(01-23-2018, 11:09 PM)Thunderer Wrote: Discovery knows about ganking, but doesn't about sealclubbing. Sealclubbing is... intentionally going against inexperienced or in any other way weak players, for the sake of an easy kill... In a way, sealclubbing actually is a type of ganking.
Because Discovery doesn't have a notion of this, you can't "gank" someone who is sealclubbing you without being nailed onto the hate crucifix of the entire community, so the only thing you can do is say "please don't, good Sir!" Or quit.
Quoted for truth, although "discovery doesn't know about sealclubbing" isn't really true except for the word.
A large portion of the influential community has very much been promoting seaclubbing, for fun of "important people" at the expense of "not important people". Since at least 2008. If you participate in it you're a "collaborative player" who will find it easy to climb up the ladder. If you oppose the wrong people who do it, you're a "disruptive player" who needs to be removed.
That worked fairly well as long as there were enough "not important people" and no need to raise population. Disregarding the ethical side. A large source of disagreements and bitterness here comes from the fact that some people actually truly believe that sealclubbing is good and helping a guy who doenst have a chance is bad, because that's what they've been taught and that's what's been feeding their brains endorphin for several years.
The people who target noobs for easy kills and cry "GANK!" whenever someone does something that leaves their victim a chance...
They're the ones who were leading factions, and they taught their members to sealclub and to not interfere with other influential people's sealclubbing because that avoided problems.
They're the ones that balanced PvP as devs.
They're the ones that used their influence to impose "unwritten rules" which promote sealclubbing.
They're the ones that posted about how they cant understand why other people get so upset over a game when they lose, while they never side with noobs themselves because that would hurt their 5+ kill/death ratio.
They're the ones that keep saying "all we can do is hope the community will behave better and there is nothing else that can be done at all", when there are in fact many things in game features, faction rules, unwritten rules, and pvp balance that would counter sealclubbing.
Apart from that, yeah, discovery isn't a good place to relax, especially when you have other problems.
It tends to occupy your mind because of the illusion of the possibility to create cool things and do cool stuff. But the harsh reality is that most of what you dream up will never come to be, for one reason or another. When you manage to free yourself of the illusion of being able to do cool things here, please tell me how.
