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Cakedaddy 
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,11:17 |
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Don't know if you keep up with stuff, but:
1. Shrike has lost his 3rd Titan. Numbers 2 and 3 were both last week.
2. You are being partially blamed for the downfall of IRON.
Actually, they are just talking about how leadership disappeared. Although they mention you, they don't hold you completely responsible. They just miss you and wish you would lead them to the promised land.
3. Supposedly, lag is gone making room for major, large scale cap battles. One last week resulted in about 150 cap losses combined for both sides. Bob took the worste of it from what I understand.
Just a quick update. As it stands, Iron is dead. As in, inactive. Hardly any gangs/roams happening. Aliance is split with corps going where they want. And LOTS are whining on the board. Leadership wants 'plan A' to happen, many people don't like it so they don't do it while proposing 'Plans B, C, and D'. No one can agree on anything. Lots of egos crashing into each other and creating drama. I don't get it. If there's targets at plan A, don't know why we aren't there. I think people are just trying to make a point that they were right and leadership was wrong and are being thick headed. I dunno. Fuckin' politics. It's a damn game already. . .
It has inspired me to start studying the ships and stuff being that no one will lead me any more and tell me what to shoot and when. I actually have to figure it out on my own now.
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Troy
Group: Privateers
Posts: 3857
Joined: Jun. 2004
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,11:41 |
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How on earth did they "Fix the lag?"
I had fun this summer playing eve practically as a full time job, but I just had to give it up. I certainly got to go out doing some of the craziest stuff I had done in game, leading 500+ people in fights against bob, but the dedication that it required just wasn't realistic for a normal working person.
I mean, I work all day, stop at the gym, and then have enough time to go home eat and watch TV or Read or Play a few rounds of TF2 before it's time to hit the sack and do it all over again.
Weekends are climbing or football or just enjoying doing nothing for a change.
Not sure where I could even hope to fit 3-4 hour long fleet fights in!
Funny to hear I'm still talked about though. What do they say?
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GORDON
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,11:43 |
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"lol u cant 1v1"
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I don't give a fuck!
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Cakedaddy
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,11:56 |
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I've only seen one hate post where they actually blame you for some of the woes. Don't remember who or what thread though. Mostly, it's about how all the good people got over worked and left. But when they do name names of 'the good people', you are one of the first to be named.
So, lots of love, and some people who can't/won't step up are blaming. Mostly love though.
Not much to come back to right now though. If you did. . . make a new character. :-) If Tas came back, you'd be foreced into a leadership role and expected to save the alliance. So, if you are up for being named ultimate ruler and king of Iron, now would be the perfect time. hehe On the other hand, if you want to run small roaming gangs and have random fun, change your name and voice on TS.
The ironic thing is, I think you'd have fun right now because we don't have a home. So, everything is invading other people's areas and killing stuff. Like we did from Badi. However, leadership wants us to base from a system that's 20+ jumps from Torr. With no logistical support at all. So, you lose a ship, and there's nothing to fly. You have to go back to empire. There's no market up there. Plus, we teamed up with another alliance that fields mostly t1 ships/gear and we are under attack by a much larger, full of t2 geared alliance. The old Iron, with numbers, would SMASH that allaince. But, no one will participate and stuff. Catch 22. No one will go, cause we aren't winning fights. We aren't winning fights, cause no one is there. Many people say, that if EVERYONE who's still active was up there, combined with the caracals that WI would field still isn't enough to take on GF. So, there simply is no point. Leadership keeps talking about stuff that we don't know about is about to happen. But nothing ever does. Then we lose systems. Then we move again. Repeating cycle.
There are contradicting posts going up constantly. We have the numbers to defeat GF and retake Dek, then others post we don't and we need to pull back to empire and regroup. Can't tell what is fact and what's not. Combined with empty promises of friends and other support coming to our aid that never shows. . . I dunno. My take on things right now is, leadership can't control Iron and that's probably affecting what the friendly alliances are doing. But, since we don't know what's going on at the leadership level. . . no one's following orders.
I've been reduced to camping the EC gate. Which is disobeying orders. Both alliance and corp at this point. However, the ONLY people that are active in my time zone are people camping EC. So, I can follow orders and sit in 1ix and do nothing, or I can disobey and camp EC and at least do something.
Ya. Things are a mess right now.
But, I'm confident that things are ripe for fun, for those that know the map, ships, and can step up to lead. People are BEGGING for a leader.
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Troy
Group: Privateers
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,12:02 |
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I'll have to think about it, but things are going pretty well right now, I'd hate to get pulled into another online game and screw anything up...
Certainly not for a month or two, at least.
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Cakedaddy
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,12:34 |
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Ya. That was more of a warning than anything else. If you come back, you'll be insta made supreme chancelor and stuff. Which, you would of course relinquish that power after the current situation was over. . .
But ya, people will be expecting and hoping for alot from you. So, if you make an appearance, be ready for that.
At the same time, just make it clear that you are going to FC and that's all. . . and you might be fine.
Oh, the other drama bomb was that URSO was kicked from MV or Pycorp or what ever corp he was in. He dumped a bunch of inside info to bob trying to out some of the Iron spies. The bob guy 'shootme' or something like that posted the log on coad.
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Malcolm
I disagree.
Group: Privateers
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,12:42 |
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What the fuck soap opera did y'all step into? Glad I left this thing long ago.
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"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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Cakedaddy
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,12:51 |
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Drama adds a level of fun to the game, in my opinion. Won't find this in TF2 or Bioshock. If you just want to get on and kill things. . . well, go play Quake!
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Malcolm
I disagree.
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Posted on: Oct. 31 2008,14:53 |
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(Cakedaddy @ Oct. 31 2008,14:51)
QUOTE Drama adds a level of fun to the game, in my opinion. Â Won't find this in TF2 or Bioshock. Â If you just want to get on and kill things. . . well, go play Quake!
I read maybe every sixth or seventh word of your story. I couldn't take anymore. There's a vast, vast, VAST chasm between Eve (soap opera) and Quake (twitchfest). The spectrum is not discrete; it is continuous.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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Cakedaddy
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Posted on: Nov. 03 2008,15:49 |
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Hey Troy.
I've actually had, and see more coming, some free time to actually play Eve. And I want to try FCing. I figure the corp is small and desperate enough that they'll take anyone at this point. . .
I've seen posts on target priority, etc. I want to learn the ships better though. So, when someone names off what's coming, I don't have to hit market, search for the ship, read it's attributes, etc. Is there a post/pdf/site that lists ships/attributes in a usable and study-able format? Or did you study by looking at the ships in market?
And then, how do you learn what can fight what? Like, I fly flycatchers alot. If I'm catching up to the gang and I run accross a crow, I think I can take it. Can I? What about an assult frig? I do fit web/scram now. So, I can hold them still, but do I have the DPS? Right now, I don't even stop for kestrals. My job is to bubble and stay alive. So, I don't worry about kills very often.
Lastly, how do you web, without getting webbed?
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