Irrelevant. The past tense of 'ragequit' is 'ragequited'

Don't even try to pretend that **** that happens in a video game is going to cause real misery. And yes, I've been backstabbed in this game myself. I got together with some friends and sacked the wormhole and two poses that those guys that backstabbed me had, stole over 30bil worth of stuff, and got over it. I would have got over it even if that didn't happen, because it's just a game.

I'd be more put off by someone refusing to talk to me after a brilliant game move than someone who pulled it off and kept being friends with me. IE, the relationship isn't shattered by what happened in a game. If they're my actual friend, they'll still be my friend after a move in a game that hurts my position and helps theirs - that's the POINT of gaming.

But if they stopped talking to me afterwards, then I would be upset, because the relationship is over - either it never existed to start with, or they are taking the game way too seriously.

IE, I convoed the guy who killed me last time (forgot to say gf though, but it was an amicable chat) just to find out what I did wrong and what I could do better, and if my fit was crap or not. Why? Because he's playing a game too and I need to learn from EVERYBODY I can, and make friends everywhere I can, even if it's by fighting and getting killed (some people respect that).

I am able to take a very mechanical approach to gaming. Gaming is a chance for me to be completely self-centered with no real-world consequences for it. The point of a game is for me to have an outlet to be completely selfish within. IE, the idea of a game is to win, so whatever goal I set for myself, it is my task to get to that goal utilizing all available methods.

This works a lot better for board games where the idea is to accumulate some sort of victory points in order to win the game (my favorite is money). I transferred some of this over to this game - my goal is not outright collection of ISK, but to set up profitable industry and mining opportunities involving other players as primaries. In order to achieve that goal I need trust from other players, or at least relationships with them, so I build those relationships and do my best to make sure they're well maintained. If, within playing the game, I also make some friends, so much the better. And maybe I do have other more secret goals that involve impacting people in real life, but that is how I live life, not play EVE.

So I play EVE selfishly and I give no credence to whether you succeed in your goals or not - in business, it's obviously relevant as far as a non-profitable partner becomes no partner soon enough. But my purpose isn't for you to succeed as such, it only is my purpose so far as it suits my own purposes.

I expect the same from other players as I respect them enough to expect them to maximize their own goal-reaching potential. The problems only come up when I do not realize what the other's goal is - then it is very difficult to predict what they would do.

At least in board games, everyone has the same goal (most of the time). So I know what actions to expect from people. EVE is a lot closer to life in that way.