Verone
Gallente
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2009.10.22 15:10:00 -
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Hello.
I am a pirate, I always will be. I have been playing pretty much since Eve was released.
I'd like to offer you a civil and reasonable response.
 Originally by: Jazlina
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Firstly, real life has no bearing on Eve in terms of belief. People can believe one thing in game and completely the opposite out of game. "You Americans" have nothing to do with it, and as for free thinking, well, Eve is a sandbox... it would never have got off the ground without free and creative thinking. Your point is completely irrelevant in this case. I am a pirate, I'm nether narcissistic or a totalitarian, I'm perfectly realistic and accept and embrace that there are hundreds of career paths in Eve online that people can take depending on their preference of play style.
I have no problem with those people taking those career paths, no problem at all. What I do have an issue with is people seeing the fact that I pirate in Eve and branding me as some messed up misfit who gets his rocks off over wrecking people's day. This isn't the case, piracy is an advertised career path in Eve Online, just like being a researcher, or a producer, or a miner, mission runner, or CEO.
Originally by: Jazlina
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Again, incorrect. With less than 24 hours training, a player can have a relatively competent T1 Rifter pilot. Granted that player is going to be inexperienced and clueless, but the character is completely able to PvP. Put in the hands of a player who's fresh, but has a basic understanding of how Eve works and has actually ran through the NPE, and you have a solid starting character that can operate as a tackler, or as basic anti frigate support.
You're wrong. Please don't mistake the vast majority of rookies who can't survive in combat when they first start out as an example of everyone. I've seen 1 day old characters hold their own in frigates comfortably. You're fundamentally wrong if you think rookies can't fight, and you have a completely closed mind and lack of aspiration to broaden your knowledge of Eve.
Originally by: Jazlina
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We understand this perfectly. We keep you in business by destroying what you create. You keep us in business by creating what we destroy. It's a catch 22 situation. It's called an economy, and in very broad terms we are the consumers, you are the manufacturers. We both keep each other in business, and without each other we couldn't survive.
Regardless of what you say, we create the demand for your products. We create a market for you to sell, our actions are the driving force that allows you to be successful. The same is exactly true in return, you also do exactly the same for us.
Originally by: Jazlina
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This is where the line goes from being black vs white, to having shades of grey in the middle. Read any review online, read any description of Eve created by CCP and the game we play is marketed as a PvP centric single world, single shard, massively multiplayer online roleplaying game.
Not that I bolded one word in the previous sentence. "Centric". Meaning based around. Eve's entire economy is based around PvP and competition between players from people blowing stuff up right down to someone undercutting your T2 buy order by 0.01ISK. What you need to understand that "PvP" doesn't just mean shooting at each other, if you believe this is the case then you'll never truly understand Eve, it's setting, or how the game's economy and politics actually work. It means PLAYER versus PLAYER, regardless of the field of competition.
In conclusion, it's you who needs to open your eyes, and snap out of your sugar coated and sheltered "carebear" life, as you like to call it. Eve is about PvP, you obviously just don't understand what those three letters mean and how they relate to player interaction.
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