EVE General Discussion

One can always hope?

Hello, i have watched your responses on here and you seem, hell bent on causing a fight, one question, for what gain? Or simply to feel like your accomplished something without really making any effort.

If i may, I'm probably a lot older than you, and in my advancing years you find this trolling/abuse/hostile behavior very sad, because it does show your personality out of eve, it shows, what you would truly like to be in life if there were no rules and no laws.

My advice to you would be to stop and leave it alone, simply harassing a player because your view is different, doesn't make you right, it simply means you have a different opinion. I am well versed on trolling behavior, we gank people for no reason other than we can.

What is so original about someone rolling an alt to post a whine thread on the forums?

Good post, good post. Would read again :)

Yeah, these forums --and, IMHO, the EVE-community in general-- have severely deteriorated in the last year or so, especially. Although I suspect the rot started before that...

(I'm not a "vet," but going on 4 years is far from newb. Certainly enough to have been around the block a few times, and to know what's what.)

This is just my view and experience (possible rose-coloured glasses, I grant), but:

Even just a few years ago, you never would have seen an utterly un-needed nerf to something (Heavy Missiles) just because a bunch of over-entitled whiny kids spent a year crying about it.

"Nerf it because it keeps killing me!!111oneoone! I'm entitled to not have to be a better player and having CCP protect me from my own incompetence by ******* over the rest of the player-base!"

You never would have seen the worst carebears in the game get an utterly excessive buff (the recent mining-barge EHP buffs, to near-battleship level in some cases) to protect them from the consequences of their own lazy stupidity because they consistently chose not to use the tools that CCP provides to everyone equally to protect themselves.

"I should be allowed to mine in perfect safety in hisec! NURVSUIGANKING CCP!!!!oneoeneone!!11" (Don't even get me started re-- CCPPoundSandWave's monumental hypocrisy, or CCPGreyscale's even worse utter cluelessness)

What you/we would have seen just a few years ago is that every one of these ******* waste-of-bandwidth crybears --and the "elite" of zerosec are some of the worst of that lot!-- flamed into oblivion, with plenty of "I can haz ur stuffs?" and "WoW, that way---->" and "HTFU or GTFO." Even from --or I should say, especially from-- devs! All this, as was --and still is-- only right and proper for EVE.

Now?

Not so much, to put it mildly.

Why have I tied this rather long tail onto this?

Because the nature of the Internet permits letting guard down and showing one's true self, and a lot of these peoples' true self is nothing but odious, entitled spoiled childishness, and CCP appears to have begun courting them to chase cash. Again (because that worked so well the last time!).

These forums are simply a reflection of the community.

And this community...It just ain't what it used to be, maing.

It certainly ain't what it should be, anymore.

And that makes me has a sad :(


Oh, just by the bye:

You think G/D is a cesspit? Well, yes. Yes, it is, but dude:

Stay far away from CAOD, it is just...well, indescribable, really

We all wear a mask when playing EvE, whether we want to or not. But the mask, like all masks, is still shaped by the face beneath it... and if someone says anything about Guy Fawkes, I'm going to Fawkes up your Guy's day.

Um, that is happening Dev 5th.

"Back in my day everything was better. Oh of course all the stuff that goes on now went on then too, but there was less of it and it was less annoying. Why can't things be like they were before, you know that time when everything was better, because the things that are done now were done in a better way?"

No offence to the OP but everyone thinks that the past was an amazing place. I genuinely hope if I look at the game in 2019 and I think back to when I started I don't forget all the problems with everything there were then.

People. People never change.

[quote=Touval LysanderFirstly. I'm probably a lot older than you think. I'm semi-retired with teenage children. I'm also highly educated and wealthy. I did not achieve those things by being a "troll" or a "moron" in real life.[/quote]

With all due respect, I doubt this statement very much. I have looked into your post history over the past week, it is pretty much constant. If you were indeed "wealthy" you would not be sat on EvE Online forums, nor would you be playing a video game non stop, you would be out living your life, doing what ever it is that wealthy people do.

In terms of people who say "i am highly educated and wealthy" this normally translates into "i am some what poor, have low self esteem and lie on the internet because people cannot prove otherwise".

Myself for instance, i am married, four children, i am not wealthy, i attended Oxford Brookes university and have a degree in IT, i live a comfortable existence.

Back to your point. The "real life" persona is a complete fiction, a simple study of Psychology will prove this, there have been numerous tests done on this in the past ten years. A player, if he/she is openly disrespectful towards others in "a game" is in fact very polite in real life, not confident and mainly keeps to themselves. However, this being said, a player who acts this way, would in effect act the very same way in "real life" if they could in fact get away with it easily. Now, you can respond with a intellectual argument about how wrong i am, and you are right, this will only further my point, if you take the time to dissect this post and point out flaws, id suggest logging off.

Since my last post, i have bathed three children, read two of them a bed time story, been to the shop, been to a friends house to pick up Photoshop and had a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich, in this time you have posted everywhere on the forums and trolled multiple people, a simple look at your posting history will prove this.

My question would be, what would a highly educated player with wealth and teenage children, be doing, posting on, online forums all day non stop, when you had money and children that need to be entertained? You would not, it would be terrible parenting and outright child neglect to plant yourself on your PC, not to mention a terrible role model?

Now, I'm off to bed as my youngest wakes up at around 6am and the other three, shortly after and so begins the day. I would suggest with your wealth and highly educated self, to think more of your children, and less time trying to look like a big man on the internet.

Sleep Well.

and hiding behind even more anonymous avatars to preserve the anonymity of their avatars

But...but...but...

EVE IS REAL(TM)!!!

(Sorry, but someone had to.)