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Look this up.

I have to agreen that your ingame personality is a mild or an exact representation of the person you are in real life. But in the end you cant dictate a persons action nor can you judge them. If they want to act like a moron and ruin the player expereicne for others why disrespecting, insulting, and griefing then so be it. I personally stay away from the above because firstly I wasnt raised to act like that in real life, my mother didnt instill me with values on how to ruin a persons mood. in addition to that i plan on becoming a police officer and simply put im not going to be a hypocrit and exhibit that behavior and at the same time try to do something that only people who have integrity, compassion, bravery deserve. im not above anyone, but i am above certain actions and trolling is just something that i will not and can not do.

You nerds are closely examining the decline- but conveniently ignoring where the tracking begins.

This is why people troll you and grief you ingame.

YOU NERDS ARE TAKING THIS GAME WAY TOO SERIOUSLY.

EDIT: I mean offence to anyone, just sayin that Goons gonna goon.

Yup, you're dumb.

thats fine and all being an rpg game, but do you act like that in person? do you think that behavior is fine? do you have kids? would you be proud of your kids acting the way some of these players (general use of the phrase these players) do

- i've never been a miner IRL. i own a hulk.
- i've never been a truck driver. i own a fenrir.
- i've never been a naval commander. i own a sleipner.

come to think of it, i've never been in space either.

should be reasonably easy to spot the difference.

having said that, IRL I take the **** out of people that talk ****.

I have often run gaming sessions for my children. My characters have scared them, have outraged them, have killed them, have been killed by them, and have challenged them to the limits of their abilities and imagination.

They loved every minute of it and are far more straight laced and are of stronger moral fiber than I ever was at their age. They still pester me to run game sessions for them to this day, and my elder son is 30.

It's ROLE PLAYING, by definition you are portraying a character that has a personality that is often very, very different from your own.

Here's a newsflash.

Harrison Ford isn't really a hero, he's an actor.
Alfred Hitchcock wasn't a psychotic killer, but he made up and produced movies about great ones.
Your friend that plays Dungeons and Dragons isn't really a Paladin or an Assassin, he's a nerd.
I have never committed homicide, and have no desire to... nor would I if I could easily get away with it.

People who believe otherwise have difficulty discerning the difference between fantasy and reality, what is real from make believe, and because of that limitation tend to project motivations on people that are role playing or acting that aren't really there.

They also tend to take events in a game far, far to seriously.

Now that fella that starts making fun of someone's mother that just died in real life? Yeah, he's a jerk.

But he's not a jerk because he blew up someones Mac in high sec, or declared war on your corp. He's a jerk because he took things beyond the game environment in a malicious manner. He left the realm of role playing and fantasy behind and took advantage of his anonymity to try and hurt you emotionally in real life.

That's where the line is drawn, because if his blowing up your imaginary pixels and laughing maniacally in a virtual role playing game about space ships causes you emotional distress in real life then the issue lies in your own head... not his.

If you don't know how to act like a grandmother-selling, backstabbing arsewipe, of what value is your respect and cordiality? Similarly, if you can't behave with respect and decorum when there are no consequences for poor behaviour, of what value is your lip service to law and order?

Civilization is a thin veneer over the barbarian within.

This is untrue because you're forgetting one crucial fact: 'eve online' is a game

Posting in a blog traffic promotion thread.

Should all gamers respect each other and consider online worlds as tools to roleplay, making virtual assets as ends in themselves and not as means to make their fellow gamer mad, there would not be need ever for PvP limitations. It could be FFA everywhere all the time, and that would not cause any problem, since common decency would be unconsciously applied.

This is one of the funniest pipe dreams I've ever read on these forums.

Yeah, people roleplay a capsule pilot that makes other capsule pilots mad.

Because eternity is a *****, or so they told me.

Only a mortal could think immortality would be boring.

Only a mortal could think that immortality could never get boring.

"But there's a trapdoor in the sun..."

By your own logic, Charlie Sheen isn't a womanizer, alky, self-absorbed jackass, he just plays one on TV....Oh wait.....


And Harrison Ford plays the characters he would like to be in real-life, like many actors and actresses. If your going to spin something, you should have tried a different yarn.....

"If you want to touch the sky, just put a window in your eye."

Really not sure where to take this...

Anyway, if people are the same in game as out, does that mean carebears stay hidden in their parents basement 24/7?
You could get ganked walking out the front door.

Would it still count as PvP?

Eventually, yes, when their parents get tired of them freeloading.
Hide the evidence...

thats fine and all being an rpg game, but do you act like that in person?

do you think that behavior is fine?

do you have kids? would you be proud of your kids acting the way some of these players (general use of the phrase these players) do

This is untrue because you're forgetting one crucial fact: 'eve online' is a game