news
/n(y)o-Poz/
Noun

1) Newly received or noteworthy information, esp. about recent or important events.
2) A broadcast or published report of news.

Or you can read a realistic assessment of what happened:

GNN Article on Battle (With the footage of the fight)

Final Update

Seriously don't understand the point in overtly making up a story when there already is a story to tell. FYI, for those reading, this is the account Grezkev setup for me (Olivia) to use on the forums and in-game. Grez will prolly be mad at me for posting this but whatever....

I don't usually get into this GNN v Dusters crap (because, let's face it, it's stupid....hell they still use OUR name but whatever)...this however is just beyond my ability to fully comprehend.

The battle was waged on Ashged III. It was not in space. The battle was a corporation battle between PRO and PFBH, agreed through the corporate purchase system. It was not a random interception.

What's the point of changing the story, when a story already exists? What's the point of trying to make up drama when there already exists a good deal of drama? At this point I have to call in the definition of the word "news":


In this context, I don't see how making up an event and reporting on the generalities of an ACTUAL event somehow breakdown into the concept of "news". This is the issue the REAL GNN has had with Dusters for years, especially back in the MAG days....changing reports (back then it was our reports) around to fit some sort of "general storyline" that Dusters made up. Heads up Dusters: CCP Makes the story, not you. The Community makes the drama and the development...not you.

Sorry, didn't mean to start drama and I know we'll hear more in responses about this....but I just felt the need to say something. The truth is available for anyone who takes the time to read it, and the MAG community all know it as well. Our posts are still up! History of the GNN Corporation.

Or you can read a realistic assessment of what happened:

GNN Article on Battle (With the footage of the fight)

Final Update

Seriously don't understand the point in overtly making up a story when there already is a story to tell. FYI, for those reading, this is the account Grezkev setup for me (Olivia) to use on the forums and in-game. Grez will prolly be mad at me for posting this but whatever....

I don't usually get into this GNN v Dusters crap (because, let's face it, it's stupid....hell they still use OUR name but whatever)...this however is just beyond my ability to fully comprehend.

The battle was waged on Ashged III. It was not in space. The battle was a corporation battle between PRO and PFBH, agreed through the corporate purchase system. It was not a random interception.

What's the point of changing the story, when a story already exists? What's the point of trying to make up drama when there already exists a good deal of drama? At this point I have to call in the definition of the word "news":


In this context, I don't see how making up an event and reporting on the generalities of an ACTUAL event somehow breakdown into the concept of "news". This is the issue the REAL GNN has had with Dusters for years, especially back in the MAG days....changing reports (back then it was our reports) around to fit some sort of "general storyline" that Dusters made up. Heads up Dusters: CCP Makes the story, not you. The Community makes the drama and the development...not you.

Sorry, didn't mean to start drama and I know we'll hear more in responses about this....but I just felt the need to say something. The truth is available for anyone who takes the time to read it, and the MAG community all know it as well. Our posts are still up! History of the GNN Corporation.

u have got 2 be the most pitiful person on the internet. no one cares about your claim to GNN. if u have a copyright sue them. this is all for fun.

I for prefer the RP aspect and what they bring to this very bland, boring game. u pretend to be a real news organization and take things super cereal in this videogame? ITS ALL MAKE BELIEVE!! go get a life plz.

If this was in space (EVE, not Dust) 600mil ISK is worth nothing. Not even the space used to "report" on it.

So yeah...another score for the Duster's Blog...

go get a life plz.

Hmmm... last I checked we are playing dust... so what's your point?

Last I checked, cruisers aren't present in Dust...

EDIT: And I re-read it..."Normally this amount (300-600mil) of ISK is escorted by a flotilla of ships"....um...no. Just LOLno.

It doesn't matter who reports on it or even how they report it. CBJ+PRO still took probably the biggest "L" of DUST thus far.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110201055613/illcommunity/images/c/c8/Naslost.gif

Or you can read a realistic assessment of what happened:

GNN Article on Battle (With the footage of the fight)

Final Update

Seriously don't understand the point in overtly making up a story when there already is a story to tell. FYI, for those reading, this is the account Grezkev setup for me (Olivia) to use on the forums and in-game. Grez will prolly be mad at me for posting this but whatever....

I don't usually get into this GNN v Dusters crap (because, let's face it, it's stupid....hell they still use OUR name but whatever)...this however is just beyond my ability to fully comprehend.

The battle was waged on Ashged III. It was not in space. The battle was a corporation battle between PRO and PFBH, agreed through the corporate purchase system. It was not a random interception.

What's the point of changing the story, when a story already exists? What's the point of trying to make up drama when there already exists a good deal of drama? At this point I have to call in the definition of the word "news":


In this context, I don't see how making up an event and reporting on the generalities of an ACTUAL event somehow breakdown into the concept of "news". This is the issue the REAL GNN has had with Dusters for years, especially back in the MAG days....changing reports (back then it was our reports) around to fit some sort of "general storyline" that Dusters made up. Heads up Dusters: CCP Makes the story, not you. The Community makes the drama and the development...not you.

Sorry, didn't mean to start drama and I know we'll hear more in responses about this....but I just felt the need to say something. The truth is available for anyone who takes the time to read it, and the MAG community all know it as well. Our posts are still up! History of the GNN Corporation.

+1 have always enjoyed what they bring to the game. the way some of you get bent out of shape about things said about your make believe avatars in a fantasy sci fi world is downright scary.

fact check in a videogame? as important as it is in real life? lololololol....

oh wait u were serious werent u? plz kill urself.

once again youre butthurt because they didnt fact check the imaginary or play make believe the way you'd like? get over yourselves its not that serious. again the whole thing is pretend, u look petty.

fact check in a videogame? as important as it is in real life? lololololol....

oh wait u were serious werent u? plz kill urself.

once again youre butthurt because they didnt fact check the imaginary or play make believe the way you'd like? get over yourselves its not that serious. again the whole thing is pretend, u look petty.

^ Is this guy serious?

The battle was a corporation battle between PRO and PFBH, agreed through the corporate purchase system. It was not a random interception.

Source? ContraBanJoe argues that he was attempting to use the contract system to move money between two corporations. You even quote his public statement...
Your article was just as guilty of sensationalising and misreporting the issue as Dusters Blog.

'Sources are reporting that last night a Planetary Response Organization cruiser shipment carrying between 300-600M ISK to a holding corporation facility, was intercepted by a striketeam of highly trained PFBHz operatives. No one is sure how the PFBHz obtained the intel or intended route of the cruiser, but within minutes they boarded the vessel, killed the entire crew including the protection detail and made off with a considerable amount of currency. Normally this amount of ISK is escorted by a flotilla of ships but for some untold reason PRO chose to go with a skeleton crew and small protection detail of mercs.'

read the rest here: http://tinyurl.com/blwntcn

Um... Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but ISK is an electronic currency.

You cannot transport ISK directly.

'Sources are reporting that last night a Planetary Response Organization cruiser shipment carrying between 300-600M ISK to a holding corporation facility, was intercepted by a striketeam of highly trained PFBHz operatives. No one is sure how the PFBHz obtained the intel or intended route of the cruiser, but within minutes they boarded the vessel, killed the entire crew including the protection detail and made off with a considerable amount of currency. Normally this amount of ISK is escorted by a flotilla of ships but for some untold reason PRO chose to go with a skeleton crew and small protection detail of mercs.'

read the rest here: http://tinyurl.com/blwntcn

Source? ContraBanJoe argues that he was attempting to use the contract system to move money between two corporations. You even quote his public statement...
Your article was just as guilty of sensationalising and misreporting the issue as Dusters Blog.

system name and kill report or it didn't happen.

that doesn't make very much sense. no one contracts isk. you lose a brokers fee doing so.

Heads up Dusters: CCP Makes the story, not you.

fact check in a videogame? as important as it is in real life? lololololol....

oh wait u were serious werent u? plz kill urself.

once again youre butthurt because they didnt fact check the imaginary or play make believe the way you'd like? get over yourselves its not that serious. again the whole thing is pretend, u look petty.

...Heads up Dusters: CCP Makes the story, not you. The Community makes the drama and the development...not you...

Congratulations, butthead, you just missed the entire point of EvE Online with that sentence. You do understnad that the WHOLE ******* POINT of EvE is that they players make the story, not some lore wizards in the back. There are no quests that you do not make for yourself (sorta). The Battle For Caldari Prime? That's US writing the story. Yeah, we may not do all the details, but it's still our story. You just completely lost all credibility as a journalist for me.

Eat **** and Die.

Me: Community makes the story, drama, development, not a single person/group
You: Players make the story, not a group of lone wizards

lol. It seems we had a misunderstanding..... Glad to see we see eye-to-eye. Perhaps I used bad wording. Dunno why you think we are in disagreement; my whole point was that the community makes the story....whereas this story takes the events of the community and puts its own story to it.

But whatever, I'm happy knowing that we agree even if you didn't see it. Sorry for confusion, but I 100% agree with you. I was only trying to express that the players make the story, not Dusters.

o_0

But that's the thing, is that he can make the story. There is so much that goes on in EvE that CCP doesn't write about, that's why people like Dusters like to sensationalize things. Hell, CCP can work it into the story like "Early reports received conflicting intel, ranging from a raid in space to a heist". Nevertheless, don't be uptight about people making up their own story for events. We've all done it for some fiction that we've read/watched/whatever.

Well I guess you're right but that's not completely why I responded. Uptight about someone making their own story, not so much; oversensationalizing a corp battle that was just that---a corp battle......that's what I was partly uptight about. I mean, others in response to this thread, the facebook group, and the other various discussions on this issue have pointed out various faults with the story-type; ranging from why would ISK be travelling in cargo ships like this to why would this be considered closer to the EVE-side of things when it's Dust related.

I guess I just don't understand the need when all that happened is easy to understand. If Dusters would have had some drama story about the two Contracted parties (the organizations that setup the contracts) and the planet involved...all data which is listed in game and by the videos....then it would have been an amazing story. I try not to delve deep into that kind of fiction unless it's what people want. But I mean, even EVE players will read that story and be like "huh? Why would ISK be transferred like that?" There isn't clarity to the story; some people are even asking if its a Dust event or an EVE event. That kind of confusion shouldn't exist in a "news" report (hence my citing of the word).

But I see what you're saying and I realize that I guess I came off as a whiny *****. But whatever is "made up" should be done with consistency and a mind toward the community as a whole. Besides, there's so many different responses to all this its difficult to discern the worthwhile ones from the irrelevant ones. If I offended you or ruined your opinion of me then I apologize.

PFBHz Intel Office received word of an upcoming large ISK transfer being moved by Planetary Response Organization via local relay station. Checking data logs, it is identified that a PRO striketeam has been deployed to secure the relay station to ensure transfer of funds is successful. PFBHz accepts a defense contract in the region from the 24th Imperial Crusade to safeguard the relay stations, deploys logistical support to secretly utilize the relay for their own ends. PRO and PFBHz squads engage in a lopsided firefight as PRO was not expecting a deployment of such high-profile mercenaries to such a backwater relay station in such short time. PFBHz logistical suppport re-routes PRO funding through back-access hacks and successfully acquires funding as their contract from the crusade expires, and PRO forces are forced to withdraw with their mission being unsuccessful.