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Tippia
Raddick Explorations
BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.05.07 13:12:00 -
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 Originally by: Nick Blanchard
…so why can't can't i program my ship to do the same?
Because they want you to play the game.
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“If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡…
you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.”
— Karath Piki |
Tippia
Raddick Explorations
BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.05.07 13:20:00 -
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Originally by: Nicholas Blanchard
I don't want to be attacked punk because he has fun making peoples day go bad.
Easy to avoid: don't undock. If you don't want to be attacked (which kind of raises the question what you're doing in a PvP game), don't put yourself in a position to be so.
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“If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡…
you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.”
— Karath Piki |
Tippia
Raddick Explorations
BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.05.07 14:26:00 -
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As for doing your own thing, you need to understand this: EVE is an actual MMO — a game where you play together with a massive number of people. It is not like many other supposed MMOs, which are essentially single-player games with some added limited-number co-op capabilities. Everything you do affects other people. Everything other people do affects you.
The only way to "do your own thing" is to get desynched from the server (and shortly thereafter disconnected). At that point, nothing you do affects others… (although, technically, others can still affect you — you just won't notice it until you log back in).
EVE is also a PvP game. This is expressed through the fact that people don't like being affected by you — it cramps their style — and will therefore happily blow you out of the sky to keep you from doing them harm. Blowing you up also feeds the main driving force of the game: the market (another very nasty PvP arena). You need to explode — repeatedly — for the game to function. You being around is really the only reason they need go pewpew on your behind, because they can be pretty sure of the fact that you're doing somthing that's bad for them… perhaps with the exception of giving them your money and stuff — that's usually interpreted as a good thing and they'll try to make you do it more often (occasionally through threats of virtual violence).
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“If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡…
you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.”
— Karath Piki |
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