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Re: Thank You for Participating!
From: Varglave
To: Feraelina
INBOX
I have lost five hulks to you assholes.

Emergent gameplay my ass. This game has become one big griefer fagfest.
You are destroying the spirit of the game and you can just because of shitty gameplay mechanics.
PVP should be kept in nullsec where it belongs. I have a group of 12 friends and family members who play eve and we have been fed up a long time.

Cant afford another ship, let alone paying some ransom you probably wont honor.
You have ruined this game for us. This shit just isnt fun anymore.
11 of us have decided to quit eve so you will have to find someone else to harass.

Just out of curiosity, what is your modest one time fee?
Im sure my friends will want to know…

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what you did
From: Alcmines
To: She Hates You
INBOX

hi. Just want to let you know what you did, because I think you do not have idead what you doing.

Yesterday I have paid and reactivated my account in this game.
I was mining in my Hulk when you and Feraelina destroyed my ship. I lost all I had. You think it was fun. This is fun for you killing innocent people in expensive ships in High Sec ? Im leaving the game.

Dont want to spend days, weeks, months mining to earn money to buy another Hulk. Bye. Have fun killing everyone.

Holy Shitballs Batman.

And here find ourselves again. Two weeks remain before Hulkageddon ends, and the forums are full of self-important little shits proclaiming ever so loudly that Hulkageddon does not affect them.

The same cannot be said for the 5000 poor fools that have been deshipped in the first half of this year’s Hulkageddon, with over a trillion isk in damages done so far. This hulkageddon has exceeded our wildest expectations. I am so very proud of all our great competitors, and remember the race for the gold is not yet over!

As promised the pilot who tipped the balance past 1 Trillion isk (namely the honorable: MiserySignals of GoonWaffe ) Will be receiving a CASH BONUS of 2 billion isk  for his effort.

There is some fierce competition in several of the prize categories, but most notably Tappad [Gents] (who had been in the lead for most of the event) has recently been overtaken by Oxygen Achasse, who has murdered an incredible 186 miners thusfar. I tip my hat to you sir!

Deathsquads.

Naturally the blogosphere has it’s share of Hulkageddon detractors, take for example this good man.

In his blog he describes (in many words!) how he thinks Hulkageddon is a non-event, and ended his post with the words: Hulkageddon??  ”Pffft.  Fucking whatever . . .”

Naturally this state of affairs could not be allowed! Thus Miura Bull and Kaeda Maxwell of the fine Black Rebel Rifta Club took it upon themselves to conduct a Thorough Investigation ™ to ascertain the identity of this vile Heretic. They succeeded, and purged the Galaxy of his stench. Go read Kaeda’s excellent account of the events on her blog:

http://kaedamaxwell.blogspot.com/2012/05/prize.html

Numbers.

I had the distinct pleasure of being on EVE radio with the esteemed CCP Diagoras aside from being an all-round awesome dude, he is also the undisputed master of EVE numbers. As we waited on a break to pass in the live radio show, he discovered (to both our amazement) that Hulkageddon’s impact can definitely be seen in the statistics of Tranquility.

I’ve taken the liberty of copying some of his relevant tweets for you:

John Turbefield ‏ @CCP_Diagoras

Compared to the 7 day average before Escalation, the last 7 days have seen a 45.53% decrease in average m3 of ore mined within high sec.

 

John Turbefield ‏ @CCP_Diagoras

1,543 characters have lost at least five mining barges, exhumers or orcas in PVP since Jan 2010. 141 have lost at least 10…

 

John Turbefield ‏ @CCP_Diagoras

18 characters have lost at least 15 mining barges/exhumers/exhumers since Jan 2010 to PVP. 5 have lost 20 – the most? One person with 30.

 

Thank you for your hard work Diagoras, and I won’t forget that Pint of Beer I promised you ♥

I am literally terrified.

(not really) As ever, the Carebear Segment of the player base is proving themselves more psychotic than the worst pirate or griefer. No Hulkageddon seems to go by without some regrettable mentally challenged bear trying to scare me with empty threats, I’ll just stick up a screenshot without further comment (note that I don’t actually have a family).

Keep Crying!

And finally to complete this lengthy update, I present to you a few precious salty drops.

Hello my spacefriends, here is your week 1 update:

• over 3200 kills
• over 650 billion isk in damages

The prize page has been updated with some new prizes, and we have TWO new achievements for you:

They never seem to learn
(pilot with the most repeat kills on the same pilot in the same system)

2 Billion isk Eighty Joule Brewery

ONE TRILLION DOLLAHS
(pilot who pushes the killboard past 1T isk in damages)

2 Billion isk The Mittani & http://thisurlnotfound.com/

In addition to that we now have prizes for every achievement. yay!

I hope everyone is having a splendid time!

-Helicity

we are now at 3001 dead guys at the time of this writing, and 611 billion isk in damages.

We also have a new pledge from the Mittani and another benefactor:

The lucky capsuleer who pushes the damage total past one trillion with his or her killmail will receive a bonus prize of two billion isk!

Also how it is possible for people to still die by droves will remain a mystery.

Keep em coming!

-H.B.

And there is three more weeks to go!

How it can be that there are still so many folks ending up on the wrong end of our holy Artillery and Blasters is anyone’s guess. We can only assume some people live under a rock (see what I did there?)

In other news today, tomorrow I will be adding a new Achievement for you to compete over and a prize for most orcas slain!

If you wish to contribute some fun prizes, please look at the prizes page and then evemail Helicity Boson with your prize and the category it is for!

Further, contrary to what the non-believers were claiming before the event started; GoonSwarm is paying out the bounties to those competitors for every ten killing blows, just goes to show you Miners dying is much more interesting to the goons than scamming you out of a hundred mil

As ever, please email your Tears, screenshots, video links and other fun things to: helicity@machine9.net

love, H.B.

Your efforts over the weekend have been commendable in the extreme. A thousand foolish pilots have been relieved of their accursed mining prison-tombs and liberated.

Continue your war! Spread the Enlightened teachings of Hulkageddon to the unwashed masses!

Also, I found the old Hulkageddon II 1000 kills poster, I figured I’d put it up here as a reminder that some people NEVER learn…

THE DRAMA, THE EXCITEMENT, WILL THEY MAKE IT? Hit play and find out.

Always bet on Stupid.

The event has been moving along merrily, at the time of this writing around 600 people have been brutally victimized and around 125 billion isk in damages have been done.

Jolly good!

I’d like to invite everyone to join the new ingame channel:  Hulk5
If you need friends/buddies to gank with, go in there!

Other than that, the technical difficulties with the killboard have been resolved by the amazing Mirotrem, whom we all love ♥

And here is a video of some of my boys blowing up an AFK orca sitting on the sun!