Ethics and Being a Good Person

[CaptOle]

Hello everyone, I felt like I needed to post this in order to bring attention to some of the actions and words that are said throughout NI that damages the community and creates a less than friendly atmosphere. These are going to be some things that I picked up in my time playing that I would say need to change.

1) Loots:
a)This has become a large issue in the past few months. I have been seeing time and time again. When someone loots something, people constantly get upset, are complaining that it wasn't them, or that the loot was undeserved. Instead of feeling bad for yourself and jealous of them, try to feel happy for them. I know this is hard to do sometimes, but think, if I were them, how would I feel?
b) This opposite of the previous scenario is also true. If you loot something, do not rub it in everyone's face every five minutes. It's great that you looted something, but your gloating feeds into the problem of the first scenario.

2) Be Humble
If you are a rich player, and you constantly talk about what trades you did, and what gear you have, and how much a certain item is worth, please stop. It is okay to quickly mention a specific trade or item you got, but do not make it the hallmark of all of your conversations. It makes many other not as wealthy players feel bad as well as creates an elitist attitude stigma that is attached to all of the wealthy players in NI.

3) Superiority/Inferiority Complex
What I am about to talk about is relegated to a small segment of the NI community that makes the other parts look bad. What I have been seeing in some cases, are rich people looking down onto less wealthy people like they do not know how to play the game. THIS is the elitist attitude that some people have been talking about in recent months. I would urge people to look onto every other player in the community as their equal. If you see someone doing something that isn't the smartest thing in the world, or is something an inexperienced player would be doing, instead of reporting them or calling them stupid in chat, tell them what they did wrong and tell them the correct way to do it. Everyone in the community has to be willing to teach less skilled players certain aspects of the game so the community gets stronger as a whole. So to sum up this long segment, treat everyone in the community as your equal and do not correlate their wealth to their NI abilities. In addition, be willing to teach new players, and explain their mistakes and how they can do better on the battlefield.

Thanks for reading this, and I hope that this makes you, and the people around you, better people in the community to make it a better place for all. 

~CaptOle