EVE General Discussion

Today walkin home through the beautiful area of the southern UK in which i live, a car full of dudes pulled alongside me got out of the car and tried to mug me for my bag. The only thing in the bag was my laptop which is currently my only means of playing eve as well as my only means to perform my profession.

A massive thankyou to all of you for making the loss of my laptop not an option, am fine now dispite having given up nothing . It's funny how this game creeps into your mind in places you'd never expect, even in such a suddenly stressful situation i remember thinking of eve and how in a wierd way it felt almost normal for people to drive up and try to take my stuff Also dispite the laptop being insured it was thoughts of eve not work that kept my bag on my back throughout

It was quite a bad idea you had there

glad you made out ok, if thats the norm in your area id suggest getting a can of mace , or something along those lines.

whenever im out on road trips i always take along a can of bear spray :P 15 foot range and wow, what a wollup

Haha, mace is one of the many illegal weapons in the uk and yes it does tend to happen a bit round here :)

Bought a funny "non-harm" self defence weapon (i know nice concept there my government) for my ex girlfriend which consisted of a can of blue foam that empties entirely in 3 seconds into the assailants face when you pull the trigger. This temporarily blinds the attacker (just blue foam not irritant) and dyes their skin neon blue for 4 days. Its a sorry turn of events when self defence weapons are reduced to mere playthings

the lady that lives next door to me almost got mugged, but this being Alabama the would-be mugger found himself looking down the barrels of 4 rifles and a 12 gauge

In England everybody gets issued a Vagina to handle these situations with.


On a positive note, I have a theory that this game has the potential to set up neural pathways capable of breaking the "it can't happen to me" mentality that makes people ripe for becoming the next victim. Complacency is expensive in this game, and so the asshattery (or legitimate goals of piracy, war, etc) in this game can give a person an edge in the real world simply by the "practice" of the correct mindset to survive in this game.


This is why some people can say - and I would argue they could be correct - that suicide ganking an AFK player might be doing them a favor. This would be the case IF (instead of quitting, complaining on the forums, etc) they decided to play more carefully in the future.

Another potential loss to poor mindset in this game is the competition itself. A lot of people would look at other people, perhaps with more prowess or potential, and be inclined to modify they system in which they live under to quell competition. For example, a business owner who, fearing compeition, supports new laws making it harder for new people in the business to get their start. If you play EvE and agree with the mindset promoted in this game, you might intead find yourself in the opinion that if someone else can best you in open competition, then perhaps you deserve to lose.

This is the baseline struggle of EvE. People who will accept loss and gain on their own merits versus those who meta a system to their advantage.

Yeah tbh here had they actually stabbed me they would likely have driven off casually for a cup of tea, then watched from a nearby window as the paramedics injected me with a cup and the police waved their scary wooden sticks aloft in rage

That's a very situational tool. If help is near by, it gives you valuable time. Yet it has a lot less stopping power than real irritant inducers.
If there are multiple assailants, wasp spray may just **** them off enough to chase you down when they wouldn't have bothered chasing you down to begin with. As the thought is no longer stealing but revenge.

UK, go figure. I wouldn't be surprised if OP had brandished a five lbs. meat cleaver in defense and the cops instead went after him.

OP, good job.