Monday, November 17, 2014

The Right to Kill

When the "Crimewatch" "expansion" was released two years ago, carebears rejoiced. Highsec hadn't been safe enough, so One More Nerf™ was required. The new kill rights system, they said, would help them put a stop to highsec content. (They said the same thing about the bounty system.) Yet kill rights have never been a problem for the New Order. Instead, kill rights have been used by our Agents against the most foul of the carebears. This is karmic justice.


Agent Kalorned came across a rebel miner named Arttu in the Gelhan system. Arttu had difficulty understanding the need for a permit. Kalorned set his mind to helping the poor miner find his way.


Without warning, the miner's Hulk alt ambushed Kalorned with a suicide attack! It was a most unusual gank fit:


Yet the suicide Hulk was not truly a suicide Hulk at all. CONCORD never arrived. Kalorned had no choice but to keep the miner bumped out of warp alignment while his light drones did CONCORD's job.


CONCORD's inactivity puzzled our hero. Kalorned doesn't believe he was criminally suspect or had a kill right activated against him. Kalorned's understanding of the situation seems to be confirmed by the fact that Arttu's stealth bomber was CONCORDed when it tried to join the Hulk in the attack against Kalorned. This must be considered one of EVE's unsolved mysteries. If you have any information on this case, write to us at MinerBumping. You need not give your name.


A few days later, Arttu had forgotten all about the loss of his Hulk and stealth bomber. He'd also forgotten about Kalorned's new kill rights. Arttu's Orca and his alt's Hulk left the safety of their POS and began stealing ore from a belt. Kalorned activated the kill rights on the Orca and the Hulk alt, and he tackled them both. At the moment the Orca was tackled, Arttu suddenly became interested in a grand anti-Order alliance. His fellow miners ignored him.


Arttu attempted to bribe our valiant Agent. Though Kalorned was holding a Hulk and an Orca worth about a billion isk, Arttu would only spare 20 million isk for ransom. My word, carebears are getting so stingy these days.


Arttu had the last laugh. He deprived Kalorned of an Orca killmail by self-destructing. At least, that's what Arttu thought would happen, despite being warned otherwise. Self-destructed ships still produce killmails. This didn't used to be the case, but the system was changed to be more intuitive for new players.


The lovely Orca killmail reveals Arttu's anti-tanked bot-aspirancy. Arttu's alt's Hulk was also destroyed. You can witness the glorious battle for yourself: It was immortalized in the The Code Is Forever #10 YouTube video.


Satisfied by the enforcement of the Code, Kalorned returned to station for a well-earned rest. Arttu had lost a billion isk and the ability to mine in the system. As long as Kalorned was around, he was too petrified to leave his POS. He consoled himself with an "As long as you're bumping me, you aren't bumping anyone else" Miner Bingo variant.


Arttu also kept himself busy by fantasizing about being a good EVE player. Carebears, there's no need to do this. You could become an Agent of the New Order right now and bring your fantasies to life!


Before the "you're picking on new players with billion isk mining ships" crowd becomes too restless, I must mention the secret that Arttu revealed. He has been playing EVE on the Arttu character for nine years. Yes, it's another person who has spent most of a decade mining ore in highsec. His encounter with the New Order was the first memorable experience he's had in this game.


The New Order won the day. Kill rights were used to create content, rather than discouraging it. The bad guys were blown up and the Code was upheld. The highsec experience got a little sweeter. No wonder EVE players are starting to get more optimistic these days.

73 comments:

  1. The Code, winning again as always!!

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  2. Kalorned's published encounters are just so enjoyable; real content in every one. James manages to inject a bit of history, a bit of instruction - a lot of amusement, seemingly without effort.

    MB certainly is the most entertaining EVE-Blog around. Even our enemies seem unable to tear themselves away. It's difficult to understand how they can comment negatively on the Blog content - but return day after day to read it. If you read 30 books by the same author, and thought they were all 'meh....', would you continue to make sure you read each new one as it came out?

    I've no doubt this latest piece of gold will draw the usual comments, below, but I've given up responding to most of them, the points are so weak.

    Keep up the good work, James 315, Kalorned. Highsec is the better for having you around.

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  3. GJ, Kalorned! Codice vincit semper.

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  4. Bravo, Kalorned
    Always enforcing the Code
    Makes you a hero

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  5. Thinking about resubbing when the clone changes come in December. May finally get me fighting.

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  6. Veers is gonna make bumping banable! Muhaha!

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  7. Why would a member of Yulai Federation be mining in highsec? is the draw of AFK mining so dire? Arttu, stop making provi look bad.

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  8. Not sure how it's possible to make Provi look bad. They are literally the only organization in the game more reviled than CODE.

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    1. You forgot incursion bears.

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    2. How dare you. Incursion running at the elite level I operate at is far beyond most of you code monkeys limited understanding of Eve. I'd demand you meet me in nullsec so I can teach you some manners but as with all code monkeys you can't stop hugging high sec for even a second. I think you'd cry if you jumped into a low or null system. Try some real PvP or elite incursion running instead of ganking newbies in ventures.

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  9. Great video of elite pvp - would watch again!

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  10. CODE themselves feeds many ISKs to the industrialists and miners to have enough ships for ganking. I would say suicide gankers are in the bottom of the EVE food chain.

    Unless... CODE mines and builds those ships themselves. Oh, could you imagine the amount of shame?

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    1. Fun fact: most PvPers have indy alts and are fully capable of filling in the void left by the bears.

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    2. So they have themselves became the very creature they hate. Oh, the amount of hypocrisy!

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    3. Oh we don't hate industry, we despise people who feel entitled to perfect safety in Highsec and bully CCP into changing the game so they can "play" in perfect isolation.

      I actually build all the gank-ships and modules I need myself. It's perfectly reasonable to do some Industry stuff in the 15min you can't gank. I do invention and I produce all the intermediate things. All I need as input is the basic t2 materials and the minerals that not drop from dead Highsec miners.

      I mean there is not really much to industry it's pretty simple stuff. Once you are setup you need to fiddle with it for a few minutes per day. I also find that it makes the logistics much easier and the ganking much cheaper.

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    4. Uhm are you stupid....a combat pvp unit should have an industry unit behind it...it just makes complete sense to feed your army yourself. Especially CODE. with the type of activity levels they have. Sheesh, learn to play the game dude...thats what EvE is about controlling territory and resources any way possible and if that means taking out the trash to free up some space then so be it.

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    5. Maybe it's you who's stupid. Read the text again, and understand it this time.

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  11. "Self-destructed ships still produce killmails. This didn't used to be the case, but the system was changed to be more intuitive for new players."

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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  12. A story like this reminds me of that huge whine of a thread Veers started a few months back. Apparently Veers wants revamp the kill rights mechanic so that you can no longer activate it unless the two opposing ships are within 25% of the same ISK value. His reasoning goes something like this. That Manitcore could engage the ship Kalorned used because they were nearly equal in ISK value while Kalorned would not be able to gank the Orca because it's much more expensive then the ship Kalorned used. I don't make this shit up Veers is demanding ISK tanking on kill rights.

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    1. Ehh, false...never said anything like that. Kill rights work fine - if you don't want them generated, be a law abiding citizen like me and don't commit crimes. If you decide to be a criminal, be prepared to pay the costly price. Kill rights are great for encouraging law abiding PvE behavior.

      Kinda sad when the CODEbros have to stoop to outright lying to make points. I guess when you are an idiot it is the only choice.

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    2. I would like to take a moment to remind everyone that I am a lawyer, so you should listen to me. Also, I have a very important announcement to make and I need a friendly law abiding, law loving, code hating vollunteer. I have a secret alt logged in right now within the CODE. alliance. Unfortunately, this is my only account so I can't switch. I need someone to send 1 billion isk to the alliance executor corp wallet. I am recording my screen as we speak. I will remove it from the wallet along with the rest and double your isk right before bringing it all down! I just need your donation to prove my video is legit.

      Together we can defeet the CODE scum!

      You can trust me. I hate them as much as you do, and I am a lawyer. Together we are unstoopable!

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    3. Getting real tired of your shit fake Veers

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    4. Stop replying to yourself, fake Veers. Unless there are two fake Veers...loyalanon, is this you? Anyway, neither of the above are me. You can tell that Veers@8:00 isn't me because he misspells some words (and an Ivy League, power-playing lawyer like myself would never misspell anything), and you can tell that Veers@8:50 isn't me because he didn't refer to himself as the good guy, didn't refer to CODE as being objectively evil, didn't call any aspect of gameplay torture, didn't defend incursions as being inherently noble and good, didn't mention he was a lawyer, and didn't call you idiots, idiots.

      Now can we stop talking about Code-enforcement (which, since it didn't instantly and permanently fix highsec from the very first gank is demonstrably pointless and has no effect) and instead start talking about how much better than James I am? Yeah, let's talk about me some more.

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    5. What? two impersonators? Go away, can't one punish himself for 5min AFK while someone comes and steals my limelight? At least the sending a billion may actually work.

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  13. Either miners can just shutdown mining or selling ore for about a month or so, then this would probably be a problem for Code since they need ships and so on.
    This can only be done if miners unite and since there are to many miners that don't really care about others this may not be possible.

    Miners can pay and hope they are left alone.
    I will never be left alone since I'm AFK alot when docked up to station and we have all seen that this is not tollerated for some weird reason.

    Miners can change system either in HS, LS or NS

    Miners can fight back, maybe not with the mining ship but do create a mining protection force or something so Code have something to play against. I don't think they mind real PvP in the belts right?

    But Code, please leave religious crap outside EVE, you only do that to provoke other players.
    Religious crap is the root to almost all wars on earth and EVE is far better than that, don't you all agree on that?

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    1. sounds like you need some jesus in your life

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    2. I totally agree, and while we are at it the Amarr should do the same. I hate the way they fly around in ships with religious names, provoking me, and have you seen their stations and dead space structures? I feel utterly provoked every time I log in!!

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    3. If you don't even get the point it's just funny ;)

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    4. Dear Anon @ 9.28.

      It will never happen. Carebears are completely unable to organize themselves and act in unison. Be it either a mining strike, orgainized defense or any other activity requiring co-operation and leadership.

      It's like trying to change a law of nature, like reversing the direction of gravity's pull, or making water not wet; utterly impossible to do.

      Carebears only ever work for their own individual selfish interests & nobody elses, period.

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    5. The wolf does not fear the sheep, regardless of how numerous.

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    6. I'm a mosquito though

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    7. A mindless blood-sucking automaton...yup, that's a valid description of a highsec miner.

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    8. I'm not sure about Jesus, but James 315 has saved my soul.

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    9. I'm not a miner Maria :P

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    10. Maybe James has saved your soul, but he's keeping it to himself. Say goodbye to it, you're not going to see it again.

      Soulless Codies...

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  14. The CODE reminds me of Westboro Baptist Church.

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    1. The Westboro Baptist Church? But the Saviour doesn't hate miners. Far from it, we do all this because we care about them deeply. The Saviour of highsec has a place in his heart for every citizen of high-sec.

      But that love and sympathy we have for the miners doesn't mean we can let them get away with anything, we mustn't spare the rod. It is only through the systematic application of just and fair disciplinary measures that we can hope to forge responsible highsec citizens.

      We all too often see the unfortunate results of letting the miners do as they please. The years before the code spoiled them, it turned them into monsters. If anything it is the miners who remind me of the WBC, going out into local and shouting the most vile and disgusting insults you can imagine.

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    2. You're in wrong organisation then. Read https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=40762 from your precious "saviour". It oozes hate towards highsec miners.

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    3. "Naturally, all of the highsec miners' explanations are designed to make them feel better about themselves, and to dismiss the possibility that the suicide gankers have good reasons for doing what they do. The highsec miner doesn't want to question himself, after all--question whether he might deserve to be hated."

      Seems like he's trying to help your kind. Sure, almost everyone hates you, that's a given. But most of us don't have the patience to explain why to you; explaining reasonable things to carebears is a thankless task. That James took it upon himself to explain to you just why and how you deserve to be hated, and how you can improve yourselves, is a supreme act of love. It's understandable that you would have misunderstood James' article, since you misunderstand so much of eve. But that article you point to doesn't "ooze hate", it overflows with love, for even the lowest among us (namely, miners). Hopefully you'll understand that someday.

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    4. Oh, I get it.

      But you have not noticed that miners love CODE so much that they bother insulting gankers. We're all one happy family, and EVE is not a PvP game, but PlP, Player loves Player. It's the ultimate example of equality, where no one is above other, and everyone get along.

      Enough of Sarcasm. Maria, you think I'm at idiot? Well, I think that you are if you believe what you're saying.

      "I simply don't have any fondness for highsec miners. Personally, I just find them easy to dislike. Even apart from what they actually do, their presence has always irritated me. I suppose you could say that I have a natural prejudice against them."

      James has weird way of saying "love". I'd say that is really close to hating, while avoiding to use the word. But as usual, CODE tries to make black into white. You guys make me sick in my stomach.

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    5. What sarcasm? Miners are genuinely contemptible, the Code is a genuine attempt to redeem them, and James' sharing of the Code with miners and with the broader highsec community is genuinely an act of love. Sheesh, leave it to a miner to read negativity and sarcasm into a sincere attempt at improving his twisted nature.

      If you were an alcoholic, and your friends and family told you "anon@4:04, you are an alcoholic and that is a bad thing to be", you would not consider that hate. They would be criticizing your current behavior out of love, because they'd know that you were capable of doing better. So it is with James, and with us. We know that miners are capable of being more than they currently choose to leave. All it takes is that they leave behind the easy path of bot-aspirancy, and rise to the heights of leet highsec pvp with us. Come, anon@4:04. Leave behind your cheap cynicism and hatred. Let us help you become more than you currently are. Join James in showing love to your fellow miners, by blowing them up and selling them permits.

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    6. "I hate highsec miners."
      -James 315

      You lose.

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    7. [Citation Needed]

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    8. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=450980#post450980

      Look it from there

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    9. Hate is a kind of love.

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    10. Ah, I see where the carebear has become confused. It's a post from 2011.

      All miners before the creation of the code, were by definition non-compliant miners, which as we all know are truly detestable creatures. Now in this new era we distinguish between two very different types of miner. The code-compliant, and those who wish this game harm. It was only through James 315's sacrifice 2 years ago that miners became able to be saved and became worthy of love. Now it is possible for a highsec miner to redeem himself, in the eyes of the saviour and in the eyes of everybody around him by purchasing a permit and following the code. So you see, James 315 really was the first to show the miners any love whatsoever.

      Hope that cleared things up for you. We are here for all your apologetics needs.

      -Tisiphone Dira

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    11. "as usual, CODE tries to make black into white"
      -Anonymous

      Now James and CODE just try to hide (with poor success) the hate with religious carbage. Only stupid ones believe that.

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    12. Ah, thank you Tisiphone Dira. You aid us all in comprehension of the subtler aspects of the Code, as always. Anon@4:43, hopefully now you can truly understand James' love for you, and meet it with a suitable attitude of respect and contrition.

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    13. I'm afraid that it is you who have misunderstood the reasons behind James' behavior, and neither James actions, nor the reasons behind them deserve any respect.

      I guess you are blind to truth, as you cannot see it even when it is put right in front of your eyes.

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    14. Oh? And why do *you* think James has devoted years of his life to saving highsec? Why would these noble actions, and whatever motivations you've come up with for them, not deserve respect?

      Please, carebear, share your wisdom. The Department of Carebear Psychology is standing by for your response.

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    15. He's not saving it, he's trying to get it all for himself. He has made the claim already, now he tries to put that claim into action.

      He is as greedy individual as the worst of highsec miners, but unlike miners, his behavior comes from the deepest pits of human psyche.

      There's as much nobility in his actions as would be in stealing a lollipop from a child. And then insulting the child when he gets angry.

      He gathers weak minded individuals as his army to steal even more lollipops, and tells them it's the right thing to do. And those weak minded fools believe him.

      I know it's useless to tell you all this. I already know you are blind, but maybe - just maybe - someone would see the light of truth and understand that it is not a bad thing to have in life. But it is not you.

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    16. James has saved highsec by claiming it. He did this not out of greed (for what possible benefit does he get?), but out of love for the game, for the noble gankers he saw maligned by carebears, and yea, out of love even for the carebears themselves, stuck in mindless isk-gathering subroutines with no understanding of what "community", "society", or even "fun" meant. What James has done, he does for you, anon@6:43.

      Highsec is not a zero-sum game. By owning and ruling highsec, James does not prevent you from also using it. He just requires that you contribute a paltry 10m isk, as a symbol, a token of your respect for the glorious new society he's built in highsec. He has not "stolen your lollipop", he's trying to open your eyes to the fact that while you seek to selfishly and solitarily devour your lollipop, you are surrounded by countless others who want to play eve with you. You are part of a society in eve, and it's about time you stopped obsessing over your lollipops and started doing your part for that society.

      I know it is not useless to tell you all this. Perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow, but I have faith that eventually you will wake up, abort whatever subroutine you are currently stuck in, and rejoin highsec society. We'll be waiting for you (and for your 10m isk donation) with open arms when that day comes.

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    17. James has saved highsec by claiming it. He did this not out of greed (for what possible benefit does he get?), but out of love for the game, for the noble gankers he saw maligned by carebears, and yea, out of love even for the carebears themselves, stuck in mindless isk-gathering subroutines with no understanding of what "community", "society", or even "fun" meant. What James has done, he does for you, anon@6:43.

      Highsec is not a zero-sum game. By owning and ruling highsec, James does not prevent you from also using it. He just requires that you contribute a paltry 10m isk, as a symbol, a token of your respect for the glorious new society he's built in highsec. He has not "stolen your lollipop", he's trying to open your eyes to the fact that while you seek to selfishly and solitarily devour your lollipop, you are surrounded by countless others who want to play eve with you. You are part of a society in eve, and it's about time you stopped obsessing over your lollipops and started doing your part for that society.

      I know it is not useless to tell you all this. Perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow, but I have faith that eventually you will wake up, abort whatever subroutine you are currently stuck in, and rejoin highsec society. We'll be waiting for you (and for your 10m isk donation) with open arms when that day comes.

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    18. And since there's tears falling about quoting a 2 year old post...

      How far does "James' truth" carry? 1 year? 6 months? When does it change? Do you even know what "James' truth" is anymore?

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    19. "for what possible benefit does he get" ... really? Look at the New Order Treasury, and this is just a beginning of his plans. "what possible benefit"... lol

      If James asks 10M for as a token of my respect, he should be pay me. That's how much I respect him.

      No lollipop has been taken from me, but from others. I know I am surrounded by players. I, however, am quite capable to pick those who I want to interact with myself. Codies are not part of that group. If someone wants to interact with me, so be it.

      Don't try to convert me, I don't follow the blind.

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    20. You're one of the ones who thinks that James is doing all this for something as petty as a couple billion isk? Organizing, writing, generating content for years on end, just for *that*? You reveal far too much about the paucity of your spirit, by revealing the pettiness of your ambitions. But never fear, Anon@7:15. The Code can raise you up out of your money-obsessed squalor, if you'll let it. All it takes is a token offering of earth and water...I mean, isk and space-in-your-bio. Would you like to purchase a mining permit now? Only 10m/toon/year, and I cannot possibly overstate how much it'll improve your life.

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    21. Not only for ISK, but also the fame and power.

      You would not get anything in my bio even if you paid that 10M to me. Pay me 1 Billion, and we can discuss about it.

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    22. Dear carebear, here is something for you to ponder. Who else in the history of the game has been able to get eve players from all backgrounds- pvpers, industrialists, scammers, etc to voluntarily donate roughly a half trillion isk and counting towards a higher cause, paying for tens of thousands of glorious ganking ships to cleanse highsec and make it a better place?

      As you think about that, know that the New Order only grows stronger with every passing day. It's better to pay for your permit sooner rather than later and join the good guys.

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    23. A million flies can't be wrong, eh?

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    24. "it grows stronger" but remember nothing lasts for ever.

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    25. Sure, eventually the eve servers will go down, and the eve-based incarnation of the Code will die with the flicker of the last simulated star (I specify "eve-based", because already our creed is spreading to archeage, to elite, to any other sandbox pvp games with their contingents of whiny fun-hating carebears). But until then, the Code will persevere, the Code will grow in power and might. The Code might not last forever, but it will last at least as long as eve does.

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    26. Here we go again, Code and it's "only right way to have fun".

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  15. Why are killmails so important?

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    1. Because with those James can further humiliate those who he decides to "deserve" it.

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  16. Just remember that in the real life you don't have a life after you get podded so keep catching enemies if you want that.

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    1. Wow, really? How sad and pathetic and unfulfilled must your life be, if you are willing to resort to veiled death threats over virtual pixels in a stupid video game...

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  17. Maria Malukker: are you a member of JW?
    Sounds like that since they are blind to anything

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  18. I see this said a lot and want to address it: Miners are at the bottom of the EVE food-chain, but people who care to point that out to them are typically at the bottom of the RL food-chain. That is to say people who have girlfriends, families, and/or respectable jobs just wouldn't care to judge someone's position in a video game. It's done by someone who needs to feel better about themselves.

    Spare me your tears just an observation.

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    1. Except you have no evidence whatsoever to make that conclusion. We are all anonymous here, so there is no way for you to know what anyone does in real life, what job they do or what girlfriends they have.

      It sounds more like a fantasy you tell yourself to comfort your bruised ego.

      We can only really judge people by what they say and how they act in the game, and judging by the typical reactions of miners when they lose a few virtual space pixels, it seems that the reality is quite opposite from what you claim.

      When you see someone go into a mind melting rage, spewing vile vulgarities and real-life death threats just because they lost a mining barge in a game, it doesn't leave the impression of a well-adjusted person with a good job and a nice girlfriend/wife/family.

      It rather leaves the impression that the average miner leads a sad frustrated life, and is at the bottom of the food chain in real-life, just like they are in EvE.

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    2. You misunderstand why we point this out to the miners, OP. We do it so that they may be educated and choose a better life for themselves. It is an act of kindness and charity that we do.

      Who would willingly subject themselves to living a life at the bottom? Only those that know no better.

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  19. Great story and awesome video. I wonder what caused Concord to not engage that Hulk the first time? Alas, sounds like a KR was earned regardless and Arttu lost the Hulk again to glorious PvP combat; this second time included an Orca.

    Great job Kalorned \o/

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