# Event sites and looters

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540 "2021-12-13T08:35:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Kimberly\_Brooke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kimberly_brooke/32/305574_2.png) [@Kimberly\_Brooke](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kimberly_Brooke)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 12:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/61 "2021-12-14T00:48:59Z")

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> [@Gix\_Firebrand](#):
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> But ya, I guess he was messed up in the heart cause he killed people in a vidya game.

Well… I made an alt to “try out” playing an evil character. it lasted five minutes. After my first “murder” in game, I felt horrible and deleted the toon. I still believe if you can have fun being a murderous, heartless player in a game, there’s some darkness in the IRL life of that player.  
I literally cannot fathom having a mindset where someone could enjoy being brutal to someone else of lower experience… even in a game.  
The concept of that kind of mentality to play in such a way is incomprehensible to me. I made that alt in response to another player saying exactly what you wrote. I figured “I’m a kind-hearted, loving person, maybe it’s true. One can play and enjoy being opposite of their IRL personality”. Nope. I literally felt sick after that first murder in space.  
I hold to my opinion that a person who plays with such wickedness in game (intentionally and enjoys it) has some darkness in their IRL heart.  
After all, though it is “just a game”, there’s a real person on the other side of the pixels on screen… I just cannot fathom the sort of heart that would take pleasure in pretending to be a murderous, ruthless, cold-blooded killer.  
That’s all.

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**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/62 "2021-12-14T00:49:13Z")

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> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> I was in a coma for many years - literally - and have to get used to modern ways of thinking/behaving (yes, I am in counseling to readjust myself to modern society/changes in social behavior) so it’s very possible I am just naive about split personas in-game v IRL… but to go so far as to say I am prejudiced about others is uncalled for.

Look, I have to treat you as a normal player/poster, because it’s impossible for me to know your real-life story and any issues you might have. And even if I did know, your perspectives are still unjustified from any philosophical/scientific perspective.

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> Prejudice is an irrational hatred for others without legitimate reason. My reasons for how I look at players who take advantage of lesser-experienced players is fact-based, not irrational.

Your reasons would be factual if you actually knew those people in real life, and could at least establish _some_ correlation between behaviors, if not outright causation, in a remotely objective manner. But you _don’t_ know those people. You’re making _assumptions_ about them, and that’s the core of the concept of prejudice—judgement in advance, which is in fact an irrational emotion.

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> This game does need a “good v evil” factor, but not the type of evil that would drive off a new player. This is the villainy I am against simply for the fact that without these new players, this game will shut down if it become too costly to run than profits made running it.  
> The big picture is this game needs good v evil, or blue v red… factions against factions, but the player who seeks out to take advantage of the “squishier” players… they are just ruining the game with their form of mentality (by “ruining” I am talking about new player retention/loss ratio)…

All of this talk about new players is just your mind subconsciously deviating toward the easier argument to attack. Pretty much everyone who’s ever argued against ganking tried to frame the situation as new players being the focus and majority of ganking, theft, and related activities. Note how **you** brought up new players, which weren’t mentioned anywhere else in this thread.

But the fundamental truth of villainy in this game is that the older, wealthier targets are prioritized almost all of the time, as can be evident by the fact that the average value of a gank, in the vicinity of 200 million ISK, is greater than the value of the average null-sec kill, which is an area of the game ostensibly populated predominantly by veterans.

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> After all, though it is “just a game”, there’s a real person on the other side of the pixels on screen… I just cannot fathom the sort of heart that would take pleasure in pretending to be a murderous, ruthless, cold-blooded killer.

If you can’t understand something, then that’s even more of a reason why you shouldn’t pass judgement on anyone.

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**Author:** ![Emira\_Sultana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/emira_sultana/32/298445_2.png) [@Emira\_Sultana](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Emira_Sultana)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/63 "2021-12-14T00:57:16Z")

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> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> I still believe if you can have fun being a murderous, heartless player in a game, there’s some darkness in the IRL life of that player

There’s darkness in **ALL** of us, in you as well, so you might as well get off your high horse and come break bred with us, your highness.

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**Author:** ![Gix\_Firebrand](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gix_firebrand/32/456949_2.png) [@Gix\_Firebrand](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gix_Firebrand)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 12:58am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/64 "2021-12-14T00:58:41Z")

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> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> I hold to my opinion that a person who plays with such wickedness in game (intentionally and enjoys it) has some darkness in their IRL heart.

Everyone has darkness in their heart. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a child.

This is a vidya game. What we do it in has little reference on our real life morals and values, considering the vidya game isn’t real.

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> After all, though it is “just a game”, there’s a real person on the other side of the pixels on screen… I just cannot fathom the sort of heart that would take pleasure in pretending to be a murderous, ruthless, cold-blooded killer.

Yep. And they are murderering pixels, not people. I killed a ton of people in Halo last night. Does that make me evil? I mean when I skewered a dude from across the map I cheered. I also cheered when I grav hammered a warthog full of people off a cliff. Am I ebil?

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Epeen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mr_epeen/32/373308_2.png) [@Mr\_Epeen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mr_Epeen)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/65 "2021-12-14T01:02:43Z")

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> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> After all, though it is “just a game”, there’s a real person on the other side of the pixels on screen

There’s also a real person on the other side of the three characters mercilessly attacking you as they tend to do with most people that suggest their psychopathic behavior is anything but roleplay.

Best to just back out of the thread now.

Mr Epeen 🕶

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**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/66 "2021-12-14T01:04:16Z")

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> [@Gix\_Firebrand](#):
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> I also cheered when I grav hammered a warthog full of people off a cliff. Am I ebil?

Reminds me of when I thunderstormed Alliance players off of high places on my Orc shaman. They raged pretty hard, especially when they had to run back a long way after getting their corpse.

Anyway, it’s just about lights out at my super-max where I’m serving consecutive life sentences for all those murders I did. I hope the guards don’t beat me in the shower again.

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Azariah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mike_azariah/32/512626_2.png) [@Mike\_Azariah](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mike_Azariah)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/67 "2021-12-14T01:05:12Z")

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le sigh

this thread has degraded into one of the common offramps of reasonable discourse

“Gankers are Bad”

with all the pop psych 101 ‘if you play that way you probably torture puppies’

No, just no. Some folks bluff in poker, I do not automatically assume that they are pathalogical liars. I just try to take that into account when making my own wagers.

This is a very old argument in the forums and I see the regulars already warming up so I give you a bit of very old advice

> Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty and the pig enjoys it.

play YOUR game but understand that others will play theirs and modify accordingly.

m

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**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/68 "2021-12-14T01:09:43Z")

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> [@Mr\_Epeen](#):
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> their psychopathic behavior is anything but roleplay

Easy with the white-knighting there, papi. Kimberly said she already has a boyfriend.

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**Author:** ![Emira\_Sultana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/emira_sultana/32/298445_2.png) [@Emira\_Sultana](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Emira_Sultana)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/69 "2021-12-14T01:26:03Z")

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> [@Mike\_Azariah](#):
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> this thread has degraded into one of the common offramps of reasonable discourse

I agree completely. It’s beyond reasonable, it’s completely ridiculous to insinuate that PvPers and gamers in general feed off their dark side to play a game. smh…  
OH I watched you on YouTube through that link you left in another thread. Was very nice watching. Thank you. Was that a pic of your real mother on the screen behind you?

> [@Destiny\_Corrupted](#):
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> Easy with the white-knighting there, papi. Kimberly said she already has a boyfriend

LOL!

PS: ran out of forum hearts again… must be all that darkness inside me… lmao

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Azariah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mike_azariah/32/512626_2.png) [@Mike\_Azariah](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mike_Azariah)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/70 "2021-12-14T01:52:45Z")

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> [@Emira\_Sultana](#):
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> Was that a pic of your real mother on the screen behind you?

It was my mom, yes indeed. Funny thing? That shirt trick made me the most nervous of the entire speech. After that it was much easier AND I can say I have done magic on stage in Vegas.

m

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**Author:** ![Emira\_Sultana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/emira_sultana/32/298445_2.png) [@Emira\_Sultana](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Emira_Sultana)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/71 "2021-12-14T01:59:37Z")

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> [@Mike\_Azariah](#):
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> It was my mom, yes indeed

Aww, how precious!

> [@Mike\_Azariah](#):
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> Funny thing? That shirt trick made me the most nervous of the entire speech. After that it was much easier AND I can say I have done magic on stage in Vegas

Well it was magic because I didn’t figure out how you did it. It was red then it was black and all I could do is laugh about the red shirts in Star Trek, lol.  
Thank you again for the link. Now I can put a face to ‘Mike Azariah’ 🙂

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**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/72 "2021-12-14T02:44:45Z")

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> [@Mr\_Epeen](#):
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> There’s also a̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶ **‘just one’** person on the other side of the three characters mercilessly attacking you as they tend to do with most people that suggest their psychopathic behavior is anything but roleplay.

Fixed that for you…

And I agree 100%…

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**Author:** ![Xuxe\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xuxe_xu/32/464660_2.png) [@Xuxe\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xuxe_Xu)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 4:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/73 "2021-12-14T04:28:41Z")

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> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> It would be just as easy to fly in close to their squishy target, wave, and open a chat with them explaining how they are making themselves an easy kill and how to avoid setting themselves up for some lo-sec PvP failure to gank them.

Is an Antimatter Wave ok?  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/f/e/fe09e4fa1092510cfbba179c47365d09a1191a19.gif)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/b/4bbe3e9fab471ac99b8211b0bd5249de47ee55ea.gif)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/a/f/9/af9dfc1b01adfc979362bf3f6105285444e0c9a3.gif)

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> or how I could have had a Q-ship… a Venture rigged with weapons and not mining lasers

Oh crap!!!  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/7/e/3/7e37b7f06ff7670a108f0da5f21fea05bcaf1035.gif)

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/5/8/6/586ff660c1c700e5349dab3d5acbf7e999fd910e.gif)

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> the very thought of playing with a “villain mindset” is absolutely foreign to my ability to comprehend how someone could play in such a style if they are decent people IRL.

IKR? Every person who has ever played the role of a baddie on movies or tv has obviously been a horrible evil psycho jerk irl.

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> I fully understand this

Yes…yes of course…

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> but…

here we go again

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> there are certain forms of villainy such as thieves and gankers who will kill this game…

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/b/2/b29db4e032bb00935af87a944bed244d2945c62e.gif)

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> I literally cannot fathom having a mindset where someone could enjoy being brutal to someone else of lower experience… even in a game.

Ah. Now that’s an interesting statement…“of lower experience”…  
Sure, there is “seal pup clubbing” in EvE, but new players are not the ones flying freighters and Hulks and Mackinaws…and in very many cases any of the ships ganked.  
Perhaps “of lower experience” really most often really means “of lower attentiveness”, “of lower preparation”, etc. Also - no matter how long a person has been in EvE, these people are _gamers_ not _babies_! Many, _many_ players who have played EvE for many years have been ganked by players who have not been in the game nearly as long at all (some even fit into the category ‘new player’ who \*gasp! aren’t necessarily victims)  
So much straw is falling out of your argument he can’t even be propped up.

Everything you’ve said, I’ve said, and anybody else in this thread has said has been bandied about ad nauseam since EvE launched like some sort of whingy groundhog day of virtual spaceship game parliamentary lock-in session.

There are many reasons people gank. IMO it is endlessly interesting to find how thin the veneer of civility so many of the self-professed “peaceful” miners “who just want to relax peacefully” actually so often is when their virtual pixels are rustled even slightly. Human behavior is fascinating. Ganking for science!!!

> [@Kimberly\_Brooke](#):
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> I just cannot fathom the sort of heart that would take pleasure in pretending to be a murderous, ruthless, cold-blooded killer.

Nothing is invalidated simply because you don’t understand it, I’m afraid. In summary:

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/c/e/0/ce0b83b91a802213ddeb3ef3da0f4550d7a006a1.jpeg "Metallica - No Remorse") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2AJbgLeMy4)

ps - you might be interested in this @Kimberly_Brooke ;

> **[Gommel Nox's Imperium and AccessibleGamer Story - INN](https://imperium.news/gommel-noxs-imperium-accessiblegamer-story/)**
>
> I was injured 12 years ago in a diving accident that left me paralyzed from the chest…

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**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/74 "2021-12-14T06:22:53Z")

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lol

Look at the Geriatric Axis of Misery desperately trying to play the long con game with the forum mods by trying to gaslight a poster into thinking that they’re being attacked, when in fact nothing but a polite discourse has been held.

But they see right through it.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/b/8/1/b814e0273dfd18d14a0de876d41e0229dea21fae.png)

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**Author:** ![Wadiest\_Yong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wadiest_yong/32/426921_2.png) [@Wadiest\_Yong](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wadiest_Yong)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/75 "2021-12-14T06:59:35Z")

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Since it’s no longer possible to distinguish anyone in this diabolical trinity of gankers, anti-gankers and gankees glorious balls of flames seem appropriate. What say you ?

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**Author:** ![Aisha\_Katalen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aisha_katalen/32/387724_2.png) [@Aisha\_Katalen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aisha_Katalen)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/76 "2021-12-14T07:21:48Z")

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I see more “my boat got violenced, this sucks” and “mining needs to be easier” alts than “lol htfu” fresh alts pop up all the time. Might be just a perception thing.

Oh and the “I got attacked” is silly.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/77 "2021-12-14T07:28:13Z")

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Stopping the stupid events would sort all this right out.

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**Author:** ![Wadiest\_Yong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wadiest_yong/32/426921_2.png) [@Wadiest\_Yong](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wadiest_Yong)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/78 "2021-12-14T07:32:46Z")

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But but some of the kids seem to love these. And they now seem to attract roleplaying too. Dont’ be so cold hearted 😛 even though it’s the Winter Event lol.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/79 "2021-12-14T07:33:42Z")

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Mehhhhhh

Roleplaying isnt a spaceship

Pls remove

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Epeen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mr_epeen/32/373308_2.png) [@Mr\_Epeen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mr_Epeen)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-sites-and-looters/341540/80 "2021-12-14T07:37:14Z")

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> [@Ramona\_McCandless](#):
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> Roleplaying isnt a spaceship

iseewhatyoudidthere

Mr Epeen 🕶

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