These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

EVE General Discussion

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
123Next pageLast page
 

What type of player do you find to be the most intimidating?

First post
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Torothin
Crimson Dawn Enterprises
#1 - 2015-12-21 14:45:32 UTC
What kind of player do you find to be the most intimidating and puts you on edge? When you see this type of player in local, what makes you say "Wow this guy is hard core, I am docking up / leaving system. Is it the 0.0 alliance FC alt scout, the low-sec pirate backed by a heavy super cap presence, the 0.0 NPC PvP dweller. Which is it and why?
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#2 - 2015-12-21 14:50:05 UTC
Guys with manly moustachios

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

Bumble's Space Log
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#3 - 2015-12-21 14:56:14 UTC
Lord Maldoror

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*
Omnathious Deninard
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2015-12-21 14:59:48 UTC
Generally speaking, Carebears.
EDIT: Not that I am scared of them, I just leave out of disgust.

If you don't follow the rules, neither will I.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2015-12-21 15:03:36 UTC
Lan Wang wrote:
Lord Maldoror

Yup, that's the one.

With that notable exception no one player intimidates me ,
it's the 30 corpmates they're flying with that'll make me a little squirrely.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Solecist Project
#6 - 2015-12-21 15:10:29 UTC

I don't understand the question.

Why would or should I be afraid ?


No, honestly, it's confusing me.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#7 - 2015-12-21 15:16:05 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:

I don't understand the question.

Why would or should I be afraid ?


No, honestly, it's confusing me.


because Lord Maldoror is probably going to pipebomb your whole fleet Pirate

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*
Jade Blackwind
#8 - 2015-12-21 15:17:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade Blackwind
Can't give a proper answer because of lack of local in those places where there's a reason to fear anything. Probably those 7 Legions that just blink on D-Scan and disappear cloaked are intimidating enough?

Or, maybe, it's a Highsec Social Manipulator? They're so meta that even their portrait is probably somehow scamming me while I look at it in the profile.

The scariest threat is always the one that you can't tell where it's coming from.
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#9 - 2015-12-21 15:18:05 UTC
Torothin wrote:
What kind of player do you find to be the most intimidating and puts you on edge? When you see this type of player in local, what makes you say "Wow this guy is hard core, I am docking up / leaving system. Is it the 0.0 alliance FC alt scout, the low-sec pirate backed by a heavy super cap presence, the 0.0 NPC PvP dweller. Which is it and why?


The most intimidating player is the one who brags the least, takes responsibility for his losses like he does his wins, doesn't blame others when he fails and demonstrates a deep knowledge of the game and of how people play. They are the toughest opponents, everyone else is just "a kid with a gun", ie they can still kill you, but it will be mostly by accident.
Solecist Project
#10 - 2015-12-21 15:21:35 UTC
Lan Wang wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:

I don't understand the question.

Why would or should I be afraid ?


No, honestly, it's confusing me.


because Lord Maldoror is probably going to pipebomb your whole fleet Pirate

But that would be AWESOME!! :D

I guess I have no answer to this question. ^_^

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Mithandra
B.O.P Supplication For Glorious
Dracarys.
#11 - 2015-12-21 15:34:18 UTC
Female Pilots. Not the 44 year old trucker from Vermont playing as Shirly, but the real people of the actual female persuasion.

Scary , just scary

Eve is the dark haired, totally hot emo gothchild of the gaming community
Arthur Aihaken
Kenshin Academia.
Kenshin Shogunate.
#12 - 2015-12-21 15:39:20 UTC
AFK miners. They're the worst...

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Valkin Mordirc
#13 - 2015-12-21 15:40:09 UTC
I've never been intimidated by a player type. You can a screaming angry dude in local, or some calm guy who never utters a word and wrecks my entire fleet. That's really not intimidating.

I however will tuck my tail and run like a ***** in a cloaky-stabbed-interdiction-nullified-and-warp-accelerated-Nano-Tengu if you come at me with a 30+ Kronos fleet.

I do have one too, It's called the bitchmobile.
#DeleteTheWeak
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#14 - 2015-12-21 15:42:57 UTC
The one that want to kill my ratting boat because they can disrupt my ratting and set me back making me rat some more just to get back to the point where I was.

If I am not in a ratting boat, then anyone is treated with the same level of respect as a potential target.
Kieron VonDeux
#15 - 2015-12-21 16:14:29 UTC
The AFK cloaker is the mostest scariest kind of player.
You never knows if they are actually there and awares or not. /shivers
Pix Severus
Empty You
#16 - 2015-12-21 16:23:52 UTC
People with Pulp Fiction quotes in their bio.

*shudder*

MTU Hunter: Latest Entry - June 12 2017 - Vocal Local 5

MTU Hunting 101: Comprehensive Guide
Goatman NotMyFault
Lubrication Industries
#17 - 2015-12-21 16:34:56 UTC
Torothin wrote:
What kind of player do you find to be the most intimidating and puts you on edge? When you see this type of player in local, what makes you say "Wow this guy is hard core, I am docking up / leaving system. Is it the 0.0 alliance FC alt scout, the low-sec pirate backed by a heavy super cap presence, the 0.0 NPC PvP dweller. Which is it and why?



I dont find any player intimidating... but i hate corpthiefs...
Solecist Project
#18 - 2015-12-21 16:39:22 UTC
Pix Severus wrote:
People with Pulp Fiction quotes in their bio.

*shudder*

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes

XD

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#19 - 2015-12-21 16:53:23 UTC
Err none?
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2015-12-21 17:02:58 UTC
The kind of player who takes the game way too seriously, winds up digging up your personal information, then contacts your mother on Facebook to tell her what a bad person you are so she can call you on the phone in tears about the awful comments she just got about you from some random on the internet. Meanwhile, you also get a personal email from them naming your mother and sister by name, along with their address, warning you that if you continue to blow up their ships in this game about blowing up ships, they'll be paying your mother and little sister a visit.

While intimidating, it doesn't make me want to quit EVE or even stop shooting them. It makes me want to shoot them more, as a matter of fact, knowing that the cybercrimes division of my local CIB is all over it once I file a report and provide the evidence, along with IP addresses of the emails and the messages sent to my mother.

Otherwise, I'm not intimidate by gameplay. No one should be. It's a game, not a job. You're only going to be intimidated if you do take it too seriously.

“Some capsuleers claim that ECM is 'dishonorable' and 'unfair'. Jam those ones first, and kill them last.” - Jirai 'Fatal' Laitanen, Pithum Nullifier Training Manual c. YC104
123Next pageLast page