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MegAtomic
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Posted - 2007.08.01 07:38:00 -
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Did you ever fly a Hauler with a valuable cargo past low sec pilots in Empire? Did you ever fly a Hauler in lowsec hoping you did not run into any pirates? Did you ever mine in lowsec hoping noone would show up? Did you ever Escort someone with your cursor on the target button, alert to any changes in the situation?
...Did you ever sweat or feel your pulse when you did these things?
Then help us thanks those notorious individuals who spend their free time trying to make our lives difficult!!! Appreciate that they make your online life more exciting and dangerous!
Therefore I would like to propose: RAT APPRECIATION DAY!!! When encountering a player with low security give him or her a /hug in local. Because Rats are despized and hated all though EVE they need a day when they can feel the love for the exitement they bring. So coming 8/8/2007 feel free to /hug em all in local. (and after that of course either continue on, fight or warp away as usual)
(This does not go for highsec suicide gankers and starter station newbie gankers of course as that (and lets be honest here) is just not professional ratting)
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Zaqar
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Posted - 2007.08.01 07:41:00 -
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A rat is an NPC.
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Ephemeron
Cutting Edge Incorporated RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.01 07:44:00 -
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EVE term "ratting" defines act of killing NPCs
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MegAtomic
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Posted - 2007.08.01 07:52:00 -
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Yes but you realise I mean Player rats. "Rat" means piRATs with me. be they programs or people. they both want to shoot you.
for further reference: Rat = player in this thread
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Zaqar
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Posted - 2007.08.01 07:53:00 -
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/me appreciates some NPCs
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Ryum852
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Posted - 2007.08.01 08:01:00 -
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So now npcs are randomly attacking haulers in empire!!!
WTF!!! I am staying docked til this mess is sorted out
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PraetorNZ
Axe Gang
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Posted - 2007.08.01 08:08:00 -
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/ appreciates NPCs
gives the poor sod im ganking someone else to shoot at
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Lord MuffloN
Caldari Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:29:00 -
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I only appriciate rats if they've got faction/officer loot for me.
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Ridley Tree
The Black Rabbits
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:31:00 -
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Am I being Insulted or Appreciated?
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largewhereitcounts
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:51:00 -
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Sorry kids rat is a short form of pirate and thats final.
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Fswd
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Posted - 2007.08.01 10:55:00 -
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Originally by: MegAtomic Yes but you realise I mean Player rats. "Rat" means piRATs with me. be they programs or people. they both want to shoot you.
for further reference: Rat = player in this thread
Then ffs use the correct term --- Free exotic dancers for mods that mod my sig
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Victor Valka
Caldari Archon Industries
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Posted - 2007.08.01 11:00:00 -
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Correct term for NPC == "rat"
Correct term for a player pirate == "pie"
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Dr Stone
Caldari R.O.N.E
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Posted - 2007.08.01 11:13:00 -
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A rat is an NPC. A pirate is a .. pirate. Also known as Gankers, ñ%/&"ñ/&"ñ/ñ& and <insert name of enemy alliance/corp here>.
And purple text does not make your statements even more valid.
That said, I will never hug a pirate. Anyone that shoots at me is the enemy, and I never hug my enemy.
Piracy is a term to describe someone commiting an illegal act. Being a Pirate is not a glamorous thing, romantic thing or something for others to be happy about. Unless you are the pirate, ofcourse in which case the first two things probably apply to you.
So no, I will not hug a pirate. If I see them in local, I will avoid them. If aggressed, try to escape or try to take them out and send their pods into the broken egg basket.
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Geli Tetro
Vanquish Inc
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Posted - 2007.08.01 11:14:00 -
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Originally by: largewhereitcounts Sorry kids rat is a short form of pirate and thats final.
Well if you mean an NPC pirate faction then yes. If you mean a player pirate then No.
These meanings have been established for years, Dont expect serious answers, people are just going to take the ****.
Rats are NPC's - Plain and simply and you wont get anywhere trying to force a change in this thread.
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tikinish
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Posted - 2007.08.01 11:38:00 -
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the fact that you are misusing the term rat just shows that you have never moved X billion worth of hard worked stuf and then got killed because of bad mechanics and the fact that you didn't misuse local and alts as a exploit intel tool...
if you had tryid it your text would go like this :
have you ever ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC
if not, SHUT THE F*CK UP AND STOP WHINING ABOUT PEOPLE THAT RAT; RUN MISSIONS AND CAREBEARING!!!
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Death Kill
Caldari direkte
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Posted - 2007.08.01 12:51:00 -
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Originally by: largewhereitcounts Sorry kids rat is a short form of pirate and thats final.
No its a short form of NPC pirates. GO back to to wow or whatever
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Sheriff Jones
Amarr Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United Cult of War
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Posted - 2007.08.01 12:58:00 -
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Edited by: Sheriff Jones on 01/08/2007 12:58:09 Look, long time ago there was a PIE corporation(don't know if it still exists) and they had AAAALL the pirating rights in the universe. Noone could pirate if they didn't belong to PIE.
This is why they needed to be differentiated from the pirates that were "unregistered", or the NCP, non corporation players. Some still call them NPC, but that's an ancient typo thing.
Now, the differentiation of these two factions was made in the Yoiul Side Convention in 23236(EVE standard time).
The council ruled that from that day forth, all PIE pirates should be called Pies', and all the NCP pirates, Rats.
Why they ended up with Pies and Rats, well, it's a whole different story which includes a cat, a couple of thousand planetary vehicles and an elaborate Jovian prank. People just say "it's because of the name" to forget that day.
So yeah, i have a problem with being serious, but it's the almost smallest problem i have. |
PirateShampoo
Minmatar UK Corp FATAL Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.01 13:20:00 -
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I can hug myself does that count
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Sinder Ohm
Infinite Improbability Inc Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2007.08.01 13:25:00 -
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Originally by: largewhereitcounts Sorry kids rat is a short form of pirate and thats final.
This coming from a !
Everyone in eve knows NPC's are rats and player pirates are called just that Pirates, piewats, hostiles, targets what ever JUST NOT RATS!
Originally by: Rawne Karrde PVP in EvE is consentual, you agree to it when you login. If you don't like it you're in the wrong game.
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MegAtomic
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.08.01 13:41:00 -
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Hmm barely one reply that is ontopic.
Wel my post made very clear that I was talking about players but heck who reads nowadays?
anyway time to wait for a mod to lock it as the discussion is offtopic and wholly irrelevant and unimportant. I don't care what the official term is
Hygiene Lesson 1 Pest Control: Killing a lowly Minmatar a day keeps the plague away. |
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Cornelius Murphy
Seven.
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Posted - 2007.08.01 13:45:00 -
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Is this David "Hug a Hoodie" Cameron posting this? Rest assured, any Pie-rat I come across will get a hug. From some ammunition *
*this is not to guarantee they'll die. Indeed, more likely I will, but hey, you gotta try huh? ------------------------------------------
Free BREE for all mod hacks!
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Billy Sastard
Amarr Life. Universe. Everything. Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.01 13:51:00 -
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Originally by: MegAtomic Hmm barely one reply that is ontopic.
Wel my post made very clear that I was talking about players but heck who reads nowadays?
anyway time to wait for a mod to lock it as the discussion is offtopic and wholly irrelevant and unimportant. I don't care what the official term is
While your initial post meant well, if you go around changing common convention you are going to be stepping on peoples toes. You cannot just jump in 4 years down the road and change the terminology of a game to suit your own mistaken views.
That aside, yay for non-consensual PVP. It is not NPC rats in belts and on gates that makes me nervous, it is the other living, breathing, THINKING, players that make me nervous in this game, so yea I guess I agree, YAY PIRATES! -=^=-
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Ungdall
Minmatar GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.08.01 15:11:00 -
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Rat!=pirates has been covered so let me just add that there is no group of people in empire and high-sec in general that I love more than the pirates. You people keep the carebears scared, god bless you.
Also, you, with the pink, stop that.
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Cipher7
OldBastardsPub SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.01 15:34:00 -
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I would like to express my appreciation to all the rats in Eve for the isk bounty and wonderful drops, especially the 1.8 mil rats that come in threes.
Thank you, rats, thank you so much.
And to Pirates who camp gates in lowsec, thank you for the excitement and comic relief, and for being there when one of our roaming gangs is looking for a fight, although most of the time yall just run away when I'm not in a hauler.
I espcially would like to thank Pirates for the "Eve Filter" that filters out whiney and immature players who can't handle being killed.
Without Pirates those players would stay in Eve and demand things like 40 man PVE raids and wedding dresses.
Thank you, thank you, both rats and pirates.
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