Still occasionally am. Always tried to stay in a moderate position though, so outside of a few people who misread things I said, or that I've had economics discussions with, I don't think many people would know me by name =PGaiusBaltar said:
As for ramming and PvP, it has to do with the intent of the game. If I ran into CoD with a guaranteed kill but I die too and ran around using it all the time, because I didn't like shooting people and thought it was boring, people would be upset too. If I went into Starcraft and just worker rushed and dropped my command centre next to theirs, the same thing would happen. The intent and spirit of the game is to actually have a dogfight, as part of its core gameplay [Only part, not the entirety], and so methods to just cheese and avoid that while damaging those who do enjoy that, where at times it got out of hand with others wanting to take it so far as to try and make piracy and such just infeasible in game, are received negatively, as you don't want to play the game [Which was PvA from the start] that the devs were making and enjoy it with everyone else, but you want to take control of the game and play it only the way you want, while preventing others from playing in ways the game was intended for them to play in.
And yeah, some PvP players espoused those views about making 'carebears' unable to play the game, like Shankerz. They were also banned =P
Either way, I'm pretty similar to you at this point in attachment to the project. I drop in occasionally to have a look, sometimes have a discussion on the rare occasion there's something interesting to discuss, and basically probably won't actually play again until 3.0, and even then I'm going to mostly just wait until final release at this point. Too much talk, and the community laps it all up. When there's more to do I'll be more interested.
