EVE General Discussion

You can't rage-quit out of boredom. Unless you're 14. (I think I was about 14...)

But you might rage-quit if someone presses the right button at the right time. I'm quite a sanguine person in-game/out-of-game, so the most you'll get from me is perhaps a pursing of the lips. It happens.

Undoubtedly there are people playing this game whose habit of harvesting 'meaning' from all their interactions and activities leads them to identify closely with items and people they encounter in EVE Online. They genuinely feel a sense of loss when their Special Retriever blows up, or their 'wonderful' Corp is awoxed or wardec'ed into oblivion.

The intensity of their rage seems to be proportionally related to the depth and nature of their psychological investment in the 'bond'. I guess. I'm no psychologist.

Rage-quitters can be entertaining for some, but I just find them bewildering.

I've never rage quit and rarely, if ever, read the F U all I'm outa here posts. But I've been angry, and most of the time , a little after the big bad Cluster, after doing a little internal debrief, it comes to me what I did or did not do that caused the Cluster. Like the time my frigate was popped in null-sec, I came back with a battle cruiser and it got popped, too. That's when I learned that no, one should not attempt to fight a gate camp solo, no matter what you are flying.

It's way too easy to take this game way too serious, chill out, have fun and remember those folks selling ships and fittings need to make a living as well.

Who was he ?

FW I the old venal corp ? if so want his name

That is the right corp yes, but there is a reason that I never mentioned his name. I didnt intend to name and shame just share the story.

Reluctantly displaying the vast depths of my ignorance: When mining I fly two Skiffs tanked up fairly well with a really big freighter chasing cans and cleaning up the rat kills. I do not AFK as the Skiffs keep me busy chasing cans and looting rat kills. My question, assuming the AB is a reference to afterburners, is what exactly does an AB have to do with anti-gank capability? That's assuming the miner is pretty well hove to whilst mining, but I've never ice mined so maybe the miner has to move about, but then there is the AFK part. My anti-gank tactic is fairly simple: Watch dscan, if a suspicious anything closes the belt I launch Hammerheads, when the guy shows up I lock'im, sic the HH's on him, wait for him to go hostile then ride Concord's coat-tails to victory. I've got AB's fitted but use them rarely, usually when crossing a belt to get the last tasty bit of rock. If the AB's can somehow boost anti-gank then I'd like to know just how all that works.

Theres actually quite a few around still playing at various levels. You cant quit Eve you know.

I was playing eve and this one guy kept targeting me, he put himself in harms way just to hunt me in both low and highsec just to get another kill mark against me.

I fought back and got him, then he wanted a truce, I told him
"You blew any chances of a truce just like you blew your father!" And logged off

It was moderately uncalled for, but luckily we declared war on his corps because they came after a couple of our guys

We won by a landslide ( I got none of the kills but proud~)

I'd say rage comes from not being in control of whatever feelings events might inspire. Babies rage about anything, wise old people barely rage at all, layers of thick bark grow and eventually everything is just "Meh."
I wanted to rage quit every week of my first 6 months in EvE. This and other experiences have led me to conclude that masochism, far from being a quirk or pathology, is a valid behaviour to adopt in an environment that treats you in a shoddy manner. Dignity and control is derived from suffering, but you persist and eventually prevail.
Then you're free to indulge in wildly sadistic tantrums in a well earned and completely rational destructive inferno.
The most affecting rage quit i ever saw was a friend who nagged me to fly bigger ships, got me into nullsec and taught me many things. I bought him an orca for his 50th birthday. We were moving out to NPC null with a corp, i in a DST, he in his Naga. He wanted to scout me through the low/null bottleneck in that. Naturally bubbles and dps ensued and in the noise and screaming i managed to get my DST through to base.
He was all torn up though, being one of those people who has never lost a fight IRL (uh-oh) and feels that violence should only be extended to those who deserve it.
I tried to gently explain that everyone in EvE deserves it but he'd had enough. No man ever likes to be told he's wrong but refusing to ever not be right is a path to the floor. He gave me a bunch of cool stuff, the orca too, changed his bio to some touching stuff about honour and haven't seen him online since. Haunts me to this day.