Sounds like that guy was a jerk and didn't understand what he was doing.
If you click the link in that article to the bigger article, I found it easier to understand that he wasn't actually PvP'ing -- he was just TPing people in PvP zones into groups of baddies so that they would get debt.
Either he didn't know what he was doing and was a jerk for not listening to people when they told him to stop, or he was a jerk that was doing it on purpose.
Either way, I would have threatened him too! It makes me angry that he's out publishing stuff that was written in ignorance. He should be writing about Bridge or Bingo or something.
I personally hate people who do that, I had it happen when I was just in RV to get badges I told the guy to back off that was doing it, he did it a second time ya I told him to [censored] off, he then told me to say in broadcast that I was just there for badges, why should I have too?
So when I went to get the last one he was camping the badge with his MM, lucky I had super speed on and whizzed by with cosmic burst aim'd, it prolly stunned him, but didn't give him enough time to get tp foe off, I ran out and that was it, he msg'd me and goes you forgot one I told him I was the one that whizzed by him with SS & cosmic burst, he wanted me to come back I told him to bugga off. then /ignored him 
The fact he was paid for this survey is astonishing.
He was going in, TP'ing foe into drones, and then bragging about it. He was even doing this when people were actively engaging in PvP.
What this study says is, effectively, "When you harass somebody and they ask you to stop yet you keep doing it, they get mad."
And this man had to get a degree to figure that out.
He wasn't PvP'ing, he was griefing. And then vilifies our community. And I bet the devs knew about this and let it happen so they could publish the story and get our game some press. Sadly, it's negative press the way it's presented.
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My favorite part is that he claims he was playing by the rules. I don't PvP, and even I know he was being a jerkgriefer.
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aw yeah, he's good. slot a couple accuracy and range enhancements in tp foe and suddenly he's the best pvp'r, thanks to his trusty npc sidekicks. its too bad his opponents didn't recognize his genius. how dare they be angry with him![/sarcasm]
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LOL, what noobs.
cartoon robots...........everything about this guy sounds stupid. Just another educated idiot IMO.
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well i never saw him in zone droning ppl but i heard about it a couple years ago, its not a method i do unless i pretty much have to ie this one time in sirens on my grav domi being chased by 8 ppl up a skyscrapper i wormholed them off the ledge and they fell, and anded on some npcs who politely dispatched them.
i can understand some ppl being pissed and such, personally i don't care enough to get mad in real life let alone a game.
the one encounter i had with him, or at least someone on test with a toon named Twixt i beat in arena, 9-1 in a 10 minute match, but i suppose it could of been anyone with his toon name since it was test server.
oh well this is kinda old news to actual pvpers, as most pvpers are familar with other pvpers, or in this case a notorious droner.
If you read the full story, it's something akin to him trying to figure out why it's rude to [censored] in someone's living room, even though it is not a punishable offense by US law.
Basically, he acts like a general [censored] bag (droning, TPing into NPC's, and interrupting duels) and seems to be amazed that people get upset by it, considering that these are things the game allows.
Reason being, it's a different sub-culture within the game. There are rights and wrongs, do's and dont's. For instance, in America, crossing your leg over another while sitting down is often a comfortable position.
In the middle east, exposing the sole of your foot to someone in such a manner is deeply offending as it implies you are beneath them.
Basically, this guy is running around, shoving his foot in people's faces and being amazed by their negative response, considering it's so different than his own culture. But of course, considering he's a professor, it's simply scientific. Not a breach of social protocol.
I think it would be interesting to shave his rapidly balding scalp and fill his bed with scorpions to examine his reaction when he wakes up.
Hell, I could even write a book about it too!
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He is just wanting attention and the news and vid dont even have the story right he was greifing something that isn't allowed in coh/v obviously
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duels can't be interrupted, thats why there's the arena, ppl pretending to duel in a pvp zone are merely 2 kills for me or any pvper if we see them.
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duels can't be interrupted, thats why there's the arena, ppl pretending to duel in a pvp zone are merely 2 kills for me or any pvper if we see them.
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If a duel consists of villian vs hero, how would you get two kills from that? Just curious ;3
If a pair of people wanna duke it out without distractions to see who really is better without the NPCs or other players barging in, I say have at it. But find a secluded area, or you're asking to get greifed.
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duels can't be interrupted, thats why there's the arena, ppl pretending to duel in a pvp zone are merely 2 kills for me or any pvper if we see them.
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If a duel consists of villian vs hero, how would you get two kills from that? Just curious ;3
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well in Warburg, i could use the same toon, but i usually run 2 accounts 1 with a hero and 1 with a villain in rv, so i can quickly change sides easy at a moment's notice, works well since i have like 40 toons built for pvp.
"Myers was too skilled to be run off, however."
LOL... I have read all of Myers papers about his PvP Experience... Droning is hardly being skilled... What a Noob >_>...
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It's true. He's so much better than the rest of us. That's why we're all acting like he's a n00b. Secretly, we're ashamed that we're the real n00bs. 
*heads off to drone PvPers and become pr0*
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the only thing about droning that makes it so I don't use it is the simple fact that it actually slows my player kill count/minute. I tried it once to test it's effectiveness using pvperstats, the super exclusive program similar to herostats that gives you all the pvp data you could dream of, and when I tried the to drone technique my player kills/ minute dropped below 5, which is pretty unacceptable to me, so I respects out tp foe and went back to personally handing out [censored] kickings free of charge.
I don't think that twist used pvpstats, otherwise his education might of made him adapt a more suitable strategy. oh well.
There is one redeeming quality to this article. It has one of the coolest photos I've ever seen
http://blog.nola.com/news_impact/200...e_twixt1tp.jpg
Besides that, I think its pretty obvious human behavior. Doing something that the community as a whole believes to be "bad" results in negative emotions. I might only be an engineer, but even I can do this kind of psycology.
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