CCP Falcon wrote:The answer is simple.
It's quite clear that we also have an extremely intelligent community, even if sometimes the content posted on these forums is to the contrary. I think that playing EVE requires a certain level of intelligence, thickness of skin, and ability to deal with your fellow man in circumstances that are sometimes not to your favor.
However, there's a line as to how severe those circumstances should get, and I'll paraphrase Mynxee by saying that this line needs to be drawn at the point where the alleged victim starts to lose emotional control. We can't set an arbirarty line for this, as this is different for everyone, and every situation. There must be a willingness by those involved to recognise when that point has been reached and realize, with positive community spirit in mind, that they should stop and honor that line with humaine and decent behaviour.
In the same respect, there must also be a level of responsibility held by CCP to ensure that we have the wellbeing of our community and each of our players at the forefront of our minds during the decision making process when an issue like this comes up.
During the Sansha live events and pre-incursion nerf time frame, I was part of a growing community, finding stuff out, how it works and building relationships. During this time, you get exposed to some mental bullshit as well, either directly when the stakes get high or even perceived, because you take stuff personally.
The one rule for these situations everyone uses, is the mental bullshit you are get exposed to worth the potential isk reward ?
In some scenarios this gets out of control, and you will lose emotional control, especially if the reward is not present in the end.
This is were self evaluation should kick in, but if you lack the capabilities or a social safety net you can not disengage from the out of control situation, however there is another circumstance to where you can not disengage; gaming addiction.
Will CCP with the help of CSM provide perhaps a helpful document to it's costumers when to turn of the game off and go take a walk outside ?