x Misako
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Posted - 2007.02.17 14:36:00 -
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Edited by: x Misako on 17/02/2007 14:40:25
Edited by: x Misako on 17/02/2007 14:36:23
(kinda longish post)
Dear Mr. God!
When you kill a pod, you get a squishy sound. Of course, usually you don't, since the voice engine in EVE is kind of bugged and most people play without sounds, but even tho they listen to silence, they are AWARE the squish is there. Hell, it even rhymes.
As to the whole gate camping thing, I will never understand why it always ends in flames. Eve is about pursuing fun, which requires money. Camping is just one of many ways to make that money. Some people mine, some people do missions, others explore and some camp the gates. The so-called "pirates" don't come with congenital brain tumors that cause anti-sociality and ooze 10000 ISK per minute into their accounts. Try to keep in mind that EVE is an open-ended world and as such there are no better or worse ways to earn your living, there are just some that collide with your personal well-being.
Also, killing and dying is overrated. It's a symbol of weakness and submission, so we tend to be cranky about having our ships destroyed. Ergo, your typical carebear will run around yelling how bad and inhuman pirates are. But if you look at the bigger picture, pirates aren't actually the worst of your worries. Let's say you fly Vexors while trying your luck in low sec, do some missions in Myrmidons and Domis and train for the Ishtar. In the meantime pirates kill several of your cruisers and maybe a battlecruiser, which amounts to - let's assume quasi-tech2 - 80 million loss. Since you probably have some friends and the pirates were flashy red, you probably had the upper hand a few times and actually came on top of a few fights, so you also should have got a few positive experiences.
Now you finish your training and buy an Ishtar for how much? 160 million? Well, you just got screwed for about 100! In one shot. Scam of the month! That's much worse than pirates, but you're actually happy about your new buy because you peacefully spent your honestly earned money on something with a cool greenish paintjob. That's pretty much the peak of psychological absurdity.
Now the even funnier thing is that it's not the t2 producers (another word for pirates, it seems!) who screwed the carebear over, it's the ordinary people around him. That's what happens when you let monkeys play in a free market economy. I mean, anybody in their right mind realizes that the aforementioned Ishtar is a mini-dominix that moves faster and has got the coolest color, but can be nossed to death quite easily and is built for something around 30 million ISK. However, the supply is limited and a Dominix doesn't support a typical person's e-peen, apparently, so people swarm the damn queues and pay ridiculous prices for their fancy toys, thus screwing themselves and everybody else in the process. How more stupid can you get?
It would seem that while we can live in the world of illusions, our subconsciousness can't. It stores the frustration and it has to get out somewhere... and the *bad* guys are so handy, aren't they?
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