EVE General Discussion

This is what humans are like behind their kind faces, polite words and socially acceptable masks. It's brutal and not pretty at all, and I hope for each and every one of your sakes, that you have learned this sometime in your adult life BEFORE losing pixel assets drives you to an overdose.

Came expecting a new exciting scam opportunity created by the Crucible expansion. Left feeling bored by a sob story that appears on these forums once every 2 months.

Eve is a rough game. Trust no one entirely. Getting ripped off is the realm of the weak and stupid.

People are not going to stop until the day comes when someone really off himself.

But from the safety of a keyboard, is anything new?


Give people badges and ski masks, or a soldiers uniform with a twisted cross on an armband, or a red star on a hat - and we have seen atrocity that makes space pixels seem entirely irrelevant.



I write once more that all I ever asked of griefers is that they admit they do it for the grief. I never try to change anybody's game, or tell anybody how to play. Out of courtesy I ask for one shred of honesty.

But a sociapath will always try to lie about their reasons, it's part of being one.


So what we have is a society in collapse, and it shows - but so far only in ways that people can get away with it without real consequences. We see it in a game, and we see it in RL too when, for example, cops can operate without repurcussions for their actions.

And we can see that the country going to the dogs the most has the most griefers to offer to the MMO community.

In RL though, where there is consequence, there is civility. If someone wants to call me names on the internet, I don't care. They can even exercise their First Amendment to my face for all I care. But touch me and I will empty a magazine into them and any friends who are pointing and laughing.

This is why I have not been touched in almost 30 years.

All that was ever proven in MMOs is that people will be asshats when they can get away with it without losing any blood, teeth, or money. It's a test for RL too: because we see a lot of people from corrupt cops who like to beat people up and then charge the victim with felony assault on an officer all the way up to politicians who start wars to line their pockets and kills hundreds of thousands. They get away with it, and so they keep doing it.

What I wonder most is, are these asshats in MMOs people who do roughly the same in RL and take themselves into the games, or are the asshats in MMOs people who are victims in RL and, having no recourse for revenge and/or justice, come to the game to take it out on someone else?

Maybe that's why griefers don't admit their true intentions.

lol

Before some of you deep thinking people go trying to make Eve a microcosm of real life remember that the publisher of this game set the stage before we ever undocked for the first time; Eve is a cold place where scamming is, if not encouraged then certainly not discouraged. They wanted this type of play, it's part of what makes it special. HTFU.

Real life of course the opposite is true, people that do naughty stuff out there are bad people for certain however in Eve they might just be doing what the creators intended them to.


Put differently:

1. Game environment designed to encourage scamming and asshattery
2. Anonymity of internet
3. Profit to be made
4. Likelihood of consequence near zero

I forget, what was the question?

U mad bro?

Maybe the scam is reading this thread

And how do we know the OP isn't entirely false?

This is a game. If you would try to kill yourself over it.. you should probably not play it.

Only left to say, really, is: can I have the rest of his stuff?

If one single word of the OP is true... I will eat my space hat.