EVE General Discussion

So if I wardec you today you will actually come and shoot me. I will spend the poultry 50mil to wardec you and we will see how much meaning your words actually hold. Come with anything less then a Battleship and I will consider you a joke. Somebody that talks to much on the forums with little to no action.

So you admit that you're just trolling then. Goodie. Next time you try, attempt to have an argument based in reality and you might actually be able to not come out with a score of 0.

Now, you do realise that this is already something that's not allowed and that you're only offering up meaningless platitudes at this point? What you're describing is something quite apart from playing the game as expected and in accordance with the rules — an act you also want to attribute to being “bad”, somehow.


…which would be no fun if it was just an automated simulacrum of resistance rather than an actual, unpredictable person at the other end who's actively trying to oppose themselves to what they're doing.

No, they — like everyone else playing a professional badguy — don't particularly care about new players because they have nothing on offer. They lack the funds or the entrenchment that makes them worth taking money from.

And knowing the game better than your opponent has been a part of PvP since roughly forever. Yes, there are other ways of beating them but just because you might not like that particular aspect doesn't mean it's an invalid one. Meanwhile, most of this is about outmanoeuvring and outsmarting the opponent… although admittedly, the opponents have a nasty tendency to choose no manoeuvres and no thinking as their “move” in the match. But that's their bad choice and they get to live with the consequences of it.

And yes, it does make EVE a better game because none of it is scripted or predictable or left to easily deconstructed and manipulated “AI”. You have to actually play just a liiiittle bit better than your opponent(s) to win. In many cases, this equates to a minute amount of effort but it's still vastly more than if the game were designed differently.

But those people don't matter because they get banned in short order since what you describe isn't allowed.

To Cannibal Kane, I can already tell you are a waste of my time. War Dec me if you want, bring it. But I am not going out of my way to find your worthless carcass.

And I will be flying my beloved Ishtar, so screw off if you want a Battleship fight.

If they did, they wouldn't have as many GM and dev statements claimng that what they're doing is within the rules of the game, and the many petitions surely levelled against them at this time would have left none of them in the game.

Harassment and griefing, especially of new players, is probably among the quickest ways to bring an immediate halt to your subscription.

You mean the technicality of not breaking any rules? No, I think that one will last them quite a while.

So be it.... You will then loose your beloved Ishtar if I find you in space.

I'll be around, but not holding my breath.

Your mouth is cashing chips your ass can't cash.

https://zkillboard.com/character/182711472/

Normally i'd say this is gonna be interesting but unless kyperion stays docked during the wardec i unfortunatly allready know what the outcome of this will be .

Storytime!

Yesterday I arrived in an icebelt with my whitless sideproject mining alt (whom I regret, and detest almost on a personal level, and have no idea why I do it to myself) to find a Covetor blasting away surrounded by three cans. Upon closer inspection, they where indeed each filled to the brim with ice.

This caused a number of reactions in me that I found interesting.

Primary among them, was my own bitterness from earlier in my own mining career in a Venture when I tried to compete with fleets of multiboxed Mackinaws with Orca support in Ore Anomalies (which is why I made the alt, as I wanted to make use of those and my OCD chafed at them popping up in my home constellation and me not being able to do anything about it). I went to somewhat elaborate extents to avoid what I perceived as risks, such as dumping each load at a safe bookmark, and the little trick of renaming my can next to me as a "Small Secure Container' (oh how xlever I am!). At first I would pick up my stash with a lumbering Mammoth (again, thinking I was clever to have researched how to use Giant Secure containers to Planck up my cargospace, only to realise the Miasmos exists. So I got one of them then. All of this cost me ISK, research time online, ingame time away from the belt, and use of my noggin (a painful enterprise).

Anyways, all this I had done, as a prudent precaution in my tiny Venture. And here this guy is, greedily blasting away surrounded by 12mil of ice in neat packages. That rubbed something the wrong way in me.

So I sent the guy a Chat request, and upon him acceppting it (to his credit almoost immediately), I asked why he was jet canning. He said something to the effect of "lol just trying it out emoticon emoticon". I hate emoticons. My ire was raised further.

Inlooked at the clock and made a decision. I informed him he had 10mins to clear out his cans, or "we" would take them. Ofc, I dont actually have any backup except my main, so I could conceivably have taken atleast two. He aquiesced to my ultimatum, and immediately started moving his cans. I felt gratifued by this, not because I had manipulated someones behavior, but because now I no longer had to stare at the offending cans as a testimony to his greed and total disregard for precautions (which I had myself gone to lengths to ensure in my own career).

All was well in the world, the belt was cleared with him also having time to mine some more after completing his task.
Then I received his ingame mail. He had apparently checked my account age etc, and now started insulting me about bullying, how I should growup, how I probably have no friends and in no unclear terms what a bastard and asshat I am. And promptly blocked me.

All this because I gave him 10mins warning to clear his cans, whereas I could have simply started taking them.

So who is the bad guy in this situation?
Who is the one with the attitude problem?


I thinknthis reflects very well on what OP is saying in arather negative light, and her attitude, to me, is the same this miner had, and one I have to say I find extremely offensive, immature and disrespectful of other players both as ingame actors and real people behind the screen. A distinct lack of introspectiin and empathy on their part, and a selfish focus on only ones own motives and benefit, with little regard of that of others.