Originally by: Lyris Nairn

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Edited by: Lyris Nairn on 15/02/2009 04:54:23

Originally by: Shaktu

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Hey, I know piracy and PvP is a huge part of this game ... but try to have even a little conscience about it when abusing the noobs. Like me.

After grind mining for 2 weeks during my trial account, I finally paid for my first month yesterday, trained up Caldari Industry and bought a Badger.

So my shiny new badger is 45 minutes old and I'm merrily jetcanning for the first time as I see a ship approaching. I've read that noobs should stick to secure areas, so I'm in .9 space. I assume I'm safe -- I don't really know much about the game yet.

Some guy approaches, loots my can and tells me that for $400k he'll give it back. I'm a little ****ed and a little scared, I've never had someone grief me before just for fun (I don't have much PvP experience).

Although I don't have much, I give this guy $400k and take back my ore. This, of course, makes me attackable. I fly off and retrieve my badger to empty the can, I just wanna call it a night and cut my losses.

But the jackass is there, circling the can, waiting for me to play into his hands. I can't believe a fellow player would be this harsh to a noob (I told him it was my first paid day), but he then tells me that unless I give him another $400k, he will destroy my one-hour old ship. He's got me trapped by some kinda weapon, my ship can't move.

So I give him everything I have left, telling him I don't have another $400k. He informs me that this is tough luck for me, destroys my ship and ore.

I'm crushed. I sit there, numbed at the fact that another player would be so belligerent to a day one noob. I contact him to inform him that I'm so upset, I'm thinking of quitting the game. His response is "OH GOD AWESOME".

I exit the game and sit there staring at the screen for 30 minutes. I nearly delete the Eve client twice, but stop myself.

Yeah, I was stupid and played into his hands at every step. Yeah, piracy and PvP are a big part of the game.

But when you encounter a day one noob in .9 space puttering along in his crappy T1 ship, is it really necessary to inflict the maximum amount of punishment on the guy? If I had lost the original $400k and 45 minutes of ore, that woulda taught me my lesson and I would have perhaps been a little exhilirated by the whole experience.

But to completely destroy such a noob, torturing him every step of the way (doing a countdown in the chat window to my ship's complete destruction, etc), and then express sheer, unadulterated joy at his utter misery is just sick. I can't imagine what kind of person would do such a thing to a complete stranger on a whim.

Anyway, I'm done whining. I wasn't looking for a carebear game but neither was I expecting that my first and only interaction with another player would be so remorselessly vicious.

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I can sum up his thought process for you very quickly:
'EVE is PVP, quit being a carebear and l2p or go back to WOW.'
or
'Good I hope you quit, that's one less carebear whining to the devs to make the game safer.'

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