SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
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Posted - 2014.05.17 06:42:00 -
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Aravis Endashi wrote:I dont understand how mercenary corps can get away with litaroly working a corp over till everyone in the defendent corp quits playing. Wow, really accomplishing something there. Lets spend 50 thousand a week because we have nothing better and see how many subs we can make cancel because we're an idiot and dont like fair fights. Good way to to ruin it. My corp is now going on its forth war extention Sunday Im sure. We cant mine, cant haul, cant hardly go out of station or anything and people are dropping out like crazy. There not accomplishing anything except chasing people out of the game...
Alice and Bob sit down to play a game of Monopoly. Alice utilizes the rules of the game to purchase properties she lands on, and, eventually, to throw up houses and hotels on those properties.
Bob just rolls the dice, does laps around the board, and collects his $200 and the occasional community chest/chance card as he goes. Eventually Bob realizes that about the best thing that can happen to him is landing on the "Go To Jail" square - anywhere else he lands is going to cost him a fortune. Bob flips over the board in a huff, and heads to the Monopoly forums to lodge a complaint, something to the effect of:
Bob wrote:
I don't understand how other players can get away with litaroly working the board over till every other play quits playing. Wow, really accomplishing something there. Lets spend $2000 a lap buying properties because we have nothing better and see how many players we can make quit because we're an idiot and don't like fair games. Good way to ruin it. I can't even visit the lustrous Boardwalk property without paying a fortune! Alice isn't accomplishing anything except chasing people out of the game..."
Ridiculous, right? If you quit the game because you don't like being wardecced, it's not because someone chased you out of the game - it's because you don't actually LIKE the game in the first place. You like maybe 5-10% of the game, and only when you can experience that fraction of the game without outside interference. The thing is, nothing in Eve transpires in a vacuum (cue space jokes!). You want to think that your purely industrial activities are harmless to other players, but they're not. You're a competitor in a marketplace. Every bit of ore you're prevented from mining means quicker sales and better prices for someone else who can capitalize on the fact that you're no longer supplying the market. Every ship of yours that's destroyed means new demand for replacement ships, and the materials that went into them.
You're effectively asserting that YOU should be allowed to interfere with other players by way of the market and mining game mechanics, but other players should not be allowed to interfere with you by way of the combat and wardec mechanics - an obviously hypocritical position that at best will get you nowhere, and at worst will earn you a few new spite wardecs purely because that level of hypocrisy tends to rile people up.
So, you have two options:
1. You can quit, yes. Understand, though, that you didn't quit because some other player made you - you quit because you don't actually like the game as a whole.
2. You can start actually playing the game as a whole, instead of trying to play 5% of it and getting miffed when other people engage in the other 95% that you dislike. There are a thousand and one ways you could do this, including but not limited to:
-Dodging the wardec by bailing to an NPC corp. Not a particularly sexy solution, but it's there.
-Hiring mercenaries to take the fight to them.
-Relocating to a different area, possibly even going to low sec, null sec, or wormhole space.
-Joining with a larger corp that might be able to defend you or, at least, offer some guidance on defending yourself.
And, possibly best:
Fitting up some combat ships and fighting back! It looks like you tried, but you chose poorly in using large, poorly fit, expensive battleships when you should have been using cheap, well fit frigates and cruisers. Call it a learning experience and do better next time. Consider joining a different corp where you can actually learn from more experience players before setting off on your own, as well. |