EVE General Discussion

Because forgetting the past is better?

How exactly is his blog post damning? It's not like people have known for a long while Erotica is a troll and a scammer in his own unique right. It's nothing astonishing, nothing revealing. It's just someone crying foul about a person being taken for a ride and made to do stupid things on voice comms for greed. That's it.

Let's step back from the rants and pitchforks for a moment to actually break down this unusual phenomenon in New Eden called scamming. Firstly, Erotica's amounts are paltry in comparison to some of the biggest heists that have made Eve infamous. Part of the unique challenges and allure of Eve is a universe of harsh reality. A universe of truly open possibility.

The game from the very beginning of the first introduction paints a bleak picture of humanity and it's struggle through the four races and how through sheer force of will began to climb back from the bleakness of utter ruin to triumph over Space itself. YOU as a player willfully enter this universe from the very beginning. No one forces you to log in nor interact with others.

Yet the itch grabs people. They realize isk is power. Isk means a bigger ship, a better character, opportunity, and is the life blood of a freely driven economy. Even CCP's touted "Greed Is Good" slogan is plastered and seared into our minds that to go for it "all" in the name of power is not only encouraged, it is expected.

This is the pressures an ignorant newcomer faces. They like the rest of us must learn the pains of treachery in a Universe as cold as space itself. No one "made" this person log into Erotica's comms. No one "made" this person do the things he did. There was no gun held to his head. Nothing.

He was instead driven by Greed. That itch we all feel. That itch that drove me to empty an entire Alliance's SRP fund and liquid isk and assets in a blink of an eye. It's the same itch you feel when your victim is pointed and smoldering as you demand a ransom. It's the same itch a Carebear feels when he grinds. And it's the same itch people have given into thousands of times over to their utter ruin.

Erotica did not berate this person. By all accounts he was "trolled softly" and it was the clamness in Erotica's voice that led to the most wincing reactions from this person. he gave it all away and was upset. The fact someone entices you to sing a song or do stupid things not only means this person is willing to personally degrade themselves for money, they are willing to walk with little shame as long as the ends justify the means.

The same can be said for Erotica. He simply feeds on that basic of hunger. That drive and lust for power that every player wants. And it is the lesson we ALL have learned and one this player sadly as well had to be taught. Do I like Erotica's form of trolling? Not really. I much prefer the teaching hand of Tank CEO and his brunt yet truthful lessons to a player mining in Low Sec.

But that is of course opinion. Can CCP monitor comms? No. Should they? No. Should Erotica be banned? No. Is this a sore issue that will pit the hunter against the hunted until the servers go black? Yes. No I'm not being cold. I'm being realistic. We've all been scammed. I've been scammed. It's just something we all need to accept and it makes us stronger players.

Well those of us who understand this is after all just a video game.

And God help me, I listen to Ride of the Valkyries when I go through a cyno.

Good comment is good....



As a side note.... Has anyone considered what the original guy thinks of all this attention? How the entirety of the community is now using him as a pawn? (Just a thought)

Nah education on the topc is good. Im german myself, i had relative in the war. We had 2 years in school on the topc alone.
Its just from my cultural background that the topic shouldnt be taken lightly.

We have (allegedly) had an agent get in touch with him and Sohkar said that it was all behind him until Ripard posted the blog post.

He said (allegedly) that he wished Ripard had asked his permission, and that he was kicked from his highsec corp because they didn't like the attention.


But we ARE trying to get him on teamspeak RIGHT NOW to talk with Erotica 1 about this whole thing: http://www.twitch.tv/kristallnachte/

This could be VERY enlightening!

Hell, a part of me is waiting for the final denouement in where we learn that this has all been staged as a piece of performance art to troll and op success was declared way back at page 250 in a ninja edit that nobody will ever read.

I don't think I would willingly go into a comms situation with erotica even if it wasn't duplex. can't even go back to OP soundbite cause its too greasy

Sohkar is on Teamspeak now!

http://www.twitch.tv/kristallnachte/