Originally by: BlackDog Rackh'am

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Aaarghhh....double standards ftw everyone?!And i mean everyone....

People want to have fun,they pay money for it,they can do whatever they like. Stabs,ganks,hit and runs,blobs,calling friends,hiring mercs,sniping,anything. It doesn't really matter you know. Everyone does it,everyone accuses their enemy of cowardice when they do it. My question is...why do some people feel the need to prove to other players that they are better,resulting in bending facts and judgind by double standards?

People are out to get fun,that's what they do. For example,when i was playing a lot i made enough money to buy a brand new HAC every week at overpriced market rates. Now that my playtime is less than 10 hours per week i don't. So i started fitting a couple of stabs on my HAC. Why? Because i have a lot of RL issues to tend to,and i don't want to spend half my weekly playtime grinding npc's to replace my losses. It's detrimental to my fun and i don't give a p*ss what people think about it.

As long as we don't exploit and don't insult eachother's intelligence anything goes. We've been in gangs were we outnumbered the enemy,we've been in gangs were we were outnumbered,we have seen [5] members fly with stabs,guess what? Nobody should really care! I think this game's community is so obsessed with numbers and showing off as the macho guy that they miss the point of the GAME. This goes both ways. The more casual players should expect a harder time against the hardcore players,so they usually try to even the playing field by swelling numbers. The hardcore players on the other hand shouldn't think of the rest that unless they take EvE as seriously as a second job they don't deserve to play the game as they like.

Take BoB for example. Highly effective,respected on the field despite the forum attitude displayed by some (which again,we are ALL guilty of at some point or another,slow hours at work and stuff). Do i think they are top notch? Of course. Would i like to follow their example? Of course not. I can't be bothered to,i don't have the time,i want to go online,talk with my guys,gang up and kill a ship or two,lose something every now and then,and that's it.

People should finally learn not to judge the playstyle of other's by their own standards. A PvP seasoned veteran screaming "noob" at a less experienced opponent is no different than a 2 week old miner screaming "griefer" to a pirate on his first trip to 0.4

Just my .2 isk, enjoy the game for what it is and don't make out of it a measuring tool for how cool you are,because the first time you lose big time on the field,you'll lose a lot of your interest in the game as well.

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