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  1. When you really sit down and think about it...there has to be a "Higher Being" (God).

    No there doesn't. Why do you think this? Why does there HAVE to be a higher being?

    Don't PM. Post, there's a reason why this thread was publicly posted in the first place!

     

     

    Well said Lee its why i opened this topic to get peoples reasons and views on the matter .Be nice to know why ppl believe or not believe


  2. So basically religion IMO is not a load of bs entirely. much of it has been changed from its origional purpose and "perverted" for the sake of someone and their own oppinion and agenda. If one thinks about it what kind of lies are the best? Those that have a little bit of truth woven in. many of the organized religions today are basically very large elaborate lies.

     

    i could probably get more into detail but this more or less sums it up. satisfactory?

     

     

    True.

     

    My biggest issue with Religion is that it Preys on peoples fear of death and think we all agree none of us want to die. So given a choice between being worm food or going to a imaginary or not Afterlife people are willing to blindly follow something that has no ounce of proof to it.

     

    Thats proberly what faith is blindly Believing something that you have been told.

     

    Certain church groups do a lot of good around the world with poor for example but the Church as as whole being wouldnt trust as far as i could kick it


  3. USA/West supporting one side

    Russia (at least, before Gorbachev came along) supporting other.

     

    I believe that it is all about either political agendae (sp?) or money. Usually money.

     

     

    Oil to be honest .

     

    If not to do with Oil and the West is the champion off invaded nations ( Kuwait) why didnt America charge off to save Tibet when China invaded ?


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    If not for the welfare system then why ? They have past through many other countrys on there way here Germany.France etc so why not settle there o yeah they not a soft touch

     

     

     

    And I happen to be from the country which is the primary exporter of workers. I've never heard of someone NOT getting a job in the UK (by the way, you also seem to forget that you DON'T have to be registered to work. It's called illegal working and that also happens frequently), Quote actual figures before you start insulting honest and brave people who leave their families for many months and spend subsequent holidays far from home to ensure better living to their families, often ending up working in humiliating conditions - which can only be compared to slavery - without getting ANY social benefits at all (recently a major slave work camp has been discovered in Italy, but only yesterday I've heard about another possible camp in the UK).

     

    Oh, and here's some actual numbers I've found - according to CBOS (Centrum Badania Opini Spolecznej, The Public Opinion Research Center, one of the leading research centres in Poland), 31% of the Polish people have someone in their family who went abroad to work after May 1st 2004. 80% of them declare that their family members work legally and 12% - illegally (that indicator dropped from 25% in 2005). It leaves out 8% for the workers who didn't get any job.

     

    "The vast majority of workers since May 2004 are young: 82% aged between 18 and 34. 93% of

    workers state that they have no dependants living with them in the UK when they registered, and

    only 3% had dependants under the age of 17 with them." (so much for taking their entire families with them).

     

    I find any further discussion with you on the topic pointless.

     

     

    Quote actual figures before you start insulting honest and brave people who leave their families for many months and spend subsequent holidays far from home to ensure better living to their families, often ending up working in humiliating conditions - which can only be compared to slavery - without getting ANY social benefits at all (recently a major slave work camp has been discovered in Italy, but only yesterday I've heard about another possible camp in the UK).

     

    Any figures From an official goverment source can not be 100% trusted or didnt you know goverments have a habit of blurring the truth (And Britains is no differant) you are better off getting figures from independent sources

     

    Thats true we have them all shackled together in the cotton fields singing gospel songs.

     

    Must agree alot do work illegally for Gangmasters who use them as cheap labour in packing plants etc but they also earn as much in a week as they would in there home country in a month and if its that bad they are not forced to stay but most do . So cant be total evil can it ?? (slightly off topic could never understand young men fleeing oppression and poverty always left there familys behind. !! would be my first goal to see my family safe at ANY cost )

     

    Oh, and here's some actual numbers I've found - according to CBOS (Centrum Badania Opini Spolecznej, The Public Opinion Research Center, one of the leading research centres in Poland), 31% of the Polish people have someone in their family who went abroad to work after May 1st 2004. 80% of them declare that their family members work legally and 12% - illegally (that indicator dropped from 25% in 2005). It leaves out 8% for the workers who didn't get any job.

     

    8% who didnt get a job and 12% who work illegally (and more than likely claims benifits because the Gov does not know they are working) makes 20% who are proberly claiming benefits .So a conservative figure from the 600,000 total immigrants (not just Poles) would equal 120,000 people claiming welfare,not a small amount you would agree and thats just from one year.

     

     

    The vast majority of workers since May 2004 are young: 82% aged between 18 and 34.

     

    Which is what I stated most are young teen/early 20's

     

     

    I find any further discussion with you on the topic pointless

     

    True because until you have lived here and seen it with your own eyes then you are not going to understand and we will be disagreeing till nxt christmas.

    I say you dont understand not in a disrespectful way but you can only comment as someone from the outside looking in. ie: I can read the net and papers and comment on the living conditions in Africa but until you have seen it and lived it yourself you dont really get an understanding.

     

    And you can find Stats on the net and I can find Stats that contradict them and Vice versa be here all day


  5. These people moved from Europe to Britian to find work, do you have something agaisnt immagration? From what I've been reading in the past this has helped Britian and that their jobless rate is low. You just can't say that most of these people go to Britian to take advantage of their welfare system. Do you know the majority of them?

     

    What you quoted about the dependants I believe is a low number, these guys are not bringing their whole families. It's way less than one per person. I would believe that people who are independant are looking for work.

     

    Yes perhaps theres the odd family across the street in which you hold contempt for because they might be on welfare. It's always a person to person thing. Besides, Britian could use more Multiculturism and it's doing more good than bad.

     

     

    You just can't say that most of these people go to Britian to take advantage of their welfare system. Do you know the majority of them?

     

    No not personally but believe it or not I do read the papers ,I do watch the news. I live in a city which has been allocated (goverment wording) A large proportion of immigrants and ayslum seekers and you do know what is happening in your local community.

    If not for the welfare system then why ? They have past through many other countrys on there way here Germany.France etc so why not settle there o yeah they not a soft touch

     

     

    Yes perhaps theres the odd family across the street in which you hold contempt for because they might be on welfare. It's always a person to person thing. Besides, Britian could use more Multiculturism and it's doing more good than bad.

     

     

    lmao trust me it is more than a few .It ok commenting from half a world away with a very blinkered view of what is actually happening.

     

    Britain is one of the most Multiclutural countrys in the world.Communtitys of . Indian.Pakistanie,Chinese,Japanese,Italian,Australian,Turkish,Afro/Caribbean,Portugese etc The differance is the majority of these work hard to support themselves and there familys.

     

     

    The biggest problem is as these other ethnic groups have built up over time the explosion from Eastern europe is happening all at once.

    Maybe we should be more like are Liberal Friends the Canadians and put a Cap on the amount of people allowed to migrate to our country per year. 250,000 per annum I think the number is ,so considering the differant size in land mass . Britians should be about 20k

     

     

    I will say again because i think people believe Im against ppl coming to work and live in the UK ,couldnt be further from the truth as long as they want to WORK .

     

    Its not so much people coming into the country its the vast droves all allowed in at once.with a Police force streched to the limit and a Health service shot to pieces no one in there right mind can say its a good thing to let 100,000's of ppl into the country

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I don't know where you've got your info from.

     

     

    hmmm let me think from living here and seeing it first hand .Honestly dont patronize me im not a kid


  6. Being and Aethist myself I just wondered what other EL players views are on Religion (Christian.Muslim etc)

     

    Are you a believer and if so why .

     

    or

     

    Do you think it is total BS.

     

    Has something happened in your life to change your views from one to the other ?

     

    Have you recieved enlightenment through some event or has something made you disbelieve

     

    Do you think religion is the biggest causer of trouble in the world today or do you think it could be mankinds saving grace.

     

     

    Post Any views Plz

     

     

     

     

     

    Edit: Plz no flaming ppls religious beliefs or lack there of :P


  7. I don't get it, conavar. First you quote numbers saying that a few hundred thousand new EU citizens came to work in the UK and got a job indeed. Then you are saying that the UK doesn't have infinite resources.

     

    no you miss the point completly THE MAJORITY DO NOT WORK. THEY JUST REGISTER TO SAY THAT THEY INTENED TO (which most never do)

     

    They have registered to work which you have to do in able to claim state benifits . all that means is they have told the goverment that they are willing to find work not that they are in work or even looking for it ,its one of the wondeful loopholes in the system.

     

    How it works is .every 2 weeks you go to the job centre tell them you have been looking for work but have been unable to find any so you are eligible for state handouts.Every so often the Goverment might send you for a job inteview which you have to attend to continiue recieving money.Now you can tell the would be employers you are a thief so they dont employ you but as long as you went you can continue to recieve benifits.

     

    Now the question is to be honest who are most Wrong the people who come here to screw the system or the Goverment for making it that easy to do just that

     

    Edit: Anyway not going to get into a flame war with anyone over this . You never change my views and I wont change yours. Politics and Religion two things you can never win an arguement over lol (but better not start on religion :P )


  8. naah. If they had treated saddam as a friend, he would have:

     

     

    3. with US support, bring iran to its knees whenever it is convenient.

     

     

    Really didnt the first time: USA and the West supported him with Arms during the iran/iraq war

     

    If he hadnt attacked Kuwait he would still be in power now persecuting his own people and the west would have turned a blind eye.


  9. lol mug im 6"3 blonde hair,blue eyes so yep more than likely viking blood :P

     

    But talking about history is a mute point since discounting Native Americans the whole population have migrant ancestors from one country or another

     

    My point was :

     

    I do not disagree with other ethnic groups wanting to better themselves by coming to a differant country if they are going to support themselves/family through honest work .Wether that country be England.Germany,France or America (whos by the way treatment of Mexican immigrants is way worse than anything done in Europe).

     

    What i do disagree with is getting the Dregs.the criminals,the spongers of differant countrys because our Goverment is a soft touch and our borders are wide open .

     

    Seriously if MR Immigrant wants to bring his wife and children to England and WORK to support them then thats all well and good but not living here you wouldnt understand or see that the majority are Guys late teens to early twentys who just want to better themself off our state system and not through work.

     

    Im sure if you had 10,000 immigrants turn up in your town and not work you would change your tune.Its easy to look at the world through rose tinted glasses but the worlds not that simple.

     

    Stats taken from BBC News

     

    About 600,000 people have come to work in the UK from eight nations which joined the European Union in 2004, says Home Office minister Tony McNulty.

    New figures show that 447,000 people from Poland and the seven other new EU states have applied to work in the UK.

     

    But Mr McNulty said the figure would be nearer 600,000 if self-employed workers - such as builders - were included.

     

    And they will increase debate about whether the right to work should be limited when Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.

     

    The figures show those 427,000 migrant workers who successfully registered to work brought with them 36,000 dependents - spouses and children. Some 27,000 child benefit applications were approved. The government predicted there would be 15,000 people a year from the new EU member countries moving to the UK for work.

     

    But between May 2004 and June 2006 the government approved just over 427,095 work applications.

     

     

     

    More than half of those - 264,560 - are from Poland. The other migrants on the worker registration scheme are from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

     

    Mark Boleat, from the Association of Labour Providers, suggested another 100,000, workers or possibly a lot more, had arrived without registering

     

     

     

    Registered to work = You have to sign on at a local job centre saying you are willing to work before you can claim any social security money. saying you are willing to and actually working are two differnt things

     

    Child support = Tax payers money given weekly to any child under the age of 16 or over 16 if still in full time education

     

     

    People seem to forget when they stand on there PC soapbox preaching world peace that Britain is just an island and hasnt got unlimited land or resources

     

     

    Total Population of Britain : 50,690,000

     

    Total Population of New York State : 19,200,000

     

    Bit of a differance between the sizes of our countrys Mug maybe why immigrants are noticed more here


  10. You can't keep secrets, I wouldn't trust you...

     

     

    I can keep secrets, but if somebody tells me they bagjump or scam, ima gona post it here, if someone were to tell me they are cheating on their spouse, thats a secret I'm not gona share. :P:P

     

     

    Unless there spouse is also a bagjumper then heaven help them

     

    Fine for RL ... but in EL...

     

    If you caught a few of the well known married in EL folks ... so to speak...

    bumping uglies in one of those secluded cabins in the woods ...

     

    you wouldn't tell a soul?

     

     

    lmao bumping uglies


  11.  

    Day Of The Dragon

     

    Event:

     

    On this day the Dragon leave its home and wanders the world searching for food.

     

    First hour Dragon appears on a random map (any but IP) and stays for an hour then moves to another Random map(any distance because it can in theory fly) and stays for an hour and so on

     

    Day Ends early if the Dragon is killed and is forced back to its home

     

     

    Every Dog Has Its Day Day

     

    Event:

     

     

    Due to a flux in the magic matrix this day all monsters ignore either the MM perk or cloak but drop double the normal amount in there db

     

    ie: goblin would have dropped 7 gold and leather leggings instead drops 14 gold and 2 leather leggings

     

    (might be a bit to much to have double high level drops but this would be offset by being attacked by every other creature in the area )


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    [/indent] roja:

    A case for virtual essences (pre-prepared spells) to weigh nothing is that giving them any weight limits a mage's potential by their
    might
    , and not just their
    ethereality
    . This seems wrong to me, and breaking this association was the original goal of this suggestion.

     

    Their limit, for
    non-stackable
    virtual essences, is in inventory slots. This is, of course, independant of might.

     

    If stackable there may be a case to assigning a weight, which reasserts the might dependancy. However use is still limited by mana, and they must be used or lost by the character who invested the effort in making them. This is not the same as a Fighter carrying an unlimited number of potions that they have bought -- there the commitment is only in the end use, not the preparation.

     

     

    The way I understand it is that the Virtual essence doesnt really exist its just an ingame/inv icon to represent what has been stored to memory .

    So they should be Stackable but limited in the number you can carry not by EMU but lets say by Magic level halved rounded down

     

    Ie: low level mage of 9 magic can store 4 Essences

    high level mage of 60 magic can store 30 Ess.

     

    This in my opinion makes it more realistic as a higher level mage has trained his intellect more than a low one.Governing them down by making them non-stackable means in theory our level 9 mage can carry as many as our level 60 which doesnt really fit with the idea I think you are aiming at.

     

     

    Think its a must that a min Nexus is required to use them ,wether thats 4,5 or 6 .

     

    Edit:

    Just on a personal note I love the way the game is classless ,one day I can be a fighter the nxt I can be making fur hats but any idea that gives the player and unforced option to specialize in any given field should they so wish gets the thumbs up from me
    :D
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