Star Trek Online....

I've had 2 strange moments in as many day's to do with the daily TFO for the current event. Strange because each has reminded me of what used to happen fairly regularly in WoW dungeon/raid runs. A player voices their overruling opinion as being right and all others should bow to their knowledge and righteousness(rightly or wrongly) in telling other group members what to do. Two examples of Elitists.

I've noticed a lot of players in the new event just hover over the points to be defended leaving someone else to do the running around (capture prison ships etc). Path of least resistance an all. It's annoying when players essentially go afk. While I usually try and do as much as I can; One of the times I was running around till I saw that 3 of the 5 in the TFO were parked over the points. Barely even shooting anything. It's one thing to park up and do your thing, it's another to park up and do nothing. So I said to myself no, no more running around for me. I'm going to park up and spam the space bar when I feel like it. It didn't take long for one of those players to pipe up. One of the righteous was offended that there was nobody running about to progress things. That's when they broke their silence. "Prison escorts are to be captured", "stay close to the points to repair them", "group up and kill X when Y happens". It was annoying to hear the righteous sponger now irate and barking orders, so I did even less. Just like I'd have done in a WoW LFR pug group when the shiz hits the group chat. Usually that would have spawned more 'chat' but I couldn't have been bothered, the run was almost over.  I'm sure this all came off like I was the sponging bad guy. That's usually the way things go. Others get away with things long-term but when I do them I get blamed/called out for it immediately(pfft noob!). That whole experience made me irate and combative against other players. Worst of all it made me not care. That's what's really annoying me long term thinking about it. I'm sure they haven't given it a second thought. 

There can be some really good runs where players are polite, communicate, ask and answer questions; But it takes very little to go from co-op action and silence to solo inaction and loudness.

As a by by-product of all this I've actively stopped taking the best ships I have into TFO's. I have started to mess about with older ships and their less than perfect fits just for the shiz and giggles. No longer even just for the damage type for endeavours. Joyrides with no F's given. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

Of interest:

Competition, Cooperation and Their Effect on Toxicity in MMOs
https://plarium.com/en/blog/competition-cooperation-toxicity-mmos/

The Relationship between Player’s Value Systems and Their In-Game Behavior in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game 
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijcgt/2017/6531404/