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Omar Alharazaad
Lords.Of.Midnight
The Devil's Warrior Alliance
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Posted - 2015.05.02 06:31:55 -
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Earth and Beyond refugee here, and still wondering where all the fish went.
I tried WoW for a couple months in the wayback and it just failed to hook me. Of course this was after I finally put EQ to rest and had been playing EVE for a while. It struck me as mindnumbingly simple and a tad more grindy than I was willing to endure... I'd put up with grind/timesink crap from EQ for enough years, so wasn't really keen on doing it again.
I do feel a limited form of sympathy for longtime players of WoW and similar games who come over to EVE. Most of them simply aren't going to survive the experience, much like a bunny or a squirrel that runs out in front of a car. It's sad to see the little critter go, but physics is a harsh mistress and they made a choice to do a dangerous thing. I think most of these critters don't grasp that the simple act of undocking is a dangerous thing, despite there being warning, and end up fairly well shocked when that thing happens.
It's the behavior after the event that matters. If they leave, that's fine. If they stay, cool. If they rant and rave and push for the game to change to prevent future tragedies such as their own... then we have a problem.
I keep a thoughtgun next to the bed, fully loaded with nerdshot. Just in case.
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Omar Alharazaad
Lords.Of.Midnight
The Devil's Warrior Alliance
1551
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Posted - 2015.05.02 06:51:07 -
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On the other side of the coin....
EVE can seriously ruin a player's ability to adapt to and enjoy other types of MMO as well. After a while you get the whole 'predator/prey' mindset going on and start to view those around you in that manner. With effort I've managed to suppress this while interacting with others in the past, but it does tend to cause awkward moments when folks ask you about what you did in EVE. Something something frozen corpses, something something mountain of loot taken from player wrecks... why did comms just go super quiet?
I keep a thoughtgun next to the bed, fully loaded with nerdshot. Just in case.
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Omar Alharazaad
Lords.Of.Midnight
The Devil's Warrior Alliance
1553
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Posted - 2015.05.03 12:01:49 -
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Skiffs aren't dangerous prey?
I tried my hand at baiting miners a few weeks back in an enyo. Wiggled my lance to see what happened and all that....
Got two bites at the same time, was so excited. That is, until I realized that two full flights of bonused light drones from these monsters was more than enough to turn my assault frig into a ball of fire very quickly. I pondered this as I flew my fireball of 10% hull left back to the station.
There are numerous examples out there of prey turning out to have claws and fangs as well, you only have to look a little.
There's a huge difference between "I cannot defend myself" and "I cannot be bothered to expend the effort needed to defend myself".
I keep a thoughtgun next to the bed, fully loaded with nerdshot. Just in case.
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