EVE General Discussion

Can you two take the RP discussion to PMs, please. While this thread is from the start a grievous (pun intended) misrepresentation and a false flag, talking about whose RP is more heinous than the other is completely off topic.

You're both equally awful, and God loves you both anyway.

Objectively yes, it's just like there's a difference between say eating a grape you didn't pay for in the grocery store and stealing a car. Both are stealing, but I doubt most people will consider those to be the same tier of stealing.

EDIT: Fixed mangled quote, hate when that happens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomology

Not to be confused with Etymology, the study of the history of words

sorry couldn't resist

Comically missing the point. The point is that even for real offenses (since we are treating being OORP as an "offense") there are different tiers.

For example, in your felony you have different classes representing severity with different punishments. The reasoning is that there are different "levels of severity" in doing something wrong.

That was the point, mate.

Ok, "mate"

I see that

But I still cannot see how being called "danieldaypoous" is to grape-stealing as a station called "Slags for sale" is to car-theft

You havent actually explained the difference, you simply stated that (you believe) there is one

You haven't stated why they aren't. Common sense suggests that one action is worse because it has a broader scope than the other.

As I've stated, the difference is in how localized the effects of the action is.

Station names show up on the map. You are literally putting that stupid name on the map

Besides, devs change offensive character names all the time (Caldari Citizen 3243984798327 etc), but a fly-by in sov null will reveal plenty of station names that, if they were character names, would probably be removed.

They don't change OORP names, they change names that break their EULA.

The point is that character names are not permanent either.

... must be ISD's day off... we're getting good mileage out of this one without so much as the approaching "wooop -wooop" beginning to echo in the distance...

* popcorn *



So not being a roleplayer is equivalent to not knowing you are playing a game?



It isn't within the lore, I assure you that there is no EVE chronicle about the great masternerdguy (at least CCP hasn't written it yep)

However, it does have meaning to me. This is the identity I use on the internet, everywhere. When I am on the internet, this identity is more important to me than my real name. I consider it just as valid. And, if you want to roleplay, I can't find it hard to imagine some New Eden computer nerd calling themselves "masternerdguy"

My original post was not about OORP names, however. It was about the NPE and the changes suggested in the Mittani article. That little argument tacked on to the end is very small compared to the previous points, and you've managed to totally misinterpret it. My point is not that OORP names are bad, please consider the following.

Even though I am not a roleplayer I have read many of the chronicles, especially the ones that describe how technologies in their world work. It's just fun stuff to know, and some of it is actually pretty novel and clever. For example, CCP has written an extremely detailed paper on how FTL travel in their world works that I highly recommend people should read (especially before you ask why there are no binary stars in EVE - they ALL are).

In the original Mittani article, they said few read the lore. I'm curious if this is actually true. I've read some of it and I am definitely not a role player.

Actually, those EVE chronicles have some brilliant science fiction shorts.

Throwing all that good literature away so that we can try to coddle someone into staying, someone who will leave anyway because they were tricked (read: given a false impression) into the game, is offensive and wasteful.

So, if you want to argue any of my other points feel free, but the primary purpose of my OP was not to argue lore.