Decommissioned But Clever Anti-Phantom Rant

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He was a phantom. He wanted to 'play' with me and the 1600 people on board (They look like such excellent playmates, he said). He fired multiple supernovas into my shields, not only lowering them to less than fifty percent but removing them entirely and causing hull damage, which certainly constitutes an attack under the rules. You engaged me, and do you know what that tells me, when your ID explicitly forbids you from demanding credits or cargo? That you have no intention of further textual RP. You are going to blow me up whether I like it or not, and that is my cue to stop trying to provide you textual RP and run for my life, which is what any sane person is going to RP when they know they have no chance of survival. You're entirely correct - this IS a bitch post. I'm bitching because I got blown up and I wasn't given a way out, providing a fix for another player entirely at my expense. There was no pirate to pay, and there was no way to talk my way out of getting destroyed, and I think that's just dumb. I've tried to RP characters like that three times, and you know what? It doesn't work. They don't go anywhere. They get fixed in a rut. They go out and do the same thing, every time, and it doesn't give anybody anything but death. So, how do I deal? I try to express my issue in accepted academic terms and say why I think that it is freaking stupid that I got blown up, and how it pertains to gameplay as a whole.

Now this is nothing but libel. Plain and simple libel. I reduced your shields to nothing, yes, and I even stated that, but I did not attack your hull until you started to run. I did not come with the intention of ruining your day. I did not even come with the complete intention of destroying you. At the end of the day, yes, 90% of the traders we see get destroyed, but that is because they refuse to Roleplay with us. That is precisely what you did.

There is one way to get away from the Phantoms you didn't realize: Roleplaying with us. I pride myself as being called the most vocal of Phantoms, and the one who has "Restored my faith in the Phantoms" (JakeSG said that), there are many things you could have done to get away. I even posted one example. You chose the least likely one. I'm sorry that you think you are so cheated out of your game, Eppy, but, the only person who cheated you is yourself.

It's not impossible, you just gave the wrong pitch and lost the sale.

Exactly. There are many things you could have done that would have yielded your character's life. You said it yourself, there is no way to monetarily gain anything as a Phantom. The only thing we could gain is RP. It seems to be the only thing you didn't think of.

I'm glad that you at least agree that it was clever. It is not a case, however, of LOLEPPYDIED. I think, if anybody bothered to read what I'm saying, that they might accept that there's something wrong here, and that, simply because the player in question is a Phantom, he is allowed to deny me of play. I am indeed bashing the Phantoms, and when I, one of the Phantom's oldest supporters ever since the validity of their RP came into question, start bashing the Phantoms maybe somebody's going to notice that something's wrong. This is what I've learned in school (so blame the government of Michigan, not me), and I choose to apply that knowledge to a real situation relevant to my interests, which, as I understand it, is the point. I've been denying this for so long, and it finally hit home (yet the fifth time I've been destroyed by a Phantom since I started playing here, I think) that this isn't right.

EDIT: Tink, I'm not trying to sell anything, and quite frankly, falling to my knees and begging to serve the Phantom would not only most likely have done nothing, it would have been Out of Roleplay. The captain and most of the bridge crew of that ship have huge egos. They don't beg. They don't know how. By begging for my life and entering service to the Phantoms I would have gone against everything my character(s) is/are based on.

Eppy, Blunt is one of my deepest enemies here because of our QCP/AFA contention, if he is supporting me, something has to be flawed (By your logic, at least - a logic I find very sound, but incorrect in this situation). I am also a Michigander (Michiganian, person from Michigan, whatever you want to call us), and I do not think that we, the Phantoms, exhibit signs of Ethical Hedonism (My god, the number of people who will laugh at that statement - laugh, but it is the truth). After your death, Kane and I spent a good deal of time chatting with the RM about Schatten (Which we didn't know about). I could even go as far as to say that you, in thinking your egotistic RP above my frightening terrorist RP, were exhibiting signs of Ethical Hedonism, however, I do not think so. We only shared an interaction in which you did what your character would do and lost. All there really is to do is to develop our characters from these interactions.

EDIT: No, no. Put the first post back. It had a valid point, only put into the wrong light. I believe that Ethical Hedonism is displayed a lot on this server, only, not this time...

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.