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I’m not a bad person … You just make it easy!

Published on 30. Jan, 2009 ... written by Ebonezer Skrewed, Tags: Articles, Ebonezer Skrewed

I haven’t written in some time, and that’s primarily because I’ve found a lack of things that I feel I could comment on, as the other writers on EVE-Mag have already covered them by the time I think about them! Now, however, I feel that I’ve found something that I could speak about…

… Wardeccing. Primarily, wardeccing people that seem to be a target for your corporation and you. Does this make you a bad person? That’s generally a matter of opinion, and I’m going to express mine. The fact is, a wardec on a corporation that apparently has money, flies good ships but isn’t very PvP central may seem like a waste of effort and time, but let’s just say that you’re in it for the money and for the fact that you love to watch other people explode, like me.

Our corporation recently put a ‘dec on a corporation that regularly seems to fly Tech II ships, Harpy’s, Astarte’s, the sort like that. The problem is for them, they seem to primarily run them for missions, and while this makes them a lot of money, it seems to be that they were not fully prepared for the whirlwind that we brought down on them. For example;

• We locate a few of them in a system, and we rather gather our forces.
• We idly harass them for an hour or two with smaller ships that can’t do much damage, just to irritate them into action.
• Myself and another, both in a thorax, wait a single jump away as the others move in larger ships.
• Given the go ahead, we jump in, warp up to the Astarte – Whom is sitting at a station, folks! – then begin shooting away.
• He returns fire, and my thorax takes a beating, but I stick at it, keeping him distracted until… His friend in a Harpy undocks, apparently now eager for a fight.
• The others jump in and immediately warp in, locking up the Astarte as he is closest to station. My thorax goes up, I get to sit there for a minute in my pod as the Astarte explodes into pretty lights. I dock.
• I hear that the Harpy has been blown up as well, and I’m given a share of the loot.

I came out of that, after rebuilding my thorax completely, about maybe 10-15 million ISK richer. Not a big haul, you might think, but for me it is. I’m not an industrial, nor do I really have the patience for mining, but sacrificing a ship to blow other people up? I can do that. We were polite, no smack talking, just a ‘gf’ and some congratulations about in ventrilo. Does this make us bad people?

I mean. Let’s be honest. If you make it easy for someone to make a profit from blowing you up, then it isn’t them that’s the bad person. It’s you. For being a big enough target to garner the attention. Piracy, wardec, can-flipping, it’s all just a part of the game. You might not like it, and you might think that horrible, despicable people might do it then cackle with glee as they go out into their terrible lives RL… We don’t, really, by the way. I try to get involved in those three things I said as much as I can, because of the buzz they give, knowing I could be blown up, but I also have the chance of making ISK and another kill from it.

We’re not all bad. Just that we’re morally bankrupt when playing a video-game.

Ebonezer Skrewed.

Tags: Bad Person, Canflip, Easy Kill, Pewpew, Piracy, war, Wardec, Wardeccing