$9,000.00 space ship???!!!

[mmntech]

As stupid as spending $9,000 on virtual in-game items is, I will defend it. Since this is a computer hobbyist form, I bet most of us are sporting more than a few thousand dollars in teach gear that we don't really need. Nor do we all need those BMW M3s, which I'm told everyone but me in the ATOT and ATG boards drives.

 

[bigi]

Are you kidding me! There are starving people in Africa and they spend money on this crap?!

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugge...p-worth-9-000-destroyed-ambush-190533986.html

You are an idiot if you think this is the cause of people starvation anywhere.

 

[John Connor]

Learn to read! I didn't say it WAS the cause of starvation. What I meant is that there are better uses for that kind of money to put to use, like a good cause.

 

[BUTCH1]

Because its fun?

I guess so, can't say as I stopped online gaming around Quake3 LOL..

 

[Fritzo]

Nor do we all need those BMW M3s, which I'm told everyone but me in the ATOT and ATG boards drives.

That is NOT true.

I drive a 330Ci

 

[IGemini]

Learn to read! I didn't say it WAS the cause of starvation. What I meant is that there are better uses for that kind of money to put to use, like a good cause.

You're assuming that they actually spent that much on the ship. Someone just took the $309bil ISK value and converted it after selling PLEX for real-world money.

There's ALWAYS a better use for someone else's money (apparently even if the value is in a ficiticious economy...someone call the whambulance) but I'm not convinced an actual dime was spent in buying the ship.

Found the actual killmail:
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=20057222#lostLoadout

 

[Sonikku]

I read the whole thing and was still not convinced. What food related innovation has come from space exploaration besides Tang?

Space Ice cream.

 

[Ben90]

"Valued at $9000"

Yeah, right. I'd like to see a multitude of people actually offer and go through with $9000 for one of those ships, then I can agree with that statement.

You would be surprised. My 1 computer was making more than minimum wage running Diablo 3 24/7 before my accounts got banned. Made some serious cash.

 

[alkemyst]

Many people don't realize how much income some of the kids out there make just creating accounts to re-sell items from.

 

[dr150]

Video of the $9000 Spaceship Carnage:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E1mL0h6z2I


Reaction of $9k Spaceship Explosion?....

 

[John Connor]

Space Ice cream.

Okay, I'll give you that one. LOL

 

[John Connor]

Video of the $9000 Spaceship Carnage:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E1mL0h6z2I


Reaction of $9k Spaceship Explosion?....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins



Leeroy jenkins!!!

 

[grohl]

Starving people in America? You mean, the country where the poorest people are fat?

Please.

 

[IronWing]

Starving people in America? You mean, the country where the poorest people are fat?

Please.

We're just big boned.

 

[Red Squirrel]

In Ultima Online, every object in the game was given a value and in theory could be destroyed.

The made Lord British and his castle majorly fortified. They didn't bank on the huge group of players that allied together to storm that castle.

They ended up sacking it.

Is that around the era they set him on fire? :biggrin: I was running a UO server for a while and had a donation system where people could buy items. It's incredible how many people pay real life money for pixel crack. Most of the months I made enough to cover the operating costs. Could have made a killing if I decided to sell artifacts and stuff but did not want to unbalance things so it was mostly consumable items that are easy, just long, to get in game.

EA is butchering that game so badly now.

As stupid as spending $9,000 on virtual in-game items is, I will defend it. Since this is a computer hobbyist form, I bet most of us are sporting more than a few thousand dollars in teach gear that we don't really need. Nor do we all need those BMW M3s, which I'm told everyone but me in the ATOT and ATG boards drives.

I can see your point, since I have over 9k worth in server/network equipment. In fact I just spent close to 4k on a file server. I still want to build an actual VM server to go with it. :biggrin:

 

[Balt]

I know you can insure ships in EVE, but I'm not sure it's possible/practical with something that large.

And some of you aren't paying attention. He didn't pay $9,000 for the ship.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I know you can insure ships in EVE, but I'm not sure it's possible/practical with something that large.

And some of you aren't paying attention. He didn't pay $9,000 for the ship.

I'm pretty sure you can't insure supercaps because you can't dock them in station.

 

[Balt]

I'm pretty sure you can't insure supercaps because you can't dock them in station.

Ah, ok. Makes sense.

Thanks.

 

[BUTCH1]

Video of the $9000 Spaceship Carnage:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E1mL0h6z2I


Reaction of $9k Spaceship Explosion?....

Watched the first 3 min., unintelligible language, FF to the last 2min, saw no explosion, left disappointed..

 

[Matthiasa]

The was a link to the point where it exploded, which was fairly early on at 1:20.

 

[dud]

A friend forwarded the following link to me. This is the audio of the guy (and his team) just after losing his ship. Some take these games waaaay too seriously:

https://soundcloud.com/nan-6/xxxgrath-ragexxx-full-version

 

[andylawcc]

Watched the first 3 min., unintelligible language, FF to the last 2min, saw no explosion, left disappointed..

welcome to EVE

 

[BUTCH1]

A friend forwarded the following link to me. This is the audio of the guy (and his team) just after losing his ship. Some take these games waaaay too seriously:

https://soundcloud.com/nan-6/xxxgrath-ragexxx-full-version

Oh my, that is so LOl,..."Is everybody cloaked?"..."We spent 6 fucking months building this alliance and you assholes do this!"..

 

[NikolaeVarius]

A friend forwarded the following link to me. This is the audio of the guy (and his team) just after losing his ship. Some take these games waaaay too seriously:

https://soundcloud.com/nan-6/xxxgrath-ragexxx-full-version

Considering the amount of time it takes to fly these things I'm surprised he didn't kill someone.

 

[Anubis]

lol