I like to aggravate Bandits.

[DocWolf 146]

'unlikely' being the operative word my friend! He could have played along, tugged at their heartstrings a bit, even try to make 'em laugh as the old saying goes, but he got all butthurt on 'em... Look at his post, they didn't kill him right away, and even after some petulant answers they still didn't kill him... However I am basing it on the way I play. when I spawn in, I want my character to survive no matter what the cost. If my character is unlucky enough to get captured by sadists? I want to get him out of it by whatever means and survive, cos survival is the true end game here! If I die I fail, so I dont encourage players to execute me!!!

They didn't kill him outright because 8 players out of 10 usually give griefers/trolls a lot of satisfaction. They were not out to simply murder him, they were looking for enjoyment while doing that: you know, whiny remarks, "why are you doing this", meaningless threats and so on. When OP refused to play along and gave them no satisfaction they were taken aback...that's why roleplaying in those situations is not a good idea and why people should start honing their social skills before their communication ones: if you log in a game like this you HAVE to be good at reading people and situations. Kudos to OP, he did the right thing.

On a less benevolent note (and not related in any way to Jock McScottish): I seriously laugh every time I see badly disguised trolls on this forum. Verbally threatening to log out during a griefing session now is "disgusting" and "wrong"? LOL, seriously. Two good geared players wound a noobspawn and try to torture him just for fun and the guy should play along and let them torture him? Yeah, I can totally see how (threatening to) log off in this situation is a reprehensible thing.

Equipped player vs Equipped player I could agree...but two experienced players vs a noobspawn minutes out from the beach? Yeah, don't mess with them ruining their trolling fun, it's bad. Ah, this community...it never cease to amaze me

Edited January 13, 2015 by DocWolf

[lrp1984 199]

They didn't kill him outright because 8 players out of 10 usually give griefers/trolls a lot of satisfaction. They were not out to simply murder him, they were looking for enjoyment while doing that: you know, whiny remarks, "why are you doing this", meaningless threats and so on. When OP refused to play along and gave them no satisfaction they were taken aback...that's why roleplaying in those situations is not a good idea and why people should start honing their social skills before their communication ones: if you log in a game like this you HAVE to be good at reading people and situations. Kudos to OP, he did the right thing.

On a less benevolent note (and not related in any way to Jock McScottish): I seriously laugh every time I see badly disguised trolls on this forum. Verbally threatening to log out during a griefing session now is "disgusting" and "wrong"? LOL, seriously. Two good geared players wound a noobspawn and try to torture him just for fun and the guy should play along and let them torture him? Yeah, I can totally see how (threatening to) log off in this situation is a reprehensible thing.

Equipped player vs Equipped player I could agree...but two experienced players vs a noobspawn minutes out from the beach? Yeah, don't mess with them ruining their trolling fun, it's bad. Ah, this community...it never cease to amaze me

 

Bandits that interact and speak to fresh spawns do so because they're usually too scared to try the same thing on someone that might have a gun.

 

The group I'm with usually now try and interact on voice with everyone, be it demanding they drop their weapons, to speaking nonsense, or just having a chat. We rarely kill a fresh spawn unless they're trying to punch us out. The most important thing if we have recruited many players to our clan through the game. Sometimes it pays to talk a little, maybe you'll find a friend. Just because they're a bandit doesn't mean they're a bastard.

Edited January 14, 2015 by McTabish