EVE General Discussion

I would deny this, except that it's true.



An EVE 'Lifer' has to have a fairly thick skin, or a high tollerance for harassment for those who's skin isn't so thick.
They have to have a philosophical ease with loss, and the willingness to suffer for future gain.
They need to be flexible and adaptable, but also willing to dig-in and hold their ground.
They need to be powerful forum warriors. Or at least not idiots.



NON-EVE survivors:
Anyone obsessed with 'fair play.'
Anyone who feels they're a 'special snowflake.'
Anyone who can't adapt.
Anyone who can't take a gank or a joke or a good podding.
Anyone who can't learn from a mistake.


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Hello General Discussion.

As we all know, the player community of Eve Online is the most intelligent, welcoming and newbie-friendly.

Well, I am not a newbie; In my five years of eve-ing I've seen pretty much it all. I was a wide-eyed newcomer, gasping "wow, this game world is HUGE!" before jumping into a bubble+instalock camp; I was a FW farmer and a pick-up fleet member, pressing F1 frantically at a random bracked sorted by name; I was an alliance drone, quietly doing my daily share of work; I bashed POSes; I refueled POSes; I AFK cloaked an un-probable Loki in your dead-end ratting haven; I sucide ganked Hulks and Mackinaws; I joined RvB and exploded for the lulz; I (*gasp*) even roleplayed a spaceship slaver barbie for a bit, only to understand that the EVE's RP community actually breaks more immersion than it creates.

Now, there is nothing left, but faint curiosity, and to satisfy that last desire, i turn to you, my dear colleagues, brothers and sisters in pixelated destruction, and it is to you that I address my last question.

As we all know, EVE's player community is inherently elitist. It preys on the tears of the weak or those who are perceived as such and weeds them out. By consuming the unworthy, the beast moves forward. But who are worthy and who are not? This is the question that I offer to you to answer.

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What are the qualities that, in your opinion, make the "true" EVE player, one who is here to stay?

And what are the opposite, the signs of "WoW is that way -->"?

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Thank you for your answers.
Always remember, that it is to you that CCP shapes their game.
Like, as in "Emergent gameplay", "Players are the content" and all that.

My disproportionately long list of reds given my time in-game says otherwise

Hah so true actually. That was actually one of the decider factors when deciding what car to buy. I thought if something goes wrong with this then I can reship into a new car and so went for the cheaper one. :)

join TEST ... you can have your entire corp blue and still shoot them all the time.

you can identify eve players by looking at their cars. Since they don't drive what they can't afford to lose.

I'd end up spending more time ambushing Felonia Despare than doing anything else, if I was in TEST.

this is beyond true.


Also if they have a EVE sticker on the back of their car.

FYP