Sociology Experiment

[JiNX77]

Some people get all the bad lobbies. I get my share of sh!tbags but increasingly I am getting a lot more cooperative players in missions and my last 20ish races I only had 1 pit attempted against me. The last few days I have been doing sort of the same thing, just going about on foot and testing the waters with other players. Most have either picked me up or just kept going. The relatively few hostiles were usually quickly dissuaded when they rounded a corner to find a spinning minigun in their face.

[luisniko]

In my gtao travels so far randoms are nicer to you if you make a female character.

 

Not to me. They all are trying to kill me when I dress nice driving a well painted car. They grow even more mad when I have a bounty on my head and they fail so hard to kill my without extreme equipments like tanks and RPG.

 

I see them like bunch of annoying fat kids from elementary school.

[Misanthrope Z]

In my gtao travels so far randoms are nicer to you if you make a female character.

that's because most of them are lonely, prepubescent virgins

[Pizza_Is_Emo]

Results are not surprising at all.

[wolfp212]

GTA 5 is a shoot first and spawn kill game. Don't bother trying to make friends with randoms unless you know they need help. I help low levels sometimes only to have them try to kill me later in the session and rage at me saying "wtf did I do 2 u fagget" when they fail and I kill them. Its the sad reality of GTA 5.

This happens only about a fourth of the time when I help out lower levels. Most of the time I end up giving them my tank and they thank me and drive of. If they try and kill me with it, I join another session, which puts my tank back into storage, and the idiots can deal with the people that were spawn killing them in the first place again.

[waters]

ive been online a couple of times in the last 2 days, hadnt been for a few weeks, but it was pretty calm, didnt see any tanks, the odd pvp in freeroam, but generally quiet tbh

Edited April 25, 2014 by waters

[lew3112]

When playing as a female character, 9/10 times you will receive at least 1 creepy message per session.

 

The sender will then usually go onto a popular GTA related forum site, and proceed to make a thread entitled "Guys who play as girls are weird"

 

 

Also, when playing in Invite-Only, or with Crew members only, instances of these events fall to between 0/10 and 0.5/10 (0.5 accounts for the Sentinel Guy randomly running you over)

 

My personal conclusion: Play Invite Only or with Crew/Friends, most players are dicks.

[PJ-147]

"Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get f*cked by dicks. But dicks also f*ck assholes: assholes that just want to sh*t on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can f*ck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they f*ck too much or f*ck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of sh*t that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us f*ck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in sh*t!" Team America

 

This is basically how I feel towards GTAO. Because if we don't kill the griefers, this beautiful game would quickly be covered in sh*t. It's Science

 

Sounds like your having a lot of fun playing, but your right it's all about pussies, dicks and sh*t nowadays

 

Nobody can be trusted chances are even your friends shoot you in the back just to get the easy kill, but i am pretty much unbeatable in the game i keep respawning everytime

It does make a huge difference when you play as a female character, but sometimes i would rather have them shoot me and stop following me arround.

[SirFartsAlot]

In real life I'm not a dick head at all. But in GTAO i'm killing every dot i see. Why? Most of all stats... Easy kills are my favourites. Like passive guys who are not in passive mode(I still don't understand why people do this). After 2 or 3 kills i offer them a ride to a lost car or home. A bit strange i know...

[LogScottWood]

I approached 100 people and asked them to stick their finger in my arse whilst I had a wank. Can you believe only one agreed? I met him in a department store changing room. He looked a LOT like me actually.

[tjor24]

I think people are more decent in FA. Just a theory, but if people are smart enough to figure out aiming options, they aren't mindless drones who shoot on sight...

[LuapYllier]

No one calls the batter in a baseball game an asshole for hitting the ball being thrown at them.

 

There is no trust among criminals.

[CarimboHanky]

not surprised by the results, i mean THATS how we have been taught to play this game...

 

gta is a serie that it revolves around money, killing, robbing, betrayals, etc.

 

you should be surprised if those results were in a game that promote team work, coop stuff but thos being gta, those results are within the norm

[LogScottWood]

No one calls the batter in a baseball game an asshole for hitting the ball being thrown at them.

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[Kampioen]

I study sociology in university.

 

Anyway, I do the same stuff sometimes and my experiences are very different. I'd actually say about half of the players kill me when I approach them, maybe even less. It depends very much on how you approach them though. I'm usually the asshole in that situation because I take advantage of this by being friendly with them for a really long time (well, in terms of online games, it's probably like 10-15 minutes) and then suddenly blasting them away. I keep shooting until they respawn too so that they can see their character's body being pushed around the pavement by my bullets. Then I get in my car (I use a car with a funny horn like the clown horn or the Roosevelt), and speed past them when they respawn while honking my horn, never to be seen again.

 

For as long as their GTA character lives, they will never forget that really friendly guy with the purple top hat who got drunk with them in the middle of the street and then had a psychotic episode.

[LuapYllier]

 

 

No one calls the batter in a baseball game an asshole for hitting the ball being thrown at them.

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If the pitch comes in slow and clean it just means you get to really put a good whollop on it.

[LogScottWood]

 

 

No one calls the batter in a baseball game an asshole for hitting the ball being thrown at them.

I find your opinion intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

If the pitch comes in slow and clean it just means you get to really put a good whollop on it.

 

I see, that makes perfect sense. Please tell me more.

[Valdorien]

I did a test too. I was driving around on a moped in passive mode and I even helped some players to escape the police or rob a store.

 

Exploded 7 times by Lazer.

Exploded 2 times by RPG-7

Shot once by auto shotgun.

Driven over 13 times by a supersport car. Chromed most of the time.

 

Atleast I didn't get blown up by a Rhino. How unusual.

[cdm121880]

Like passive guys who are not in passive mode(I still don't understand why people do this). After 2 or 3 kills i offer them a ride to a lost car or home. A bit strange i know...

Why? Because some of us make the choice to coexist in a somewhat peaceful manner, if everyone killed everyone at first sight, there would be no interaction at all, just war.

[Dottie]

 

In my gtao travels so far randoms are nicer to you if you make a female character.

 

that's because most of them are lonely, prepubescent virginsyep. I've observed this many times (in passive mode). Mostly just idiots doing the jerk motion

[SirFartsAlot]

 

Like passive guys who are not in passive mode(I still don't understand why people do this). After 2 or 3 kills i offer them a ride to a lost car or home. A bit strange i know...

Why? Because some of us make the choice to coexist in a somewhat peaceful manner, if everyone killed everyone at first sight, there would be no interaction at all, just war.

 

I Interact with my friends in my friend list. Everybody else is my enemy at first sight. If one of these guys is taking a crap and leave the character (not in passive mode) behind,then youre my bitch. It puts me in quite a few good freemode battles and after some killing i go in passive mode and try to interact or i escape the scene.. Made some friends this way. But i also made some enemies. GTAO is war

Edited April 25, 2014 by MG0902

[johnpolo]

This may be surprising, but I've seen this happen multiple times when my crew is playing together. Random tank shows up and just hangs out around us. Not a single shot was fired. When they do fire we blow the ever loving tank out of them. This time my console froze shortly after the encounter so we could not hang longer. I was taunting him with a bat to try and provoke but he played nice.

 

 

[cdm121880]

 

 

 

Like passive guys who are not in passive mode(I still don't understand why people do this). After 2 or 3 kills i offer them a ride to a lost car or home. A bit strange i know...

Why? Because some of us make the choice to coexist in a somewhat peaceful manner, if everyone killed everyone at first sight, there would be no interaction at all, just war.

 

I Interact with my friends in my friend list. Everybody else is my enemy at first sight. If one of these guys is taking a crap and leave the character (not in passive mode) behind,then youre my bitch. It puts me in quite a few good freemode battles and after some killing i go in passive mode and try to interact or i escape the scene.. Made some friends this way. But i also made some enemies. GTAO is war

Unfortunately, you're right. It is war (somewhat). I've explained in other posts that I have passed many players without shots fired either way. If I'm looking for a baller or felon to sell to lsc, I'm not interested in getting into a battle with a complete stranger. I also explained in these posts, that gtao needs players with your mentality to keep it interesting. No conflict = no fun. You said you didn't understand why people did this, I was simply giving you a honest answer. I promise you, I'm nobody's bitch, lol. Once I'm fired upon, you will have a fight on your hands. And in 2 more levels, rpg is unlocked! ;-)

[Pyromythical]

I've played since launch and almost always if I roll up in a car honking the horn and presenting the passenger side door they usually enter or just don't.

What we have here is a native Grand Theft Auto player. What he is doing is called 'presenting' which is where the player 'presents' an available seat to another player he is interested in. This is usually accompanied with the 'horn' or 'mating call'.

With any luck, the player which is being presented will penetrate the players door and a bond of the rarest kind will take place.

Sometimes, after the act has taken place, one player will usually try to kill another - sometimes they will kill each other.

This may be surprising, but I've seen this happen multiple times when my crew is playing together. Random tank shows up and just hangs out around us. Not a single shot was fired. When they do fire we blow the ever loving tank out of them. This time my console froze shortly after the encounter so we could not hang longer. I was taunting him with a bat to try and provoke but he played nice.

I do this all the time with my crew.

We just cruise around beeping at players and playfully hitting them with out turrets.

 

Good times.

[Biff73]

I normally stay neutral,but I kill any bunch of retards that play free roam deathmatches

[SmokeDat]

 

LET ME MAKE A GUESS...

YOU WERE PLAYING IN AUTO-AIM MODE

The OP also tried this in free aim but 9/10 there was no one else in the session *in my best Confucius voice*

Oh, you so smart and funny. You deserve reward.

 

...pfft. FAIL.

 

OT: GTAO is hostile, an experiment was not needed to understand that.

[lilmoonpie]

I used to occasionally deal with tanks by getting my tank and going after them (I quit doing that, it's funner to try to take them out via conventional means) but I didn't have a beef with the other players on the map, so I'd glide right by them on my way to get the tank. Sometimes I'd accidentally run over someone or someone would run into me and I'd send them a "sorry" message.

 

So if a tank passes you up without shooting, that's probably the deal. The driver doesn't have a gripe with you, so why blow you up?

[JC Hammer]

Freeroam doesn't encourage people to be hostile towards each other....it gives you the option.

 

Free roam and the way R* has set up the game definitely encourages people to kill each other.

 

R* rewards players on many levels for killing each other, it tracks your success at killing other players, and it purposely concentrates players in less than 25% of the map to ensure frequent contact.

 

The only option you have is to run from every white blimp on the radar, because 99% are playing the game the way R* wants..

Edited April 25, 2014 by jcph3

[MentalHaze]

 

"Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get f*cked by dicks. But dicks also f*ck assholes: assholes that just want to sh*t on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can f*ck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they f*ck too much or f*ck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of sh*t that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us f*ck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in sh*t!" Team America

This is basically how I feel towards GTAO. Because if we don't kill the griefers, this beautiful game would quickly be covered in sh*t. It's Science

 

Sounds like your having a lot of fun playing, but your right it's all about pussies, dicks and sh*t nowadays

 

Nobody can be trusted chances are even your friends shoot you in the back just to get the easy kill, but i am pretty much unbeatable in the game i keep respawning everytime

It does make a huge difference when you play as a female character, but sometimes i would rather have them shoot me and stop following me arround.

Actually my good man I have a blast playing. I am in a 10 man crew of nothing but online friends. The crew is very active and we get into all types of shenanigans and Tom foolery... And just earlier I had two, from what I gather pre pubescent male humans, idiots come after me because I took the HPV to Simeon and they couldn't stop me. By the time I got bored and switched lobbies the tally was 21-14 against one and 13-5 against the other. Put em together it's 34-19 I'll take that in a 1v2 all day. It's simple Science. Edited April 25, 2014 by MentalHaze

[sebcreed]

 

 

But what do you expect to happen if you run up to someone? Thats like running up to a bear with her cubs in the wilderness, just not smart.

Man thats funny.