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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors Escalating Entropy
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Posted - 2016.12.26 00:47:52 -
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Make a "pitch" to various players the way you make them to people in the real world.
If they like to blow up things, show that you like to do the same thing... by doing it. Win or lose, you make a statement with your actions.
If they like mining, hang out in the same places and mine with them. Or do something useful for them (hint: command ships).
Most importantly...
- realize that you are the low man on the social food chain. You have to work your way up by doing stuff, not saying stuff.
- you have no experience or knowledge. And knowledge you have from other games does not apply here.
- EVE is a process game. What you learn today may be useless tomorrow. Respect the process. It is why many of us like this game.
- Have a sense of humor about everything... the darker the better. The game is cutthroat. And everyone likes a good laugh.
How did you Veterans start?
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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors Escalating Entropy
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Posted - 2016.12.26 05:42:09 -
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Keno Skir wrote:Wow that's an incredibly irritating name There was once an FC who I flew against named DerHURRderp.
We had a spy in his fleet once. He sounded exactly the way his name implied. Our spy volentarily left the fleet we wanted to ambush because, and I quote almost verbatem, "I was gonna ******* shoot the ************ on principle! But I didn't want to expose my alt over someone so ********."
How did you Veterans start?
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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors Escalating Entropy
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Posted - 2016.12.27 03:31:25 -
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Mikael Nolen wrote:ShahFluffers wrote: - Have a sense of humor about everything... the darker the better. The game is cutthroat. And everyone likes a good laugh.
This is literally in the second bit of advice you were given at the start of all this mate. We are all having a good laugh right now. This thread... it oozes irony.
I will use it on my steak tonight rather than A1.
In all seriousness though...
HERPINDERPINHERP HERPINDERPIN wrote:Mikael Nolen wrote:At this point, I think you have left the cuddly adorable newbzone and have entered into the fray of the rest of us bittervet douches. You had 1 shot and blew it man. :) Im having trouble understanding what I blew exactly See... here's the thing...
If a newbie comes along and asks questions, we all do try to help in any way we can. Some advice may be more trollish than others, but it all coming from a good place (for the most part).
Now... People are going to have issues with your name. That is fine and to be expected. You chose the name so that you can, to paraphrase your own words, "weed out those you do not wish to associate with." That is also fine and a bit cunning.
But then you go on a diatribe on why this is a good tactic and how people are dumb for judging you based on it. All in an effort to defend yourself.
That is where you went wrong.
There are few things that EVE players will universally unite against. Having a "superiority complex" is one of them.
The more you try to paint yourself as a more "intelligent" and/or more "cunning" person, the bigger the target on your head and more tempted people are going to be to take a dump all over you.
Take my advice; stop trying to defend yourself and just roll with it. Remember one of the bits of advice I gave you in my first post in this thread?
ShahFluffers wrote:- realize that you are the low man on the social food chain. You have to work your way up by doing stuff, not saying stuff.
So... yeah... you are "saying stuff" right now. Stop "saying stuff."
You are only digging yourself deeper into that proverbial "hole."
How did you Veterans start?
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