So this post will require a bit of backstory. Before I started playing Elite early this year, I played a game called World of Tanks Blitz. Played it basically since day 1 and became one of the best players, to the point where I actually took part in a tournament where if my clan(squadron in Elite lingo) won, we’d have been paid to go to Las Vegas and play on a national stage. Needless to say those of you who have experience with competitive gamers knows where this is going. Competitive gamers tend to have extreme competitiveness and hyper aggression as traits, especially in games like that one. This makes them better players, but it also makes them social cancer. However, this community(WoTB) as a whole was known for toxicity, the experts were just even more so.
Ive been in a couple other gaming communities before, none of them exactly nice, so I expected more of the same from Elite. I expected that if I said something that I believed to be true but wasn’t actually that people would give the usual response. You know the one. “Lol noob ur so stupid!” That kind of stuff. If I stated an opinion about a ship that others disagreed with I expected more of the same. I expected people to be the usual unhelpful, incredibly rude, and general cancerous behavior you normally see from gamers and that has been the usual standard in my experience.
Yet that hasn’t happened. If I said something wrong, someone just politely corrected me. If I have a differing opinion, no one makes a fuss about it. People have been remarkably pleasant to me thus far. Sure you’re gonna find the occasional person in game who will try to kill you for no particular reason, but that’s just a hazard of playing a game online. Hell in one instance during one of the community goals where systems were seceding from the Federation I entered a Combat Zone that had already been completed by a player, he asked me which side I was fighting for in the event, and when I told him I was fighting against the Federation(not on his side), even though Combat Zones are Lawless areas where he could’ve killed me with no issues, he didn’t even make an attempt.
For whatever reason the community is like this, I want to say something to all of you.
Thank you.
Thank you for not being toxic. Thank you for being overall a kind and courteous community of people. Thank you for helping me when I have questions. Thank you for offering a carrier to dock at for repairs and resupply when I’m 20,000 LY away from the nearest station and need a place to do some patchwork. Thank you for your words of encouragement and congratulation when I find or do something I feel proud of. Thank you for being decent human beings. You almost never see that, at least in my experience, in an online gaming community.
Ive been in a couple other gaming communities before, none of them exactly nice, so I expected more of the same from Elite. I expected that if I said something that I believed to be true but wasn’t actually that people would give the usual response. You know the one. “Lol noob ur so stupid!” That kind of stuff. If I stated an opinion about a ship that others disagreed with I expected more of the same. I expected people to be the usual unhelpful, incredibly rude, and general cancerous behavior you normally see from gamers and that has been the usual standard in my experience.
Yet that hasn’t happened. If I said something wrong, someone just politely corrected me. If I have a differing opinion, no one makes a fuss about it. People have been remarkably pleasant to me thus far. Sure you’re gonna find the occasional person in game who will try to kill you for no particular reason, but that’s just a hazard of playing a game online. Hell in one instance during one of the community goals where systems were seceding from the Federation I entered a Combat Zone that had already been completed by a player, he asked me which side I was fighting for in the event, and when I told him I was fighting against the Federation(not on his side), even though Combat Zones are Lawless areas where he could’ve killed me with no issues, he didn’t even make an attempt.
For whatever reason the community is like this, I want to say something to all of you.
Thank you.
Thank you for not being toxic. Thank you for being overall a kind and courteous community of people. Thank you for helping me when I have questions. Thank you for offering a carrier to dock at for repairs and resupply when I’m 20,000 LY away from the nearest station and need a place to do some patchwork. Thank you for your words of encouragement and congratulation when I find or do something I feel proud of. Thank you for being decent human beings. You almost never see that, at least in my experience, in an online gaming community.
but am glad that you have been well received, and hope that you continue to enjoy playing the game, i think it is great fun...
