EVE General Discussion

I enjoy it because I actually find it exciting when people get really mad at me. I love making people angry and just keep winding them up until they write full paragraph replies about what an awful human being I am. I find it hilarious and satisfying.

I do it for the express purpose of annoying people enough that they get the urge to write whole whiny articles about me that then get laughed at by the entire online community.

I find it annoying when i try to troll someone and that person trolls me back and together we have a really stupid conversation for like 10 minutes that makes no sense whatsoever to anyone, even to me or the other troll.

I would never block you as you are the most entertaining hard-man - bonkers poster since the sad disappearance of the legendary Ladie Harlot.

Both of you trying so desperately hard to prove how tough you are, and both greatly entertaining.

Never stop posting

I don't think this is really true. A true griefer has no motivation other than tear extraction, and not the funny "why you violence my boat" type tears. However you stated an actual motivation, which sounds more like an intense dislike of scrubs in particular. You even make sure to follow the rules. I don't think you're really a griefer.

Let's start from the top, shall we. Aaron Birch's '25 most annoying things about online gamers' and why it's all irrelevant, and somewhat naive.

25. Gender Swappers

Welcome to the internet. If someone claims to be an astronaut or fighter pilot, or a dog, or Santa Claus, what you do is, you don't believe them. Why should it be any different if they claim they're a woman, or a man? It's not the person who's making the claim's fault if you believe them, it's your own for forgetting you're on the internet.

24. Clan players

This made me laugh. Yes, let's stop people from playing together just so that you can play in peace. The example he uses is GTA Online - I play that a lot. That video is of me and my 'clan', or 'crew', Nefarious Consortium. We're all EVE players. See, we're having fun, and sometimes we get our arses handed to us. Playing with a group of like-minded people makes it a thousand times more bearable... maybe the guy who wrote this article just needs a friend. This part of his article made me laugh, though:

"So, if you're a hardcore clan player in a lobby full of people just wanting to play the game, can you just leave us in peace?"

No, absolutely not. You enter a public lobby, you consent to public interaction, and that includes with any 'clans' that enter the same lobby. GTA isn't like EVE, you can go to your own private lobby.

23. Achievement hoarders

He contradicts himself here.

"Rather than play the game to simply enjoy it and unlocked rewards naturally" he says, prior to complaining that someone's not playing the game the way he thinks they should, and then goes on to say, "when a player on your team is more concerned with earning a rare achievement in an online game, causing you to lose", and I almost spat my coffee. It's almost like he's not playing the game to simply enjoy it himself, win or lose....

22. Bros

I don't know what he's complaining about here. I think it's another "I have no friends so no one else should either" whine. He should read some Tacitus, he could learn a lot about how to avoid expressing his jealousy so openly.

21. Bored experts

le sigh.... this whole article is rife with jealousy, basically. This is a classic example of "where did you get that? That's not fair, I want one too. Oh wow, that's going to take a long time, you must have no life outside this game to have accomplished that, what a loser", he announces, as he loses the game to a better prepared, more experienced player. As a matter of contention, I had a friend once who was a very avid gamer. Don't know him anymore, but he always came to every party we had, was very social, and he was also my GP at the time. He also had all the best stuff in Halo Reach. He was better than me at the game, much better, and he got that stuff in a quarter of the time that it took me. I dunno... getting the best stuff sometimes seems like it could take time, or skill. Maybe if this guy had some skill, he wouldn't be complaining about people around him who had the best stuff.

20. Spoilers

This is so ******* stupid I nearly tore my eyes out. I always play the campaign mode of a game through before I go to online. but here's the bottom line - when you go into the multiplayer of a game you haven't finished yet, why should you expect people not to have finished the single player and not to talk about it?

I could go on, I really could. I'm going to stop there, though, because I'm not in the mood for addressing this stupidity anymore. I think there are a few people that could probably pick up the slack here and address the next five or so. It's pretty easy, the guy who wrote this is your typical "y u no play game the way I say to?" player. If you can't see what's wrong with what he's complaining about, then you should really pay closer attention to the fact that online games are going to have other people with different trains of thought than you - you know, individual human beings, not sheep. You might find them annoying, and that's your prerogative, but if you can't find a way to deal with it rather than write a bitchy article about it, then that game, or its online segment, just probably isn't for you.

Disclaimer: I almost agreed with him on 14, children, but then I saw the reason he put there. "Shock horror! Foul language! Oh me oh my, what a paw wittle conservative intelligence vacuum I am!!" Kids shouldn't be playing mature games because their parents should be more responsible about what they're doing with their time - education first, play time second.

That's not what I said at all. The weak will quit because they are weak. Everyone goes through the same thing. Don't know if you've noticed or not, but there are a tonne of people still playing after many years in the game that weren't weak.

And you cannot use a one-off incident as an example of regular day-to-day happenings in EVE Online to make a case. That's like asking should we let people keep flying after some jackass flies a plane into a building.

DISCLAIMER: not to be interpreted as me calling The Mittani a jackass or a terrorist...

26. Arbitrary mid-sentence capitalization of random words.

27). Grammar NOTZEE


Someone who believes it's their duty to attempt to correct any grammar and/or spelling mistakes they observe. Usually found hanging around Irc chatrooms hounding "n00bs".

Stay On Topic
So How can we Make Eve Online Gaming community less Annoying?

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Grammer Notsee

Deleting whining **** posts like this one would be a huge start. There's very little that is annoying about the Eve community in general, but quasi-literate ****-posters who have been here for about five minutes and think they have something to contribute toward the "improvement" of the game are probably at the top of the list.

You're about the fifth one I've seen this morning. Just before I stumbled across this abortion of a thread, I was reading someone else's thoughts on how to improve wardecs, despite the fact that they had never so much as participated in one, and lacked even a rudimentary understanding of their mechanics.

Want to make the place less annoying? Banish everyone to Newbie Q&A until they've played for a year.