Ships are not irreplaceable. If you play Eve, you WILL lose ships.

The GMs move the teams to a specially isolated system where there is no way in and no way out. If you leave a certain radius from the center of the arena you are automatically destroyed. You can't return to the field after fleeing, so there's never anything to gain from running before doing as much damage as you can.

Different ships are assigned a point value, with a hard point limit imposed on each team. You can have a few expensive ships, quite a few cheaper ships, or some mix. It should be noted that both in terms of tournament points as well as in-game cost, the ability of a ship does not scale linearly with price. A ship that is 50% as expensive as another will probably be more than 50% as effective.

Not sure what the hard limit on participants is, but I imagine that usually the limit is ship value as stated earlier.

Doing so would ruin the value of the video broadcast for those who DO know what's going on. It would be reduced to a seemingly random video of shooting and explosions.

Hope I've helped.

Until a company can come to my house with guns and take away my freedom for choosing to not do business with them, the Bill of Rights should continue to apply only to the government.

[Sweet, you go do that so I can retire and have my needs met while I do nothing.]*n

Where n=the population of the planet.

He signed a credit card reform bill that had a guns in parks provision pasted into it. He didn't want to veto the entire bill on the basis of one sneaky addition, so he passed it. He's hardly a friend of the gun-owner. In his campaign, he promised to renew the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 that expired in 2004. He hasn't said a word about guns since the election.

So which is worse: That he said he would be anti-gun, or that he failed to deliver on his promises once elected?

What about the rights of Walter Sedlmayr, who the duo tortured, mutilated, and killed because he was gay? He apparently doesn't matter anymore, you know, because they murdered him.

Everyone makes mistakes, right? Hogwash.

So these men should have a chance at a normal life again? What about Sedlmayr's normal life?

"Domestic Terrorism: It's funny. Laugh."

Libraries do not offer their services for free.

You are paying for them, even if you don't use them.

Technically, this would be a violation of Blizzard's TOS.

Do you think that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world?

If you're a programmer, and you create some nice iPhone app, 200,000 people buy it, and you use the proceeds to buy a nice Prius, then did you, in your greed, "take" the money from the less fortunate.

You're a moocher.

All these things are good things, but they have a cost. If *you* decide that I need to recycle, so you come and rob me at gunpoint to get the funds for your recycling program, then you go to jail for aggravated robbery. But if you convince your senator to inflict a tax upon me (a tax which, if not paid, will result with men holding guns on my front porch) in order to get your recycling program, then it's called "social change".

This is why environmental socialism is bad. It's not that mass transit, clean energy, conservation, and recycling programs are bad things, but that you are essentially saying that we should pay for the solution you propose, or else be carted off to prison.