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What to do when someone steals a mission item
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Darth Gustav
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#101 - 2012-02-03 16:27:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Darth Gustav
Ciar Meara wrote:
I'v been playing eve since beta, and although I totally want eve to be a harsh environment the OP makes several very valid points. I believe in HTFU but when the OP says that in some cases these things do not encourage more gameplay but just troll players into quitting he is right. Do we need to keep it hard? Yeah! Do we need to actively troll players just for the fact that trolling them might annoy them? No...

Besides risk versus reward this was a zero sum operation, hardly any risk to speak of expecting a big reward by using mechanics in your favour.


Oh really? You "want eve to be a harsh environment" huh?

First of all, this is not My Little Pony Online. If there's a wreck in space, or a can, it's public domain. The only option for dealing with somebody taking actual loot (read: not salvage) that empire people have available to them is ship-to-ship violence. Anybody who doesn't realize this obviously needs to learn the hard way.

Coincidentally it's the same option available to anybody in lowsec or nullsec. WHAT?!? The rules are consistent?!?!? HTFU indeed!

Anybody too cowardly to engage in the ensuing violence frankly deserves to fail. This probably is not the game for them because it is entirely PVP-centric and they don't have the requisite toolset...

Risk versus reward? Seriously? Are you Jack Emmert, self-proclaimed expert of RVR? I LOL at this notion.

ENGAGE THE WEAPONS WHEN THE LITTLE SHIP TURNS RED!

Oh my, look, YOU are the risk!

TL;DR: If you can't bring yourself to shoot than you're too big a pussy for Eve. Try this instead, maybe.

He who trolls trolls best when he who is trolled trolls the troller. -Darth Gustav's Axiom
Varesk
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#102 - 2012-02-03 16:43:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Varesk
BearThe person took your item and offered to sell it back to you. Working as intended, grow some balls, nerf supers, etc...
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#103 - 2012-02-03 16:44:57 UTC
My solution: get an alt to join that loot thief's corp, find out information on him, and do everything from stalking to corp theft. The day can come when you might have that person in a capsule within range and a crystal set.

It's a game, and therefore meant to be fun. So go ruin his life.



Bring back DEEEEP Space!
highonpop
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#104 - 2012-02-03 16:51:43 UTC
Pillowtalk wrote:
Its not on the market, and there is only 1 on contract for 40 million. Just gunna get on an alt and do the quest up until that point and trade the item to my other character. Luckily its early in the quest.




looks like you should have paid the 20mill

FC, what do?
Connaght Badasaz
Lewis and Clark Inc.
#105 - 2012-02-03 16:58:58 UTC
Pillowtalk wrote:
Eternus8lux8lucis wrote:
Most of its not the isk its that they pissed you off and ruined your day, wasted your time, etc. The isk is secondary to that imo. And yes thats Eve in a nutshell for a lot of the player base.

Petition it and get it reset. CCP is pretty good about that.


I myself wouldve never offered isk for it. Id sooner eat the loss than give someone anything. But thats just me.



But WHY WON'T THESE PEOPLE BE REASONABLE???





You called, how may I help you?

Take arrows in the forehead, never the back
A'Brantox Foson
A'Brantox Foson Corporation
#106 - 2012-02-03 17:51:58 UTC