eve's hefty financial commitment unless a person has aims to becoming one of these hardcore players? One elite player could impact hundreds of newcomers to hang in there and become repeat customers.
NO
Sentence is written down
These dramatic/self-pitying posts will not revert it
MAN UP |
Robert Caldera
Caldera Trading and Investment
289
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Posted - 2012.05.29 11:57:00 -
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get over it finally, hydra is not participating for a good reason.
I personally dont want to see Hydra vs. Outbreak once again and I care even less about which rule they broke and got banned for. The only what matters is they arent in. |
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Cody Zamorah
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
36
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Posted - 2012.05.29 12:20:00 -
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Let's revert all the way then.
Everyone who has done anything within the rules and then later the rule got changed so their actions are against the rules are now banned for crimes in the passt.
Seems the simplest way to act then. Why stop at Hydra / Outbreak.
Let's ban all the Boomerang tactic users, it's against the rules now, so as soon as they fly a ship again capable of the Boomerang tactic we might aswel assume they will break it again. And let's go on and find all adjustments and let's punish all those who done legitematly in the passt but as soon as it looks asif they use the same tactic (they don't have to use it, appearance is enough) we smack them hard with the hammer.
Now THAT I call proactive rule enforcement.
The remaining 250 players will have all the room they want to play the game without issues then.
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TheGunslinger42
Bite Me inc Exhale.
33
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Posted - 2012.05.30 10:21:00 -
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Robert Caldera wrote:get over it finally, hydra is not participating for a good reason.
I personally dont want to see Hydra vs. Outbreak once again and I care even less about which rule they broke and got banned for. The only what matters is they arent in.
So what you're saying is that you don't want to see the top two teams from last year returning in some form (i.e. a merged team, just to prevent them facing each other / throwing matches)? You just want worse alliances and pilots, huh?
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Cody Zamorah
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
58
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Posted - 2012.05.30 10:26:00 -
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Robert Caldera wrote:get over it finally, hydra is not participating for a good reason.
I personally dont want to see Hydra vs. Outbreak once again and I care even less about which rule they broke and got banned for. The only what matters is they arent in.
Ah, but we should care. Because as soon as we don't we also won't care if you get banned for breaking a rule now by something you did a year ago and wasn't against the rules.
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xxzartanxx
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
0
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Posted - 2012.06.02 10:39:00 -
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Copine Callmeknau wrote:Cheat less and you might not get barred from tourny's This is like a steroid-pumped sprinter being barred from the olympics, and then complaining about it
THIS.
Learn your lesson and play by the rules next year.
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Cody Zamorah
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
89
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Posted - 2012.06.02 11:42:00 -
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xxzartanxx wrote: Learn your lesson and play by the rules next year.
They played by the rules last year and they were trying to make head and tails about the purposely vague rules this year as to play within the new rules. CCP admitted the rules were vague on purpose so they would have more leeway for GM's and Devs to "utilize" them at their own discretion. In comes a CCP employee with more than average hurt feelings about AT9 and all of a sudden the rule let's him sway all the way to the left, whereas if another employee with no hurt feelings at all would have swayed a lot more to the right. Where left is tournament ban and right is communication which results in atleast 1 party to enter the tournament.
It's this kind of ruling by how the **** swings that pisses me off.
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Hey You
Spricer Raiden.
6
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Posted - 2012.06.02 12:01:00 -
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i supported hydra and ob when they got banned.
but this whining about it is getting stupid and annoying. No one cares what random no one thinks on this matter anymore. So drop it already.
get over it seat up grab beer and enjoy the tournament. |
Cody Zamorah
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
89
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Posted - 2012.06.02 16:47:00 -
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Hey You wrote: No one cares what random no one thinks on this matter anymore.
Even random nobodies have the same rights. It's not about who has which ticker what decides if their message is important.
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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
744
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Posted - 2012.06.02 17:02:00 -
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well. they still can meet in nullsec, orbit a can for 15mins, fraps it and call it a match. a eve-style bounty system https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=359105 You fail you fail you fail you fail you fail you fail you fail to jump because you are cloaked |
Lemster
Disconnected. Choke Point
14
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Posted - 2012.06.02 17:24:00 -
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Cody Zamorah wrote:Hey You wrote: No one cares what random no one thinks on this matter anymore. Even random nobodies have the same rights. It's not about who has which ticker what decides if their message is important.
Actually, none of us have any rights in here. It's not a democracy, it's a dictatorship. The dictators have spoken. Whether we sub or go play another game is the only actual right we have. You've spammed enough over the last few weeks that you've made your point, so if you're still not happy why not exercise your right and go play WoW or something. |
Cody Zamorah
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
89
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Posted - 2012.06.02 18:59:00 -
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Lemster, you should have been that vocal in your early pet days. Maybe then you would have become relevant by now.
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