EVE General Discussion

OP is assuming that the average EVE player had morals before playing......

I think my moral compass is broken. It only points North.



No, wait a minute, that is a regular compass. That is why I've been getting lost when I go out of town.

no, because I recognize Eve is just a game. I don't hold any real malice towards those I shoot any more than I 'hate' the person I'm playing Backgammon against. In chess you 'kill' enemy soldiers until you can depose the enemy king himself. No one considers playing chess as an indictment of one's moral compass. Eve is no different than paintball without the welts.

I also don't get my self-esteem from games, and I think this is a critical point. I've done enough in my real life to not get excited over wins or losses in a video game. I think this is where young players fall into that stereotype of smack talking and endless ganking. They just haven't done anything in real life to compare to a video game and so their skill at the game begins to mean alot to their self-esteem.

All games let you pretend to be something you're likely not.....pro football player in Madden, F1 driver in..well F1 20whatever....Eve let me be a scary space pirate for awhile which is something I'll just never really get to be. Now I enjoy being a sov null alliance pilot and exploring the higher end of PvP as opposed to that decidedly low budget piracy in low sec. It's similar to the military, which I miss since leaving it, but without actual life and death danger.

I don't consider morality at all in games really. I try to play them 'as intended' and Eve is based on the concepts of Non-Consensual PvP combined with real loss for losing. This is the most important aspect of Eve to me, despite having been on the receiving end of the consequences many times. Even losing in Eve is usually pretty fun (if you're not a care bear). But it is that core paradigm that has kept me playing (and paying) for years.

Are you sure about that very last part?

I'm just as honest in real life as I am in the game. They are one and the same. I tell everyone everything about myself pretty much. Sorry, I don't double dollars.

I know people don't like quotes from the Bible here but here's is something personally I always pondered.

Why did GOD flood the world.

Coming here to eve and seeing how much of the people do behave as far as their true nature comes out I now understand why GOD drowned the RATS (people).

That being said there are very few people who are true to good moral behavior, cause even though it's game theres a real is human on the other side of that keyboard.

No need to be evil to that real person who's minding their own.

And saying well it's a game is not a reason to bugger them then troll them for lolz.

The difference is in the real world we are forced to behave because there are real consequences the anonymity of the net people become naked.

I never claim to be of the highest moral caliber but I do try to control my impulses to do as I'm tempted to do alot and it's not easy but I get better at it the more I make effort.

Otherwise I choose mediocrity.

My moral compass always points to good.

Nope. You can be whatever you want to in EvE, and react however you want to other peoples actions. I can be a prick if I want, it's just a game. It doesn't change who I am and how I interact with the outside world.....I don't interact with the outside world.

If everybody acted like they do in EVE they'd all be in prison within a year so I don't think people let the game translate -that- much into real life.

I was seriously anti-podding when I joined EVE and remained so for about a year, even as a pirate PvPer.
Then I tried it and liked it, especially when implants were counted.
Then it was helpless industrials in lowsec.
When I was in another game I wanted to gank people that were a bit jerky.
I blame/thank EVE for these new tendencies of pixel violence.

BUT...I'm still nice to people and treat them with the respect they deserve. So, no.

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