Mayhaw Morgan
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.01.02 12:37:00 -
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Firstly, I don't think honor is like a hat that you can just take off when you enter EVE Online, and then put back on when you exit to the "real" world. I think it's more a determination to play fair, hard, yes, creatively, yes, but ultimately, fair. Some people are not determined to play fair, though, not even in real life. So to expect fairness in EVE is naive.
And, what is honorable in this game? Is it never shooting people who can't fight back? Is it never shooting people who can't fight back effectively? Is it never shooting people who don't want to fight? Is it only shooting people if you have a good reason? Is it never using ECM? Is it never outnumbering your opponent? Some whack-jobs would have us believe honor is never using profanity or smack talking. (I say **** that and **** them.) It's a slippery slope, this "honor". I think that after all the rules had been nailed down, it would take a computer program to answer the simple quesiton of whether or not to open fire. But, that doesn't work and that isn't fun. I don't want to stare at a flow chart for 10 minutes every time I have to make a decision in this game.
Now, IS there honor in this game? Hell yes there is. Blues don't shoot blues. Killing your corpmates is a cardinal sin, and anyone who is known to do it is probably a pariah. Look at incursions. People put very expensive ships on the line just on the word of the other people in their fleet that they will all work faithfully to clear an incursion site. I've known a good number of freighter pilots to adhere to their own sense of personal honor, even at great inconvenience to themselves. It's really, again, just a matter of "What IS honor?". It is your own personal ideology of what is right, what is fair, what is good, and the actions you take to do and be right, fair, and good.
Well, Shirley, we don't all adhere to YOUR sense of honor. We don't all believe that giving someone a pass for making a stupid and costly mistake is the way to go. Some of us believe in "tough love". Some of us believe that if the light of hope in you can be extinguished so easily, then it is just as well that we extinguish it. Some of us are just mad. Some of us are just having fun, and we can't experience it from your perspective, maybe because we lack empathy or maybe because you aren't articulate enough to communicate it to us. In any event, beating us over the head with your idea of honor is probably not the way to fix this. Instead, let me make 2 suggestions:
1. Start an organization (a corp?). Outline your own personal understanding of the definition of "honor" and recruit others who adhere to it. Try to influence the rest of the playerbase to adhere to it. Pit that definition against other definitions of "honor" that you disagree with. Measure people's actions against your concept of "honor" and voice your opinion of exactly how you think they have failed. Remember to do that, even when you are the one who has failed.
2. Admit to yourself that you are saddened that you lost your ship. Admit that you are disappointed and even angry at the people who caused the loss. Admit that you are one of those people, the only one whom you can control. Say these words to yourself: "I will do better." Understand what happened to you. Figure out a way to keep it from happening to you again. Adapt. Re-engage. |