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The "GF" comment after fights
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Pew Terror
All of it
#21 - 2014-02-12 19:27:35 UTC
Leto Thule wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
Shocked

I always thought it meant: "Get F$#@ed"


Holy ****! That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen... your avatar looks like a mix of Michael Jackson and the chick from "The Ring".

Yikes.


GF
Gizznitt Malikite
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
#22 - 2014-02-12 19:33:26 UTC

There are appropriate times to say GF, and inappropriate ones.

Generally, if the victim says GF, it is impolite to not return the GF.

If you feel the fight was in good sportsmanship (win or lose), saying GF is appropriate.

The truth is, fights happen in EvE when both sides believe they can win, and just because the end result was you getting curbstomped did not negate it being a gf.

Leto Thule
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#23 - 2014-02-12 19:46:41 UTC
Pew Terror wrote:
Leto Thule wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
Shocked

I always thought it meant: "Get F$#@ed"


Holy ****! That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen... your avatar looks like a mix of Michael Jackson and the chick from "The Ring".

Yikes.


GF



GF

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Christine Peeveepeeski
Low Sec Concepts
#24 - 2014-02-12 19:51:03 UTC
I say GF 90% of the time, i only don't bother if it was a plex farmer that died.

I do it out of habit from the days I played freelancer.
Pew Terror
All of it
#25 - 2014-02-12 20:32:32 UTC
Leto Thule wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
Leto Thule wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
Shocked

I always thought it meant: "Get F$#@ed"


Holy ****! That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen... your avatar looks like a mix of Michael Jackson and the chick from "The Ring".

Yikes.


GF



GF


<3
Ria Nieyli
Nieyli Enterprises
When Fleets Collide
#26 - 2014-02-12 21:59:37 UTC
Gizznitt Malikite wrote:

If you feel the fight was in good sportsmanship (win or lose), saying GF is appropriate.


OK, let's say we have a 1v1 frig fight and you blow me up. I say nothing. Why is that inappropriate? Honest question.
Hannibal Carlisle
Relapse Anonymous
Sedition.
#27 - 2014-02-12 22:08:17 UTC
Leto Thule wrote:
Not sure what some of these other posts are, but when I GF in local, its exactly what it means. Good fight. When I win, when I lose. Mostly, its just a mutual courtesy from both parties acknowledging no hard feelings or tears.

In your case, if you are talking about a gank, they are trolling you. They wanted you to do exactly what you did, which is come into the hornets nest and post about it, or cry in local.

The best thing you can do after getting ganked? GF back. They wont have much to go on if you do that, and you may find that some of them are actually very helpful once you prove your not a crybaby. After I gank missioners, if they are cool about it, I advise them of what they could have done better, what they could have looked out for, ect. Sometimes I even give them a chance to join up and actually PLAY EVE rather than shoot red crosses.



Much the same here. If I derp into a gate camp I hope to take one with me as I die, but still 'gf' either way. Eve is eve.
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#28 - 2014-02-13 01:00:48 UTC
Saying 'GF' after a gank means you respect the mark's capability to get their pod out safely. If they are still in local, it's not a total victory.

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Donovan Draknevov
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2014-02-13 01:06:31 UTC
Leto Thule wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
Shocked

I always thought it meant: "Get F$#@ed"


Holy ****! That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen... your avatar looks like a mix of Michael Jackson and the chick from "The Ring".

Yikes.


Dammit you made me shoot Quafe out of my nose.

On topic, I say GF nowadays. Usually I'm getting blown up, but I still shoot 'em a message. Hell, this is an example of one of the times I got blapped. Now, if I get gate-camped, or suddenly dropped upon and completely annihilated by The Blob (TM), I'll probably not say GF because there was no fight. It was a massacre. However, it's Eve. A video game. I'll probably just say something like "Damn, ya got me good."

Trust in the Rust
Demerius Xenocratus
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2014-02-13 03:26:18 UTC
There is a difference between a fight and an execution.
Lenroc Elisav
Lenny'S TAX evasion 101
#31 - 2014-02-13 10:00:46 UTC
Batelle wrote:
i will GF for an actual fight.

No need to GF someone you exploded in your gatecamp or caught with their pants down.


I actually GF even then but what I mean is "good ****". Meh, not really i'm just kidding Cool.
Esha Ditrix
#32 - 2014-02-13 10:11:05 UTC
Agondray wrote:
The rest are just in it for the tears as they live in their parents basement or attic

you do realise that using that old statment in 2014 says more about your own intellect then the people your trying to smear ?

Its not an exploit, if the game lets you do it...
Alice Ituin
Doomheim
#33 - 2014-02-13 11:21:50 UTC
I only GF if there was some sort of fighting, meaning either the other party was looking for PvP or at least shot back. Doesn't matter if he had a chance or not.

However when I e.g. just shoot someone's industrial at a gate I don't GF.
Etuura Zellis
Scarlet Corsairs
#34 - 2014-02-13 11:26:09 UTC
Sylphy wrote:
Let's imagine 11 bruisers, with baseball bats, axes, knives and all kinds of other blunt/edged weapons descend upon a minor, - toothless, without arms and a lame leg. He can't run, he can't fight back, all he can do is scream incoherently hoping someone in the local community will hear and help.

The outcome is, predictable. The minor is beaten/hacked/smashed into a bloody pulp. Visual image of biomass or pod goo.

Why would anyone participating in that fight (in this case, two of the agressors), comment with "GF".

What about that single fight deserved merit of being a "good fight" ? Can someone explain me this. It wouldn't be bad if he said "good slaugher" or "good gank" or "good wtfpwn", those would seem fitting, but.. "good fight", really?

This isn't a whine, or so-called tears. It's a question of what deserves the merit of a good fight, asking the community.
I put it in this section because I can't seem to find a good fit for it anyplace else.



Maybe they meant "Get F*****"
Bane Nucleus
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#35 - 2014-02-13 11:39:54 UTC
I say gf out of habit and simply to acknowledge that some pew took place. A tip of my hat to my defeated or victorious opponent, so to speak.

No trolling please
Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
#36 - 2014-02-13 14:37:59 UTC
Typically if there is an actual real good fight i will type 'that was awesome' in local. Actual good fights don't happen every day, so if I'm not in a fresh clone in empire I'll take the time to tyupe how happy I really am. I'll gf in local if the other guy does just to be polite. Most times I say nothing. Some guys take the GF in a bad way after they lose, so I just move on. I like to win as much as the next guy and I'm a little short on sympathy, but then again I don't get off on tears so much.

For folks trying to figure it all out - I'll say this. If you want to be a nice guy - do it. If you want to be a D0uch3 and extract some tears - do it. That's really the point of this game. We're all role playing space pilots (the actual space pilots playing eve is prolly a low number) - do whatever feels right. There really isn't a right answer in eve. What you do determines who you hang out with and who hates you for life. I've got some of both over the years and loved every minute of it.

TL - relax, enjoy
Kimo Khan
Rage Against All Reds
GunFam
#37 - 2014-02-13 15:39:38 UTC
Ria Nieyli wrote:
Gizznitt Malikite wrote:

If you feel the fight was in good sportsmanship (win or lose), saying GF is appropriate.


OK, let's say we have a 1v1 frig fight and you blow me up. I say nothing. Why is that inappropriate? Honest question.


Inappropriate no, un-sportsman more likely.

Why do we say please and thank you..... social convention.
Cannibal Kane
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#38 - 2014-02-13 15:58:12 UTC
I never do a GF in local. Unless they do so first.

Reason being is that the fight is always skewed in my favor because that is how I planned it.

"Kane is the End Boss of Highsec." -Psychotic Monk
Starrakatt
Empire Assault Corp
Dead Terrorists
#39 - 2014-02-13 16:29:34 UTC
I do not always GF in Local, when it's a straight gank I may o7 before going may way (or pod). You could call that trolling if you will, but I am usually mr. nice guy with targets, unless they start abusing Local.

Now, I use different levels of GF.

'gf' with or without salute goes for a one sided kill but where the target(s) at least tried to fight back, there is hope for these people.

I am also a firm believer that a draw deserves a GF, either me or target managing to disengage if overwhelmed. Yes it happens.

GF, GF! sometimes followed up by a salute or small chat. Reserved for real fights, where targets were pvp fit and/or gave an awesome account of themselves even with a PVE fit. Not rare for me, as I often hunt bigger fish in frigates.

GJ or 'well played' or 'good catch' are not uncommon either. depends of situation. I do agree with the OP though, GFing a gank is pure trolling. Now, I never do that. Instead, I ask fleet mates to do it, got to polish that 'mr. nice guy' image... :P

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Dreadeye
Meta Zero
Meta Reloaded
#40 - 2014-02-13 16:47:25 UTC
It might be a good fight and there for a GF is appropriate. Its not easy to define a good fight, there can be a lot of criteria to a good fight, and thus it should be the involved parties that should decided if its a good fight. Your fleet could be welped but it could be a good fight anyway.

you can put GF as respect to thoose you fought - the gentlemen GF.

however if you ganked someone that didnt fight back a GF is kind of ironic., if you still have the urge to acknowledge the fight somehow then put a GG(Good Gank) in local instead - you ganked them and it was good Blink then wait for the tears