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[PATV] Monday, July 15, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 5: Mystery, Intrigue, ISK
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[PATV] Monday, July 15, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 5: Mystery, Intrigue, ISK
Spies, double-agents, space carriers: an average day for EVE Online.
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further details: I looked at the list of checkpoint videos on the LRR page, (this one wasnt on it yet), and then I switched back to this tab. I think I refreshed the page, but I am not sure. I hit the play button again and it worked that time. I hope this comment is useful for anyone encountering this error, but my guess is that the problem was fixed.
Though it's worth noting that the Revenant they lost was one of only 3 in existence and, as many super rich people in EVE and real life have proven, once you have more money than god the only thing left to value is that which is rare. So that aspect, as well as the dubious honour of being the first player corporation to lose a Revenant, probably hurt more than the financial loss.
It is still a ridiculous amount of ISK though, I'm not the fastest ISK earner in the galaxy but I'm not the slowest either and, if I played 12 hours straight every single day, I could earn the amount they lost in that ambush in probably a bit under two years...
Mine got stuck near the end with Kathleen asking "hey! You know what else looks like ass and butts?"
What ? my face? Thanks Kathleen, I like you too....
Also, an e-sports section detailing games and gamers would give the same coverage of the assholery that professional sports gets. So, more social pressure towards devs doing something about it, and towards not doing it in the first place.
Get on it Checkpoint!
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To be fair most MMO's couldn't get these kinda stories because they don't focus on interwoven systems and player interaction as key points.
But yeah, more games need metrics and stat sites all over them. It helps build a picture and narrative really easily. Even for people who don't play the game.
Unfortunately CCP has been ignoring and giving short shrift to the small industrialists and related industrial minded players for a while now so I have been out of it since Monoclegate (for other reasons than monocle gate) and every time I try to rejoin there is problems in the game or the changes that make it so I can't or don't want to play until they fix it already.
Set a man on fire and he'll be hot for the rest of his life.
Check out Ned the Chainsaw Guy. He's a cool cat.
Having played Vanilla WoW for a while, as well as Age of Conan, WAR, SWTOR, and Guild Wars 1 & 2 I can say that even if player interaction isn't a key point in most MMOs, stories appear, and you learn about specific guilds and people quite often. Stories cotton onto individuals and build up into characterizations. Personalities take hold. Top performers becomes known in PvP and dominating guild become known to the entire server. I'm sure there's still less than a hundred people on the Mal'ganis server in WoW that don't know the various names of the SomethingAwful Goon guilds, by example.
The only thing is, those stories build up without any metrics to back them, or records to keep them. The stories are told like veterans swapping war stories in a bar, it's an interesting tale, but you know half is embellishment and at least a quarter is misremembered.
I'll tell you, back in the old days there were plenty of stories from the assaults between Tarren Mill and Southshore in WoW, as well as huge sweeps through PVP areas in WAR and there are plenty of notable guilds and entire servers in the GW2 battlegrounds.
I still love that this is a thing:
'yo doc, our players internet wars are getting so large as to murder our server tech, shall we like, put a cap on players in an area or something?'
'nah, lets just develop a feature to allow potentially the entire fucking server to get in on one of these things'
CCP have a great attitude towards players doing crazy shit.
Luckily, for all involved, CCP was only allowing you to buy in-game "cosmetic" items. Like, the now Infamous, $80 monocle that could be put on your tiny picture in the chat window.
But I think learned CCP its lesson and now knows, if it tried to let anyone "Buy an advantage" the players would first riot and then leave the game.
Also, Crisis Core exists, so what else could anyone possibly want. CRISIS CORE IS THE BEST.
@Gaddez; ...Because it's fun, I'm assuming. And because *they* choose to. Who the hell are you to dictate otherwise?
I Like how you dug up a comment from 3 weeks ago to yell at me about.
Besides, 10 is pretty bad. The game's paper rock scissors mechanic gets really old after the first couple of hours, and the way that you can't walk 30 feet forward without triggering a long rambling speech is frankly irritating.
I made it as far as Zannarkend before I just flat out gave up.