let me tell one of my encounters.

i was planning on going to nullsec, but really really low on isk, so i couldnt buy the dominix i wanted for ratting, one of the people in an incursion community i run with, asked me what i wanted, and give me the money not for a normal domi, but for a navy one.

also, 1 time in dodixie, i was there for shopping and 1 guy randomly handed out millions of isk to people in local, some people recivied 500 million, some 400 mill, but everyone got something from the guy.

That's SO unfair! :O

No matter if I talked about giving kindness,
or receiving kindness ...

... it'd get me banned! :(

I had been playing EVE maybe 2-3 weeks. I was pecking away at some Veldspar using an industrial, this was way before Ventures came along. All of a sudden... whoosh!!! Rawr!!! bright orange beams from a Hulk, didn't know at the time what one was, shot over my nooblet head. Scared the **** out of me at first. I then convoed the pilot of the ship asking what kind of ship he was flying. He told me then proceeded for a few cycles of mining some ore for me. I would eventually have a Hulk of my own, but now I have forever left the carebear way of life behind.

u w0t

I also noticed that the kindest dudes tend to be the ones with the most impressive killboard who get accused of being scociopaths .

NO

Before the Venture the way to mine was using racial frigates bonused to mining (ooh, good old Bantam mining).
If you mined with an industrial you were just doing it wrong.

No, this was one of the options, although it was primarily the AFK way to mine if you couldn't get in a proper exhumer. So, in the sense that he was actually paying attention long enough to notice the Hulk in the belt with him, he was doing it wrong.

Now adays, with CODE., you just don't do this.

hey everyone,

before i started playing eve, i have been reading a lot about eve.
in general, eve is considerd one of the most harsh games out there.

i'm wondering if we can get a threadnaught going on, disproving eve as a very mean and harsh game.
Because even after encountering scammer number 9213 or awoxer number 4527, there are random acts of kindness in eve.

so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess, which can reach from an pirate honoring a ransom, to someone helping you out form day 1.

lets hope people read this, and that it can help people find their way in eve, and its harsh, but sometimes very pleasant community.

Nice people exist in EVE, you just never hear about them because they are overshadowed by the butt-wipes.

Uhm

NO

Before the Venture the way to mine was using racial frigates bonused to mining (ooh, good old Bantam mining).
If you mined with an industrial you were just doing it wrong.

let me tell one of my encounters.

i was planning on going to nullsec, but really really low on isk, so i couldnt buy the dominix i wanted for ratting, one of the people in an incursion community i run with, asked me what i wanted, and give me the money not for a normal domi, but for a navy one

hey everyone,

before i started playing eve, i have been reading a lot about eve.
in general, eve is considerd one of the most harsh games out there.

i'm wondering if we can get a threadnaught going on, disproving eve as a very mean and harsh game.
Because even after encountering scammer number 9213 or awoxer number 4527, there are random acts of kindness in eve.

so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess, which can reach from an pirate honoring a ransom, to someone helping you out form day 1.

lets hope people read this, and that it can help people find their way in eve, and its harsh, but sometimes very pleasant community.

so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess,

hey everyone,

before i started playing eve, i have been reading a lot about eve.
in general, eve is considerd one of the most harsh games out there.

i'm wondering if we can get a threadnaught going on, disproving eve as a very mean and harsh game.
Because even after encountering scammer number 9213 or awoxer number 4527, there are random acts of kindness in eve.

so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess, which can reach from an pirate honoring a ransom, to someone helping you out form day 1.

lets hope people read this, and that it can help people find their way in eve, and its harsh, but sometimes very pleasant community.

I pirate in lowsec from time to time, my rule is generally if I kill someone new, I'll convo them and if they're cool about it I'll re-imburse them for their loss, give them some pointers and stuff. Once killed a 2 day old character in a venture then podded him but we chatted and I felt bad so I dropped him 20 mil. The guy was cool (except for posting the mail I sent him on reddit - I got the **** taken by my corpies for a while about that one). The guy I killed did pay me the isk back about 3weeks later which I wasn't expecting and I like to think I helped him enjoy the game a bit more.

However, it's not entirely selfless. Most people here will remember that 4 year period where lowsec was empty as all hell, when carebears would go straight from hi to null and there was never any good hunting. By makinh new player's first trips to lowsec less traumatic you encourage more targets/pilots to come around in the future, and the more confident they are, the bigger ships they'll be flying...

So it's sort of like an investment for the future. I was surprised to read in the reddit thread I mentioned above that a lot of eve players think like this!

I tried to think of an act of kindness that was visited upon me in game but... I couldn't think of a single thing.

Sometimes I refund random ppl stuff they've bought (usually around Christmas).

This is one of your better portraits Solecist. I'd even go so far as to say it's the best i've seen yet.

i just offer people advice, isk does very little. Knowledge and information about the game is a lot more powerful.

Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish is the proverb that comes to mind here.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

I distinctly remember saying this before. Did I say this before? I'm SURE I said this before. Maybe...just maybe people should get it tattooed on their FOREHEADS! MAYBE THEN...they'll REMEMBER!

(What was it she just said?)

This is one of your better portraits Solecist. I'd even go so far as to say it's the best i've seen yet.

i just offer people advice, isk does very little. Knowledge and information about the game is a lot more powerful.

Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish is the proverb that comes to mind here.

hey everyone,

before i started playing eve, i have been reading a lot about eve.
in general, eve is considerd one of the most harsh games out there.

i'm wondering if we can get a threadnaught going on, disproving eve as a very mean and harsh game.
Because even after encountering scammer number 9213 or awoxer number 4527, there are random acts of kindness in eve.

so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess, which can reach from an pirate honoring a ransom, to someone helping you out form day 1.

lets hope people read this, and that it can help people find their way in eve, and its harsh, but sometimes very pleasant community.

You have no idea how much a virtual hug, a kiss on the cheek,
a bit of virtual flirting and cuddling can do for a person who
simply seeks a bit friendlyness and love.

um

why

There is giant "Like and get likes" thread in "Out of pod" section - there people talk nicely and gift thousands of internet points to each other.

Uhm

NO

Before the Venture the way to mine was using racial frigates bonused to mining (ooh, good old Bantam mining).
If you mined with an industrial you were just doing it wrong.

The truth is MOST of the people who play this game are really very nice and extremely helpful.

Oh, they'll gank you and laugh and collect your tears in a plastic baggie. Yeah.

But they're nice.

This is my random act of kindness to people.

About a week ago, I dropped a Tengu hull on some guy who made a passing remark about just finishing his -gu skills

Somebody go buy this person a monocle.

Wow, did he live?

hey everyone,

before i started playing eve, i have been reading a lot about eve.
in general, eve is considerd one of the most harsh games out there.

i'm wondering if we can get a threadnaught going on, disproving eve as a very mean and harsh game.
Because even after encountering scammer number 9213 or awoxer number 4527, there are random acts of kindness in eve.

so please, post here your experience with random encounters of kindess, which can reach from an pirate honoring a ransom, to someone helping you out form day 1.

lets hope people read this, and that it can help people find their way in eve, and its harsh, but sometimes very pleasant community.