Torin Corax
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Posted - 2016.12.30 12:47:45 -
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Salvos Rhoska wrote:The lack of constraints in the EVE sandbox, coupled with alter-ego anonymity, enables douchebaggery.
Id argue all of us have a little douchebag in us just waiting to get out.
The same player in EVE may be a douchebag one day, and a selfless saint the next.
Personally I'd tend to agree with this^
In a game setting "because I can" is a perfectly valid reason to do something...ultimately one could argue it's the only real reason to do anything. Fun is subjective. There are many activities in Eve (and other games for that matter) that I do not find fun, but others may well do so. If it's not against the rules then go for it. I am certainly not going to try and dictate what other people should or should not find fun.
I choose to be nice or otherwise depending on circumstances at the time. Maybe one day I will gank someone (because I can), the next day I'll choose to let them pass (because I can), or spend my entire game session helping people in help chat. Does this mean I am a semi-sociopath? Back in the day I used to create alts just so I could get into rookie chat and help out as best I could....but if I was camping a gate I'd pop those same rookies without a second thought. Does this make me a bad person?
In RL I do not condone criminal activities. In game I'll do whatever the hell I feel like as long as I'm not breaking the rules to do it. If I'm bored I may choose to run missions, or to mess with other peoples missions. Either way, if I do it properly, I'm going to profit (in-game). It may well be that the people I "mess with" get upset. On the other hand, I've had people mess with me before in all kinds of situations in Eve, and each time I viewed it as a learning experience, and was ultimately grateful to those individuals for helping me to be better at this game. Maybe I'm alone in appreciating the value of a lesson learned the hard way (I rather doubt it), but the school of hard knocks is fine by me.
Eve is a unique game in my experience, and requires a certain mind-set to do well in. When talking to friends who are thinking about taking up Eve themselves one question I tend to ask them is whether they can take a beating, learn from it, and carry on. If the answer is no, then I may advise them that they are unlikely to enjoy playing Eve. If the answer is yes, they are likely to do well in this game.
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