I cant get it to tally up properly

I've gone down my list of skills 3 times now and Perp client says ive used 173400 but the planner says 182340

So something is out by 8940 points

having had some training on public speaking I was several times marked with having to improve on  Um's and Ah's and theres quite a lot of psychology behind it.

But thats public speaking in front of an audience were you need to be convincing, using  good natural hand gestures and confident body language, its intended to give the impression that you believe what you say so you go into a kind of 'speech mode'

I also do a lot of telephone work, sales and consultancy where, again, you need to be confident use precise accurate words and keep 'um's and ah's to a minimum.

But sometimes they are more of an empathic response,  If im talking to someone on the phone who sounds nervous, is natural slow talker or its obvious their first language is not english,   I'll purposefully throw in some um's and ah's to let them know that, y'know, I'm human too!  its just a natural response to slow a conversation down and not be intimidating.

With pod casts like these you know that your having a meaningful conversation, its informative and want to make sure it stays on track, but at the same time appreciate that you have a very wide audience, its easy to forget that and come off as arrogant or too abrupt, so um's and ah's in this case are more of a natural empathic response to build rapport.

It was a good cast, hope they continue!

WTB : Bloackade runner!

Will they ban Marmite???

Well, thats where your wrong.  I understand why you hate MT but from your comments it stems from a misunderstanding.

The trouble is people want to give themselves a unique look,  but at the same time they also want more content, game play changes, expansions.

An mmo development team uses the subscription to expand the actual game because thats what your paying for.

So the only way to justify paying developers to make stuff that just looks different and doesnt add any gameplay at all is to charge for it!

That way, the people who dont care about looking good and care more about content still get their content and the people that dont mind paying a few quid to look different can do!

The reason why I like MT is because I dont care about vanity in game, and I would be very pissed off if my money was going toward something other than game content that I dont care about.

to me an item shop in a sub game keeps the game updates coming, which is what I want, but also satisfies those who want vanity.

And you should like MT as well, because your subscription is still going towards giving you content and NOT fancy items.  The fancy items are being paid for by people who want them.

As eve players know very well, having too many blues and not enough reds can get real boring for pvp based corps.   

CIR is a corp that likes competition, conflict and action, so no, the donation is defiantly not to cement any kind of blue relations.

Ive just read about this on another site.

Seems the rest of the world are impressed by Devs that finally have the stones to name and shame,  and I just came to say that I agree with that feeling and to say how much respect I have for you.   I genuinly hope that you continue and dont be put off by the QQ.

Oh, I also admit to coming to laugh my *** off at those shamed trying to justify their actions and even try to deny it!...

great.. great reading!

I'm even tempted to play again xD

Its not really fair that a squad should form up, in accordance with the DEV's desire for us to make smaller groups...  only to encounter a larger group and have all that advantage stripped away.

Consider a 5 squad of EW,  encountering a 15 squad.   The 15 squad is just gona zerg the smaller squad as soon as they can so that their, inherent disadvantage is projected onto their enemy.

Whats changed?  nothing.  small squad will run and come back only when they can match numbers, thus the blob mentality continues.

in fact, if anyone's been involved with recent pvp skirmishes on the islands will know, is that the pvp is becoming a better quality,  even when out numbered, superior experience and tactics are winning through.   Proper use of landscape, proper use of EW mix with Assaults and Mechs, playing into the advantages of bonus's and damage types.

The problem is with Intrusions!!   its this system only which is encouraging blob's..  Change the intrusion mechanic, have more cap points and more variety to that, thats were the real problem is.

if your in a squad specifically designed for fast attacking an enemy island then yea, without doubt intakt has the advantage.  Especially since its nearest competitor is a Chameleon which is weak to thermal its a sure bet.

but your not always going to be in that situation, and you will be called upon to do a variety of different things in a variety of different situations.

I know a lot of people who have re-specced from lazers to missiles, and from missiles to lazers.  so really its personal preference, and you can only know what your preference is until you've got a decent amount of experience.

The grass always seems greener on the otherside, just remember than when you hop over that fence to get at that greener grass, you'll notice that actually there is greener grass available from where you just came from

Yea, its completely dumb to use an email as log in.

We've already had incidents where people have been able to discover other peoples user name, and therefore their email address, and therefore their facebook profile.. and therefore personal details which has been used for malicious intent.

Dont understand why devs cant realise this tbh, and why the decision was ever made.  Probably just a lazy quick solution which one day they will be forced to change.