Malcanis
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Posted - 2009.02.15 23:49:00 -
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Originally by: Shaktu 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.
An older player spends a considerable part of his play session giving you an intensive lesson on the way eve works, charges you less than 800k for the effort (he could be making more doing other things, you know) and all you can do is complain?
Really, people as ungrateful as you... well I just hope you realise how you hurt his feelings. Obviously he was very upset when he replied to your mail. You probably spoiled his whole evening.
I hope you learn to socialise more appropriately in future.
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