Amastat
Caldari Omegatech
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Posted - 2008.06.28 18:07:00 -
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Edited by: Amastat on 28/06/2008 18:15:38 It's true that, EVE being the way it is, and the nature of EVE, attracts ****wads. We're lying to ourselves to deny that - there is no room for being polite to eachother, and helping eachother out in EVE (except on the corporate level, maybe), due to the dark nature of the game, and the competitive nature of the PvP system in place.
Heck - even in a lot of corporations, members are total asswads to eachother. Most alliances I've been in, and I've seen a lot over the years, don't even socialize on a large scale - they just fleet up when its time to, about the extent of working together. The corporations just keep to themselves, and have minimal mandatory interaction with the other alliance corporations - Could be they just aren't interested in each other, aren't on the same wavelength, or are even competitive (political tug, power, ISK).
Spying and Sabotage is a widely used tool in large scale warfare in this game as well - this is partly made possible because a lot of alliances like this are easy to corrupt or even divide/defect.
It may seem harsh, tense, and uptight - but welcome to EVE. Personally I'd rather tolerate this over the Myspace-like crap games like WoW.
It's a dark game with dark gamers - you can't seriously expect it will attract fairies and teddy bears, eh?
You cannot say that it is much worse than other games though - there are tons of other MMORPGS out there, and a lot of them are full of just as many, or almost as many, *******s.
The guy who was posting was going over the top though on our players being sadistic - this is just not true.
Most sadistic actions in EVE are just typical EVE PvP that soft gamers such as himself experience - they may get podded, lose SP, and be wardeced and camped all day - and think its sadistic. Well - hate to tell that poster, that it's in common practice - it's something we call Total Warfare. The poster is so used to the usual flowers and ice cream, he just couldn't see the real picture of things, or even fathom it - he just saw what he interrupted it as - though it is mostly exaggerated.
Don't get me wrong, EVE is full of griefs, but a lot of other MMORPGS are too. Try playing RF Online in example - you get camped/PK'ed on that game 90% of the time - you even get PK'ed by members of your own faction; this actually can make leveling difficult beyond level 30 - griefs can't disrupt the players ability to progress in EVE like they can here in RF Online.
But - yea, this isn't a pure PvE RP game with no PvP and dungeon raids like WoW - a game where guilds suck up to everyone they see, so they have a extra hand to do their little dungeon running. If players are too soft, they need to stay away from PvP oriented games - or learn to live with it, or even embrace it. |