EVE General Discussion

Which ones?



That implies that people take NPC posting alts seriously. And no, it's not used as a form of "metagaming," NPC corp posting alts are just used for sockpuppetry.



Yes it does.

I used to play a Discworld MUD RPG text based game. In that game you could go "Playerkiller" which means other Playerkillers (PKs) could attack you whenever. I was a thief, so I could steal other PK's stuff, but I was far too lazy to actually grind the hours and hours and hours worth of XP needed to be a good fighter (FYI the game had no skill caps, so you'd literally be able to become level 1000000 in a skill with enough effort meaning no-one new could stand stand a chance).

I posted a lot of stuff and it wasn't shiptoasting, it just was conflicting with what a load of asshats thought. These asshats kept hiring assassins to kill me. How the system worked is you started with 7 "lives", a PK kill DIDN'T take a life, but an assassination did. You could buy more lives at an increasing cost.

I think by the time I stopped playing the game which, somehow, was even worse than EVE Online: A Terrible Game I think I had been assassinated something like 30 times. Each of my lives cost $1300 to rebuy at the end (not pocket change) but each contract cost them $2800. I was wasting THEIR money.

I was proud of the fact that my words alone caused so many people to dislike me so much. Especially since the ones doing so 99% of the time did it anonymously THEY didn't have the balls to even sign their name on the card that was left with your corpse. Be proud of both attracting and placing bounties due to forum posts.


Also side note: The value of your ship will directly influence how worth it is to collect the bounty in High Sec without kill rights. Flying a 10 mil ship that pays out a 10% bounty wouldn't be worth it. Flying a 800mil ship that pays out 80 mil might be. Assuming the system works that way.

I would imagine ones that dont want to have to suffer wardecs and such for the views or actions of one of it members on the forums.

I predict that this like most other changes CCP has tried in recent introductions will fail horribly but only after being manipulated to the breaking point by people smarter than CCP's employees.

People don't post their personal information because there is a difference between trying to avoid in game consequences and real life consequences. Your confusion on this point is an excellent example of why it isn't done.

If your alliance has a code against forum posts, and it is important to you to post, find a different alliance.

If you want to speak your mind, you should be prepared to defend that stance in game... perhaps by creating a low skilled PVP character that actually undocks occasionally.

NPC forum alts actually are a bit cowardly. They are an extra layer of anonymity created specifically to protect your imaginary characters from taking responsibility for what you say in a space ship video game. It is quite possibly the lamest tactic developed in any video game ever. Perhaps it's time to stop trading your dignity for imaginary space pixels.

Sorry, lending support to your own threads in F&I with 10 of your own posting alts isn't 'metagaming'

How does exposing yourself to identity theft by anonymous parties make you brave? That's stupidity, not courage.

Your other points, in order:

1. Not being allowed to post by your corporation means you're in a ****** corporation which is led by another castrated sperglord who is too afraid to agitate someone who might know how to fit weapons to a ship without resulting in an epic killmail-of-the-year post on Battleclinic.

2. Speaking your mind is just as valid, if not more so, on your main than on an alt. If you're too afraid to speak your mind without hiding your real character(s), you're a tiny baby coward.

3. Meta-gaming is fine, but don't expect to be taken seriously. Alt posts are inconsequential.

I'm by no means a tough guy. I won't, however, denigrate myself by hiding from the one arguable feature that makes this game worth playing. If you do, then you have the integrity and testicular fortitude of a wet paper bag full of used tampons.

Im hoping the bounty setter will be able to set the percent rate, from 1% up to whatever limit insures no one can make a net profit by shooting themselves.

Id like to see you be able to set bounties over classes of people, and define classes of people eligible to collect. For example: a bounty on all people with a -5 or lower sec status, collectable by anyone with a sec status above +2, excluding members of particular alliances.

haha!

(now I want a bounty!)

Well Ed, Ed, and Eddie were busy hatching a plot to sell tickets to a fake amusement park for 25 cents a person. This impacted their ability to get the editing done before the deadline.