Out of Pod Experience

+1 on how to search chat channels. Spent 45 mins in game trying to find it.

This is a sensible accommodation to the current setup of EVE.

But we could get the same result with another layer of grouping, separate from the current Corp/Alliance thing.

The tech's not so hard, but ofc for CCP there are always competing activities. OTOH I think it would be very high value. I've wanted this in every multiplayer game I've ever played (not that many though - only 3). In each case there was the usual strict hierarchy, and in each case I wanted something more flexible that didn't require the same kind of "loyalty" a Corp usually wants.

I won't mention any other MMO by name, but I have a perfect example from another one:

My "normal Corp" activities were a small part of the game for me. I spent over 80% of my time on something else (because it was the most fun the game offered to me - others liked other things ofc). I did this with people I knew and liked playing with, but we had no practical way to link up via a stable game-supported separate grouping. This cost us oåppåortunities to do things together, and made it a lot harder for pother people to find and join us.

I'm not there, *really* wanting a second layer of in-game organizations, with EVE yet, but I've only played for 8 weeks or so this time. It's likely I will get there later. On its own the lack of this feature is very unlikely to make me leave - but having it would have a moderate but significant effect on how likely it is that I stay.

Gay is a blanket term used by straight society to cover a range of behaviours.
Queer is used in gay media to mean someone who wants their sexuality to be a social irritant that plays with expectations, it can be part of any other sexuality.
In the time of Juvenal, men were considered either passive or active, everything not a man was a potentially subdued victim. At that time there were so many eunuchs in the middle east they virtually constituted a third gender. It was only after the controversial topic of how babies were made was scientifically nailed down that the possibility of being queer came about.
So Gay generally means you prefer your own gender.
Queer means you prefer something other than social norms prescribe and you want to know what people think about that.
The current normalisation of a range of orientations works against queers, since where everything is ok, nothing can be outrageous.
TLDR the world is turning beige and grey.

I have removed a post for the above reason. If you have an issue with the way the forums are moderated please file a support ticket.

That's a SIG

Falcon remaining unbiased.

In other news, hell has frozen over and pigs are sprouting wings.

My comments were removed too! How person can live further with such traumatic experiences?

*blankets herself with soft blanket made by Gallante company in some Caldari sweatshop*

I cant take it any longer!

*sips hot coco made from seeds from plantation where Amarr prisoners are worked like donkeys*

I am a completely straight male but wouldn't mind joining a LGBTQ community. In another MMO I play, there are quite a lot of gay players in my 'guild' and they are the best guys to talk to. Funny as hell too...

Well now I have 3 likes over a vanished comment about why non supported language chats were removed because of RL and chat misbehavior... This thread is going places and I still can't figure why should someone ask for a ingame chat channel specific for sexual/love inclination in a place where the only thing is certain that we share is a) EVE Online and b) language.

I can see it as a grassroot move, strangers accidentally find themselves sharing an interest (like the loose LAGL community) and that gives birth to a chat channel, but I fail to see as the opposite, "I have a special interest, so where's my community?" Why should even be a community for everyone?

Have moved this to OOPE, considering it's also discussing stuff out of game.

This thread has had to be heavily moderated. It will remain open, so stop trolling in an attempt to have it closed. All that's going to do is make sure you lose your ability to post.