EVE General Discussion

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Somali pirates have attacked both US and French warships on several occasions... by accident. It didnt end well for them.

As for one's moral fiber being indicated by their gameplay, and this hobby of totally unqualified people diagnosing mental sickness from the game attitudes of others...

This is a video game; a luxury passtime. While some forms of gameplay ( notably those that extend OUTSIDE the game) may indeed be morally questionable for their real consequences, the vast majority of game activities cannot be morally evaluated at all. Trying to do so inevitably runs into the huge inconsistency of "what does it say that you're spending time and money on this game instead of some work beneficial to your fellow?"

In which case we're off plumbing the depths of utilitarianism and all its associated problems.

In-game morality really only extends to how gameplay affects the game at large. Trying to tie it to out of game moral fiber without some supporting out of game effect (suicide threats over game events, for example) is just blowing the events of a video game wildly out of proportion.

Not all gankers feel this way, perhaps not even most. Typically the biggest fools in society are also the most vocal hence why it seems so many gankers are like this. That is why it's also easier to just point and laugh at these sort of griefers than to try to argue or convince them otherwise.

I once had someone try to convince me he's "above me" on the EVE food chain because he ganks and I mine. He was saying this as I had 4 alts mining while my main and another alt were out ganking haulers.

The kind of person who enters a sandbox and tells people how to play with the sand is a simple fool, don't try to intellectualize their opinions too much.

None of that will help your EHP any, so stack on all the guns you want. My Tornado was never coming home anyway.

These threads just keep coming, it's an endless mind numbing cycle
Every one thinks they have the cure to Eves problem, though by the look of active pilots lately I fail to see what the problem is, the game is healthy and seems pretty balanced.

Firstly, you have no evidence on which to judge whether I am disconnected or not. We have never interacted in game and I am not a ganker. So take your bullshit elsewhere.

Secondly, I said nothing about the silly moral compass crap your keep peddling.

The rules within EvE are not the same rules we each follow under criminal codes of our different societies.

To survive in EvE, you need to think in terms of the rules of the game.

Survival =/= anything to do with whatever choices you think are morally corrupt. To survive in EvE, apply the rules of EvE and make relevant choices accordingly. If you think bad boogy people are going to attack you because they are allowed to, then figure out within the rules how to prevent that.

Do you guys ever notice that nearly all of the threads DE participates in end up in a ****-fest like this? Funny how that works.

hm.... do i pay for this game to deliver fun to some people i don't like?

Not if they do them in a game, no. Largely because, you know, it's in a game and the “bad” things they do have no bearing on reality.

Unless what you're trying to say is that bad people who do things in a game are bad people in-game, which obviously tells us nothing about how they are outside of the game.

…but they do if it happens inside the magic circle. After all, that's how and the magic circle works and why it exists. It's also why play is so important at an early age: to build that crucial ability to separate the two modes and become healthy and well-adjusted people that can function in society.

All you're doing is engaging in tautology here. Of course other characters are played by real people; that's the definition of an MMO. What he's pointing out is that the premise of the game is not based on the ruleset we are obligated to follow in real life. All you've done is nitpick the semantics of how he said it and state the blindingly obvious.