Is it just me, or do others feel as though we have a Jack Thompson in the forum?
Brooklyn said:
Sorry...It definitely not part of human nature to kill people...it takes an awful lot of encouragement, availible physical capacity and mental coercion to get healthy people to do it...and even then...they have to out of their minds at the moment
Just because I find it amusing to blow an unsuspecting players head off with a shotgun in a game doesn't mean I'd do it IRL. The fact is in a game,
no one is being harmed physically (unless you buy one of those FPS Gaming Vests
). Basically what happens if you kill someone:
Ammo and decay is subtracted from your account.
The shots that hit deduct a numerical value from the opponent.
When their HP <=0 they are no longer considered 'alive'.
The game respawns the avatar.
Essentially all you are doing is initiating a series of mathematical operations, that are part of the game each player agreed to. You can hardly buy a FPS game, and then go "Why is that person killing me? Oh noes!" when you play online. You bought it / entered the zone and were
fully aware of what it entailed. You're essentially agreeing to the conditions specified.
No one is being harmed. All players know what the game is about. Therefore you don't need to have
"an awful lot of encouragement, availible physical capacity and mental coercion " to kill in a game. If you don't wish to partake in such an activity - don't do it. No one is forcing you to. I pretty much expect to die when in PvP and make no big deal of it because I wanted to be there
(although sometimes people make some rather cheapass backstabby kills in the ring 
)
Thinking every green dot is friendly and nice is a little naive. I personally give every green dot the benefit of doubt, up until a point - if they keep heading closer, act suspicious or I'm in PvP3/4, then I won't hesitate to kill. Rather not be the one inconvenienced if I can help it
PvP is intentionally part of the game, even having
warnings to tell you. Fine. KSing on the other hand is a long standing problem MA have refused to fix, and often people don't have the choice. Its a difficult problem to solve, but with little return for MA. What do they care if one person or two kill a mob? They still get decay anyway.
If someones killing a mob, I wouldn't shoot unless they decided to attack first. And even if I'd killed them, the mob would be left unless it aggroed. KSing seems like a bit of a malevolent thing to do. The point is in the short term you gain a slightly cheaper kill, but over time it'll damage your reputation within EU. Something thats an important aspect in a game such as this. If someone KS's me I just think 'ass' and them move off elsewhere rather than make a big deal of it. Or kill them if it's PvP, which as Lugzan pointed out is a
"rather usable place to show the KS'ers middle finger "
In most games you're protected being 'behind a screen' - essentially being anonymous. When you play, you're pretty much revealing your true character (unless RPing ofc), since you're capable of getting away with a lot more than you would IRL or have minimal consequences. If you decide to be a prick and KS mobs because 'you can', then fair enough... go right ahead. Just have to remember in an MMO you're essentially building up a second life, and everything you do
does have an effect whether you realise it or not.
Never know. That guy you just KSd may very well be the one person who could have helped you further down the road.
(I had a point somewhere in all that...
)
Stop taking the piss out of everyone on here FFS 
