EVE General Discussion

My best friend used to kick my ass in this game all the time, including many others. So has my son and my wife.

We understand that what is done in game is part of the game.

You apparently, do not.

You are also projecting real life friendship and trust into a situation that normally involves purely in game relationships, where the very nature of the game makes no bones about the ruthlessness of the rules.

Again, you are projecting.

And quite frankly, you have your head up your ass.

This is a role playing game. that person that just killed your high sec miner is role playing a pirate, and pirates well there generally not the best at social skills or morals.

You dont create a character and decide to play a criminal so that you can ask people if they want to be shot. You choose to play a criminal so you can do things that people generally dont find welcoming. Its not that the person behind the avatar is looking for tears. Its the character that they are playing in game that wants the tears.

Actually, he didn't.
You're just projecting again.
Seeing as how that's what a bluff is: telling people something that is not true, yes.

Thank you for proving that although you seem able to read the words, you refuse or are unable to understand their meaning.

To put it in terms that you can clearly understand.

If my friend in real life works with me in game and then ganks all of the assets, I"m going to be irritated and give him a hard time. Just as I would if I caught him trying to pull a fast one on me in a card game or a round of Risk. This is the equivalent of giving your best buddy an elbow in the ribs... for no other reason than he IS your best friend and can get away with such things from time to time.

It's a game.

If a stranger that I know only as a voice on the internet does the same, I"m even less inclined to make moral judgements. Yeah I'll be pissed, but I'll not seriously try to judge the depth of his character because of it.

If you take the loss of anything in this game personally, especially considering that none of these assets are real or even in fact owned by you, you need to step back.

I trust that is plain enough for you.

You can stop trolling now.

Ok so by "kicking [his] ass" you think he meant what I described in my scenario?

Actually, no. It is within a game environment, which is not 'true' to begin with. Lies only apply to obfuscation aspects of reality, a game being not real, cannot contain lies.

Then again, it depends on how orthodox you are in the definition of what is an isn't a lie, which by itself could extend on a whole discussion of its own.

Anyway, we're getting into semantics with this, a direction that usually ends nowhere (useful).

Ok I ask a few questions and the thread that was going pretty fluid with responses just sort of stops, with a few people liking a post that does nothing but throw a conclusory insult.

Of course, you know better than that. The pat answers didn't quite cut it for the questions I put forward, so there is silence.

Ok so by "kick [your] ass" you mean your best friend who you would trust with all the things listed in Karls original response to me, told you that you could trust him in eve and yet he stole all your assets in eve so he wouldn't have to pay for eve anymore? Your wife and son did that too?

If so, I'm sorry to hear that.

If thats not the case then you avoided the question I put to you.

Here is another question that was overlooked.