Today, 7/4, I must have experienced some of the worst players that CCP games has to offer. Both in DUST and EVE Online.

I don't mean to get off on a rant here (or maybe I do,) but holy frakkin' crazy bantha poo doo. This day started out horribly. First, EVE Online. I'm out mining asteroids. I'm badly in debt now since I've now been pod killed three times in the last month all by players who freely admit that they did so simply "because they could." I have lost almost one billion ISK in ships and equipment. But the mining is going good. Then, two guys with "Kill on sight" status enter the asteroid belt and kill me in three seconds. CONCORD shows up and destroys them. Suddenly, I am hit with a bounty from one of the attackers. A little investigation reveals that these two were paid to attack me by the last guy who pod killed me. That player killed me because while I was salvaging a wreck, I must have inadvertently looted it and gained suspect status. But that player did not like the fact that I didn't want to talk to him the next day and ordered a hit be put on me. Great. I'm now out another sixty million ISK and cannot afford to replace the ship or the equipment on it. So I'm back to using a Venture and sub-par mining lasers for several days. But even if I get enough ISK to buy back all the stuff, the EVE rule of "Never fly what you cannot afford to lose" comes in to affect. More use of the Venture and no leaving 1.0 space. Grand. EVE game ruined.

Fine. I'll switch to DUST. It's past Wednesday. Bonus SP is up. Being a logistic, I hop in to a few standard battles. Five battles in a row are absolute and utter squashes. But what really annoyed me was that in at least three of them, I was in the process of hacking a turret when an ally, in his tank, promptly destroys the turret. Well. That's just great.

Enough of the "melting pot" general fighting. Let's find a good squad and see if there is a bit more team oriented activity. Not much activity there because people who make rooms to form squads do not ever play the game. They just make the room and sit there. Even if the room fills up with people chatting "Go," they never queue up. Thirty minutes of that and I find an active group. "Sure, logis r great" they say. BUT I cannot play with them without a mic. I chat to them that I do not have a headset that will work with a Playstation. They inform me that this is fine. I just need to listen. I turn on the mic volume and in to battle we go.

I am not making this up. All the talk the leader and the four others in the squad did was say "F-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb that guy, f-bomb this guy, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb that guy's mother, f-bomb" aaaaaaaaaaand "f-bomb." This was the reason I had to have a mic to group with these guys? To listen to them curse like angry managers? I left the group after the game was over. An hour later, I received an f-bomb filled mail from one of them that I should never revive them again with my "tranne ject, you stupid c-word." I carry an advanced injector that restores 80% armor on revive.

Suffice it to say, I feel like I'm drowning in yet another toxic gaming community. How am I supposed to have fun at these games with such "wonderful" experiences? There must be some secret to playing CCP games that I'm missing. So, I ask "What is the secret?" How do you enjoy playing with things like this being the constants? I freely admit I cannot solo win a DUST game. And the real-time aspect to earning your way to better equipment makes losing feel like a 2x4 to the head. What am I missing?

Oh, and please, if you're going to say things like "Get a thicker skin," "cry more noob," "lol u suck," in response, just don't. Haven't I dealt with enough immaturity today?

*Edit. Even the forums are not helping. This is the third time I've tried to post this without the forums saying there is no text. Life sucks.

I am not making this up. All the talk the leader and the four others in the squad did was say "F-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb that guy, f-bomb this guy, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb that guy's mother, f-bomb" aaaaaaaaaaand "f-bomb." This was the reason I had to have a mic to group with these guys? To listen to them curse like angry managers? I left the group after the game was over.

Sounds like me XD
Except that it's usually because I'm there doing all the work for the team while I watch my squad continually die in the same place with no strategy whatsoever.

The other day I yelled at my squad to come back me up at the objective because I was literally solo-ing the other team with an adv suit and a shotgun at the objective by destroying their uplinks and camping them. It wasn't until 10 people charged at me that I finally died...but by that time I had already hacked and controlled the objective long enough to turn the game around for our entire team.

The conversation went like this:

"Where the **** are you guys? There's no one at Alpha, I just destroyed all their uplinks"
"There's a tank and a dropship over here spawn camping us"
"Then stop spawning on that uplink, spawn at the base, drive a LAV to the other side of the map and drop uplinks there"

2 minutes later

"****, I'm all by myself here and no one is ******* helping me. They have no uplinks over here and I keep destroying them every time they try and get close. Why the **** is no one here with me right now?"
"I can't kill this tank"
"Stop ******* around with the tank, they're just distracting you guys. spawn in a scout suit with a dampener, get over here and help me already"
"I'm not skilled into cloaks"
"Then ignore the tank and run around to the outside. That tank is a noob."

I die. Proceed to spawn in a forge gun fit and kill both enemy tanks and the dropship within 30 seconds.

"See? What the **** were you doing? I just two-shotted that tank. Get some uplinks and meet me by the bridge"
"okay I have some uplinks, I'll drop them over on the outside"
"Wow, they have like 50 ******* uplinks on the bridge now"
"nevermind I just destroyed all of them, help me hack this"

We control the bridge, I rush towards their spawns. 5 seconds later the enemy is hacking Alpha

"Dude there's like 20 blueberries on the objective, why is no one killing the guy hacking it"
"They keep spawning on the uplink over here"
"Fine I'll come back...wow they're all spawning on one uplink you guys. Why has no one destroyed it yet?"

We all die from an orbital. One uplink left

"There's only one uplink left, everyone spawn in uplink fits and get some more down. I'll try to get some around there too...gosh dangit, the uplink ran out. Someone drop one"
"I don't have uplinks"
"Why the **** did you spawn on the only uplink we had, and NOT bring uplinks?"
"I thought someone else was doing it"

We lose. My score?
2700 wp, 24/8

Second place
600 wp, 4/11

Fun does not actually exist in New Eden.
They can't make a fun game.

What they have made is a troll party.
A multi-platform troll party that caters to no-lifers and exploiters.

That's the way I see it and it makes them easier/more fun to shoot dead. Well, for the next 12 days anyways.

Is finding a corp really the answer? The last corp I joined in EVE invited me to a fleet mining session, dropped a book mark in to the middle of a pirate group, and then laughed when I warped in and was promptly destroyed.

There are so many jerks and morons that I just don't know who to trust. And their recruiters all say the same things: "We are a good group, we have fun, we wouldn't act like that." Then they do.

I can only imagine the fun people in DUST would have. Like a factional warfare bit where everyone on the team kills you until their friendly fire marks are used up and they laugh at all the equipment I've lost and have to repurchase.

Who are the "nice" corps out there? Maybe I'll look them up.

Today, 7/4, I must have experienced some of the worst players that CCP games has to offer. Both in DUST and EVE Online.

I don't mean to get off on a rant here (or maybe I do,) but holy frakkin' crazy bantha poo doo. This day started out horribly. First, EVE Online. I'm out mining asteroids. I'm badly in debt now since I've now been pod killed three times in the last month all by players who freely admit that they did so simply "because they could." I have lost almost one billion ISK in ships and equipment. But the mining is going good. Then, two guys with "Kill on sight" status enter the asteroid belt and kill me in three seconds. CONCORD shows up and destroys them. Suddenly, I am hit with a bounty from one of the attackers. A little investigation reveals that these two were paid to attack me by the last guy who pod killed me. That player killed me because while I was salvaging a wreck, I must have inadvertently looted it and gained suspect status. But that player did not like the fact that I didn't want to talk to him the next day and ordered a hit be put on me. Great. I'm now out another sixty million ISK and cannot afford to replace the ship or the equipment on it. So I'm back to using a Venture and sub-par mining lasers for several days. But even if I get enough ISK to buy back all the stuff, the EVE rule of "Never fly what you cannot afford to lose" comes in to affect. More use of the Venture and no leaving 1.0 space. Grand. EVE game ruined.

Fine. I'll switch to DUST. It's past Wednesday. Bonus SP is up. Being a logistic, I hop in to a few standard battles. Five battles in a row are absolute and utter squashes. But what really annoyed me was that in at least three of them, I was in the process of hacking a turret when an ally, in his tank, promptly destroys the turret. Well. That's just great.

Enough of the "melting pot" general fighting. Let's find a good squad and see if there is a bit more team oriented activity. Not much activity there because people who make rooms to form squads do not ever play the game. They just make the room and sit there. Even if the room fills up with people chatting "Go," they never queue up. Thirty minutes of that and I find an active group. "Sure, logis r great" they say. BUT I cannot play with them without a mic. I chat to them that I do not have a headset that will work with a Playstation. They inform me that this is fine. I just need to listen. I turn on the mic volume and in to battle we go.

I am not making this up. All the talk the leader and the four others in the squad did was say "F-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb that guy, f-bomb this guy, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb that guy's mother, f-bomb" aaaaaaaaaaand "f-bomb." This was the reason I had to have a mic to group with these guys? To listen to them curse like angry managers? I left the group after the game was over. An hour later, I received an f-bomb filled mail from one of them that I should never revive them again with my "tranne ject, you stupid c-word." I carry an advanced injector that restores 80% armor on revive.

Suffice it to say, I feel like I'm drowning in yet another toxic gaming community. How am I supposed to have fun at these games with such "wonderful" experiences? There must be some secret to playing CCP games that I'm missing. So, I ask "What is the secret?" How do you enjoy playing with things like this being the constants? I freely admit I cannot solo win a DUST game. And the real-time aspect to earning your way to better equipment makes losing feel like a 2x4 to the head. What am I missing?

Oh, and please, if you're going to say things like "Get a thicker skin," "cry more noob," "lol u suck," in response, just don't. Haven't I dealt with enough immaturity today?

*Edit. Even the forums are not helping. This is the third time I've tried to post this without the forums saying there is no text. Life sucks.

I call bullshit, the ADV version only revives 50%,the Pro revives 80%,the "State" exclusive revives 100%.

Any real logistics would know this.

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Don't forget--if there's one thing in life that we cant, its that Teamwork in a group is what distinguishes the best mercenaries like Boba Fett, to some no name like that changeling female-monster in Starwars. Albeit, they both worked as soloists but I think you get my point :3

Today, 7/4, I must have experienced some of the worst players that CCP games has to offer. Both in DUST and EVE Online.

I don't mean to get off on a rant here (or maybe I do,) but holy frakkin' crazy bantha poo doo. This day started out horribly. First, EVE Online. I'm out mining asteroids. I'm badly in debt now since I've now been pod killed three times in the last month all by players who freely admit that they did so simply "because they could." I have lost almost one billion ISK in ships and equipment. But the mining is going good. Then, two guys with "Kill on sight" status enter the asteroid belt and kill me in three seconds. CONCORD shows up and destroys them. Suddenly, I am hit with a bounty from one of the attackers. A little investigation reveals that these two were paid to attack me by the last guy who pod killed me. That player killed me because while I was salvaging a wreck, I must have inadvertently looted it and gained suspect status. But that player did not like the fact that I didn't want to talk to him the next day and ordered a hit be put on me. Great. I'm now out another sixty million ISK and cannot afford to replace the ship or the equipment on it. So I'm back to using a Venture and sub-par mining lasers for several days. But even if I get enough ISK to buy back all the stuff, the EVE rule of "Never fly what you cannot afford to lose" comes in to affect. More use of the Venture and no leaving 1.0 space. Grand. EVE game ruined.

Fine. I'll switch to DUST. It's past Wednesday. Bonus SP is up. Being a logistic, I hop in to a few standard battles. Five battles in a row are absolute and utter squashes. But what really annoyed me was that in at least three of them, I was in the process of hacking a turret when an ally, in his tank, promptly destroys the turret. Well. That's just great.

Enough of the "melting pot" general fighting. Let's find a good squad and see if there is a bit more team oriented activity. Not much activity there because people who make rooms to form squads do not ever play the game. They just make the room and sit there. Even if the room fills up with people chatting "Go," they never queue up. Thirty minutes of that and I find an active group. "Sure, logis r great" they say. BUT I cannot play with them without a mic. I chat to them that I do not have a headset that will work with a Playstation. They inform me that this is fine. I just need to listen. I turn on the mic volume and in to battle we go.

I am not making this up. All the talk the leader and the four others in the squad did was say "F-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb that guy, f-bomb this guy, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb, f-bomb that guy's mother, f-bomb" aaaaaaaaaaand "f-bomb." This was the reason I had to have a mic to group with these guys? To listen to them curse like angry managers? I left the group after the game was over. An hour later, I received an f-bomb filled mail from one of them that I should never revive them again with my "tranne ject, you stupid c-word." I carry an advanced injector that restores 80% armor on revive.

Suffice it to say, I feel like I'm drowning in yet another toxic gaming community. How am I supposed to have fun at these games with such "wonderful" experiences? There must be some secret to playing CCP games that I'm missing. So, I ask "What is the secret?" How do you enjoy playing with things like this being the constants? I freely admit I cannot solo win a DUST game. And the real-time aspect to earning your way to better equipment makes losing feel like a 2x4 to the head. What am I missing?

Oh, and please, if you're going to say things like "Get a thicker skin," "cry more noob," "lol u suck," in response, just don't. Haven't I dealt with enough immaturity today?

*Edit. Even the forums are not helping. This is the third time I've tried to post this without the forums saying there is no text. Life sucks.