1) You can string literally any combination of words together and get some rep from people. Try it: start a topic in the Engineers forum and say "I like engineers", make another topic in Horizons forum and say "I dont like Horizons". It means nothing.
2) DragoonKnight has been rather critical of many aspects of ED, and he is not ashamed to say it. A white knight is not someone who defends something 'regardless of opinions to the contrary, because then everyone who likes
something about
anything is a white knight.
3) Calling someone a white knight/hater/troll/whatever is a cop-out. Rather than respond to the arguments of DN, you just start namecalling.
4) Some people like being called a dingleberry, TBH.
As for getting it right: its much better this time. You used arguments and didnt resort to namecalling. So how about we keep this topic going like this and keep the 'anyone who disagrees with me is a troll/hater/fanboy/white knight' mentality at the door?
I appreciate a good argument as well as the next person, what got me with DragoonKnight was the I should be grateful for one of the few useful mods that came with this update, and, the tone of his post was condescending. I have played over 1,900 hrs in this game so I'm not in a Sidey anymore. I don't need to be grateful to expect someone (FD) to do their job and put out a good product. What FD is doing is extending the life of their product by really stretching out desired improvements over the longest period of time possible. That is their business model, to keep players playing, but leaving them wanting for more. However, a major part of the way they do that is the "grinding" that everyone loves/hates, hence the reference in the post.
The other old saw he used is, if you don't like it, don't do it. Well, for better or worse the "grind" is built in most, if not all, of the features of the game. Want to build up rep with a faction/power, do missions/bounty hunt/sell cartographic data, a lot of it. Want to become elite combat, kill 10,000 ships+, same for trading, exploration, etc. That is a stock response I've read dozens of times.
Regarding your points, you are being dismissive of the valid opinions of CMDR's who have participated in this thread, your opinion and any other opinion, is valid. That this post has garnered me the most rep points I have ever been awarded is a fact. It is disingenuous to simply state that you can say "blah, blah, blah" and people will rep you for it.
Regarding name calling, I never said "DragoonKnight, you are a White Knight", I sarcastically characterized him and his response, the same response I have observed being described by others the same way. That I didn't engage him in a more polite manner? Well, if he had been keen to discuss the basis of my sarcastic post, which from the tone and content of his reply he showed little interest in doing, I would have gladly done so.
You may have or may have not noticed that I have not used any derogatory terms directed towards you and I won't, because inflammatory rhetoric hardly ever accomplishes anything constructive. However, literary devices are sometimes quite effective, I would have never thought that my innocuous post would have received any attention whatsoever. So I must have strung an effective combination of words.
I will conclude my participation in this thread, feel free to respond and I will be polite and read it, but will not respond further.
"Warp Drive, engage!"
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