EVE General Discussion

Do scammmers lose when they hit their mark?
Do gankers lose when they strike a prime target?

There is definitely profit involved... you are just upset you are on the recieving end.

So camping a station is exactly the same as mining in high sec.

Gotcha

Yes.

Does playing the cop in a game of cops and robbers make the kid a good person?
Does bluffing in poker make you a bad person and a compulsive liar?

…a trait that you can't determine merely from playing a game. So the judgements you make are only your personal prejudice and bias.

And as has been demonstrated here, society looks down upon you as being a presumptuous, biased, prejudiced, insincere, dishonest and altogether hypocritical individual, both in action and intent. (as a result of having observed you behave as such)

Therefore, that must be what you are. Because we perceive you to be.

That is, after all, how you presume to claim that others are, what you perceive them to be, is it not?

You may think what you wish.

The other side of that coin means I get to think what I wish.

Luckily for me, I have alot more weight on my side. I understand you though, I use to be like you. But I got better.

And, ironically, and as is so often the case with the most vocal of hypocrites, also how you are disconnecting yourself from the repercussions and logical consequences of your own behavior and posited perspective, by thinking that you are not subject to the same judgement you would apply onto others.

It cuts both ways. That is the nature of responsible morality. You are not acting as you preach. You are infact, yourself, demonstrating a gross disconnection between judging your own actions by the same standards you apply to others.

Anonymity brings out the sociopath.

On more serious note the concentration of who you might see as "bad guys" in the game derives directly from natural selection.

As CCP has stated several times, scamming, ganking and other such emergent game play is encouraged. This leads to the golden rule where weak perish and strong flourish. Over time the balance of "bad guys" vs. "good guys" shifts to the "bad" side. And, as we know, alts give voices to our hidden personalities. Why not play the bad guy? One might find it relaxing.

Another idea might be that the group you are referring to tends to be one of the loudest around. That fact has kept their corner of the sandbox strong, which may be the cause of your concern.


If anything, take the game as a learning experience; everything is a scam, everyone will want to shoot at you, maybe something will rub on you like this:

reading the fine print

And you are the one who keeps trying to judge others, without applying the same standards to himself.

Well whatever, all we can do is present our opinions. How it's perceived and judged is entirely out of our hands.

I've stated my case, you've stated yours. Yours revolves around attacking me personally, enforcing my point that bad people exist and be their true selves vicariously through EVE.

Mine revolves around the fact that people who make the choice to do bad things are bad people. Which for some reason influences you to wish to do bad things to me.

I am late to the thread. But all I need to do is say to the OP that it is worse in the real world.

"Tan has also seen reports of caulk and petroleum jelly injected in black market cosmetic procedure rings."

I also saw a report this morning saying some cosmetic hackers are using fix a flat. Very not cool yet somewhat hilarious considering what it is being used for