As much as I didn't wanted to mention some facts, I'm afraid I have to. I didn't wanted because his economical loss was bad enough and didn't needed any bad vibes and assumptions coming from me or anyone else, but now I have to, because I've noticed how quickly people jump to conclusions regarding my behavior, so as long as I'm judged by the public opinion, I think is fair that I should share all the facts, without making any external references and personal impressions, but let everyone have access to all the information, regardless of how shameful they may be.
So here is the list of all the facts with a certain degree of importance, chronologically speaking:
-Fact: On all parts that he bought, he bidded at least double, if not triple, the amount indicated by MU. For example, he bought shins with 600 when their mu was 300, harness with 900 when it's mu was 300, and so on. Up to the point when he wanted to bid 1200 on thigh, but clicked wrong on the other lill' arrow, bidding 10200 within the 3 step process that leads to applying a bid.
-Fact: He overbided himself. He placed the 10182 bid, and then another bid of 10183, which means he had at least 20365 peds on card, even though he told his friends he accidentally bidded his whole ped card.
-Fact: When he saw what he did, he instantly sent me friend request.
-Fact: I accepted his friend request without hesitation.
-Fact: He started threatening me. As Serica (which I've noticed that she's the moderator here) already said and already acted (by removing what me and Rechinul have posted about our in game pm's), I cannot (nor want to) reproduce here his words, but I have the conversation saved and print screened. All I can say is that it was the kind of threats ended with '...you will see'.
-Fact: As a result of his threats I ended the conversation and removed him from f/l.
-Fact: In the next 5 minutes after our conversation via pm ended, he posted this thread on PCF, as a result of one of his threats, hoping that the avalanche of public bad rep opinions and pm insults I will receive, would make me return the peds he lost on his own, thus making me a target (which he actually did) of something I haven't done and as long as I had no guilt to start with.
These are the facts that I was forced to talk about now, not because I have something against him, but because besides the fact that I'm already the public enemy nr.1 without me actually doing anything, I also notice that my morality is not only judged within this virtual universe, but RL too...
I know I said I won't comment anymore and actually I'm sticking to my initial decision of not entering into a conversation with anyone, answering and trying to justify myself (as long as I think I've done nothing wrong) but just point out the facts that I initially decided to keep for myself, in order to lower his dmg only to the ped card, not trying to point out what he is actually trying to do to me here - to make me look like I'm a 'bad' person and the one guilty of his mistake.
And talking about this virtual universe, what many people fail to understand (myself included, for a long period of time, at least when I started playing PE) is that there is a border between RL and virtual life. So as this process of comprehension is altered in time, the user tends to get confused about his real life ethics and kindness, when he spends time inside a world that was built to make us all impersonal users - 100100111010.
When I started to play PE, I also thought that 'don't do to others what you don't want to be done to you' can and will be applied here too. And I felt that up to the point when I noticed that not only I was the victim of the lack of empathy and kindness when it came to peds and restoring a balance between right and wrong, but even MA let me know that materially speaking, we are all on our own.
So that's when I started to realize that what I do and how I act in real life, does not apply into a virtual world where everything is pure mechanical, cold and cynical when it comes to economics. The only aspect of the game that mimics real life are the feelings generated by fun and entertainment: team hunts, parties, jokes, sharing info, pranks etc. But when it comes to economics and deciding what's good or bad for ourselves, it all comes down to our decisions which we are responsible for.
That's when I started to understand MA's politics. Because it would literally be awful for them to start deciding right from wrong, fair from not fair, moral from immoral, bad karma from good karma (killer
) and in the end, mistake from intention; as long as this would involve a huge amount of effort and time and could bring them a lot of trouble and headaches. So that's why they made it all clear about auctioning, bidding and all types of decisions we make for our own, leaving all to our own free will to decide what to do. And as long as I'm the recipient of that system, as long as I was only on the side of the story where people who lost were, I am not going to try and fix something that is meant that way, by doing something that I desperately wanted others to do to me and they didn't.
My gesture would be unique. And you know why? The reason is found inside this example: I hope that everyone who flamed me and judged me so quickly and harsh, considering that I have bad morals (as if RL = virtual universe 1/1) to have the opportunity to loot someone in pvp4 or space for 9k peds and then to be flamed and judged by not giving peds back, after that person threatens you, post on forums and appeals to empathy and ethics, saying he forgot to leave stackables in storage...that he was 1 click away from leaving them and he did a mistake, a small mistake and he should be forgiven, order restored and peds returned. That's the reason... And I really reaaaallly hope you will all be in this situation.
I end this comment by reminding all that no matter how hippie, happy go lucky, peace&love, I scratch your back you scratch mine etc... you may think this awesome virtual universe is, it all stops on the economical side. It's easy to talk when you weren't the victim, nor the 'felon'. It's easy to mistakenly judge someone's morality inside a virtual universe where RL rules stop to apply when it comes to finances...
Best of luck!
Madalina.
