Open play trolls

[Stigbob]

To be absolutely clear PvP in no way is causing any real suffering to anyone. If anybody says differently they are way over exaggerating the effects video games can have on a person's real life.

It is a game. Plain and simple just a game. And if anyone takes getting killed in a game as upsetting their mental and emotional stability then they should really go get their head checked out professionally.

If you were to repeatedly interdict/splat the same person it could tip the balance into being a bit naughty depends how you go about it.

However the dev's advise blocking for things like that, so no player interaction should ever really get to the properly negative stage.

 

[[VR] scipio_77]

They're playing the game as it is laid out, I can't see anything wrong with that. I'm not saying I would appreciate being blown out of the sky for no reason, but I don't see anything "immoral" about it.

It's also a common enough occurrence in open world PvP games. With nothing to root the PvPers to the game setting, you get what in real life would be sociopathic tendencies, but which in a game is just people who enjoy the sensation of beating someone in... well.. a game. They have a shotgun and you have a featherduster? Well, tough luck. A lot of people find sealclubbing to be fun in games.

If there is a yardstick for how to root people to the game setting in an open world PvP game... imagine Eve Online in one end (the good one) and DayZ standalone in the other. ED isn't far from DayZ standalone, as there aren't many compelling reasons to NOT PvP, and there are few ways for players to take part in the game world in a way that moves the effort away from ganking.

In fact the only real reasons to not PvP / gank (beyond simply not caring for it) in ED are artificial norms of chivalry claimed by players, which for a lot of gankers will just add to the fun.

 

[Riverside]

It's also a common enough occurrence in open world PvP games.

It is indeed common to many games, certainly not unique to ED. When another player is deliberately trying to be annoying, it is not unusual to eventually get annoyed. This is not evidence of some mental shortcoming, although given the options to avoid them ED offers (and Stigbob so eloquently describes on a regular basis) not taking some mitigating action might be questionable.

Comparing in-game and IRL behaviour isn't a topic many of us are happy to discuss here though, it doesn't end well for any of us