by burgingham » Thu May 02, 2013 12:32 pm
I am not sure what you mean now, Gunnar?
You mean us raiding them? It looked at that point in time as if they harmed and wronged us. It was certainly one of the toughest decisions I ever made in HnH and I certainly regret it now since I am pretty sure I was wrong there.
That is besides the point I am making though, because I am pretty sure Dis spend a good amount of their time just boating around, killing whatever was in their sight and bashing whatever wasn't protected well enough. That is certainly something I can say I never did in my entire HnH career, not even in Wayneville when I was admittedly new to online games and morally a bit unstable, or rather I had no idea I needed to have morals in a game.
Even then I always stayed in town though, never raided a single town. I killed 3 people in my entire HnH career. One attacked me and then tried to escape. One bashed our town and I punished her and the third tried to protect the one I was punishing while I did so.
I am not saying I was always right and morally unassailable in my ways in HnH (I am in fact sorry for quite a few things I did to others and I would never do that again), but I feel like there is a qualitative difference here and I want to know more about it. In all honesty I do, that has something to do with my professional work at the moment actually, that isn't too far off from this topic as I am reading and studying about social behaviour and conflict in online communities.
@LadyGoo: I don't want to convince you or anything. I want you to please answer to the initial questions I posed since I feel like I could learn something then about you. So far you have been flat out avoiding to answer them which kind of gives me the feeling like my prejudices were correct all along.
A right does not wipe out a wrong. A wrong stays there to remain until you actually make up for that wrong. You cannot kill person A and then go give person B a nice trinket and then the harm of person A does not exist anymore. In terms of this game you would have to go back to them, apologize, help them get back on their feet etc.
So did you do that with every single person you wronged? Then my apologies, I misjudged you. Otherwise I think i am correct in assuming that you gain pleasure out of harming others and that would then lead me to wanting an answer to my other questions as I am unable to grasp that kind of behaviour.