Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Mine Teck Negotiations, Part 1

Previously, on MinerBumping... Mine Teck, whose anti-Order rant on TeamSpeak captivated the EVE community, became fixated on having a conversation with the Father of the New Order himself. Unable to find me online, he began to question my existence.


I happened to be online at the same time as Mine Teck, so I offered him an invitation to a private convo. He immediately accepted.


Mine Teck was in roughly the same mood as he had been during the infamous TeamSpeak recording. He was also still willing to use his kill rights against our -10 sec status suicide gankers.


I attempted to find common ground with Mine Teck, searching for matters upon which we could both agree that he was wrong. But he was reluctant to speak about the precise amount of isk that he had paid to purchase his alleged mining permits.


Mine Teck was stuck on the idea of keeping his bio free of the pro-Order "bumper stickers" that have proliferated throughout highsec.


For some reason, Mine Teck had a series of random numbers in his bio, but these numbers were later removed. The mystery of their significance remained unsolved, like a dangling plot thread from "Lost".


Our negotiations deteriorated with alarming rapidity. Was Mine Teck even interested in peace?


Mine Teck had no regard for the Code, but he had never really tried to follow it. Still, he adamantly refused to pay the full 10 million per mining character.


The negative influence of Mine Teck's rebel friends made itself felt. He was unsure of whether CCP allowed the New Order to do its work.


At this point, I could only imagine Mine Teck running around Kino, trying to communicate--in his own inimitable way--with AFK miners about how to transfer kill rights on our ganker alts.


If something wasn't done quickly, war could break out at any moment. There had to be some way of repairing the broken trust between us.


At last, a breakthrough. Mine Teck was willing to admit that his conduct during the TeamSpeak rant was inappropriate and unbecoming of a gentleman miner.


Mine Teck confessed that he had lost his temper. Then he deftly changed the subject, arguing that the New Order should be more accommodating to miners who run several accounts at once.


I offered a potential solution, but Mine Teck remains a stubborn fellow.


In every negotiation, it's important to get the measure of the man you're dealing with. Little by little, we broke through the cultural and linguistic boundaries that separated us, and I began to understand what made him teck. Now it was time to ask the important question, the one that everyone has been wanting to ask Mine Teck for weeks:


To be continued...

38 comments:

  1. The suspense is breath taking... will the mysteries of the Strawberry be revealed ? O_O

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  2. Damn James you're such a tease...I was at the edge of my seat when Mine Teck was about to reveal the meaning behind the Strawberry...and then "To be continued..."

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  3. Pepe le Strawberry is at it again...

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    1. I had him read off the number of zeroes in his bank journal and he had 6 zeroes and not 7, so he indeed only paid 1 million ISK a piece.

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  4. Dammit! We're so close to an explanation!

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  5. Personally, I have had enough of this mouth-breathing drool spigot (Mine Teck, not our Savior)... It's like a joke that is quickly becoming unfunny...

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    1. Have you imagined him eating strawberries in his underwear while struggling to fit a ship with a single module? Don't give up so soon, Kairos. :)

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  6. "unless i had a very good reason"

    magnificent!

    just slipped it right in there.

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    1. Yeah it is such a beautiful turn of phrase that our saviour has. You could almost read over that and miss it. It's hilarious that our saviour is so honest about his potential dishonestly. It opens all sort sof discussions about truth, the greater good, the nature of man. Truley our saviour is a great philosopher.

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  7. I think I get what he was on about with the random numbers in his bio.

    I think he fed the statement "I support James 315 and the New Order" into an MD5 hashing algorithm and stuck the result into his bio, thinking the agents would recognize it. He's just that autistic.

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  8. Now I understand the strawberry comment! And I feel I am very close to unraveling the significance of the codex. But I'm afraid I am still clueless as to how to use kill rights to kill outlaw gankers.

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  9. Looking forward to tomorrow's update! The mysteries of the Strawberry shall be revealed!

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  10. This dude is an X file

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  11. Now this is low.... very low picking on guy whos first language isnt english. Do EVE Online a favour and grow up... or just quit because you are not very mature as you make out to be... as for been a gentlemen.... yeah ok.

    love from someone <3. ;)

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    1. I think the language impairment is only one of the many problems of Mine Teck. The New Order is not going to stop until all his problems are solved.

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  12. His sentence structure and accent is very Chinese, are you sure he's a real dutch?

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    1. Do they have internet wifi in Dutch "coffee shops"?

      I suppose mining is something you can do while stoned.

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    2. I lost so many pods in low sec while playing stoned :(

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    3. He doesn't sound very Dutch to me and I'm Dutch myself.
      I'll try to convo him in Dutch, maybe that would resolve some issues (yeah I'd provide a translation if needed)

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    4. Dutch won't get you very far. Danish should, but I guess that depends on the time of day.

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  13. Is this like Citizen Kane and "rosebud"?

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  14. I hate to kill the story but..

    SPOILER ALERT
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    Mine teck was forced to pick strawberries as child. I had a private convo with him earlier.

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    1. [02.03.2013 01:08:38] Alice Kinnian> Why would you choose strawberries?
      [02.03.2013 01:08:49] Alice Kinnian> Why strawberries?
      [02.03.2013 01:09:37] My Teck> As a child, I was forced to pick strawberries, so where is the ass when you pick them?
      [02.03.2013 01:10:03] My Teck> Excuse my language, but you asked yourself
      [02.03.2013 01:10:34] My Teck> HIGHEST
      [02.03.2013 01:10:53] Alice Kinnian> fine
      [02.03.2013 01:11:47] Alice Kinnian> how are you doing?
      [02.03.2013 01:12:09] My Teck> So to put it another way, you can raned me in the ass, even if it is a strange place to have a horse racing track
      [02.03.2013 01:12:39] My Teck> Is pt. unemployed

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    2. Naughty. I would have preferred to wait.

      If you want to post a spoiler, hide it behind a link.

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    3. I am now more confused than ever. What the hell does a horse racing track have to do with this and what does "raned me in the ass" mean? My imagination is running wild.

      Talon

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  15. http://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewforum.php?f=104

    Can we expect to hear you there, saviour? It is an opportunity to delve into your enemies' minds, most certainly.

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    1. Huh, thinking of it, is that thread in the internal forums? Allow me to quote, then:

      "Over the next few weeks, the Uni will be hosting a series of talks with CSM candidates in order to better get you acquainted with with them.

      Each candidate who chooses will come in for a 30 minute talk, 15 minutes of which will be them talking to you about their positions, their views on Eve, etc, follow by 15 minutes of Q&A.

      I invite all of you to visit as many as you like. Many CSM candidates are well known names around Eve, with fantastic ideas on how to improve the game we love. Meet them, ask them questions, and make your own decisions about the future of Eve Online!


      Each event will be posted as a separate thread."

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  16. Im rather surprised to see such a fragile scam live so long, hahaha, a blockade might hurt it very much, eh? Watch yourself james, We see all, And we don't like what we see...

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    1. oooh a veiled meta threat cloaked in anonynimity...

      scawwwwwy

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    3. One time, I blockaded a miner from mining range. It worked pretty well.

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  17. today my pirate corp and 3 other + an big ally have decide to hunt all agents from/and the new order. Thanks for reporting where you are active so its easy for us to find you.

    We will see you on grid.

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    1. I'll be sure to log on tonight! I haven't had anyone suicide themselves into my Invincible Stabber for a while, and I'm positive CONCORD would love the killmails.

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  18. I'm shaking in my fancy space-boots.

    -Galaxy Pig

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  19. man, I don't think Teck is Dutch, i suspect Vogon. The entire thread's conversations have that whole vibe.
    (Note: The Encyclopedia Galactica notes that the beings known as "Teck" are "incapable of using numbers higher then six places, form social groups based on nines, harvest Strawberries, dislike harvesting strawberries and spend much of their time wishing they had gone to the track and bet on the ponies."

    Looking for his towel
    Stelhammer

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    1. I wanted to know what a "teck" was, so I looked it up at www.urbandictionary.com. I did not expect what I found there. So just to check the accuracy of the dictionary, I looked up "manny". Now I'm satisfied.

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    2. I looked up "Alistair" and found Defender of Men, I am happy.

      ---Alistair

      Friendly Neighborhood Scoundrel

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