flashy-red eve pirate here.

First, thanks to all the GM's, devs, and PO players who have witnessed some explosive growth of your game suddenly and welcomed us with open arms. It is a good feeling to be 'hugged' after what we've all been going through at eve (as ridiculous as it sounds because it is just a stupid video game that has no bearing on our real lives).

Second, and I only speak for myself, I am very concerned and aware of the possible backlash from the existing player base. I and my friends who have arrived have no plans of trying to 'take over' your game. I know it must be kind of worrying that within two days we Eve players have formed the largest corp in the game, and might try to force the direction of this very young virtual world to something that you are all not wanting. I cannot guarantee this won't (or will) happen, but I am aware of it, not that it really means anything coming from a nobody peon like me. I would be concerned as well, especially knowing exactly what kind of 'people' we are and what kind of 'environment' we are coming from.

Thankfully, we Eve refugees don't seem to be wanting to push for anything at the moment other than Eve devs getting pants off head so we can return home. Which is a whole new potential problem. How angry would everyone be if we suddenly tripled your server load, rabbled until we got some changes we wanted (but you didn't), only to abandon you and go back to Eve. Yeah, it wouldn't be fun at all. Again, can't guarantee that this won't happen, but hopefully all of us new Eve refugees will be respectful of what is already in place here at PO...at least for a while.

I've paid my first month, and I'm enjoying it so far. The help you all have been giving us is being reciprocated by all of us learning from you then showing the ropes to all the new refugees. This is how a proper community is built to last. It won't always be this pretty, the honeymoon will soon wear off, but for now, this is just like when I joined Eve in beta....I got to be a voice and a pioneer of sorts that helped in my own small way to build Eve into what it is (well, look at that with a bright view instead of the stormy, dark view a lot of us hold at this very moment).

I can't say what I think should be done to PO to make it even better as I am too new, too inexperienced to fully grasp what PO is truly about, and what it has the possibility to become. I won't try to be that a-hole at all, but if players, devs, gm's, etc ask me or any of us really, I think over time as we begin to learn the new system, we'll have valuable input. Of course a lot of us will spew trash and idiotic suggestions, and then scream like children (and threaten to quit) when we don't get our way, that is the unfortunate truth of what and who we are. Again, for now, let us continue to be happy that things are changing, growing a bit (a lot!!!).

We've been through so much at Eve for so many years that a software problem keeping players from logging in is not even worth a thought to us. You want pitchforks and torches? That will come, mark my words, but not over something so minuscule as this. We are well known for erupting in rage over the slightest, most stupid things, but we'll keep our fury in check until something really worth losing our tempers comes along.

I'm hopeful Eve will change their ways so I can go back to my long-term marriage with them. I have a feeling that a huge number of us Eve refugees feel the same way. This does make me sad, because it not only gets the hopes of this developer and community up for possibly nothing except a huge fall, but also because I truly am liking this game a lot. I can't honestly say where I will be in a month, three months, a year from now.

I'd like to imagine that I'm still playing PO with a great group of friends, and that we have many good fights and fun times for a while down the road. I'm hopeful that I can be part of a good foundation of community in this game, even if it is just a small part like me helping a nooblet figure out how to shoot the damn robot he spent three minutes figuring out how to lock in the first place. I'm actually hopeful that we see some of the great sandbox gameplay emerge in the future, and that the scams, metagaming, wars and such all come about...it gives us a feeling of 'home' and could very well become a permanent home for a lot of us.

PO needs a lot of work. I won't go into exactly what, as my opinions differ greatly from everyone else's. Eve needed a lot of work when I started there as well, and look how it grew. There simply is nothing like Eve in the game universe. I'd really like to be a part of that here at PO, and I'll do my best to keep my rabble-rousing to a minimum, while trying to be constructive and helpful. No guarantees, after all, I'm from a game that basically has this one single page in its bible:

Rules of Eve
1. Trust NO ONE
2. Don't fly what you cannot afford to lose
3. Trust NO ONE (weren't you %#@$# LISTENING TO #1???)

Hope to see everyone in the game, again hope we end up having lots of good fights, wars, espionage, etc. Thanks for welcoming us, it really means a lot, and I apologize if we do abandon you at some point. Sometimes our spouse breaks our arm, blacks our eye, puts us in the hospital. Sometimes we just keep going back to them because for some stupid reason, we love them, and hope they'll change before we end up in a coffin.Hopefully for a lot of us, this is a new permanent home and we won't wreck it too much

AngryMusheen/KrustyKrab

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