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Posted - 2016.12.27 03:05:07 -
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HERPINDERPINHERP HERPINDERPIN wrote:Salvos Rhoska wrote:HERPINDERPINHERP HERPINDERPIN wrote:
You are never called by your real name in the infantry.
So you prefer to be called HERPINDERPINHERP HERPINDERPIN? Good call, bro. GL with that. Your cunning plan is truly cunning! I posted that I was wrong about my original position regarding names and I thanked you for showing me that I was wrong. I literally learned the lesson you were trying to teach me, and I thanked you for it. You were right and I was wrong. What else can I do for you now? I'm new, I have ideas, I tried to explain them to you but was met with such hostility
Hostility is the default position in EVE. Even people that are "nice" to you because you're new are probably going to actively **** you over before "nicely" explaining what you did wrong and how you can improve. If they're REALLY nice they might give back some of what they shot or swindled out of you after you'd had time to mentally and emotionally absorb the object lesson they have given you.
It's a form of tough love. People are generally tolerant of new players in EVE, but people are also aware that 'learn by doing' is the only successful form of getting anywhere in as complex a game as this one is. They want to **** you over so that you can make better decisions later when you're actually worth ******* over.
If there's one thing that's going to engender hostility from another EVE player, its trying to make some point about being morally or intellectually superior in metrics that aren't directly related to EVE itself.
Intellectual superiority where it isn't directly and practically applicable to playing EVE is not a quality highly valued by other players. And we have some VERY smart people playing EVE. People I highly respect for the work they do in reality. People I would also not hesitate to murder just because they happen to be in something murderable that might make me a few million ISK if given the opportunity. And that's not even generally an act of war in EVE between neutral parties. That's just Tuesday.
Moral superiority is an almost laughable concept in a game that directly encourages the economics of distrust, revenge, and generally ******* over your fellow man as expected rather than abberant behavior. A "legal" target in EVE is also generally considered a "moral" one. The reasons that prevent violent conflict are generally more about economics than morality.
Divorce yourself from the idea that the person correlates with the EVE persona. EVE is intentionally a rather dystopian thing that actively encourages the imbalances and excesses of the monied class and the use of violence as the most expident way to solve virtually any problem. Most people playing EVE are not remotely the same people as the personas they inhabit for the purposes of surviving in EVE.
If you're looking to get a handle on EVE, I suggest you start by realizing that in its context you aren't really in a position to test or evaluate other people. There are many organizations and players willing to help, but when you approach them with some holier than thou attitude they're going to be immediately less willing to help you. |