EVE General Discussion

lol... they aren't giving OP a taste of their own medicine. If they were then they would use GAME MECHANICS to do so and find a way to deal with their 'issue' within that framework.

OP NEVER NEEDS TO CHANGE THEIR GAMING WAYS in order to avoid someone being upset.... which obviously upsets you and I'm glad it does. Who made you the gaming Moral Police? Just because you don't like the way someone plays does it make it wrong? OP plays within the intended framework of EvE as CCP intended it. So NOTHING is wrong with the way OP plays and has the perfect right to report someone who steps out of line in a verbally threatening manner.

OP you dont' deserve that type of treatment, unforunately you'll keep running into it, even if your just chatting in local. It really doesn't take much. I agree with an earlier poster that says skill your 'personal shields' up to V and keep reporting when they step out of line, and know that there are those of us here that support you.

Bo

You and the rest of the hurt feelings brigade just don't seem to get it.

No in game actions, none whatsoever, justify telling someone to kill themselves. I could camp you in station 23/7 for months until you literally quit the game, and that still does not give you any justification to tell me to kill myself.

If you think that it does, and I believe you do think that given that you put quote marks in "over the line", then you need to learn to separate yourself from the game a bit (actually a lot). If lost pixels are so enraging to anyone that they say something like this then they are in the wrong.

That's the part where you keep getting lost.

YOU are in the wrong. You are wrong because you are telling people that somehow it's their fault another person broke the EULA. You are wrong because you seem to think that unless everyone is all carebear kindness, pink and fluffy bunnies in a grimdark video game about blowing up spaceships, that it somehow excuses the bile and vitriol that roll off the lips of the ganked.

And you are wrong because you think it might ever stop. We gank them precisely because they rage so hard over it, we gank them because they take their space pixels too seriously, but most of all we gank them because it's fun.

And it's a video game, so that is ok. Telling someone that you want them to die in real life, and describing how, is not ok. There's an order of magnitude of difference.

You have depression so you join a game known for being extremely harmful to its community and a game known for not caring about others outside of their own cliques why?

You're like a drug addict who is surprised he's being called a meth head on the streets with an empty meth syringe in your hand.

You'll get no sympathy from me or a lot of others. If you're weak enough mentally to kill your self because of something the "Bad nerds " or "Evil people" said to you in a game then you don't deserve to stay in the gene pool and you don't deserve to procreate. It's a freaking game, if you're going to get butt hurt everytime someone says something mean to you in a game you might as well quit or find a way to deal with it.

Tough cookies.

Who do you think plays EvE and willing to PLEX multiple accounts?

Someone very mentally healthy?

The very nature of Everybody vs Everybody every day says something about who plays this game. Not a cheerful lot. It's a sarcastic group of players who probably got thrown in a locker, and now want geek revenge as Luke Skywalker (or Darth Vader).

It's also a genre that attracts those with ADHD; ADD; Aspergers and probably even Tourettes.

It's more like who isn't on meds playing.

Ummmm.... You seem to have missed the point completely. The point here is not that the OP's character is an @55h013, but that the person who said the things they said, said it to her and not her character. EVE is a role playing game as much as anything else. A pirate is the scum of space. I know, my toon was killed by one the other day. The player opened a chat with me. We exchanged a few comments. He gave me advice on how to better fit my frigate, and it was cool.

Now what if I went on a rage and called him names and the like. Wouldn't it mean that I had lost the line between a role playing character, and real-life person who was playing a role? You're telling her to change her ways as if she is the villain. She is a gamerplaying a role. The individuals who have lost sight of the line between role play and real-life are the problem, and have a problem.

The GMs need to take this seriously. They need to have a chat with these fellows who forget that when their toons die, they themselves have not actually been killed, or scammed out of their last dollar (or euro, or yen, etc). They only lost ISK (unless they used real money to buy play money. Then it's their own damned fault. But I digress).

No, Ghostcrawler was getting death threats.

If CCP devs got such death threats, you bet they'll tighten down the forums and stuff ingame.

It took that junk to finally clean up the trash ingame!

Growing up means that you lose emotional resiliency?

Damn... I've been doing it wrong for years!

I hope you are getting treatment for your depression. Don't forget about the people in your life that love you.

Also, remember that the people you engage in an online community may be going through problems of their own.

Try your best to deflect any trash talk that comes your way.

On a side note... I did find what you have described on this page under psychological warfare.

OP

Grow a pair...

You can tell we have problems with the kids of today when they cannot differentiate between a joking meme link, and someone goading someone to kill themselves in real life.