Out of Pod Experience

1. CCP's bigotry against religion. I'm an atheist, but a society as advanced technologically as Amarr would recognize that humans are an incredibly inefficient energy investment to perform work when technology and energy sources far beyond the first world are available. A human being puts out about 80 watts sustained power for external at the investment of about 1200 Watts for the sustaining of life. That's an efficiency of less than 10%. Because there's no reasonable reason to believe advanced technological societies would ever consider slavery, there's no reason to believe that the attribution of slavery to the one theocracy in the game is anything other than a childish atheist's CCCP straw man.

CCP's response: "Yes, the Amarr were capable of harnessing energy to bend space-time for faster than light travel, but they really needed Minmatar slaves to thresh wheat by hand because religion, obviously."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level

Saying a futuristic society with the alleged technological capabilities of the societies in game would engage in human slavery is as stupid as saying the Caldari plow their fields with oxen. Obviously, this wouldn't happen because, well, obviously, oxen are inefficient, slow, and expensive compared to the technological capacity of the society.

2. No matter what I do, my character will always be 10 years behind every other character. This is an absolute fail in game design. What CCP should have done is get some differential equations together and come up with a training speed multiplier that is applied to later started characters allowing them to catch up to older characters while still lagging behind somewhat, but not as much as they always will. This way, players who join the game late can actually have some legitimate hope of being able to contend with ten year old characters at some point in the future. Most older players would dislike that, I'm sure, but it would be far more reasonable then the current system which doesn't allow for simultaneous avatar customization and player advancement. Sure, you can work your way up to the cashflow to buy a new character, but that's a somewhat insane endeavor. The game, as it is, has nearly nothing to do with skill or experience, and comes down to the fact that someone else just has an older character than you and you have to wait another 2 years to maybe be able to reasonably contend with them.

3. Unfriendly players. CCP called it the "Eve Gate" (Eve, through whom all evil, mythologically, entered the world) because I'm sure they anticipated the kind of douchey people that would take over the game. It'd be fun if some of the major alliances were interested in negotiation or developing rules for interaction in territory they control or something. For example, in any realistic political entity, nearly no government is going to just shoot people on site for no reason whatsoever - that, of course, is not Eve. There's no contacting the pilot to arrange terms for safe passage or enforcement of rules by major null and low-sec alliances - it's just shoot whatever is neutral because you can. It's lame and takes out the factor of politics/economics/security enforcement etc. that is supposed to be present in space trading games. I've met about three-five people in five months of playing who were actually friendly and one of them I gave my billions of space stuff to.

4. This game isn't fun for new players - every major alliance knows that new characters aren't particularly useful to them and there's no reason to really go out of their way to protect them from pirate types. There doesn't seem to be any major alliances with a kind of ethos that wants to play the game in some "honorable" fashion. Instead, it feels like a bunch of street gangs going at one another rather than empires who behave with decorum, ideology, and philosophy.

5. Seriously, CCP, apply a differential modifier to the training time of later toons - you're creating a caste system for your player base - if there's no hope of ever being as good at the guy who's been playing for the last five or ten years - there's really no sense in playing because you're not going to be able to get back at him later no matter what because you'll always be five or ten years behind him.

Can I have your stuff?

Oh goddammit, you're one nasty drama whore, this is the second thread you announce your leave from EVE; are you really that desperate for attention? Go out or something, we don't really need you, we don't really care about you and we won't really miss you. Some people will bite the thread and there will be a discussion, though shallow and pointless, but it will make you feel important, which you are not, but whatever, you didn't get this in the first thread, you won't get it at all.

Your reasons are rather funny, though. Bigotry against religion? Jesus Christ, it's a goddamn game, I doubt CCP tried to push a point across the board with Amarr religion and lore and even if they did, legitimately who the hell gives a ****? The religion part gives good handles to roleplay around to those interested in it.

Stop whining about the leveling, you can't be good at everything like the 10 year old players are, but you can master out your core skills and then specialize quite well in two or three niche's in just a couple months; you don't need V's for that, IV's enough.

Unfriendly players? Did you gain access to the internet 5 months ago? Is this your first online game ever? Ever leave your apartments? You'll find most strangers don't give a damn about you and rightfully so, why would they? If popping you means more resources for me and my friendly peers, there's a solid point to pop you. Oh, and it's fun.
Being friendly to you? So we can become friends? And team up in space? And spend time on comms? Not going to happen, you with your drama whoring, I don't think much people would like to hang around with you in EVE. I don't like you, let's be honest here, so I'm losing nothing.

Game ain't fun for new players? Yeah, ain't fun for you because you cling to your sad stuff while I'm having a blast here. I'm just about a month old, so are some of my mates and we're all having great fun.

Stop clutching at straws and leave already. This obviously isn't a game for you, lets be real, nothing's changing because of this pitiful thread. You tried to get a point across, I didn't buy it, most people won't.

With that being said, can I have your stuff?

every new player can serve a purpose.

namely, pay me taxes.

I know, right? His other thread started exactly the same way. It's pretty hillarious.
This guy has absolutely no idea.

Well, most companies care about losing customers. Obviously other customers don't care, and especially in this game, but your thread is a magnificent illustration why few people want to play Eve but other MMO's manage to gather and keep millions of players playing daily while Eve tops out at about 40k.

There's a lot of mean people in the world, and decent people go out of their way to avoid them.

So out of the four available races, you pick the one that makes you stand out the most as a hypocrite?

I didn't invent CCP's false tetrachotomy. Atheists don't have one specific ideology - they simply deny the existence of a deity. I evaluated the four presented races and the Amarr was the only thing that remotely resembled anything I believe in. The only people I've met in life who've had any regard for me as a human being were religious people, Muslim or Christian, so I picked Amarr. Only a real moron would believe that religion is responsible for pre-industrialist slavery and no culture that is capable of inventing nanites would practice slavery because, as I stated earlier, it's extremely economically inefficient with contemporary technology not to mention the kind of technology that exists in this sci-fi universe. CCP is just catering to people too dumb to realize that.

Not so much that so much as I am forced to chose among four races which I hate and have little to no redeeming qualities and the most appealing to me happens to be the one that most players are against because CCP decided to play on the pop culture myth that religion inherently causes slavery. Of course it's just a game - but there's plenty of people who will make your game experience extra miserable for choosing Amarr. Additionally, the subtext is, quite simply, that Abrahamic monotheism is to blame for slavery which simply doesn't hold water historically. It's a popular atheistic straw-man argument based on an appeal to consequences fallacy arguing against religion.

Like all hate groups - it attributes to a large group of people responsibility for some evil.

But, yes, I studied religion in college, among other things, and I think it's a tremendously stupid and childish argument to attribute to religion, rather than the human capacity for evil and economic reality, the existence of slavery.

I don't patronize TV shows that portray blacks as stupid and/or bafoonish and/or criminal. I don't patronize film or movies that portray gays as serial killers and/or child molesters. I don't patronize video games that portray women as stupid, weak and childish. Why should I make an exception for CCP's decision to portray monotheistic religion as a sock-puppet of medieval Europe?

[Erp, double post. And wasn't my fault this time....]