I was looking around the EVE online main forum and stumbled across a thread that is now long since closed which I had made a comment on.

The discussion was the difference between a PvP’er and a Pirate. I couldn’t help but make at least one comment. It wasn’t to troll or anything like that, I just wanted to give my over opinionated opinion - so I did just that. Normally if I am trying to “stir it up” (aka trolling I guess) I’ll write something provocative or controversial.

It wasn’t my post that I liked, but the response someone wrote in reply to it. Anyway, without further a do, here’s the post (my original is in pink italics, the response is yellow normal text):

Originally by: Alia Xi
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Edited by: Alia Xi on 16/12/2007 19:13:29
Hello everyone, my name is Alia Xi and I’m a pirate. Thank you for having me at Pirates Anonymous

If you consider any of the following piracy, then I guess I qualify;

Shooting “innocent” people
Ganking
Baiting
Ransoming peoples ships
Not ransoming peoples ships
Looting wrecks, mine or otherwise
Tanking sentry guns whilst laughing and shooting haulers
Podding the pilots

I do it for money, and because it’s funny and I enjoy it.

Yarrrr!

I don’t care, I’m a pirate - simple, no problem admitting it. I’m not going to hide behind so-called “morals” and pretend to be the goodie goodie “anti pirate”. You are all just wolves in sheeps clothing and really want to be like us!

To that extent, here’s a snippet of a local convo - very funny:

G***** F** > wow, this hoarder really wallows when she is full
Alia Xi > mmmm nice full cargo holds ~licks lips~
G***** F** > *blush*
Alia Xi > lol… quite safe… you’re in 0.5 and i’m not in my BC :p

Oh if only, if only… my mind still wonders what delights were inside

Yarrr!

/me points and screams hysterically “aaahhh anti pirates be here!!” then warps away
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This is my favorite post so far in this thread. This………is an honest pirate. I trust this pirate to be a pirate and nothing but a pirate, so long as she wants to be a pirate. Perhaps she has other characters that are not in the pirate role and plays them differently, but this one she plays as a pirate.

The point is, this character is a pirate and she’s not pretending to be something other than a scurvy scourge of space. The honesty is to be admired and is far less chicken**** than those pirates who pretend to hold themselves to a high moral code of some sort. It’s hilarious when someone who holds a gun to your head and demands your money says, “trust me, I’m honest and of high moral fiber”. Yeah, right. You can get more moral fiber from breakfast cereal.

Kudos to you, Alia Xi.

Why do I like it? Well it’s always nice to get a compliment, but that’s not the main reason. There were plenty of things in my post which were on the edge of being provocative but this guy decided not to attack me, or them, but instead decided that it was a good truth. The best and main reason I like it is because the description of me, a pirate, is “a scurvy scourge of space” - it’s just brilliant! Kudos to you too Sir!

I’ve made no qualms about being a pirate, because it’s who I am and what I do. I can admit it, accept it and live with it. I don’t have a guilt pang after destroying a ship or popping a pod, because I’ve accepted that is something I am quite capable of. I have no need to justify it to myself or anyone else, therefore I have no need to deny or conceal who and what I am.

Link to the original post http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=660697&page=2#56

I thought it might be a good idea to copy the transcript here incase the forums are ever cleaned up - otherwise none of this would make much sense :p

There will always be difference of opinions on what a pirate is, what a PvP’er is and so on. Personally I consider myself a pirate. Not down to security status, bounty or anything like that but due to the way I choose to live and play EVE.

Final thought: “Jack: me…i’m dishonest and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest…honestly its the honest ones you have to watch out for” - You have to love that quote

Time for me to be moving along now….