EVE General Discussion

I try not to let things bother me.

But, I do think the reason underneath a good bit of the rage and name calling from the gankee community might very well be based in jealousy.

Who doesn't want to be the cool kid who runs around killing folks randomly without seeming to care about consequence or reputation... who has the skill to pull off such ganks, the balls to actually pvp, who does not seem at all constrained by societies norms... those norms which so hinder themselves.

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Son, the world is ruled by sociopaths,....know what? Most of them were even elected by their people.


To topic: I think a lot of people do actually take this and other Games FAR to serious.

I can tell you an anecdote: Some years ago, a "friend" who was playing WoW on a PvP server by that time thought about trying out another faction on a role play server. Leaving the first starter area heading for the capital he stumbled across a group of Nightelves and Humans who were just busy with "erotic role play" in front of stormwind. I mean...thats just wrong...

Others try to substitute their lack of real life contacts online, and those guys really take things serious ingame.

I personally love the hatered comments we often get in local when we pop all this little pixel-dreams...for me it is all about the fun after a hard day or week of work.
In fact most pvp pilots I know have quite time consuming real life jobs, families and social relations and log in for a few hours a week to...well, just blow up other peoples stuff.

I don't know about anyone else, but I act the same in real life. Say someone cuts me off on the highway. I shoot out their tires, ram into the rear of their vehicle, get out, fling open their door and throw them over the divider and then I blow up what's left of the car.

Afterward, I steal everything I can from the owner of the destroyed vehicle, then I leave him/her naked on the side of the highway.

Ganking a help less mining ship 1 dont take skill. 2 ganker dont have balls they just have wallets that let them gank. 3.Ganks there not sociopath's they just think there big stuff when there not. just sad sacks that think there big pvpers "look i have 4 bil in hulk kills" with what 20 mil lose in a destoryer my my want a skilled pvper.

i have gank 3 mining ships in the 4 and half years in eve i was really bored but in the end what the fun in ganking a ship that really cant fight back and there no honor in it eather "honor" is something lacking in most eve players i see btw.

Say we are playing poker, and the game has run to high stakes. When I take you for $10000 dollars, does that or does that not ruin your day? And if it does, and I not allowed to enjoy the fact that I won?

At worst, gankers who gloat about it are bad sportsmen, but it is also very poor sportsmanship to sry about loosing.

I was watching a show the other day about sociopaths. Apparently they tend to wind up in CEO positions. So before you start looking at your trigger happy mates around you, look up the ladder to your corp and alliance leaders.

That's right. One day they're going to show up at your house wearing a suit and a smile. They're going to shake your hand and then stab you repeatedly while firmly stating 'Good job on the Dow Corning contract Ted, great work!'

While Im sure it doesn't stand for everyone, there are a few that are really sociopaths. Never encountered any in Eve but in another game I have, was even on vent with him when he had a total meltdown (insane jumble of rl insults and threats of finding another person irl to kill him). It was quite disturbing because a few months prior to this a Russian in the same game had actually beaten someone to death.

http://kotaku.com/345969/russian-man-killed-over-lineage-ii-clan-grudge

Well, if a fat real life ******, discarded by his parents and regularly beaten by his school mates uses his time in the bunk to kill pixels instead of torturing kittens, I guess that is called improvement.

If moral ambiguous person found out that ganking hulks is profitable business in eve, I wouldn't blame him for following that money trail.

If a real as..ole is willing to show his true colors, and thereby gives you an opponent that you can leave bleeding on the street without feeling any remorse, I guess that gives the game some great opponents, and fun to play.

What I really don't like is the attitude of the game designers, doing such a poor job in creating a functioning sand box with a reasonable risk / reward ratio, and even take pride in their failures, as shown in the dev blog about burn jita.

And here we have a prime example, throwing generalisations around like confetti at a wedding and adopting a (fake) moral superiority by convincing themselves that anyone who shoots a hulk or industrial ship is a backward neckbeard with emotional difficulties.

It's actually attitudes like this being waved around that has made so many want to gank hulks in the first place and I understand the sentiment so well.

The people who say that are the kind of people that have temper tantrums when they play monopoly with their family.

Read "emotionally volatile".