Skex Relbore
Red Federation
RvB - RED Federation
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Posted - 2011.09.10 22:05:00 -
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I once described eve a place where people Quote:will pod you if they get the chance they will overship you they will bring bigger fleets and they will camp you into station until you give up and go back to WOW.
It's that kind of game and if you can't deal with that you should stick to missions. If you accept that reality however it's a hell of a lot of fun.
This is the draw of EVE and what makes it different and more satisfying then the themepark MMO's that stick you on the rails and hold your hand all the way to your first Raid. Loss has consequence when you blow someone's ship and pod up you aren't just sending them back to their bind point where they will respawn dust themselves off and come right back out. They have to replace those assets and upgrade their clone and buy new implants, unless they have the cash reserves they're going to have to figure out how to replace that isk.
That risk is what makes it interesting and a large part of that risk is the fact that people can play the villain. You'll hear people repeat time and time again that "it's just a game" and this is both true and slightly dishonest at the same time. It's true because we'll this quite literally is a game someone blowing you ship up isn't causing you any real substantive harm, they aren't coming over to your house and breaking your bones they're just destroying your pixel assets, which shouldn't cause you any problems in real life unless you are so stupid that you blow money you can't afford on GTC's and well if you do that it's on you.
It's dishonest at the same time since just because something is a game doesn't mean people won't have an emotional attachment to it. Hell look at all these crazy football fans out there who spend thousands on travel and tickets so they can pain themselves in their team colors and see the games live on TV. Hell they'll even get into actual fist fights over the actions of people who quite literally don't know they exist.
It's dishonest because we know that we're causing people emotional distress when they get all butthurt about a loss and we taunt them about it. Truth is though that if they can't deal with that loss in a mature way they really aren't cut out for this game and quite honestly we're doing them a favor getting them to rage quit saving them both money and continued emotional distress.
To properly enjoy this game you have to be able to handle such loss and laugh about it. If you can't lose a 2 billion isk ship or a set of high-grade pirate implants and laugh it off it's only a matter of time until something is going to happen that sets you off into a bout of nerd rage and the more time you invested in the game the worse it will be.
Because it is a game, and a significant part of that game is trying to destroy other peoples assets while building up your own. A chess player doesn't get mad because his opponent takes his pawn (well a mature moderately well adjusted one doesn't) though they might get somewhat mad if they are beaten they generally won't go into a fit of rage accusing their opponent of being a sociopathic sadist.
The same goes for losing assets in this game. It's a part of the game just like taking your opponents pawn in chess, as such people who go all emo about often get their well deserved mocking.
As to the community's attitude, from my experience and observations the people who get grief are the ones who don't get what I just explained. The ones who are all whinny and rage about this injustice or that and accuse their opponents of all sorts mental and criminal abnormalities. The ones who are mature about such losses and don't act like angsty teenage crybabies however, the ones who are indeed willing to learn and accept what kind of game it is will find that they get all sorts of useful advice from people who really are helpful, not in the useless sympathetic ear way but in real practical advice.
Basically don't be a whinny emo douchebag and for the most part the majority of the community will be extremely helpful. Hell if you can take a joke and don't take yourself too seriously many of the trolls give good advice it just tends to be laced with heavy doses of sarcasm.
BTW I think it's pretty sad that I've had to develop the habit copying every post to the clipboard before hitting the post button. |