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Who are the Good Guys in EVE?

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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#61 - 2015-11-03 18:10:37 UTC
Contract all of your stuff and ISK to me, and I will give you a genuine and accredited "I am a Good Guy" lapel badge, for you to wear proudly around town.

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

Bumble's Space Log

Frank Pannon
Emerald Swine Escavations
#62 - 2015-11-04 08:30:39 UTC
Valerian STA wrote:
There's the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.


I am Ugly :)
erg cz
Federal Jegerouns
#63 - 2015-11-04 12:55:37 UTC
Tipa Riot wrote:
EvE is a sandbox full of kids ... the bad guy is defined by the inherent principles of a sandbox, destroy somebody's sand castle, build the highest, best looking sand castle, use the priciest tools, have more buddies, etc. You get the point?Lol


Viable opinion, but I think Eve has a lore. It is more, than just a counter strike in space. You can choose side and join faction warfare. Fight for the last democracy in New eden (look at Eleutherian Guard [EL-G] corp history for example) or help best state in a world to defeat tyrany of byrocratic federation. Free slaves or fight against terrorists , who hide themself behind so-called "republic".

You can go role playing and feel good guy in this game. Some ppl were supporting free port ideals and went to help defending Providence against cruel and greedy empire...
aldhura
Blackjack and Exotic Dancers
Top Tier
#64 - 2015-11-05 23:34:05 UTC
Sabriz Adoudel wrote:
Memphis Baas wrote:
Your corp is the good guys, everyone else is the bad guys.

Even the Goons, if you actually join them and are decent at the game, turn out to be very nice, normal people, who will have your back. Being a game, corps and alliances fight each other because it's fun, not because of economics, moral or religious issues, or whatever. So, I mean, technically there is no "evil"; just actions that the game allows, and actions that the game does not allow.

Thus, your circle of friends / corp / alliance is the good guys, everyone else is the bad guys.



This.

EVE is a competitive game. Even if the effect is too small to measure, your gain is everyone else's loss.

If you suddenly gained a quarter trillion ISK (quite a lot, but there's lots of players with ten times that amount or more), any move you make to spend it will change the game economy considerably. I personally caused a noticeable gamewide increase in the cost of tech two invention just by spending 6 billion ISK stockpiling decryptors - every time you buy a tech 2 module, it's (very slightly) more expensive because of me.

There is no good or bad in game. There's plenty out of game (which is why some of the biggest e-assholes in game, people like me, chipped in to raise a fair amount in the Nepal charity fundraiser event CCP ran a while back).

Listen to the trailer from the Inferno expansion a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kED11aGobUk . The first minute of it has an in-universe character talking about morality in EVE.


Yep, cause the only place to get5 decrytptors is the places you bought them from :/
Magnus Roden
Center for the Advancement of Human Endeavour
#65 - 2015-11-06 01:20:03 UTC
Shooting people is caring.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Aeniec
Mechanical Advantage
GunFam
#66 - 2015-11-06 04:14:22 UTC
"Just because someone is on the other side, doesnt make them evil; they just have a different way of looking at things. You like to create, and we like to destroy and recreate."

-Murasame, Defending Evil.




my bio.. is actually relevant .. lol
Velarra
#67 - 2015-11-08 00:46:39 UTC
Samuel Triptee
Battle Toad Brigade
Ribbit.
#68 - 2015-11-09 00:40:37 UTC
So... there are good guys and bad guys, but all are targets.

Have You Hugged Your Frigate Today?

Action Nerd
Petulant Luddite GmbH
#69 - 2015-11-09 17:36:45 UTC
This will explain everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1W0F0yObg

Kevin: Yes, why does there have to be evil?

Supreme Being: I think it has something to do with free will.

Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
#70 - 2015-11-10 20:17:37 UTC
CoolGevlon Goblin and Ripard Teg.Cool

                      "LIVE FAST DIE." - traditional Minmatar ethos [citation needed]

Taunrich Kaufmann
Hykkota-Kaufmann Foundaries LLC
#71 - 2015-12-08 17:11:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Taunrich Kaufmann
It's actually well established that the Caldari are the master race and therefore the good guys.
Solecist Project
#72 - 2015-12-08 17:42:40 UTC
Shoot 'em All.

Morality is for the brainwashed.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia

Kaska Iskalar
Doomheim
#73 - 2015-12-09 04:51:16 UTC
Eve doesn't have good guys.
Nat Silverguard
Aideron Robotics
Aideron Robotics.
#74 - 2015-12-09 07:32:24 UTC
Taunrich Kaufmann wrote:
It's actually well established that the Caldari are the master race and therefore the good guys.


sir, squids are the scum of the universe.

death to all of you! Evil

good day. o7

Just Add Water

Amber Patoria
Division 13
#75 - 2015-12-09 09:15:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Amber Patoria
Cara Forelli wrote:
Yesterday I found a newbro struggling to kill a mordu's frigate rat in a belt. I killed the newbro and took the loot from the rat. It turned out to be worth 100+ mil. Am I bad?

The newbro had such a good attitude about it that I gave him a quarter of the loot (more than 25x the cost of his ship!) and gave him some fitting tips. Am I good?

Big smile

That's hot. We should definitely do brunch.

Reminds me of Mr Penguin.

Well, his name wasn't actually penguin but his corp kinda was. You see as an Explorer Hunter and professional baby eater I often find myself with new pilots in my optimal.

Here I was sitting 160k above this relic site, as I do, cloaked in my Loki. I see core probes on scan and a short time later a little Heron arrives piloted by Mr Penguin. I check him out, relatively newish and CEO of a small corp. He's only lost one ship before and his bio proudly proclaims in broken English mixed with Japanese that "Nobody can stop the penguin!".

The audacity!

I warp in and tackle him, brrrt brrrt from the autocannons and Mr Penguin's Heron jam full of 90m worth of loot explodes in a big cloud of can contents before he can even hack the first can (leaving partially run sites often scares off my prey). He lingers long enough that I manage to get his pod too after posting my gf in local. Scoop the corpse, pop the wreck and return to my perch above the site to examine my loot and corpse in comfort and privacy.

A short time later I see more probes on scan plus an Imicus. Dscan says the Imicus is at or near the highsex hole so I go take a look. Here's this Imicus on the hole doing scans. Same corp as Mr Penguin. Hole activation and who decloaks? MR PENGUIN back for round two in a new Heron named "gift".

Straight

Feels. Seems his corpmate had given him a new Heron plus a second set of eyes, accompanying him back for another crack at those dank blood cans. Just as I'm circling cloaked like a vulture considering whether or not to just decloak and try to alpha them both on the hole before they can jump out, they warp off.

Mr Penguin's friend seems to be a bit slicker than his CEO, he makes a safe spot and they both chill there while scanning. Seems Mr Penguin didn't bookmark anything on his first visit. So I drop combats and start probing this daring duo down. While doing so I take another look at these pilots' info and notice since his earlier murder Mr Penguin's bio now proclaims he's a friendly penguin who just wants to make friends.

Well we all know the best way to make friends in eve. I get 100% on the Imicus and in I go, decloak and go for the tackle. They're both together, and the Imicus is aligned, managing to insta-warp... But there's MrPenguin... still on grid, trying to burn away from me like a wide eyed child with a steam train bearing down on him. I close the 20k+ gap quickly in the Vampyre and Mr Penguin dies horribly a second time in an hour.

Happy to have made a new friend, I eagerly shoot off a message to Mr Penguin hoping he speaks Sebiestor as well as Japanese, telling him what he could have done to survive both the first death and second. I also slipped him about 20m isk to ease the pain.

He never replied. Straight

Candi LeMew > It doesn't have to make sense. It's just the way it is.

Johnny cruz > You end up getting off today Lotor?

loĸι

XeX Znndstrup
#76 - 2015-12-10 13:53:41 UTC
There are criminals and honest citizens.
The Law Organization is working for a better world.

That was the only answer you were looking for.

XeX Znndstrup.
Federal Chief Prosecutor

Judge of The Law Organization and President of Stellar Order.

"Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light". John Milton, Lost Paradise.

@ /// f

Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#77 - 2015-12-10 14:13:01 UTC
don't start trolling in here xex, you will lose your posting privileges fairly quickly.
XeX Znndstrup
#78 - 2015-12-10 14:52:40 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
don't start trolling in here xex, you will lose your posting privileges fairly quickly.
Trolling ? We just answered a question. No use to engage another talking here. You know where to do if you need.

Judge of The Law Organization and President of Stellar Order.

"Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light". John Milton, Lost Paradise.

@ /// f

Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#79 - 2015-12-10 15:26:30 UTC
XeX, your weird space police RP crap is fine in See and Pee - it's part of the furniture, even - but here...no, just no

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

Bumble's Space Log

Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#80 - 2015-12-10 15:37:11 UTC
Lorewise the Amarr are the good guys trying to save New edens inhabitents from chaos. However the terrorist faction Gallente try to undo their glorious work.