Editorial Space July 17, 2007
Posted by Wilhelm2451 in EVE Online.trackback
I was passing through Jita… all roads… or jump gates… seem to lead me through there… when I noticed, floating around the jump gate to my next destination an object with a very long name. So I selected it to see what somebody had to say.
It turned out to be some CCP conspiracy screed:
The information on the object also contained this:
CCP are so concerned with hiding the truth.
Well you can ban players from the forums, but you will have to go further to stop people being reminded of the truth.
CCP play the game through the BOB alliance, to ensure that no other entity can control any large areas of 0.0.
It’s there deluded point of view that it will reduce isk farming / selling isk, but it doesn’t work.
They continue with their plan to control all of 0.0 and don’t care about your opinion because their revenue is made up of empire carebears anyway.
T20 incident is only a fraction of what is happening.
I moved in a bit closer to see what object had been used as the vehicle for this message. It was just a little capsule.
Of course, somebody else wanted to get in on the act, and there was another container by the gate with its own name/message.
Corp recruiting. A little less controversial.
I cannot recall seeing this little trick before, though it has been a few months since I was in game. And, of course, once I noticed, I started seeing it other places, though it has always been corp recruiting. (I would say that this is probably not the best way to recruit, but I’ve seen so many worse methods in the past that I shan’t complain… much.)
The fact that I have not seen an ISK seller version of this makes me believe that this is something you cannot do with a trial account. Otherwise I am sure we would all be flying past containers named “Special Discount Code 943348 For 10% off of any ISK Purchase!”
It’s been happening for quite some time, years I think, cause I remember seeing this in the most visited systems. Jita being a good example.
That was the first thing I noticed while I was playing was beacons or containers with guilds advertising on them LOL. It was so weird. NIce blog entry couldnt have said it better myself
I don’t mind the corp recruiting too much, but some of the asteroid belts around Jita are just littered with yellow cargo containers. It’s like some bad industrial accident.
The corp advertising has been happening for a while, at least since I started playing (2005). They don’t annoy me per se but they get a bit boring. I preferred it when people or whole corporations created pictures out of them.
For example, last year I was flying through one of the high sec Gallente systems and I saw at least 200 cans placed in such a way that they formed the shape of a shark. And I don’t mean the size of a battle ship or something, it was the at least the size of a planet.
Now a shark the size of a planet made out of user towed cans… that I would like to see.
That would be quite an effort. Would you do it all by coordinates (and did they bookmark them all so the could do it again) or do you have somebody pulled way back directing you with comments like “about 10 km to the left?”
I’m not sure, I never found out how people did it. It’s a shame they stopped really, it was nice to see something out of the ordinary when hauling things over long distances.
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