Warfare & Tactics

Sadly quite a few people play online games with the intent of griefing other players escpecialy new players who lack the understanding or ability to protect themselves.

It Could be they are being abused at home and need to let out all that anger and torment on another defenseless soul.
Could be frustration at a complete lack of both social and sexual intercourse.

Either way they are always there in every single online game that allows PVP.

And I like how some people need the rules to protect them from others. And being an idiot to fall for something so obvious is still being an idiot even if it's a newbie (lessons are best learned when they are still cheap).

And being a stuck-up on the forums because you're a loser in the game and making stupid assumptions about players preferring adversarial behaviour IN A GAME, to make yourself feel better still makes you pathetic.

Canflipping may indeed be a rather confusing mechanic to grasp. If these newbies tried, they could have learned from it by reading several guides made by EVE community. But naturally many players who are used to rather easier games that wrap you in a warm soft blanket of safety, don't bother with this. In here, even as a newbie, you have to expect that there are those "big bad guys" waiting to skin your scalp, just because it's fun.

When a bunch of people are put into a sandbox with game mechanics and rules that don't tie them too much into what "they can't do", they do what entertains them the most. In this sandbox, the players are not restricted by same laws and ideal behavior models we have in real life: plus, they can be fully anonymous. I wouldn't necessarily call all griefers sociopaths. In EVE, you are not actually killing or hurting anyone, it's just their avatar: it's like sports where you race to the victory - and someone has to always lose, of course.

When I play eve I assume other players know something about eve and how i works. If they don't, it's our job to teach them, and no better way then the hard way. This game is rather brutal at times and it doesn't suffer fools. I

That said, there are limits. I have mine, other people have theirs. I would never do anything intentionally that I thought would harm someone in real life, I don't take pleasure in seeing people angry or frustrated. I don't believe in the whole goon philosophy of trying to make people not log into the game. I don't think people that do those things are sociopaths though, at least not most of them.

A big part of the equation is that most of us never meet in RL. You treat people you have met differently, it's just the way things work. It's not completely fair to judge how someone acts in RL by how they act in game.

Joc

If **** ain't weird, it's boring.

Just gonna re-post here to refresh the info.

It's a game with GUNS ! Your very first rookie ship has a GUN! So does everybody else's.
The first gate you fly through shows a SECURITY LEVEL.
The owner/developer of the game spends massive time and money to make BETTER GUNS, BETTER AMMO, BETTER GUNSHIPS. Close to 200 killing machines.
There are 6 mining ships

These should be major clues into what the game is focused on.


"You got shot?" Well no sh*t Sherlock.

they do it cause its funny. Much like shooting fish in a barrel, good for a quite a few laughs.