EVE General Discussion

In Eve we all start out with just 5000 ISK and a rookie ship. What happens next is your choice and your actions will dictate the path you will take. Consequences! Some of us choose to become hunters and prey on our fellow capsuleers, while others become great resource gatherers and industrialists dodging or repelling this first group that wish them harm. Still others make poorer choices and end up as loot pinata haulers or AFK miners and leave their assets unprotected in space, or perhaps as in the case of the OP, recruit an enemy into the fold and are destroyed.

Who ever wins at this great sandbox we call Eve deserves to be congratulated as despite how seriously some take this game, it is still just a game.

The New Order would not be credible villains if we just offered hugs and kind words after a gank. But for the record, it is not "bully behavior" to ask people to remain polite and show some manners after a contest of wills such as takes place during a suicide gank.

What does cross the line are the personal insults up to and including racial and homophobic slurs, and even death threats, that are routinely thrown at gankers by people who have just lost some space pixels in a video game. You don't have to like having your stuff exploded, but you really should try to keep some perspective and be a good sport. This is just a game so people who have just been ganked should try to channel that anger into plotting some delicious in-game revenge rather than the more typical EULA-breaking personal insults they usually reach for.

Totally.

If people put as much effort and passion into their gameplay as they did into vilifying, threatening and abusing the guy who just exploded their ship because they weren't paying attention; their game experience would be much more rewarding.

The most I've ever seen on the minerbumping channel at once is 78 people.

So... yep.

You haven't made it until a fox news nutcase declares you are a CIA front.

Smart, as it got you into enough trouble so far

Give me time. I'm still trying here.

I'm starting ForumCode. Everyone has to pay me 10m to post in the forums.

I call dibs on CareBull.

Well said.

"Even playing field". Every time I see that I do a double take, because EVE isn't a MOBA. That phrase illustrates a big part of the dysfunction and disconnect the 'carebears' experience when dealing with the realties of the game like CODE or Goons or war decs etc. They all have this totally misplaced (in EVE at least) sense of 'fairness' that they can't seem to overcome.

Those of us who engage in similar activities (like PVE) and refrain from other activities (I don't gank and such) who don't have that misplaced expectation of fairness in a very 'asymmetrical' game get along much better with everything. We KNOW the people we are playing against (like awoxxers and gankers and scammers) aren't going to adhere to any rules but the EULA, and we plan accordingly.

That includes learning how the 'bad guys' (think through honest assessment, not the hurf blurf "they want me to play their way/leave high sec" BS some people mentally rely on) so you can avoid putting yourself in a bad situation.

The TL;DR of all that is that the term 'carebear' has nothing to do with whether or not a player PVEs or PVPs, rather it means "bad player who is a bad player because his mentality is wrong for the arena he's chosen to play in and he can't separate his emotions from his logic"



Us CareBisons and CareBulls along with a few CareButterflys and a single CareBaboon have been trying to teach the 'bears' the true ways of EVE, but they don't wanna learn so we're gonna kick them out of the CareAnimal Kingdom

Some of the best advice I ever got in game was to join the minerbumping channel. I can't imagine trying to play EvE without being in that channel. The best in game social interaction I've ever experienced.