Stitcher
Caldari
J.I.T. Enterprises
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.02.27 13:35:00 -
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 Originally by: RaazAguul
So I've calmed down some and here's my opinion.
I've played a lot of games, where people help the new players to the game for the purpose of recruiting new players to guilds, to encourage them to stick with the low levels or to just help a new guy out. So someone having crates out there that say "FREE STUFF FOR NOOBS" seemed pretty cool to me. Specially since I just learned that you can take stuff from Wrecks. But as it turns out, the guy is a piece of crap and preys on people who don't know what the hell is going on yet.
In EVE, the usual approach is for somebody to wire you ISK rather than leave a can out front of the station.
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But what is more surprising to me is that most of you seem to think that this guy did nothing wrong at all, and the entire thing was my fault.
Hardly, he's a griefing MFer, who deserves every ounce of the scorn you throw in his direction. His kind is neither representative of, nor liked by, the EVE community.
Still, fact is that in order to take that stuff you had to ignore a pretty blatant pop-up that warned you of the potential consequences of your actions. It's there for a reason, and if you'd heeded it, you would not be in this position.
EVE allows indiscriminate, non-consensual PvP, and the cans are a potential mechanic for that process. if you are uncomfortable with that fact, this probably isn't this game. As somebody pointed out, EVE is a game of "street smarts", keeping your wits about you, and generally being paranoid.
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In fact, it almost seems that you are encouraging this kind of behavior, and even think that a high level guy going to the "noob base" and putting out traps for total noobs so he can repeatedly kill them is funny.
wrong.
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Well, you all will have to excuse me for not knowing how to play the game and foolishly thinking that at the "training base" I was safe from being griefed before I even left the sector.
I don't supposed you bothered to research this game before trying it out? Life in EVE can be short and brutal for the unwary.
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I don't think that it's a good thing that i got killed early so I didn't lose any credits later. I think it's a good thing that I got griefed early so I don't pay any real money and waste any more time on this game.
I'll try not to let the door hit me in the ass on the way out.
Actually, you honestly have gained from this experience - it's taught you what EVE is like. if EVE is not to your tastes, don't play it.
You'll find that those of us who DO play it don't much care. not everything is universally popular, and if you wish to quit, that is your prerogative. What's happening here is that you're using the actions of one random griefer (a type of player that is definitely in the minority in this game) as a smokescreen to cover the real issue that you just don't like the game.
That's cool. You don't have to.
Have fun somewhere else, mate.
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