The Glade 4.0

I think it's great that any of your upgrades can be insured at all. EVE doesn't allow that; the insurance is only based on the value of the hull.

That's part of why it's not wise to turn your ship into a total blingmachine. It becomes a loot pinata for gankers, and since the high end modules each cost as much or more than the hull you're potentially getting back only a tiny fraction of what you lost. Hardly a week goes by that someone's fancy battleship built for Incursion fleets, worth billions in total, doesn't get ganked. The biggest I ever saw was a 73 billion ISK Nightmare-class battleship. The platinum insurance payout on that loss couldn't have been much more than 700 million or so.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Yeah, Pirates of the Burning Sea was the same way. You could insure your ship (which was kind of a misnomer, for the most part, since the insurance was on a per-sinking basis rather than insuring for a duration; it really just cut the replacement cost), and about a fifth of your upgrade slots were "permanent" and bound to your account, but the rest of them would be lost with the ship.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

So, anyone else planning on going into piracy?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

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Holy shitsnacks!

probably lots of people. However, it is not in my plans at this juncture.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I haven't decided which laws I'm willing to bend and/or break on my shadier account. Smuggling? Yes, though I may draw the line at sentient trafficking. Piracy? Undecided. I think I'm leaning more towards setting up a base of operations a jump or two from the edge of pirate space and selling my services to the pirates' prey.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I haven't totally decided either, but I want to be out in the wild areas, and I want to fight. It's going to depend a lot on if money can be made on the mercenary/bounty hunter side. If it can, I'll go that way, but I will only have one account so if piracy is the way to make ahead, I'll be exploding people's spaceships. Especially Mus. He's totally getting trolled.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I'll be quite surprised if there isn't serious money to be made on both sides of the law on the frontier.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I really hope that's the case. Being a pirate should be fraught with danger (and good fights!). I don't want any sort of bounty system to be easily exploited.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Bring it. :p

Actually don't, I suck at sims. hehe

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Holy shitsnacks!

I have decided to purchase the game legitimately.

LOL

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

I'd actually like to be on a pirate gank squad. We send a decoy ship out loaded with attractive loot (or seemingly so) maybe with a token defense and we hang out cloaked ready to tear the pirates up.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Other than I believe there will be stealth in game, but not cloaking, I love this idea. Looking forward to tomorrow to see exactly what flavor of Hornet I will have to pull such a scenario off.

So in other words, I own the wrong domain name -- we should be the Void Raiders, not the Void Rangers. Lol.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Void Rangers is awesome. Don't let anyone tell you different.

I second this.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Then I guess I'll renew it when it comes up for renewal, hehe. Heck, with the dogfighting alpha enroute, it might actually be time to stick something there.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Yeah Void Rangers - we gank pirates and other stuff.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I also vote Void Rangers, sounds much more heroic, even if we end up being villains.

Add another upvote for VoidRangers. I still like the name.

I figured out what I needed to upgrade to the 315P. I reclaimed the Digital Bounty Hunter - LTI pledge which included the ship, hanger fees, Lifetime insurance and all the downloadables (incl. the game itself)

There was another purchasable pledge item available to original backers which included all the aforementioned schwag in the Bounty Hunter pledge.

The Pathfinder package is mine (for an additional $15...Don't tell Oonagh)

Can't wait to get out there in my 315P.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Void Rangers is cool. Awaiting paycheck for purchase of additional ships!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I wish to reiterate my desire to "pew pew pew - lasers".

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Waiting for the release of the variants I've been waiting (and waiting) for is pure agony.

A forumite relays that the following was mentioned on the chatroll:

10:30 PST: Hornet update from WingMan: "Soon" but "don't be hitting F5 to refresh"

10:55 PST: Ben Lesnick: The Hornet is on the way.

10:56 PST: "Ben Lesnick: We're mixing sound on the updated commercial, rendering graphics for the updated brochure... it's all happening now and we hope to have something to show you really soon."
Ben Lesnick: There will be one variant that's available for a week, two that are permanent additions.
Ben Lesnick: No 24-hour sales.

So.. Basically the same as happened with the 300i. And we'll see it just as fast as their computers can deliver the final rendered and encoded content.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades