Mercury
Marauder
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2005
- Posts
- 6,648
- Location
- Michigan, USA
- Society
- Dark Templar
- Avatar Name
- Jenna "Star" Mercury
Hi there all. I guess most of you know me as the trader/pKing bitch that you've come to know and hate (or love). I realize that this reputation has long been built by my actions within the Entropia Universe. Trading facilitated my ability to afford playing and living within this universe. Player killing was often an outlet for my frustration after a long day dealing with children at work; I am a chess coach in real life for those of you that didn't see my other post.
This reputation wasn't one that I wished to gain, but more or less was the path that I was circumstantially thrown into. Many of you know that I played as the avatar "Sammy Farha Fast" prior to my creation of Star. I tried my hardest to not follow the same path of trading/pK that Farha was notoriously known for, but alas, my efforts were not self sustaining. Without trading, I could not afford the high end items which most of you know that I have now within EU. I couldn't afford to be a depositor; so instead, I worked my way up with honest trading. Although many of you would think of me as a heartless pKer, I know many of you also realize that I'm well trusted in the trading world. Perhaps I embelished the value of items that I was selling or devalued those of which I was buying, but that's what being a business person is all about. I still always prided myself in the fact that I delivered what I promised as well as returned what I borrowed.
The player killing involves a different reason, albeit not one I'm proud of. When I returned to EU as Star, I came in with the mentality of being a player that would help noobs fight against the stronger players. I figured I could be a freedom fighter, a "nooby hero". I tried this theory, by fighting to help noobs in the ring at Billy's. After fending off those that meant harm to several new players, I was astounded by the entry of one of those very players that I was protecting with gun drawn. He proceeded to kill me, even after I'd stated quite clearly that I was here to be the "noob messiah". Of course, I didn't allow that to be the only reason for breaking my vow of no more new player killing.
I visited the rig and was able to fend off several would be assassins a few days later. You'd think that those that I protected would be happy with me doing this, but sadly, they weren't. They instead proceeded to treat it as though nothing had happened and fire upon me. Needless to say, I was shaken by this experience. The "noob messiah" was gradually fading into the ruthless player killer that this community knows me to be.
Having said all of this, I've decided that I'll retire from both trading and player killing as of today. Trading, I'll still do to some extent when called upon, but I won't go out of my way to do deals like I used to. I enjoy trading and it isn't really so harmful if done properly. I can't say that I don't enjoy player killing anymore, but I find that it is no longer rewarding killing the innocent. Instead, I'll protect those that are in harm's way. I'll try my hardest to fend off those that would wrongly kill others for no good reason. In other words, I'll be the "Noob Messiah" that Star was created to be.
You may decide that I'm full of shit because my society mates will still be player killers I'm guessing. This will not shake me from my task, nor will it cause tension between us as friends. I won't ask them to stop pKing, I'll simply stop doing it myself. A few exceptions for myself will be Land Grab as well as Events. Those who I harm during those events, I appoligize in advance to.
As for trading - I do own a shop, which I'll continue to sell Looted and Personally Crafted items from, as well as sell off my current trading stock of items (5k items in inventory that needs to be reduced significantly).
I hope you can find it in your hearts to believe this as true and accept my appologies for any wrong doing I may have done to any of you in the past.
Say goodbye to Jenna Star Mercury, and hello to the "Noob Messiah".
This reputation wasn't one that I wished to gain, but more or less was the path that I was circumstantially thrown into. Many of you know that I played as the avatar "Sammy Farha Fast" prior to my creation of Star. I tried my hardest to not follow the same path of trading/pK that Farha was notoriously known for, but alas, my efforts were not self sustaining. Without trading, I could not afford the high end items which most of you know that I have now within EU. I couldn't afford to be a depositor; so instead, I worked my way up with honest trading. Although many of you would think of me as a heartless pKer, I know many of you also realize that I'm well trusted in the trading world. Perhaps I embelished the value of items that I was selling or devalued those of which I was buying, but that's what being a business person is all about. I still always prided myself in the fact that I delivered what I promised as well as returned what I borrowed.
The player killing involves a different reason, albeit not one I'm proud of. When I returned to EU as Star, I came in with the mentality of being a player that would help noobs fight against the stronger players. I figured I could be a freedom fighter, a "nooby hero". I tried this theory, by fighting to help noobs in the ring at Billy's. After fending off those that meant harm to several new players, I was astounded by the entry of one of those very players that I was protecting with gun drawn. He proceeded to kill me, even after I'd stated quite clearly that I was here to be the "noob messiah". Of course, I didn't allow that to be the only reason for breaking my vow of no more new player killing.
I visited the rig and was able to fend off several would be assassins a few days later. You'd think that those that I protected would be happy with me doing this, but sadly, they weren't. They instead proceeded to treat it as though nothing had happened and fire upon me. Needless to say, I was shaken by this experience. The "noob messiah" was gradually fading into the ruthless player killer that this community knows me to be.
Having said all of this, I've decided that I'll retire from both trading and player killing as of today. Trading, I'll still do to some extent when called upon, but I won't go out of my way to do deals like I used to. I enjoy trading and it isn't really so harmful if done properly. I can't say that I don't enjoy player killing anymore, but I find that it is no longer rewarding killing the innocent. Instead, I'll protect those that are in harm's way. I'll try my hardest to fend off those that would wrongly kill others for no good reason. In other words, I'll be the "Noob Messiah" that Star was created to be.
You may decide that I'm full of shit because my society mates will still be player killers I'm guessing. This will not shake me from my task, nor will it cause tension between us as friends. I won't ask them to stop pKing, I'll simply stop doing it myself. A few exceptions for myself will be Land Grab as well as Events. Those who I harm during those events, I appoligize in advance to.
As for trading - I do own a shop, which I'll continue to sell Looted and Personally Crafted items from, as well as sell off my current trading stock of items (5k items in inventory that needs to be reduced significantly).
I hope you can find it in your hearts to believe this as true and accept my appologies for any wrong doing I may have done to any of you in the past.
Say goodbye to Jenna Star Mercury, and hello to the "Noob Messiah".
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