The loss of StarterrorPrime's Rifter left him feeling pessimistic about his future in Hek. And without his business, the economy of the entire Metropolis region would be ruined.
Alt 00 asked StarterrorPrime to review the past few days and reconsider the way he conducted business. The aspiring tycoon simply couldn't see what he'd done wrong.
StarterrorPrime had hoped to apply the principles of Ayn Rand capitalism in highsec. He would've been far better served to read the Code a few times.
Some rebels like to say that the New Order's activities have no impact on highsec. Others claim that we have a catastrophic effect on the entire game. The difference between the two groups: The latter usually make their claim during a period of anger and frustration, which acts as a sort of truth serum.
Our Agent offered the profitless capitalist some friendly advice. StarterrorPrime responded like a Goofus.
The carebear longed for the pre-Code days. He was blinded by nostalgia. Admittedly, the New Order has completely reshaped highsec. Only for the better, though.
StarterrorPrime concluded the conversation by expressing his opinion that CODE.'s total domination of the Metropolis region made things less interesting. He obviously forgot the dreadful silence and bot-aspirant culture of the pre-Code years.
After about a day of war, StarterrorPrime closed his corporation. Finding it too difficult to build an organization of his own, the carebear decided to join up with Pandemic Horde Inc. and seek his fortune in nullsec.
Not long afterward, he became disillusioned with the group and posted a lengthy complaint on EVE-O.
StarterrorPrime returned to highsec and rebooted his corp, this time with a vague anti-Code theme. He sought investors in the Market Discussions subforum, posting a thread called "Black Rose Fleet Systems Fundraising". He tried to make the case that he was a good investment:
My organization's origins begin after my return to EVE where I came back to a vastly different game kicking my old stomping grounds of Heimatar where I found myself short on cash with no one to help, so I did a little fundraising with the help of some donations and the help of an experienced partner. We established a presence within Metropolis despite my lack of knowledge regarding CODE's idiocy and presence, we made our headquarters in Nakugard.He then asked everyone for money. However, the Market Discussions community was less than enthusiastic after reviewing his track record.
After my partner left thanks to a small War declaration from one of CODE's weak minded Vassals, I decided to consolidate assets and pack everything up before sulking off, and ultimately depressing every alliamce member i met on the way, into the Cloud Ring on a whim hoping to find some sort of treasure in Nullsec. Of course likey anyone needing a little hope, I got roped into an Alliance and ended up losing my ass on that since there wasn't any money to be made applying my trade in said alliance, proving to be a Giant isk sink in itself so I got out of that steaming mess.
Believe it or not, I lost 80 million ISK from joining said alliance when I could've used that to join a more likeminded group, and only had ten mil left to my name after leaving that fiasco, forcing me back into empire space, mind you within a week's time no less....
StarTerrorPrime never lost his fondness for Hek. In reply to another player's thread entitled "Number of players dropped to less than half in Hek", the carebear wrote:
As a Bucaneer, I have discovered the absence of the population that Hek used to have has affected trade to some extent but moreover trade has moved to Rens for reasons I believe involving Faction Warfare and Safety. In my return, I unfortunately had the displeasure of meeting the Carebears known as CODE who were causing problems for business in terms of mining and manufacturing but even they have left metropolis for more lucrative waters. My intel suggests the current buy prices for ores and minerals in Hek are deterrant for miners as the current rate makes jita appear more profitable, since I work with a collective of minmatar industrialists....StarterrorPrime was right about one thing: Highsec can be better. There's plenty of room for improvement in empire space. But the answer isn't Ayn Rand or capitalism or anti-Code resistance. The only road to happiness in highsec is and always will be the Code.
He's upset because he lost 80 million ISK? I lost nearly a billion one time but it's not about losing ISK: it's about being able to bounce back from that loss.
ReplyDeleteThink, plan, budget, wallet-tank.
"He raises the Black Flag once more to restore the freedom and liberty of his Homeland". So is this guy going to actually try and gank CODE or does raising his flag just mean he's going to tip his fedora?
ReplyDeleteJames315 wears a fedora
DeleteThis guy is painful to read. Undergraduate Psych Major (with Soc Minor)?
ReplyDeleteSounds fishy. Perhaps I should be indulgent, though; he may have only just begun his studies, in which case, Lesson One: The Code.
Lesson Two: The tail never ever wags the dog..
Pandemic Horde is a potential goldmine. It has some of the most inflated market prices in nullsec and some of the most gullible line members. If StarterrorPrime couldn't find a way to make money by exploiting them then he's just bad.
ReplyDeleteLooks like his incessant bloviating has earned him enemies in Null and High. I guess Low is next? He should seriously just biomass, start over, and stop shitting up the forums.
ReplyDeleteA familiar history, the history of James 315
DeleteI just don't get it - I trade in Hek and find it very profitable. No clue how much more profitable is jita but there is no fun factor in being in richest trade hub - at least I can have fun growing Hek. I also don't see how current prices of minerals and ores would discourage miners from their activities in Hek - au contraire.
ReplyDeleteAnd which businessmen worth his salt would contact one of the strongest organizations in region, tell them his plans and then declare that he is not going to follow their rules but he is willing to trade with them (and then use market prices instead of running numbers to see how much production actually costs him and then applying small margin [for bulk orders it makes sense])... and not have 10M ISK...
Or maybe the fact that I run numbers and avoid doing such stupid things is why my business is going well.
There is only one area where StarterrorPrime was a total success: a textbook-perfect example of an "Ayn-Rand" style plan in action. Naively conceived, shallow thinking, greedy, lazy, and with a non-working idea at the core. Almost like a bizarro CODE.!
ReplyDeleteAnd then when it all goes (shockingly) to pieces, this Ayn Rand-style capitalist sees no reason to reflect on their idea's total failure in the beloved market, so they then....Ask for donations! Beautiful.
And while I would LOVE to see what exactly the Rearden-metal Catalyst's stats would be, take a quick look at the actual market for actual Cat's in Hek right now - someone who only needed to clear 550k/cat could make a killing on both buy and sell orders, but it would be like, you know, a little work.
My favorite line in this whole lovely series: "I feel my logic is sound in this regard." Its in part 3. The logic was, I think, that it makes more sense for StarterrorPrime to not be compliant (b/c I guess: 20 mil isk for his entire corp: no way! Losing 80 mil in nullsec: word!) so that he can create a cycle by selling CODE. lots of Cats (which they didn't need/ask for) which will make Hek into a powerhouse fueled by the sweet T1 salvage from (I assume) other ships he also makes (and presumably sells to another alliance that doesn't need them also).
"I feel my logic is sound in this regard". One of the thing that makes me glad to be a part of the CODE., is that an agent never needs to say such pitiful nonsense while following it.
The ironic thing is, as Anonymous above pointed out, he learned EXACTLY how Ann-Rand style capitalism works in Eve. Bereft of being rewarded for being weak, impoverished and clueless he was swept aside by a player (and organization) that is none of these things.
ReplyDeleteThe Tyranny of the Weak has no place in highsec. If the Code has taught us anything is that no one has the right to survive and prosper without the strength and wisdom of the Code behind them.
Code has no wisdom
Deletelooks like antigankers failed another player!!!1 so much failure from ag XD XD
ReplyDeletenever forget shardani
(Anon 8:36pm is me, if I'm gonna leave paragraphs in the comments might a well not be Anon)
ReplyDeleteAs Bing points out, it is funny to see this self-identified capitalist visionary's grand capitalist vision get derailed by: CODE. going about its regular EVE-day. The visionary trade hub tycoon's financial empire stopped cold by....a non-profit alliance's regular day's work.
Code is not a non- profit organization. code is capitalism it's about the profit they know it. For it is even written in James315 manifesto
DeleteLike most dipshits of code Laser is a moron that doesn't even read his own bullshit. Maybe he should join the school for assholes who don't read so good.
DeleteThe guy needs to chill, skill up get some alts go to low sec and nul sec and get a fleet of rorquals and make billions a day easy. And don't forget the hired firestorm for protection.
ReplyDeleteI have paid the $10 mill in the past then was still ganked by the CODE. Its all BS. So now I pay the money as a bounty. If you are not going to uphold your end of the contract the screw you.
ReplyDeleteShow me a permit holder ganked and I'll show you a Code violation. Link km
DeleteGosh, people have driver's licenses and sometimes still get tickets. I guess they should just go ahead and drive/fly/sail without them. If you got ganked by CODE then you are an idiot. BTW, the permit used to be free, CCP made James charge a fee. So go complain to them.
DeleteContract? The obligations are all on the part of the miner.
DeleteCode creates violations just to gank you even with a permit, its a scam and all this is just fluff to make em feel good about themselves, remember they create a story to paint themselves the good guys, just like the Nazis. And no lawrenece if you create a contract with someone both parties must uphold the obligations wighin the contract, unless of course the contract were a scam.
DeleteMe too. If Code members don't follow their own rules then there is no point in Code.
ReplyDeleteRemember that, moron, the next time you get pulled over for stupid driving and have to pay a traffic fine.
DeleteAnon1126 hasn't read The Code very closely. There are no rules for Agents in there.
DeleteLawrence hasn't read The Code very closely. There are no rules for Agents in there.
DeleteRemember that, moron Apache the next time you get pulled over for stupid driving and have to pay a traffic fine.
DeleteAll you have done is post justifications for a CODE member ganking someone with a permit. If you won't or can't police your own members then there is no point in paying the fee.
DeleteThe code is a lie its just a scam, and Lawrence proves it.
Deleteits not a coincidence that he had 10m isk left after his week long failure in null.
ReplyDeletefate gave him one last chance to purchase his permit.
I submit that moles have joined CODE just to attack miners outside of the CODE parameters in an attempt disenfranchise permit holders.
ReplyDeleteNo, code been doing that anyway.
DeleteFor twelve years, you have been asking: Who is StarTerror Prime? This is StarTerror Prime speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing -- you who dread knowledge -- I am the man who will now tell you.
ReplyDeleteYou have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man's sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster.
In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils, which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins; it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection.
You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish.
Your ideal had an implacable enemy, which your CODE of hi-sec was designed to destroy. I have withdrawn that enemy. I have taken it out of your way and out of your reach. I have removed the source of all those evils you were sacrificing one by one. I have ended your battle. I have stopped your motor. I have deprived your world of man's mind.
DeleteMen do not live by the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those who do. The mind is impotent, you say? I have withdrawn those whose mind isn't. There are values higher than the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those for whom there aren't.
While you were dragging to your sacrificial altars the men of justice, of independence, of reason, of wealth, of self-esteem -- I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp. I showed them the way to live by another morality-mine. It is mine that they chose to follow.
All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.
We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
There is a difference between our strike and all those you've practiced for centuries: our strike consists, not of making demands, but of granting them. We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality -- the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind.
We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms of bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. We do not need you.
Are you now crying: No, this was not what you wanted? A mindless world of ruins was not your goal? You did not want us to leave you? You moral cannibals, I know that you've always known what it was that you wanted. But your game is up, because now we know it, too.
DeleteThrough centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your CODE of hisec, you have cried that your CODE had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned man, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code.
Your victims took the blame and struggled on, with your curses as reward for their martyrdom-while you went on crying that your CODE was noble, but human nature was not good enough to practice it. And no one rose to ask the question: Good? -by what standard?
You wanted to know StarTerror Prime's identity. I am the man who has asked that question.
Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your hisec CODE that's through, this time. Your hisec code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality -- you who have never known any -- but to discover it.
You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social. You have been taught that mining is a CODE of behavior imposed on you by whim, the whim of a supernatural power or the whim of society, to serve God's purpose or your neighbor's welfare, to please an authority beyond the grave or else next door -- but not to serve your life or pleasure.
Your pleasure, you have been taught, is to be found in immorality, your interests would best be served by evil, and any mining CODE must be designed not for you, but against you, not to further your life, but to drain it.
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors -- between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
ReplyDeleteBoth sides agreed that morality demands the surrender of your self-interest and of your mind, that the moral and the practical are opposites, that morality is not the province of reason, but the province of faith and force. Both sides agreed that no rational morality is possible, that there is no right or wrong in reason -- that in reason there's no reason to be moral.
Whatever else they fought about, it was against man's mind that all your moralists have stood united. It was man's mind that all their schemes and systems were intended to despoil and destroy. Now choose to perish or to learn that the anti-mind is the anti-life.
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch -- or build a cyclotron -- without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think.
But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call "human nature", the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival-so that for you, who are a human being, the question "to be or not to be" is the question "to think or not to think."
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.
You will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle -- and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world:
"I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
Umm... "For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is StarTerror Prime? This is StarTerror Prime speaking. I am the man who loves his life."
ReplyDeleteStarTerror Prime... you are just making it worse and continuing to make a fool of yourself. Way to long of a rant to read.
Just comply with the Code. Pay your permit fee, fit your ship correctly, mine away and have fun. Resistance is futile. You should know that as a psychology major. :)