EVE General Discussion

I have to disagree with this. In my experience, most MMOs resort to fascist forum policies and prefer leveling bans to listening to constructive criticism. while picking a few select favorites who push a certain ideology that they maybe happen to agree with, and let have the run of the place, while black-marking and banning anyone who disagrees with them after labeling them trols and flamers.

That's one reason I've never stayed long in most other MMOs. Also, likely the reason why most other MMOs fail so spectacularly in their first year of release, and then decline to no more than a small number of players who follow and agree with that ideology while licking the boots of those few individuals so avidly.

Respect.

Just had to chime in and give a thumbs up to you for pointing out the boot licking.

Killmails

To correct the problem and notion that 'don't shoot me I'm unarmed.' is entirely unacceptable line of thought in New Eden.

It should be 'come at me bro, let me show you my teeth!'

Thought I had seen thid thread before.

The reason that they do it basic human psychology. It is the classic "pecking order." You can see in other species as well. For example, let us say that you have three cats in a house. A big cat, a medium sized cat, and a tiny cat. The big swats at the medium sized cat. The medium sized cat does not fight back, however, because he knows that he can not win. Instead he goes over and swats the tiny cat to make himself feel empowered again.

Humans are no different and, sadly, no better in this regard. When some sad person gets yelled at by their boss they can not fight back. So the come home, log into EvE, and gank a helpless miner. Or their mother tells them to do household chores and the self-entitled little twit feels that this is some sort of cosmic injustice that must be avenged, but he obviously is not about to stand up for himself in real life, so again he logs onto EvE and goes to look for an unarmed freighter to prey upon.

The "big cats" in this picture of EvE would be the nullsec alliances with their fleets of titans and capital ships, able to cyno in giant blobs to crush any opposition faster than lag itself. The "tiny cats" are the miners, freighters, and other "carebare" types. The gankers, pirates and whatnot are the "middle cats." They are not big enough, skilled enough, or strong enough to take on the major players in the harsh world of PvP. So instead they seek out those even weaker than themselves to prey upon. A cheap self-delusional affirmation of power over someone else designed to make them feel better & distract them from their own weakness & inability to play in the "big cat" league.

You don't know much about cats or EVE.

The concept of 'honor' around killing ships died with the 'U-Boat Menace' in WWI with any lasting hope of it it going up in smoke and down in flames in the Laconia Incident in 1942.

The concept of 'honour' in applied violence died with chivalric tournaments sometimes around the 15th century. Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sir Nigel" and "The White Company" are a delightfully nostalgic and sentimental farewell salute to the concept. For the last half-millenium, professionals have got the job done with a minimum of risk because dying so someone else can read a god damb bedtime story is possibly the worst cause I can imagine.

i'd say it died earlier then that, with the battle of crecy where the entire French nobility were wiped out at range by peasant English longbowmen with feces dipped arrows. the turk invasion with its gunpower and the ascension of Louis XI are good arguments for the 14th century though