Skip to main content

Poking Things with Sticks


Have you taken your Retribution survey

Each patch CCP puts out a survey and collects data.  They do it monthly(?) I believe as well.  I often see the link in the news letter.  I try to always click it and run through.  Most of the time it does take 5-10 minutes.
Fill it out.  Put in your input.  Praise CCP.  Bitch about things.  They don’t know and can’t know if we do and don’t like things if we don’t tell them.  They can only make assumptions off of statistical data and statistical data is not going to let them know that you have 200 rookie ships because you like to collect other peoples abandoned ones not because you use an excessive amount of rookie ships to travel.

Earthweb is an interesting story (written in 1999 so accept some age to the internet in it) about alien invasion.  The way people fight it off is through communication.  People pool their resources and knowledge and what rises to the top and is supported based off of everything else becomes part of the plans.  It is a bit over the top in a dramatic, science fiction way but that is appealing as well.

And that got me thinking about this book and some of the reasons I find Eve so meaningful.  I don’t get everything I want.  I don’t get a lot of things that I want.  I'm still over in the DED complex thread working on that angle.  It is easy to argue against CCP.  So, very easy.  Its easy because they do listen. It makes not being heard to that much harder.  I try to appreciate that the option is there, even when I am frustrated while accessing that option.  That frustration is better then never having the chance.

So I do the surveys.  I try to participate in the elections and on the forums where I can.  I will continue to do so as long as they give me a reason to.  Even if my own soapbox is not treated with the attention that I want  I'm trying to remember it is a big game out there with a lot of people.  Sinking into my own frustration won't do a damn thing for anyone, including myself.  I know things have been said.  Say them again.

And yes, I made sure to comment on the DED complexes.  Its another venue.  Another attempt.   I also made sure to praise crime watches changes to gateguns.

Oh yeah:
Player Sugar Kyle, your account was billed on: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:46:44 GMTD
Description:  1 x Fanfest 2013 Early Bird ticket 
Don't forget.

Comments

  1. Was that last comment aimed at little old me? :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Maybe one day!

 [15:32:10] Trig Vaulter > Sugar Kyle Nice bio - so carebear sweet - oh you have a 50m ISK bounty - so someday more grizzly  [15:32:38 ] Sugar Kyle > /emote raises an eyebrow to Trig  [15:32:40 ] Sugar Kyle > okay :)  [15:32:52 ] Sugar Kyle > maybe one day I will try PvP out When I logged in one of the first things I did was answer a question in Eve Uni Public Help. It was a random question that I knew the answer of. I have 'Sugar' as a keyword so it highlights green and catches my attention. This made me chuckle. Maybe I'll have to go and see what it is like to shoot a ship one day? I could not help but smile. Basi suggested that I put my Titan killmail in my bio and assert my badassery. I figure, naw. It was a roll of the dice that landed me that kill mail. It doesn't define me as a person. Bios are interesting. The idea of a biography is a way to personalize your account. You can learn a lot about a person by what they choose to put in their bio

Taboo Questions

Let us talk contentious things. What about high sec? When will CCP pay attention to high sec and those that cannot spend their time in dangerous space?  This is somewhat how the day started, sparked by a question from an anonymous poster. Speaking about high sec, in general, is one of the hardest things to do. The amount of emotion wrapped around the topic is staggering. There are people who want to stay in high sec and nothing will make them leave. There are people who want no one to stay in high sec and wish to cripple everything about it. There are people in between, but the two extremes are large and emotional in discussion. My belief is simple. If a player wishes to live in high sec, I do not believe that anything will make them leave that is not their own curiosity. I do not believe that we can beat people out of high sec or destroy it until they go to other areas of space. Sometimes, I think we forget that every player has the option to not log back in. We want them to log

And back again

My very slow wormhole adventure continues almost as slowly as I am terminating my island in Animal Crossing.  My class 3 wormhole was not where I wanted to be. I was looking for a class 1 or 2 wormhole. I dropped my probes and with much less confusion scanned another wormhole. I remembered to dscan and collect my probes as I warped to the wormhole. I even remembered to drop a bookmark, wormholes being such good bookmark locations later. My wormhole told me it was a route into low sec. I tilted my head. How circular do our adventures go. Today might be the day to die and that too is okay. That mantra dances in the back of my head these days. Even if someone mocks me, what does that matter? Fattening someone's killboard is their issue not mine. So I jumped through and found myself in Efa in Khanid, tucked on the edge of high sec and null sec. What an interesting little system.  Several connections to high sec. A connection to null sec. This must be quite the traffic system.    I am f