I should probably start this post by heavily emphasizing on how amazing of a community this turned out to be ESPECIALLY after all the lovely words that were said and/or actions taken by a lot of the players in the community that followed hearing the sad news of losing our fellow player ThreeToothJoe, no matter what their standing in game was.

My point is: This community proved to be more mature, respectful & amazing than (most of IRL groups/communities I've personally been a part of so far). Hell I'd even say that this is definitely the most amazing gaming community I've ever actually seen period.

Now to the main focus of my rant.. I've been getting the most annoying, random & childlish messages recently regarding specifically buymugging from people who were apparently so salty from getting mugged that they thought it's worth going as far as send hate messages about it in DMs.

So I thought this might be long due and I want to make some points clear to new & (some) old players alike:

• This is a Crime/Cartel game. Players WILL mug you. They WILL attack you. Some might even BULLY you (Through in game mechanics) as a new player or even as an older player. These things are game mechanics and whether they're beneficial or not, they ARE part of this game and are totally normal to happen. You just either have to learn to live with that fact or simply find another game that suits your playstyle & that you deem "Fair".
• Taking myself as an example, I am personally (amongst others) a buy mugger and will definitely do a mug if I find it worth my 20 energy. I am also (at the same time, IMAGINE!) a known trader and I have my reputation of doing discrete, mug-free & smooth trades. One thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other. It is well known amongst the trading community buyers and sellers alike that Item Market is free game. Post items on there that are worth a mug, and you WILL BE MUGGED. In fact traders have more reason to keep the market unsafe for sellers, it's good for our business.
  
  
• Nothing in this game (and I mean absolutely NOTHING) is worth getting yourself triggered over enough to send other people hate messages or hate speech. Let's not all forget that while you are only playing a game with a bunch of virtual beings, there are other people on the other side of it all. Hate speech is not okay.. ESPECIALLY in a game where most of the players are (no offense as I'm also one) boomers who already have enough **** going on with their real lives and are just here to have some fun playing this game casually. Some people might even ONLY play this game for its social aspect and its awesome community.
  
  
  • Advice #1: Instead of jumping straight to assuming things about people or sending hate messages that might ruin someone's day, I suggest that you try to understand how this game works better and read more about game mechanics. Learn to protect yourself from such buymugs instead of calling people out for doing something that's completely fine.
  • Advice #2: Make more friends and/or allies who can help you grow fast & teach you strategies etc.. Know that making enemies is the worst thing you can do as a new player and definitely isn't the way to enjoy this sort of Text-based game. Ask players to explain anything you don't understand or want to know more about. 

I would like to take the initiative and invite each of you who messaged me once or more before regarding the buymugs or anything else I've done in game to message me again and we can have another chat regardless of anything that was said in previous conversations. Who knows, maybe we can build at least a slightly better opinion of each other or at the very least we wouldn't be contributing into turning this community toxic and keep it as friendly as it currently is.

Finally, sorry for the rant that turned out to be longer than I initially planned. BIG THANK YOU if you did read this far down. I appreciate it as I highly appreciate this community as well.

Keep QUACKING y'all 🦆🍻

Well said man.

You are more than welcome to buymug me anytime!

All jokes aside, well written (or quacked)!

I saw you had a 10m bounty today.  Not gonna lie I almost msg you and asked if you wanted to split it hahaha 

On a real note dudes you can still be attacked and mugged and not make a big deal of it.  It is just a game in the end 

For what it's worth, I agree with everything said in this post. 

This is a game, and some of the features are intentionally designed to allow players to attack eachother in various ways, including buy-mugging. Players may choose to not use that ability and that's a perfectly valid playstyle, similarly players can choose to take issue with those who do buy-mug and again, that's perfectly valid.

But please do remember that this is a game. We're all here to have fun, and every single account is a real person.

As a proud member of the Mug Nation(less so in this game rn but definitely in similar games) I gotta say I agree with what you are saying. But I have one piece of advice for yourself Duckman. Don't feel bad cause of some salty messages from some victims and certainly don't stop the muggings cause of them. You get a an annoying or childish message like you mentioned? Add em to your list. Work em into your rotation more and feed off their pain. Take sustenance from their salty tears. Now obviously I understand having a list of regular ATMs on roto may be a waste of e cause they won't always have money on hand. But while it may not be a wise use of energy or financially worth it, it definitely is spiritually beneficial. Its a boon for the soul, if you will.