Jenn aSide
Smokin Aces.
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Posted - 2014.07.03 13:35:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:How about never, and have no wish to?
Recently, I came upon a few months old char mining in a retty in 0.2 space. I could have easily reshipped to fit a scram to my cloaked T3. But no, I decloaked beside the guy, said hi, told him I was no threat, and went about ratting in system. Just the 2 of us in system. We continued chatting, and he eventually called out for some help with some rats attacking his mining boat he could not handle. I zipped over, got rid of them for him.
That gave me far more gratification than ganking the guy. (BTW, look at my killboard's ancient history, there are 0.0 and wh kills on it, of all kinds, so I do know a thing or two about shooting others in the game)
A few days later, we had some clown in a Hurricane scan him down while having an alt sit on the other side of the gate (dead end system). I gave the miner a safe spot I had, but it was a small system and could not keep him safe, while I checked out his way out of system (remember the alt?)
It did not take long before the Cane had him found and pointed. Nothing I could do for him in my outgunned exploration T3. He was extorted for cash, with a promise that the Cane pilot would not kill him for the rest of the day.
That miner has not been back to that system in some time, and rarely logs on now (I have him on WL).
Killing anyone you can is one extremely simple and childish way to play this game. There are myriad other ways, but the forum trolls and the people that control the dev's shout down anyone who suggests otherwise.
lol, the people who control the DEVs. it never crosses your mind that "the DEVs' are the ones who created (or maintained) the environment that allows people to interact. Underlying all your craziness is your inability to understand that you're the one who is a misfit in this harsh game, it's not the game that has a problem.
We get it, you think you're a nice guy for playing a video game the way you do. Not shooting another player in low sec does not make you a nice guy, it makes you a guy who made a personal choice that has zero value to anyone except you. I wouldn't have killed him either, not because doing so 'is not nice', but because doing so would have distracted me from the activity I find fun (exploring).
The fact that I would have ignored the guy mining in a belt doesn't make me a nice guy either. How I treat my family, my friends, random strangers in real life and how i serve my community makes me a nice guy.
It's ironic that you look down on people who shoot other people's ships in this game when you engage in activities (PVE) which benefits from ships being blown up. Hell, your activities help create the demand for ships being blown up.
Had you blown up the guy's ship, you would have been doing EVE a service. It would have stopped his resource gathering (an activity that lowers the value of all other like resources) as well as perhaps given a ship builder a reason to build another ship. For some reason you're too short sighted to understand how the game you play works.
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