Yesterday we saw how ganking can net kills to a single player at the magnitude of the largest and strongest corporations. OK, point proven, post written, “badass PvPers” are butthurt, tear comments harvested, can we move on to the next project?
No we can’t. I keep on ganking and I keep on recruiting gankers, now reinforced by the PR value of the 123B massacre. This will be my project in EVE and currently I can’t give a termination date. Why? I wrote that only the information we create and spread will survive us. If I’d quit EVE now, in a few months the only memory of this extraordinary feat would be “some guy got some tears from miners and dunked on Miniluv”. It’s not enough.
Morons and slackers are fine with their “fun”. They can’t care less if their activity is next to useless, but they still expect positive results. Their response to arguments is “tldr idc lol”. You can’t teach them anything. Their safety comes from the social people who carry them on their back. There will always be a group that take them (because they are adorable newbies with 50M SP) and feed them. But they aren’t invincible. If you can break the shield of socials you can force them to face their insufficient performance. Also, such action will show the socials how much they carry them. The socials don’t recognize their exploitation, they believe that the morons and slackers were just unlucky.
MMOs are played by the same people you see in the World, but without a boss telling them what to do. Being terribly ignorant in the game is common. But EVE Online is the worst among them all. Since it has no official leaderboard or goal, you can’t really fail at EVE. When you do, you can just move the goalpost yelling “sandbox”. While claiming “we didn’t want that bosskill anyway” in WoW would be ridiculous, nullsec alliances that failed to keep Sov for themselves or for rent, seriously brand themselves “nomadic elite PvP”. Those who fail in even that, still have a positive message: “we just wanted to have fun roaming with friends and explode, op success” after their fleet was destroyed.
And these are those who got to the endgame. Can you imagine the quality of miners, who do the most basic activity? Well, let’s say they can’t be distinguished from bots. This shall not stand! Something must happen to these morons and slackers, because they can’t stay in this lowly state. Since they listen to no positive interaction, only one method left: blow their ships up. When they find their barge and pod destroyed, they must react somehow. Some just vent on local and try again. He’ll blow up again.
But others do what they probably didn’t do before: read up a guide. For the first time he can’t say “tldr lol”, because he blows up again if he doesn’t learn. By forcing him to read a guide we make the biggest progress in his gaming. He no longer does whatever he pleases like a little baby but tries to get information before making a decision. While it’s hard to see, the morons and slackers aren’t born different from us. They aren’t lesser beings. They just never had to use their brain and make an effort. Now they have to. More than 6000 people already read the guide, despite it never was on the front page of the blog, one could only get there by actively clicking a link.
Socials of course respond to the “act of evil”. Ganking the miners has a very positive effect on them. First they turn into “white knights”, protecting the “weak” from “evil”. Then they fail to. They have to fail in order to improve themselves. They have to face that even if they seriously outnumbering the ganker, they can’t win. This is the anti-thesis of the social thinking: “the group is strong”. Yet, here they are, camping the station and the belts in large numbers and that single ganking “bully” still does whatever he wants. After a day or two they give up. While I can’t be sure how much they get from this experience, they surely has to learn that the “group of friends” isn’t all powerful. A single guy can be more powerful than them. Maybe some of them will say “I want to be powerful too, I want to be more than the guys around me”.
Finally there are the competitive people. The ones who are proud of their stats. Well, I gave them some stats yesterday and they weren’t happy. Why? Because they wanted to compete inside the box, using their skill. They wanted to do what the others, just better. Me on the other hand didn’t go out on a nullsec roam and bested them with ship piloting but did something very different and got much better stats. These people have to learn that the real success isn’t being a few % better than your neighbor but in doing something new. A new way can get much better results than perfecting the old way.
Ganking morons and slackers changes people. Changes the miners themselves, changes the white knights and changes the competitive guys. Come and join, make a difference!
The anti-tear of the day by Kata Komba:
The moron of the day was piloting a hulk. A dumb fitted hulk. In this pod. Because you need +6% tracking to catch those pesky asteroids!
No we can’t. I keep on ganking and I keep on recruiting gankers, now reinforced by the PR value of the 123B massacre. This will be my project in EVE and currently I can’t give a termination date. Why? I wrote that only the information we create and spread will survive us. If I’d quit EVE now, in a few months the only memory of this extraordinary feat would be “some guy got some tears from miners and dunked on Miniluv”. It’s not enough.
Morons and slackers are fine with their “fun”. They can’t care less if their activity is next to useless, but they still expect positive results. Their response to arguments is “tldr idc lol”. You can’t teach them anything. Their safety comes from the social people who carry them on their back. There will always be a group that take them (because they are adorable newbies with 50M SP) and feed them. But they aren’t invincible. If you can break the shield of socials you can force them to face their insufficient performance. Also, such action will show the socials how much they carry them. The socials don’t recognize their exploitation, they believe that the morons and slackers were just unlucky.
MMOs are played by the same people you see in the World, but without a boss telling them what to do. Being terribly ignorant in the game is common. But EVE Online is the worst among them all. Since it has no official leaderboard or goal, you can’t really fail at EVE. When you do, you can just move the goalpost yelling “sandbox”. While claiming “we didn’t want that bosskill anyway” in WoW would be ridiculous, nullsec alliances that failed to keep Sov for themselves or for rent, seriously brand themselves “nomadic elite PvP”. Those who fail in even that, still have a positive message: “we just wanted to have fun roaming with friends and explode, op success” after their fleet was destroyed.
And these are those who got to the endgame. Can you imagine the quality of miners, who do the most basic activity? Well, let’s say they can’t be distinguished from bots. This shall not stand! Something must happen to these morons and slackers, because they can’t stay in this lowly state. Since they listen to no positive interaction, only one method left: blow their ships up. When they find their barge and pod destroyed, they must react somehow. Some just vent on local and try again. He’ll blow up again.
But others do what they probably didn’t do before: read up a guide. For the first time he can’t say “tldr lol”, because he blows up again if he doesn’t learn. By forcing him to read a guide we make the biggest progress in his gaming. He no longer does whatever he pleases like a little baby but tries to get information before making a decision. While it’s hard to see, the morons and slackers aren’t born different from us. They aren’t lesser beings. They just never had to use their brain and make an effort. Now they have to. More than 6000 people already read the guide, despite it never was on the front page of the blog, one could only get there by actively clicking a link.
Socials of course respond to the “act of evil”. Ganking the miners has a very positive effect on them. First they turn into “white knights”, protecting the “weak” from “evil”. Then they fail to. They have to fail in order to improve themselves. They have to face that even if they seriously outnumbering the ganker, they can’t win. This is the anti-thesis of the social thinking: “the group is strong”. Yet, here they are, camping the station and the belts in large numbers and that single ganking “bully” still does whatever he wants. After a day or two they give up. While I can’t be sure how much they get from this experience, they surely has to learn that the “group of friends” isn’t all powerful. A single guy can be more powerful than them. Maybe some of them will say “I want to be powerful too, I want to be more than the guys around me”.
Finally there are the competitive people. The ones who are proud of their stats. Well, I gave them some stats yesterday and they weren’t happy. Why? Because they wanted to compete inside the box, using their skill. They wanted to do what the others, just better. Me on the other hand didn’t go out on a nullsec roam and bested them with ship piloting but did something very different and got much better stats. These people have to learn that the real success isn’t being a few % better than your neighbor but in doing something new. A new way can get much better results than perfecting the old way.
Ganking morons and slackers changes people. Changes the miners themselves, changes the white knights and changes the competitive guys. Come and join, make a difference!
The anti-tear of the day by Kata Komba:
The moron of the day was piloting a hulk. A dumb fitted hulk. In this pod. Because you need +6% tracking to catch those pesky asteroids!
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