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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2011.03.16 16:53:00 -
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I have no problem with how other folks choose to play the game. I just can't be a jerk to people in game or out of game...it's just not my style. Call it empathy or whatever, but I just can't roleplay a sociopath. Collecting tears for the sake of it makes me feel bad about myself. Shrug. I just can't rationalize it away like most of you seem to be able to.
This doesn't mean I won't fight. If the corp wants to go out on a roam or defend a wardec, that's cool, but I'd never set up a lowsec gate camp for exmaple, or go can flipping, or suicide gank somebody..that sort of thing.
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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2011.03.16 17:47:00 -
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 Originally by: Samir Duran Xadi
its a game who cares if human beings are behind each pilot and destroyed assets take hours of hard real time work. its an internet game after all and every little anonymous nerd can grief with no consequences.
I care. Simply because I know how *I* feel when hours of my own "work" goes down the drain. Just because it's an internet game that enables you to grief, does that mean you should grief? Does griefing somebody give you pleasure? I know many folks that play eve argue that yes, it certainly does give them pleasure.
That doesn't work for everyone though, I guess. What is true, I think, is that eve would be dull if everyone was polite and respectful, so the game needs folks willing and ready to set aside moral qualms.
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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2011.03.16 18:44:00 -
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Chess is a set piece battle in which you are starting out with equal assets. The objective it to defeat the other player through structured rules (and out of game distractions in some cases as well...trying to rattle your opponent).
Eve is a virtual life scenario where battles are not equal unless you've made a mistake picking your fights. You don't have to spend three weeks of playing chess to "buy" your rooks for a given game as you might in eve.
I can see the comparisons to chess, but I don't think the two scenarios are similar enough to use chess as a way of explaining the motivations of people who play eve. There's more at stake in eve...which in many ways makes it more compelling a game.
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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2011.03.16 18:56:00 -
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So Tippia, if my objective in EvE is to make the most ISK, am I playing the game wrong?
You tend to make it clear in your posts that PvP is the "only" objective in EvE despite numerous ways to play the game that don't involve blowing up ships. Is your position that PvP (ship combat I mean) is the only valid playstyle?
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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2011.03.16 19:07:00 -
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Originally by: Baaldor
The view you have is what you have emotionally invested in the game.
In which makes you a target.
You are nothing but pixels.
I am allowed to scatter and steal your pixels.
It is a game, nothing more and nothing less.
To me, a game in which there is no emotional investment, be that chess or EvE, is not one worth playing at all. Don't you try to win when you game? Don't you invest time and thought into what you do in game? Is your time and thought worthless?
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