EVE General Discussion

The op asks "why are many people on these forums so negative". The above quoted outrageous BS is the best answer antyone could give. It not only shows it's author egotistically claiming superiority of others involved in the same gaming activity he is, it actually disparages millions of real life Law, Law Enforcement, Military and Healthcare worker, almost all of whom most likely contribute way more to the actual well being humanity way more than the author ever could.

It's may well be an example of bad people not being able to see themselves as bad but rather imagining that it's others who are the problem. You simply have to be a real, honest to God bad person to write something like the above quoted BS.

Seems to me to be a massive case of projection ie the best psychological defense a truly rotten person has is to ima other people rotten.

Well, to put it bluntly, it seems that you get high on people´s suffering, as demonstrated by your choices of walks of life. Law-related activities are a prime field to witness strangers in disarray, and possibly do them in. The military is pretty self-explanatory.

There are quite a few sadists in the health professions, especially amongst nurses who take care of the elderly. Maybe their sadism is a result of having to wash old people´s butts on a daily basis, but I´d say the seed of it was in them already.

I personally think people like you have no place in an online game, since games are made to play pretend, and suppose the pursuit of ingame goals, as opposed to RL ones.

There is a huge glaring problem when a certain category of players use an online game as a platform to reap Schadenfreude, and care more about the RL reaction of some absolutely unknown random Joe whom they have had no business of any kind with, than the ingame benefit they get from scamming/ganking/whatevering him. You say you do it for the ISK first, but after a few paragraphs of self-introspection, you write




Schadenfreude-oriented gankers are a blight on online videogaming, since they will look for every little flaw or borderline exploit to get an advantage over other players, and this forces devs to plug holes that could have been left open for reasonable and fun-loving players to "exploit". In the same order of idea, CONCORD is there because of gankers. If those players were screened and banned, there would be no need for an all-powerful space police, players would police themselves and have fun doing, some play pretending pirates, some play pretending police, etc...
The foundation for a sound gaming community is players who assess that the collection of pixels they interact with is controlled by other fellow gamers, and the common sense that springs from this: don´t be a jerk.

Ultima Online was trammelized because of camping gankers. This sharded the sandbox, and forced devs to impose hardcoded limits on PvP. I believe the age of anonymity on the internet will come to an end in the future, once too many schoolgirls have committed suicide because of anonymous trolls trolling them.

All the cop-outs stating that RL and internet activities are de-coupled are just, well, cop-outs. Ethics, in an open sandboxy environment (that is, not Counter-Strike or Battlefield) are context irrelevant.

And, "it´s a game". Well, start behaving like it´s one, instead of having a hard-on for ingame actions that will purposefully make other players rage IRL.

People like you are fun to scam/gank/grief. You should tell me your mains' name.

Man, I hope I'm not a bad person. I don't think anyone actually wants to be a bad person.

My moral conduct IRL and ingame is very similar, sorry about that, there´s not much more to tell about it.

I´ve been playing since 2003 (this is an alt, of course), and always wanted to be a space vigilante. Surprise surprise, it´s the only profession in EvE that is absolutely pointless: The "lawful" or rather, play-pretending pirates are very rare, and they are not the ones being jerks in New Eden. Gankers and scammers cannot be curbed, because of multiple accounts: you can´t hurt their wallet.

Grandiose highfalutin speech on his moral superiority to the inferior subhuman that surround him.

To the person who has genuinely fresh, new and relevant ideas - I pity you