You DID look at his stats right? He respected his tree 223 times and obviously has duel spec.and every damn time he went into a raid he probability respected back. Humm.
The "Feats of Strength" are much more telling. It looks like he made this character at 10-23-2008. He must of gotten a refer a friend because he jumped up to 80 within that month AND "technically" completed the game by the end of that year. He also must have mutipul accounts. See all the "collectors edition" pets? He wanted his main to have all those. The rest of this thing looks like he was just waiting for the world events to open and do some of the higher end raids. This guy was on the ball from day one. He was probably stuck at "Trial of the Champion" for a bit, but it looks like he got all his rep for EVERYTHING in the mean time. Once he got TotC, he hit the heroics in order.
I bet his guild was all in it too. No way you can burn though all those raids without good planing. Hell, look at some of the other Feats of Strength. ALOT of relm firsts on that first month he started. Humm.. His guild decided to start at that new server and completely own it.
Lets be frank though. I farm for achievements myself, but evey one of these things are easy to get. All of them just require patience and since most people need rep anyway, can be done with friends. This guy is not some anti-social nutjob who did this "on his own" A group of people decided to go in with him, support him to get this fair.
Besides, it might not be the original questions intention, but your right. You haven't really "completed" the game untill you do this with each character/class combination on both sides:)
Its easy enough. I spent a good 2 weeks trying to figure out how to create my own personal "registration" system. The old type where your given a license key and it says "Yea you bought it" Most of the time I have a root seed value thats hashed with some random data. Sure, a cracker can make a key gen once they figure out the hash method and seed value (not that hard), but it was resonantly simple to set up. Using public key cryptography you could make sure that a key gen is not possible, but at that point your authentication program is getting more complex than your $1 fart app
Doesn't stop a pirate from changing a MOV op-code in your executable to avoid the whole authentication anyway.
While I haven't create anything for the Apple store, I suspect that some key value is created when the app is sold and stuck somewhere in the config files. To authenticate a user's high score online, I would send that key, name and score and record the IP. Hell, maybe the first thing the game does, when it turns on, is send a high score of 0. Doing this you can tell exactly how many people has pirated the game, how many times people have played the game, and generally how long they play it for every time a score is sent in. Heck, you could even match the IP information regionally to see how your game has spread. Its good data to make your next game reach a wider audience.
I fell for this. They want $19.99 a month to "protect" your credit.
Don't get me wrong though, it was kind of neat getting real time credit scores on your account, an email alert every time some yahoo looked at your report, and access to a one click instant credit lock. But in the end, unless your going to buy a house or a car you don't really need up to the second data on your report.
Though, to be honest, I think we should be given access, atleast once a month rather than once a year. Its not like the data is that hard to display and it be far more useful to check for credit card fraud.
Please, there will always be writers and people willing to produce. Pushing content on the web is cheap compared to what you need to do, regulatory or otherwise, on the antenna. Heck, the major networks have been, for YEARS, losing market share to the cable networks. Now with satlelight, there is very little reason to even watch over the air broadcasts.
Have you even seen the more recent stuff too? Commercials becoming more entertaining. Lots of product placement are in the series now to the point that you can make drinking games out of it. There is plenty of evidence that the content providers are figuring out new ways to make money, however, the cable/networks won't make much money off of it themselves.
The public wants new content and maybe it might not be provided the same way, it WILL get created.
It sounds like the system they are using is more of a scheduler program as the way the article said it, it sounds like the lights themselves are independent and just need timing data. That it all it might be doing is sending down a signal to tell the built in clocks of each of the lights to turn on and off at curtain times and to do some logging. They said in the article how they have to look though traffic cameras and "tweak" the system. It might just be a gloried interface with a clock for all we know.
Still, makes me wonder what they are going to replace it with. Werther it be an Eclipse (witch your properly right) or a Nova, it lasted 20+ years without being replaced, and it doesn't look like they NEED that much power for it. What are they going to spend the money on? A shiny new Dell? I really hope they are making something that lasts instead of something that a consultant is brought in for.
They are going to have to drastically reduce the price then. I can see spending 30 bucks on a game for the GO but 59.99 for a game for a download? Till we all get 50mbps pipes with the servers to back it up, we are going to see more downtime on releases than AO did when it went live:P
Still, they could do price reductions faster than what could be done at stores. I just think to many people are in the way for it to work well (ISP, net neutrality laws, etc)
Its doubtfull the next gen systesm are going to go non-media based. The go is nice but it still takes hours to download anything just think how much data will be needed for even blue-ray type games? 10 million people downloading 30 gigs at a time is going to hurt any server:P
I agree though, I think they are not going to be upgrading the hardware significantly. They are going to play this like the PS1 did with the introduction of the duel shock controller. Even then, there was a clear need for an analog controller. I don't know, however, if a motion controller will change attitudes in either system.
I do believe that both Sony and Microsoft are not going to enjoy the next console upgrades. There is always a big lul, lots of money lost on reintroduction, people WANT backward compatibility, etc. Lets also be fair too, most of the games right now are fairly mature so it be a hard sell to another $600 dollar console with 10 crappy games at launch. Also look at their architecture. Sony has a full cell chip (minus one SPE for cost) and Microsoft uses 3 cores with two SPE's each. There is no way you could emulate that kind of power without also including that chip and thats going to add to the cost. Also what are you going to upgrade it too? The cell chips are supercomputer class, what, PS3 is going to go duel/quad core and Microsoft is going to add a second processor? I doubt they are going to even change the chips out at this point. Even going to an Intel chip can't be done. Not with the significant differences between the two. Besides, it looks like ALL the consoles use PowerPC style processors so there must be a reason for it.
I think I saw the future with the N64 and didn't know it. That little memory expansion bay? I think the next box is going to have the same basic architecture but with upgradeable video graphics hardware. Most games I play now a days doesn't require more than my older PentiumD, but god damn it requires a GTX280.
Technically your right. Also, technically, you should report that 20 bucks you made on your 1040 as well and pay taxes on it. I worked with the Texas Workforce Commission and allot of the "on the ground" people don't put in those small amounts. The paperwork is just insane. Takes 15 minutes to fill out the paperwork and for it all to go though the channels to do that 20 dollar removal off your next check than it does to just ignore it:P
I mean seriously? Is she THAT green from college? I did the same thing with a temp job for ONE DAY for just under $50 bucks and the state pulled my benifits and "held them" for a few months. All because my grandpa didn't get their mail:P Luckly I got another job in a week after but still.
To be frank, you don't tell the government ANYTHING unless you can fill out all those bubbles on a form. Unless the guys your working for has you fill a W-2, just "forget" about it. I mean, sure she is trying to pass the bar and dosn't want to put any tanit on her record. If that was the case, she shouldn't of signed up for addsence during her unemployment:P
Ever try to restore from a ZFS corruption? It IS easy and it can be done. However...
What if the data was on an EMC storage array and the tech told them its all lost? What if your dealing with a Teir 1 vender (I am looking at you Dell Equallogic) that swears UP and DOWN that there is no way to recover the system after a second drive out of a RAID 5 has been pulled? Hell, try just a standard raid 5 card from a Teir 1 vender. (Not talking about calling like 3ware support directly, they are honestly good and recovered a few arrays with them)
I "suspect" that they are running it off a storage array that failed big time, or lost the LUN, or just someone decided to die and take the server with it. There is just to much we don't know. Was Dagger installed on multi-servers? Was it clustered? Is it a cloud system? Does it run its own storage system or requires additional hardware?
But you know what? ZFS, EMC even Windows 2008, All moot. Why? WHERE ARE THE TAPE BACKUPS?!?! SERIOUSLY. The ONLY way they have lost ALL that data was that they didn't have backup solution. Otherwise their "press release" would say "...however we will be restoring the data from last week/months tapes..."
I do like how they keep saying "Microsoft/Danger" as if they are at fault. A good admin would expect a new car would catch fire and run into a bus full of nuns.
If it was running in some kind of RAID 0 sure, but my experiences with that device is that its SLOOOOW....
I mean, sure, I am using it now. No way in hell I am paying $150 for an SD card, but you notice a decrease in speed. You could use class 6 micro SDHC cards and it still gives bad performance on games. Sony needs to give up the Duo chip. Sure they were first to market, but there is just no way they can compete with the SD standard. (I wish the 4 bit bus protocol was open, hate using the damn SISO interface for my projects.)
They have to be good enough programmers to ship code, and weâ(TM)ll forgive them if they never write a unit test, or if they xor the âoenextâ and âoeprevâ pointers of their linked list into a single DWORD to save 32 bits, because theyâ(TM)re pretty enough, and smart enough, to pull it off.
THAT scared me more than anything I know. I mean, what the hell, its not even "easyer"? if you need to shave off 4 bytes a record THAT badly, use a damn array.
I know someone who JUST finished the meeting. It looks like both Mr Perot and Michael Dell were there.
I have been to the company a few times for computer jobs and they are really amazing. Your right, Its like a living history museum over there and people speak of Perot in awe. One of the few company's, so they told me, that don't outsource overseas. This is vs EDS that every time I visit THEM, it feels like a government money waste hole with people clinging to the rafters.
Sorry I didn't mean so much "multi core" as in all in one chip. The Coretex chip is perfect for something like this, but to really get the cost down they should get a video chip ip and put it in a single chip. If they can do that maybe they can even make it a 4 layer board.
I kind of wish they have some kind of video/cpu chip now. Most 3D and even 2D calculations is all just concentrated vector math. I am sure you could even just use a A8 and use the extra die for a just a 4 stage pipeline programmable 3d processor. Pitty research costs so much:P
Long term, this virus has a better mutation rate than the standard flu
I am fuzzy on the details, but the main reason people are worried about it is not only its cross species infection but the fact that its very susceptible to mutation. Personally I want to catch it now so I have some immunity to the thing.
If they do multi core, single chip. Might take over the low end market.
A combined 1.5ghz, duel core ARM11 or 12 with a PowerVR SGX? Thing could play HD movies as well as other things. The question I have is how upgradable will it be. It be cheaper to just solder a gig of DDR to the thing and maybe 16 gigs of flash. All one board with the keyboard on the same using traces. God, they COULD make it cheap enough. The problem is the same ASUS has now. You don't see the cheap "$299" laptops anymore. Everything has higher end features and now practically requires windows. If they make these $199 it could set up another net book revolution.
Makes you wonder why they really rejected EA's bid. I mean sure they were trying to buy them out RIGHT before GTA4 came out so they can get that stock push. Makes me wonder if they didn't want to be bought out because of the incompetence shown. Who knows if they are dipping in the bucket too.
If they had come out and said "This was an undeveloped concenpt that was not possable to access during the normal play of the game." something in that regards, they might of got out of it.
To be honest though, the only reason I can think they left it in, is because pulling it out would break stuff and they had to ship a game. Again, a management decision:P
I was going to put in a point but thought I chime in.
The problem is that you CAN trust your local corp. Its not like they fold over night and most people in one are honest. The problem is that once you are IN a corp, there are so many meinal things to do. Camp a damn jump gate for 6 hours. Act as rat killer for the miners or sit there with a mouse and mine. Act as truck driver for said mine. Even using some of the automated towers still requires this annoying manual process.
But Eve is not the only one with the grind, as you know. Eve says you are just one of the cogs and buy insurance like everyone else. Like the real world you find a "job" You train in miner to be a miner, recon to be a zone watcher. All these "jobs" are menial and boring. But, I hate to say this is the problem with ALL PVP SYSTEMS. All games out there make you to be the "special one" The one who will win the war or save the universe. (I ran into this in the beta of Fallen Earth when I started. Your a speical "clone"? What are the other players?) Any job you take, out side of this, is just to progress to main story line.
War is all about waiting and dicking around and about 10 minutes of fighting. WoW had to introduce the battlegrounds to give players a way to play PvP at no cost. Even Wintergrasp limits you to every few hours to make sure enough people join up so its "fun" There were no wars in Ultima Online, just a few assassins once in a while. Even major battles in EVE lasts only about 30 minutes.
EVE designed a system where if you want to keep what you got, you have to protect it yourself. You spend all those grinding hours working for your corp and you want to protect your work. Your not fighting for the "fun" of it. Your not fighting because "your the one". Your fighting because you did a time sink of 6 months into this corp and you don't want a bunch of god damn pirates taking out your control tower out when eveyones off to dinner (again). In EVE, you fight to protect what you got. Its quite possible the most raw political simulators created in the mmorg world.
I just wish there WAS a way to reach out and throttle the players who say "fuck it" and quit though. Especially the ones with the higher rights in corps:P
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You DID look at his stats right? He respected his tree 223 times and obviously has duel spec.and every damn time he went into a raid he probability respected back. Humm.
The "Feats of Strength" are much more telling. It looks like he made this character at 10-23-2008. He must of gotten a refer a friend because he jumped up to 80 within that month AND "technically" completed the game by the end of that year. He also must have mutipul accounts. See all the "collectors edition" pets? He wanted his main to have all those. The rest of this thing looks like he was just waiting for the world events to open and do some of the higher end raids. This guy was on the ball from day one. He was probably stuck at "Trial of the Champion" for a bit, but it looks like he got all his rep for EVERYTHING in the mean time. Once he got TotC, he hit the heroics in order.
I bet his guild was all in it too. No way you can burn though all those raids without good planing. Hell, look at some of the other Feats of Strength. ALOT of relm firsts on that first month he started. Humm.. His guild decided to start at that new server and completely own it.
Lets be frank though. I farm for achievements myself, but evey one of these things are easy to get. All of them just require patience and since most people need rep anyway, can be done with friends. This guy is not some anti-social nutjob who did this "on his own" A group of people decided to go in with him, support him to get this fair.
Besides, it might not be the original questions intention, but your right. You haven't really "completed" the game untill you do this with each character/class combination on both sides:)
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That one bothered me more... Atleast in 7 more years:P
Its easy enough. I spent a good 2 weeks trying to figure out how to create my own personal "registration" system. The old type where your given a license key and it says "Yea you bought it" Most of the time I have a root seed value thats hashed with some random data. Sure, a cracker can make a key gen once they figure out the hash method and seed value (not that hard), but it was resonantly simple to set up. Using public key cryptography you could make sure that a key gen is not possible, but at that point your authentication program is getting more complex than your $1 fart app
Doesn't stop a pirate from changing a MOV op-code in your executable to avoid the whole authentication anyway.
While I haven't create anything for the Apple store, I suspect that some key value is created when the app is sold and stuck somewhere in the config files. To authenticate a user's high score online, I would send that key, name and score and record the IP. Hell, maybe the first thing the game does, when it turns on, is send a high score of 0. Doing this you can tell exactly how many people has pirated the game, how many times people have played the game, and generally how long they play it for every time a score is sent in. Heck, you could even match the IP information regionally to see how your game has spread. Its good data to make your next game reach a wider audience.
I fell for this. They want $19.99 a month to "protect" your credit.
Don't get me wrong though, it was kind of neat getting real time credit scores on your account, an email alert every time some yahoo looked at your report, and access to a one click instant credit lock. But in the end, unless your going to buy a house or a car you don't really need up to the second data on your report.
Though, to be honest, I think we should be given access, atleast once a month rather than once a year. Its not like the data is that hard to display and it be far more useful to check for credit card fraud.
Please, there will always be writers and people willing to produce. Pushing content on the web is cheap compared to what you need to do, regulatory or otherwise, on the antenna. Heck, the major networks have been, for YEARS, losing market share to the cable networks. Now with satlelight, there is very little reason to even watch over the air broadcasts.
Have you even seen the more recent stuff too? Commercials becoming more entertaining. Lots of product placement are in the series now to the point that you can make drinking games out of it. There is plenty of evidence that the content providers are figuring out new ways to make money, however, the cable/networks won't make much money off of it themselves.
The public wants new content and maybe it might not be provided the same way, it WILL get created.
It sounds like the system they are using is more of a scheduler program as the way the article said it, it sounds like the lights themselves are independent and just need timing data. That it all it might be doing is sending down a signal to tell the built in clocks of each of the lights to turn on and off at curtain times and to do some logging. They said in the article how they have to look though traffic cameras and "tweak" the system. It might just be a gloried interface with a clock for all we know.
Still, makes me wonder what they are going to replace it with. Werther it be an Eclipse (witch your properly right) or a Nova, it lasted 20+ years without being replaced, and it doesn't look like they NEED that much power for it. What are they going to spend the money on? A shiny new Dell? I really hope they are making something that lasts instead of something that a consultant is brought in for.
Anyone know of the preformace? Been using mdadm for a while and been liking it.
They are going to have to drastically reduce the price then. I can see spending 30 bucks on a game for the GO but 59.99 for a game for a download? Till we all get 50mbps pipes with the servers to back it up, we are going to see more downtime on releases than AO did when it went live:P
Still, they could do price reductions faster than what could be done at stores. I just think to many people are in the way for it to work well (ISP, net neutrality laws, etc)
Its doubtfull the next gen systesm are going to go non-media based. The go is nice but it still takes hours to download anything just think how much data will be needed for even blue-ray type games? 10 million people downloading 30 gigs at a time is going to hurt any server:P
I agree though, I think they are not going to be upgrading the hardware significantly. They are going to play this like the PS1 did with the introduction of the duel shock controller. Even then, there was a clear need for an analog controller. I don't know, however, if a motion controller will change attitudes in either system.
I do believe that both Sony and Microsoft are not going to enjoy the next console upgrades. There is always a big lul, lots of money lost on reintroduction, people WANT backward compatibility, etc. Lets also be fair too, most of the games right now are fairly mature so it be a hard sell to another $600 dollar console with 10 crappy games at launch. Also look at their architecture. Sony has a full cell chip (minus one SPE for cost) and Microsoft uses 3 cores with two SPE's each. There is no way you could emulate that kind of power without also including that chip and thats going to add to the cost. Also what are you going to upgrade it too? The cell chips are supercomputer class, what, PS3 is going to go duel/quad core and Microsoft is going to add a second processor? I doubt they are going to even change the chips out at this point. Even going to an Intel chip can't be done. Not with the significant differences between the two. Besides, it looks like ALL the consoles use PowerPC style processors so there must be a reason for it.
I think I saw the future with the N64 and didn't know it. That little memory expansion bay? I think the next box is going to have the same basic architecture but with upgradeable video graphics hardware. Most games I play now a days doesn't require more than my older PentiumD, but god damn it requires a GTX280.
Teleporters are mass murder devices:P
http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00023.html Been liking this guys take on it:P
I am getting some of those. So much for saving money for food, damn science..
Technically your right. Also, technically, you should report that 20 bucks you made on your 1040 as well and pay taxes on it. I worked with the Texas Workforce Commission and allot of the "on the ground" people don't put in those small amounts. The paperwork is just insane. Takes 15 minutes to fill out the paperwork and for it all to go though the channels to do that 20 dollar removal off your next check than it does to just ignore it:P
I mean seriously? Is she THAT green from college? I did the same thing with a temp job for ONE DAY for just under $50 bucks and the state pulled my benifits and "held them" for a few months. All because my grandpa didn't get their mail:P Luckly I got another job in a week after but still.
To be frank, you don't tell the government ANYTHING unless you can fill out all those bubbles on a form. Unless the guys your working for has you fill a W-2, just "forget" about it. I mean, sure she is trying to pass the bar and dosn't want to put any tanit on her record. If that was the case, she shouldn't of signed up for addsence during her unemployment:P
Ever try to restore from a ZFS corruption? It IS easy and it can be done. However...
What if the data was on an EMC storage array and the tech told them its all lost? What if your dealing with a Teir 1 vender (I am looking at you Dell Equallogic) that swears UP and DOWN that there is no way to recover the system after a second drive out of a RAID 5 has been pulled? Hell, try just a standard raid 5 card from a Teir 1 vender. (Not talking about calling like 3ware support directly, they are honestly good and recovered a few arrays with them)
I "suspect" that they are running it off a storage array that failed big time, or lost the LUN, or just someone decided to die and take the server with it. There is just to much we don't know. Was Dagger installed on multi-servers? Was it clustered? Is it a cloud system? Does it run its own storage system or requires additional hardware?
But you know what? ZFS, EMC even Windows 2008, All moot. Why? WHERE ARE THE TAPE BACKUPS?!?! SERIOUSLY. The ONLY way they have lost ALL that data was that they didn't have backup solution. Otherwise their "press release" would say "...however we will be restoring the data from last week/months tapes..."
I do like how they keep saying "Microsoft/Danger" as if they are at fault. A good admin would expect a new car would catch fire and run into a bus full of nuns.
If it was running in some kind of RAID 0 sure, but my experiences with that device is that its SLOOOOW....
I mean, sure, I am using it now. No way in hell I am paying $150 for an SD card, but you notice a decrease in speed. You could use class 6 micro SDHC cards and it still gives bad performance on games. Sony needs to give up the Duo chip. Sure they were first to market, but there is just no way they can compete with the SD standard. (I wish the 4 bit bus protocol was open, hate using the damn SISO interface for my projects.)
They have to be good enough programmers to ship code, and weâ(TM)ll forgive them if they never write a unit test, or if they xor the âoenextâ and âoeprevâ pointers of their linked list into a single DWORD to save 32 bits, because theyâ(TM)re pretty enough, and smart enough, to pull it off.
THAT scared me more than anything I know. I mean, what the hell, its not even "easyer"? if you need to shave off 4 bytes a record THAT badly, use a damn array.
I know someone who JUST finished the meeting. It looks like both Mr Perot and Michael Dell were there.
I have been to the company a few times for computer jobs and they are really amazing. Your right, Its like a living history museum over there and people speak of Perot in awe. One of the few company's, so they told me, that don't outsource overseas. This is vs EDS that every time I visit THEM, it feels like a government money waste hole with people clinging to the rafters.
I will be putting in my application today:P
Whats been holding me back is the 120hz monitor. Do you need one for it?
Sorry I didn't mean so much "multi core" as in all in one chip. The Coretex chip is perfect for something like this, but to really get the cost down they should get a video chip ip and put it in a single chip. If they can do that maybe they can even make it a 4 layer board.
I kind of wish they have some kind of video/cpu chip now. Most 3D and even 2D calculations is all just concentrated vector math. I am sure you could even just use a A8 and use the extra die for a just a 4 stage pipeline programmable 3d processor. Pitty research costs so much:P
Long term, this virus has a better mutation rate than the standard flu
I am fuzzy on the details, but the main reason people are worried about it is not only its cross species infection but the fact that its very susceptible to mutation. Personally I want to catch it now so I have some immunity to the thing.
If they do multi core, single chip. Might take over the low end market.
A combined 1.5ghz, duel core ARM11 or 12 with a PowerVR SGX? Thing could play HD movies as well as other things. The question I have is how upgradable will it be. It be cheaper to just solder a gig of DDR to the thing and maybe 16 gigs of flash. All one board with the keyboard on the same using traces. God, they COULD make it cheap enough. The problem is the same ASUS has now. You don't see the cheap "$299" laptops anymore. Everything has higher end features and now practically requires windows. If they make these $199 it could set up another net book revolution.
Always thought it was funny the TF2 chain gun shot slower than an AK
Makes you wonder why they really rejected EA's bid. I mean sure they were trying to buy them out RIGHT before GTA4 came out so they can get that stock push. Makes me wonder if they didn't want to be bought out because of the incompetence shown. Who knows if they are dipping in the bucket too.
If they had come out and said "This was an undeveloped concenpt that was not possable to access during the normal play of the game." something in that regards, they might of got out of it.
To be honest though, the only reason I can think they left it in, is because pulling it out would break stuff and they had to ship a game. Again, a management decision:P
Sorry, no one owns time travel more than these guys.
I was going to put in a point but thought I chime in.
The problem is that you CAN trust your local corp. Its not like they fold over night and most people in one are honest. The problem is that once you are IN a corp, there are so many meinal things to do. Camp a damn jump gate for 6 hours. Act as rat killer for the miners or sit there with a mouse and mine. Act as truck driver for said mine. Even using some of the automated towers still requires this annoying manual process.
But Eve is not the only one with the grind, as you know. Eve says you are just one of the cogs and buy insurance like everyone else. Like the real world you find a "job" You train in miner to be a miner, recon to be a zone watcher. All these "jobs" are menial and boring. But, I hate to say this is the problem with ALL PVP SYSTEMS. All games out there make you to be the "special one" The one who will win the war or save the universe. (I ran into this in the beta of Fallen Earth when I started. Your a speical "clone"? What are the other players?) Any job you take, out side of this, is just to progress to main story line.
War is all about waiting and dicking around and about 10 minutes of fighting. WoW had to introduce the battlegrounds to give players a way to play PvP at no cost. Even Wintergrasp limits you to every few hours to make sure enough people join up so its "fun" There were no wars in Ultima Online, just a few assassins once in a while. Even major battles in EVE lasts only about 30 minutes.
EVE designed a system where if you want to keep what you got, you have to protect it yourself. You spend all those grinding hours working for your corp and you want to protect your work. Your not fighting for the "fun" of it. Your not fighting because "your the one". Your fighting because you did a time sink of 6 months into this corp and you don't want a bunch of god damn pirates taking out your control tower out when eveyones off to dinner (again). In EVE, you fight to protect what you got. Its quite possible the most raw political simulators created in the mmorg world.
I just wish there WAS a way to reach out and throttle the players who say "fuck it" and quit though. Especially the ones with the higher rights in corps:P