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Re:“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge f... by curtis3389 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:29PM (#26003822)
Reminds me of the Goonswarm in Eve Online. They'd recruit a bunch of newbies from the Something Awful forums and use them as shock troops in giant battles.

The new recruits had no hope of actually establishing themselves in the game. They were just cannon fodder in someones strategy.

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Re:“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge f... by ajross on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:34PM (#26003894)
The difference, of course, is that one population was just playing a game in a novel way. Doing this by fibbing to real people who bet real money is fraud.
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Re:“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge f... by the_only_law on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:46PM (#26004080)
The more I hear about this game the more dumbfounded and kinda curious I am.
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Re:“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge f... by curtis3389 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:07PM (#26004378)
It's a really interesting game, and really cool things happen in it, but I wouldn't play it unless you find space-sims inherently interesting.

Your character gets better the more time you invest in playing the game, so you gotta be dedicated. Also, traveling is ridiculously dangerous because 1 wrong jump, and BOOM!, you're dead and your ship is gone. That's about where I stopped because I lost my ship, its upgrades, and they also destroyed my escape pod, so IIRC, I had to start my character from scratch? Idk, really cool game but also really frustrating.

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