[Combat Event] - Invasion of Gallia

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But you guys are fighting for nothing and getting angry over someone escaping is what drives away players, or worse, makes them think they're supposed to let themselves go down for someone else, and not fully try.

This is a game. You can fully try and still think about the people shooting you because at the end of the day, it's a game. The same argument could be applied to people who are really good at the game: "I'm going to restock and hug caps because otherwise I'm a free kill lmao better not give people the satisfaction xXDDD" < nobody likes that attitude. Successfully running away to a base after all your teammates are dead is different to restocking midfight. Even combat docking is sad. It's gratifying to kill someone because you worked towards something, only for it to be taken away from you at the last second. A guy altf4-ing midfight in For Honor is funny at first but it gets old fast. I can't say that its totally wasted time since at least to me, most of the fun comes from the actual shooting, but I can imagine some people mostly caring about the end result, ie the kill at the end.

It's just a matter of caring about other players. We're all here to play a game and enjoy ourselves. There's a reason it's generally frowned upon when a cap interrupts a perfectly good snubfight and just ruins it. There's a reason other caps stay out of snubfights. One group of people doesn't give a shit about other peoples' enjoyment, and the other group does. Guess which of the two types of player combat docks, selfnukes, restocks, ganks unnecessarily, etcetera.

It's not difficult to play this game without being awful to everyone around you.

Edit:

A war going 100% arcade in an arcade space shooter? How dare the GM set up an event like that

This is still a roleplay server to an arcade space shooter, and I can agree with his point. Mindless pvp is nowhere near as engaging and fun as pvp with a roleplay backdrop. It's sad that people don't simply raid like in the old LivsRhein days in Texas and that you need an event for it, but it brings activity. If I wanted to pvp for the sake of pvp I'd go to conn.