EVE General Discussion

You see this all the time. People railing on others to post with their main character and not hide behind a forum or other alt. This brings several questions to mind and I am curious as to how others feel.

What defines your main? Do you view your main as your oldest character, the one you play most, the one you most associate yourself with?
I would think for some of the forum/eve celebrities this is obvious. But for myself, I may spend more time during the week hauling, pi, and doing indy tasks, but I would never consider my indy characters as my mains.

Do you view posting with your main as more hazardous or safe?
My main (this character) is meant for pvp, in a well known pvp corp (even if it is not viewed as the best or most legit, we are there for pvp), and doesn't exactly fly expensive toys or implants. Attacking this character would be far easier on myself than someone going after an indy alt. So really, posting on my alts would be more at risk.

Would you prefer to see all characters on an account by clicking the character's profile on the forum, or would that be a horrible idea?
I wouldn't care as my alts are seperate accounts all still training.

So what ate the rest of you thinking?

I view a main as your character with the most amount of time put into it. Such as this is my main via skillpoints and what I've done with the character although I do spend time on my alt that is half the sp but more specified in skills.

I think the idea is more important than who is posting it.

But, many who can't find a good argument against an idea want to be able to attack the speaker. Kind of hard to do when the speaker doesn't really have much of a history.

Asking someone to post with their main is simply the request of a lesser mind tbh.

I tend to think the "post with your main" request means "post using a character you actually use in-game instead of some dumbass forum alt you created to troll GD."

Real men post with thier main, regardless of politics or otherwise. To me, it would be fun to see a posting history evolve with which corps and alliances the person associates himself with. And how their demeanor changes with affiliations.

I consider my main to be my very first eve character. Everything else is an "alt" regardless of playtime or SP.

forum alts are for people who lack an opinion of value

So you are an alt then?

I disagree (well - of course I do - this is a posting alt main after all).

That statement holds some truth for NPC corp characters, although I never look at the name before reading a post, and even found them to make more valuable contributions than some forum regulars that are actually used ingame (I recently saw maternerdguy in space in a ship he must have trained for - lol).

The point is that I also like posting information on the forums on how I do things and tend to setup base somewhere. If I post the information about what I regulary do on the character I actually do stuff with, it's openly available to anyone capable of using a search engine which would be kinda like shooting my own foot.

But of course I lack an opinion of value, so you should just block me if you haven't already.

edit: also, I think I just got trolled *shrugs*

I like me.