The Last Word On The Curious Case Of The Pouting Professor

Good question,unfortunately for him there isnt a economy to manipulate in gank land.

Although, seriously, a game with PvP needs to be designed keeping in mind people that enjoy defeating and smack talking. Just a simple hot-fix in the TP-foe for avoiding the death-squads until the PvP balance patch would have cut this short (and the professor “investigation” would have cut short, instead just being a list of educated insults for being nerfed)

“I do wonder how he would have handled 1999-era UO”

http://spla.sh/bp/meet_gypsy_files/bone4.htm

You just encouraged Gevlon to write more of its nonsense. Does it really have that much entertainment value?

I mean, he is the guy who makes moneymaking guides for a game where you get it basically shoven right into the rear.

why even bother linking to Gevlon?

There are good logical and even philosophical defenses of why griefing should be allowed in games.
Gevlon never makes one.
He simply says you should accept anything that is someone can possible do to you in a game.

While what this guy did I consider cheesy, it however did not violate any rules of the game from what I have read. If anything the common dominator is we have people that wanted to pve specific pve mobs in this specific areas and even though they knew this guy was very famously doing this and they still came back time after time, after time with the same result.

If this guy was griefing to the point of preventing people from being able to play the game at all then that I consider malicous griefing, this guy was in a pvp specific zone, the only one in the entire game, in one particular part of that zone, and these people got pissed that he was ruining there joyess pve grinding because they found it easier to not fight other players to get rewards by some “agreement not to pvp”. This guy did not like that fact and found a way to spoil there fun in particular areas that they continually returned to over and over and over again. It is like touching a red hot burner, getting burned, and going back to touch it again. I would not feel sorry for that person unless he is mentally challenged. It was not like this guy was following them all over the game, the irony in all this is they were coming directly to him even though they already knew the likely outcome.

Votan, the problem was not that he was PvPing; the problem was that he was using an exploit to kill others in a way that they were unable to counter. Specifically, he was repeatedly teleporting them into insta-kill NPC guards that were meant to protect a zone-in area. People didn’t fight him and lose; rather, being anywhere within range of him was instant death, with no chance to fight back. He then, as what he claims was part of his experimental persona, publicly insulted his victims. Other players did not use that exploit (those few to whom it was available) because it was bad sportsmanship; they remembered that games are supposed to be fun for all participants. PvP fights are fun (a lot of fun) but getting chain-ganked by exploiters is not fun at all.

Look at it this way: how would people react if a pro football player took a Taser onto the playing field and zapped any opponent with the ball? Would he be considered a great player? Hell no … even if there’s no specific rule against it, he’d be nailed for unsportsmanlike conduct.

The rule Professor Obvious there broke is one of the rules of life, not one of the rules of CoX, and that rule is “Don’t be a jerk.” He was a jerk, so people treated him like they treat jerks, and he went and bawled for the waaaaahmbulance. Typical griefer.

I’m with the people who think he got caught playing CoH too many times and claimed it was research to get out of trouble. That’s the only reason I can think of for someone of at least normal intelligence to have to do an (un)scientific study to “prove” that if you act like a douchebag, other people aren’t going to like you, since most people have a good understanding of that connection pounded into them by their peers by the age of five.

OK I actually play CoH, and though I don’t PvP I do read the forums quite a bit.

1. The Teleport Foe exploit was available to everyone who wanted to take that pool and was pretty commonly used on some servers.

2. The range is pretty short, so the people he would teleport to insta death by the drones were camping the zone entry. Note: The zone is pretty large and the PvP population is small. Being near one zone entry or the other is likely the only way to actually find a fight so there is that to consider.

So if he was going against the norms for the server, then the PvP community on that server must have agreed on some norms that were outside the EULA and designed by the community actually playing the game to make it more fun. This is where Dr. “Asshattery” (WOOT! Gevlon quoted me and implied that I was wrong, I feel like a paragon of virtue now; I can die happy.) is making his mistake. Honestly if I was fighting a guy in a fair fight and some griefing jerk teleported my foe into the drones, or into some mobs that stole my kill, I fail to see how anyone but said griefer gain anything from the experience. He didn’t share in the kill, he stole it because I did the work, but can’t get any credit for it. That is griefing pure and simple, and that’s where the ‘good’ doctor needed to be canned by NCsoft.

If he’s ‘participating’ in a community where only he may derive enjoyment, but everyone is paying their $15/month, then pardon me but I don’t see where he can whine like a bitch for being disliked. I dislike him and he didn’t even do it to me. It seems to me that NCsoft dropped the ball in letting him grief for so long.