by Avu » Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:36 pm
I haaaate having young people that know each other in real life in my towns (brothers, cousins or worse buddies that grew up together) because they tend to bring their real life shit into the game and think it's fair for everyone else. The time one spends doing anything has value in fact it has a fuckton of value and having some douchebag come along and fuck with MY time because he is bored or immature or antisocial piece of shit without an empathic bone in his body is a big no no for me.
When I used to play this game I played it because I could build something, a farm a town a group that meant more than just a few people brought together. Any successful group needs trust as the paramount value, everything else can be replaced, worked around or compromised but you can't have anything without trust.
If you must be a douchebag then don't fucking act all surprised when people judge you by your actions. Is being betrayed in a game worse than being betrayed in real life? No. But don't fucking expect someone who got betrayed to trust that person again. After all if you don't value my time and my investment in a game when your only gain is cheap lulz then why would I trust your sorry ass with things precious to me in real life when you might eventually actually have something really valuable to gain. You are morally compromised to me and you can fuck off.
And who the fuck are you to claim that deception is what this game is about? or combat? In fact those two things mean exactly squat absent of the actual important aspects. Trust, civilization mean shit they build something, deception is only really important if there is some trust otherwise it's meaningless shit, there was no surprise to anyone with half a brain that Ainran can never be trusted by allies or not the big so called deception had any value only in the minds of idiots, nor was there anything to gain from said deception other than cheap lulz, the rational move would have been to keep the alliance but we can't have that can we. Same goes for combat, what's there to fight about when nobody bothers building anything of value, when every character is an alt when there is nothing to lose. Sure you can brag about your leet running around rocks skills but at the end of the day your still useless scum who can only destroy. And when you and yours help drive away the people that do care about building and civilization you may end up king of the hill but the hill is one big pile of shit.
"Since all men count themselves righteous, and since
no righteous man raises his hand against the innocent,
a man need only strike another to make him evil."