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Why I quit the game today
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Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#101 - 2012-04-05 11:18:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Meryl SinGarda
You're going to complain about having to go on another two weeks scrimping and saving to engage in more pvp, but you're totally overlooking the fact that while you're doing all of this, skills are training. And I bet you've seen the two-week plus skills. It's all about time. Oh and staying at your keyboard until you're docked. Then you can tab out.
Glasgow Dunlop
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#102 - 2012-04-05 11:20:46 UTC
Amity Lane wrote:
Spacebar Chelien wrote:
PvP is supposed to be about out-smarting and out-playing your opponent.

You were outplayed. He was at his keyboard controlling his ship. You were not.

I fail to understand the cries of the "that's not real PvP!" crowd. Of course it is. It's just potentially non-consensual and has repercussions, and that's what makes EvE unique. It's like real life. I've used this analogy before, but I think it's a pretty good one: You wouldn't go to Glasgow and wave fistfuls of cash above your head and expect nothing to happen. Why would you here?
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nice to know im loved Lol

pvp happens to everyone, if there looking for it, or in your case weren't, from 1.0 to -1.0 systems.

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Grumpymunky
Monkey Steals The Peach
#103 - 2012-04-05 11:24:17 UTC
OP describes the reason why I keep coming back to the game. Cool

Post with your monkey.

Thread locked due to lack of pants.
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#104 - 2012-04-05 11:27:41 UTC
Really dude this is a non issue and i wouldn't have it any other way. This is a game and in games you can win, lose or draw. It just so happens that you have lost and you have chosen to let this be game over for you. This is a good thing because if we were all successive in EvE and things went the way we wanted all the time, there would be no game.

The wishlist is pretty much complete...
admiral root
Red Galaxy
#105 - 2012-04-05 11:28:02 UTC
Posting in a high-quality troll thread. Personally, I felt you were excessive by claiming to be super awesome at Starcraft, but it doesn't seem to have stopped people from lining up to feed you. Well played, sir.

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T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#106 - 2012-04-05 11:33:58 UTC
admiral root wrote:
Posting in a high-quality troll thread. Personally, I felt you were excessive by claiming to be super awesome at Starcraft, but it doesn't seem to have stopped people from lining up to feed you. Well played, sir.


Hmm seems sincere to me :

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Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#107 - 2012-04-05 11:35:10 UTC
admiral root wrote:
Posting in a high-quality troll thread. Personally, I felt you were excessive by claiming to be super awesome at Starcraft, but it doesn't seem to have stopped people from lining up to feed you. Well played, sir.


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Aqriue
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#108 - 2012-04-05 11:40:57 UTC
Hey OP, you didn't lose anything.

You gained a sub-standard understanding that you can do the same thing.

So, find yourself a destroyer, fit a cargo scanner, and pop industrials like the guy did to you. As you noticed, there are idiots out there that just give their isk away in crappy tank industrials. You need a second alt or another player to loot, but a destroyer can cost about 3 million while popping an industrial worth 300-400m plus (yeah, I have seen a guy I know who should of known better to not have that much in an Iteron...he lost it a few months ago and is still playing).
Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management
#109 - 2012-04-05 11:46:14 UTC
Spacebar Chelien wrote:

In my mind non-consensual pvp is by definition not real pvp. I sure know that I wouldn't get any satisfaction just sitting my ship outside a gate and blowing people up when they look away from their screens.

I understand I made a gamble, but losing everything I had worked for doesn't seem like an appropriate punishment for looking away from my screen for a few seconds. Its hard enough for a brand new player to make isk as it is, now I have to deal with people killing me just for sport?


You undocked, you consented to pvp.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#110 - 2012-04-05 11:46:21 UTC
ITT the OP got ganked and felt that everyone in Eve was a sociopathic low life who like nothing more than to collect tears & gank haulers, then people stepped up to help him out with advice & ISK/ships. He'll come back later today to find his wallet & assets have increased through others goodwill.

Looking back at the OPs killboard he's killed some defenseless ships, now he has become a victim and doesn't like it, there is a lesson in this if you look hard enough.

TL;DR we're not all people who RP at being bastards, don't put all your eggs in one basket, and avoid Jita like the plague, there's a reason that it's in the avoid list by default, it quite literally is Somalia in space and the surrounding choke points are full of pirates.

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4th Drake Squadron
#111 - 2012-04-05 11:50:11 UTC
Sugar Von MurdererTits wrote:
Was going to send you some ISK but then I took a look at your killboard. Shocked


Well, I did without checking the Killboard as you did. Will not make that mistake again.
Karim alRashid
Starboard.
#112 - 2012-04-05 12:13:36 UTC
Spacebar Chelien wrote:
PvP is supposed to be about out-smarting and out-playing your opponent. Whatever happened today, I don't know what to call that.


Apparently, he/she outsmarted you so much that there was no need to outplay you.

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Hamshoe
Doomheim
#113 - 2012-04-05 12:31:32 UTC
Amity Lane wrote:
... that's what makes EvE unique. It's like real life. I've used this analogy before, but I think it's a pretty good one: You wouldn't go to Glasgow and wave fistfuls of cash above your head and expect nothing to happen. Why would you here?


The 'real life" thing has to die (pardon the pun). There are no real repercussions.

In "real life" when we give a mass murderer the drip (or when the mob kills the bully, for those of you living in non-DP jurisdictions), he doesn't re-spawn with his bank account and possessions intact. When you wreck your car in the commission of a crime, the insurance company doesn't reimburse you. Those are real repercussions.

This is a game, and the analogy is crap.
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#114 - 2012-04-05 12:42:44 UTC
Hamshoe wrote:
Amity Lane wrote:
... that's what makes EvE unique. It's like real life. I've used this analogy before, but I think it's a pretty good one: You wouldn't go to Glasgow and wave fistfuls of cash above your head and expect nothing to happen. Why would you here?


The 'real life" thing has to die (pardon the pun). There are no real repercussions.

In "real life" when we give a mass murderer the drip (or when the mob kills the bully, for those of you living in non-DP jurisdictions), he doesn't re-spawn with his bank account and possessions intact. When you wreck your car in the commission of a crime, the insurance company doesn't reimburse you. Those are real repercussions.

This is a game, and the analogy is crap.


So, in real life, instead of being put to death for murder, the government just empties your bank account and blows up your car. ZING.
Dilaro thagriin
Doomheim
#115 - 2012-04-05 12:43:59 UTC
ok... so you got suicide ganked.

tornado pilot locked you, scanned your cargo, realised your stuff was worth more than his ship, and popped it.
this happens more often than you seem to realise. hell, GOONS spent quite some time suicide ganking ice miners 'just for lulz'...

but seriously.. 300 mil and 2 weeks, is nothing. it's a drop in the ocean.
my worst loss to stupidity... not watching what my drones were doing when a ninja looter stole from me then locked me up. he had neutral orca support (something i gather CCP are considering fixing) and swapped out to a slepnir when my drones aggressed. and i proceeded to lose over 750 mil worth of ship and fittings.

I cursed mightily, considered my options, looked at the insurance payout and cursed again.
then i bought a new battlecruiser and ran level 3's to make some isk back so i could get back into a battleship.

give it time, train some more, and then, even just runnng missions to make isk for throwaway PvP ships, you can make that 300 mil in a short time running level 4's. loot and salvage everything in the missions and you'll rake in the isk.. (or train up for an incursion ship and make ludicrous isk, if you can get past the 1337 wall)
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#116 - 2012-04-05 12:46:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Stitcher
Spacebar Chelien wrote:
In my mind non-consensual pvp is by definition not real pvp.


except that you consented to PvP the second you undocked. That's EVE Online.

if you don't like that fact, then this is not the game for you.

alternatively you could HTFU and set out for some revenge.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#117 - 2012-04-05 12:55:07 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
Spacebar Chelien wrote:
In my mind non-consensual pvp is by definition not real pvp.


except that you consented to PvP the second you undocked. That's EVE Online.

if you don't like that fact, then this is not the game for you.

alternatively you could HTFU and set out for some revenge.


http://youtu.be/VgvM7av1o1Q
Kattshiro
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#118 - 2012-04-05 12:59:54 UTC
Wonder how much personal stupidity has cause people quitting?

Rather than the game its self
Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management
#119 - 2012-04-05 13:03:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Virgil Travis
evereplicant wrote:
to the op, sadly mate you are going to get trolled by the idiots..
However yes this is the problem with eve, and thats why eve isnt for everyone, thats why it will never really grow to its full potential becuase of stuff like this.
I have quit a couple of times on the same reasons, but perservered, and learnt from the mistakes. and there lies the solution, you have to basically learn from mistakes and try not do them again.
Like next time, i bet you dont autopilot? But there again being alphad be a cheap ship, with very little condesequences, which i think is very very wrong.

Sadly eve will continue to lose new players like yourself until they do something about helping new players actually learn the game. They dont, they just throw them to the sharks and say get on with it.


Your post is the first idiot troll to be honest. I've been helping new players learn the game so as other have, so take your uninformed opinion and leave.

Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims.
Josefius
13th Tribe of Kobol Expeditionary
#120 - 2012-04-05 13:05:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Josefius
This game is unforgiving of lazy ADHD people, find your mistake a fix it. No one will ******* hold your hand. My advice is to join Eve University, they can help you.


EDIT
Why do I get the feeling I've been trolled by the OP?

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