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Stumpy26
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oh dear, that was hillarious.
Stupidity 4tw.... A prime example on why SP are not everything in that game.
This might need moved to the EVE-O section though since I doubt many people will get it in the pub.
EVE provides such wonderful entertainment
Heck no! This is a tale for everyone! Just to put it in perspective, the RL value of the 5 billion ISK this guy wasted in about 5 minutes of total stupidity is roughly $250.
We had an ebayer joined one of our org when i was playing WOW a year or so back. He only took like a few minutes to discover it, he only had to start chatting and we knew it. Of course your example is much more dramatic. Anyway yeah, buying acccount on ebay is bad, but it's even more bad if you buy an account and don't know how to play the game in the first place.
This story almost made me cry.... (though I assume there are some mighty happy low-sec pirates out there....he sure made their day)
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Just absolutely amazing.
You have to wonder how anyone could be so stupid, especially since he seems to have lots of cash in RL.
Some people think they can buy anything, fortunately for us, brains is not one of them.
Incredible, of all games to buy accounts for he chooses EvE. A game where brain cell count matters lol. This is hilarious yet in many ways sad because of his flat out denial.
Really really funny, why did this stupid guy buy a eve account....
I played eve a half year, after a break a half year :-), i tried it again, i needed one month to understand again how i have to fit my ship, i have to learn again how i can fight correctly, without dieing.
Eve is the complexest mmo i knew, that´s why i quit my account now, i don´t have the time for such a timesink hobby
Even as someone who has played only a tiny touch of Eve; it was possible to gather the Gist -
and its fairly humorous.
On the other hand; i've met some RL people with TRAINING but little experience that were hardly any different...
He obviously couldn't be too bright if he couldn't get it through his thick skull that in 2 minutes they could not get to him in time and be ready for battle. He seemed to just blow that fact to the side and ignore it. This was funny to read.
AKA - Bruxail
ROFL that was a funny read...... I want to see a cartoon of that event
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
wow, thats extreamly funny. Just show's with great power come's great responsiblility and by the looks of that, he never had a clue.....
EVE would be the only game were a players inability to understand a situation would cause such a disaster. Due to the highest learning curve I have ever seen in any game. If this happened in most other MMO's no big deal.
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
lol woot.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
EVE is the only game where people who want to buy their way through the game fail miserably and lose all the stuff that they bought. Which in my eyes is beautiful.
The guy was blown away in the Lonetrek-region, 90 Jumps away from home of the alliance.
He talked something about another alliance on his other account.
I think he spent loads of ISK in Jita, probably bought at farmers. Account also bought. So he seems to have enough RL money to not care about it.
Perhaps his main account is not only the one-month-old char, because the other alliance seems to be helpful to him, at least he mentioned it.
*adding some cause to distrusting each other*
Before the NGE made the phenomenon go away, you'd see this once and a while with SWG ebayJedi; it became painfully obvious that they hadn't done it themselves because they'd be asking questions that anyone who had actually earned that lofty toon would have known for a very long time, by, you know, actually playing the game?
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
That too.
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
While I've never played EVE, I can still find the humor in this story.
Once, along time ago in EQ1, I was a Level 36 Ranger, sitting outside the bank in Kelethin with a few people. A druid walks up, & I could tell it was a druid because he was holding his Epic Scimitar with the leaves (sorry, it's been so long since I've played I don't remember it's name).
He asks me for a SOW. So I do a /who on him & I see he's 54! A 54 Druid asking a 36 Ranger for a SOW?!
Well, we tells us he bought the account on ebay, & wasn't sure how to play a druid. One of the guys near me tells him if he right clicks the sword in his inventory, he could SOW himself. He tries with (obviously) no luck. So it's suggested he contact a GM & explain that he just bought the account & discovered that his Epic is bugged.
Sure enough, he did it. We never heard from him again...
if anyone wants me, ill be headed up to lonetrek.
faction fitted badger next please!
nice way to trick a Ebayer but what is a SOW [i never played thet MMO].
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
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SoW is a spell, (Spirit of Wolf), that allowed you to run much faster than normal for a little while.
AKA - Bruxail
Such is the story of a 'hurry up and have fun' end gamer.
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Any mention of bought accounts has to include the most famous everquest story of all time. Here it is enjoy. I get a laugh everytime I read it.
http://ancarett.com/eqhumour.html
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