Friday, January 3, 2014

Goofus and Gallant at the Complaint Desk

As the guy who runs highsec, I have a lot of different jobs to do. One of the most important of these is the job of problem-solver. Carebears instinctively recognize this, which I suppose is why they send me so many complaints.


Highsec miner Hikari Kirigaya convo'ed me and wasted no time in making known the nature of her complaint. I immediately expressed my desire to hear what she had to say.


Hikari made no secret of the fact that she was more interested in entertaining her boyfriend on Skype than in creating emergent content for EVE. But I had absolute faith in my Agents, so I was confident the story would have a happy ending.


I was not disappointed. The Agents of the New Order always see to it that justice is done.


According to Hikari, the New Order narrowly missed an extraordinary opportunity. She was totally planning to join the group that she accused of having a "cult mentality".


After I educated her, Hikari flounced out of the convo. This transaction would be an example of a Goofus at the complaint desk. It's hard for a carebear to improve himself or herself if they prioritize speaking over listening. Now let's look at another case.


After getting blown to smithereens, Gunner Trill Adelle opened a support ticket with me. He insisted that the only reason he'd been killed was that he got caught in a bubble.


I launched a five-second investigation into his claim and found no basis for it. Gunner's sob story having been exposed as a lie, the New Order was now rapidly closing in on the truth.


Miraculously, Gunner saw sense. His love of pancakes, not the New Order's highsec bubbles, were to blame for his death. He duly apologized for the error.


Some days it seems that carebears are physically incapable of apologizing. Then you run into a nice young fellow like Gunner, and your faith in highsec is restored.


Gunner made the most of his death and reconsidered his outlook on EVE. He came to the conclusion that compliance is better than defiance. A lesson for all of highsec!

12 comments:

  1. Oh I hope Ophidia doesn't read this entry. I completely forgot to edit the screen shots from the hilarious Hikari local spew. She was upset and full of disrespect for the Order when we ganked the Mackinaw. So we had no choice when 15min later she was still mining ice and hadn't bought a permit. Ophidia is going to hit me. It was the Christmas holiday is not an excuse she is likely to tolerate.

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    1. It's OK, I'm still in the Christmas spirit. I'll let it slide, this time... :P

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  2. Gunner proves that there is hope for Hi-Sec.

    Ulrich Firelord - Breaker of Mountains
    CEO of TomorroVation

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  3. is there some reason this "about to join the NO hikari" is missing the glaring fact that he/she is mining WITHOUT A PERMIT???????????
    not being afk is below that on the list of what it takes to be a code-complaint miner.
    sounds like James hit the nail on the head with the "one of those kind of people" assessment.

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    1. We tried explaining this & a myriad of other things to them in great detail but unfortunately it just wasn't sinking in.

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  4. Only our savior James 315 can pull off the sale of a New Order mining permit (a very complex business deal) as smoothly and easily as that.

    That permit sale to Gunner is textbook perfect. A level of negotiating acumen and executional excellence we agents and knights of the New Order all aspire to achieve.

    - Guybertini

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  5. This is why the New Order is hated

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    1. "This is why the New Order is hated by criminals and villains."

      You forgot to finish your sentence, I helped you out.

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    2. But the New Order is full of criminals and villains, their security statuses says so, which is the correct metric for determining who is a criminal.

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  6. Just checking if you know this is a game about internet spaceships? Yeah?

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  7. What's the matter prick? You cant walk the talk of what this website is supposed to do? Hide info and make yourself look good lol

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