I usually just cruise around high sec in my ganking alt (t2 catalyst) and look out for shitfits and young characters. So if I finally spot one I immediatly open fire and smacktalk them in a convo afterwards. Because youknow they should know that EvE is a harsh place and EvE players are assholes. Then I direct them to the forums and show them the number of likes I have and that EvE players actually approve of persons like me. If thats not enough to make them quit EvE I place a 10m bounty on their head. They dont actually know that this has minimum effect on their gameplay and is no incentive to gank someone. Yea thats my daily EvE life.

Yeah i joined this corp the ceo seemed solid. Turns out he was made ceo by the founder who was an assbutt. Cool guy had to do all this work while the founder acted like a 200% tool. Shooting new guys, ripping em off selling em cheap things at crazy high prices the usual.
So the idiot tried to shoot me on the undock but i had an insta, then he follows me around being annoying.
Had a talk to coolguy ceo, shrugs all round, he made me ceo and split, i got an out of corp buddy to move all the corp assets in many orca loads while the jackass slept.
See he thought all the new recruits had no hauling or fighting ability, so acted the fool.

His stuff was delicious, probably one of the few times a jerk directly paid for it.
OP has no imagination or patience, definitely not leadership material.

Bad players rage quit, or worse, run to the forums and ask CCP to make what happen to them impossible.

Bad players rage quit, or worse, run to the forums and ask CCP to make what happen to them impossible.

Anyways, this behavior only reinforces the idea that never leaving NPC corps is the way to go. Is that what you really want? Everyone in NPC corps?

I kissed a girl and I liked it.

i once teamkilled a guy in WoT. true story.

I wasted my time and isk doing such poor-man activities just for the nice feeling of helping a new EVE Online player. Finally he subscribed for 6 months. Yay!

BEEBEEDEEBEEPBEEPBEEEEEEEEEEEP my asshat alarm is going nova

Hey Mang,
You sound just like some other people I've met in Eve. If you shared your LOLs with someone.. I'd understand... but... ??!?!

"I gotz this great idea..LMAO.. LOL... GANK... sheesh why doesn't anyone like me?!?? I'm such a great guy!"


Adds OP to watchlist with label: PSYCHOS <-143 currently with this label.

Their is a lot of mental illness in the world... and in Eve.... just saying...


Seek help,


Jose Ronald, Minmatar spiritual enabler

Replying to another misinformed individual who applies subjective moral standards to video games and gameplay and calls people psycho because they merely upset him. You belittle mental illness by calling it something it's not. I'll tell you what there is a lot of in the world, and EVE.

Stupidity.

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One could make the argument that doing such things to others is a sign of a sociopath.

However I do believe for some it is simple boredom combined with a lack of behavioral training. I find when I encounter players with a stable job, wife, and especially kids, they gawk at any sort of deception performed on friends or trusting parties.
When I encounter players that are willing to do such things, I find they do not have these things usually.

Back to the topic of sociopaths, we can take a look at the communications offered by such parties. For one most are particularly looking to grief the other person; essentially an adult that is taking enjoyment in the suffering, frustration and annoyance of another adult. Online or offline is irrelevant here; that is childish and for adults to act like that is a sign that something is wrong with them.

There's also a group that do it to look cool to their other friends in the game. Once again, for fully grown men to create a high-school styled social structure in the game is a sign of stupidity at best, brain function deterioration at the worst.

The last thing I'd like to touch on is the communication style of such people. Most feel the need to have the attention shined on themselves and will instantly resort to mindless trolling if a criticism is thrown there way. They tend to communicate through posting childish memes and cannot partake in any serious discussions both on an intellectual level and due to their childish behavioral development.

Thus considering this all I'd say "griefers" in EVE are mostly a mix of:
1) Bored, stupid people
2) Sociopaths
3) People with development disorders, socially specifically

Unless you're qualified in the field of developmental disorders, like my own autism for example, you should really try to avoid pretending to know something about them. If you DO know something about them, then you already know you're full of crap, in which case you're just trolling. Calling people "bored, stupid, sociopaths, developmentally challenged", etc, and attaching them to such negative connotations.... how does that make you any different than the people you're criticising?

essentially an adult that is taking enjoyment in the suffering, frustration and annoyance of another adult

just dropping by to point out that the past tense of of 'to quit' is 'quit' not 'quited', so the threadtitle ought to be corrected.

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

Last month I was spamming the recruitment channel a bit and talked to dozens of folks only to get a couple of them recruited, you know how this works.

So this little guy in a trial account got interested by mining and I taught him the ropes: what ships to fly, how to properly fit his vessels to resist the rats, and kill them with the appropiate drones, and whatnot.

We made some mining ops

We ran a session of lvl1 and lvl2 missions

I wasted my time and isk doing such poor-man activities just for the nice feeling of helping a new EVE Online player. Finally he subscribed for 6 months. Yay!

It was all nice when suddenly, hey, I got this shiny idea:

How do I introduce this little carebear to PVP? What if I scare him? LOL

So he was trying his brand new Retriever - epic moment as he described it - he worked a reasonable amount of hours mining in Venture to afford it. Well I popped in belt with my Caracal and blasted his shields. Got no response.

I talked in corp channel and fleet channel. I loled. Nothing. AFK?

Suddenly his ****** retriever is moving aligned to station but the miserable was scrambled by myself. Still no response in chat. LMAO...

So as I consider silence as an insult to my intelligence, I decided to excavate the armor. Scary! Now the little guy decided to talk:

"WTF is this? Im placing a huge bounty on your head!!! This is not a joke!!!!!"


I loled a bit more and finally let him go in a perfectly white structure, only after explaining him he should trust no one and that this was only a demonstration of how harsh EVE can be.

Dude docked and dropped from corp, blocked me. I noticed he blocked me because I was offering some ISK to repair his armor... but message couldnt get delivered.

He still in NPC after 1 month. I think he really quited EVE Online. Waste of 70 bucks, LOL!!!I I have mixed feelins about this.

He may be wrong with the exact terms (I don't know **** about it, so can't say), but he's right when he mentions :



Doing "bad things" in EvE is OK, it's part of the game, but enjoying making other people miserable is not. It's not your character "harvesting the tears" of the other character, it's the player doing so to the other player. Human beings. The fact that it is a video game doesn't matter at all.
Maybe the victim should not be too upset about a game, but the fact that the "tear harvester" enjoys other people's suffering sure is a sign of asshatery, whether it qualifies as sociopathy or not.

Bullshit, the fact that it is a video game negates the 'suffering' of other players together. Oh noes, your pixels exploded? First world problems, biatch. Let me know when you've experienced some real suffering and THEN we'll talk about suffering in a video game.

There isn't even one single parallel you can draw. Not one. The fact that you're playing video games AT ALL means you're not suffering, so whatever enjoyment other players get out of what they do to you IN GAME has no parallel in reality, sorry.