EVE General Discussion

this is what all people do in such cases.

why hate?

Wow, the OP got a lot of people to take them seriously.

You're not here often, are you?

No offense intended.

While I sympathize with your position, its already been shown that a significant portion of the EVE Community is not capable of responsibly handling this degree of customization. Ship name customization should not be allowed to remain - if it is being abused as an outlet for ruining others' game experience. Especially for blacks and other disadvantaged minorities.

I suppose you WANT CCP's annual Fanfest event to continue to look like an Aryan Nations reunion year in and year out.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.

Look, Its not like I'm not calling for a witch hunt, just for CCP to remove tools which lend themselves to this kind of corrosive behavior. Its a lot easier and neater than expecting GMs to handle it on an endless case by case basis.

This isn't Burger King. Its not 'have it your way'. Customization should only be exist in a form that insures that abuse is absolutely impossible.

The answer is no

And people projecting offense are only projecting their own inadequacies, because those inadequacies have to exist within themselves for their ability to project them onto others.

Mama told me
what I should know
too much candy's gonna rot your soul
if she loves you
let her go
'coz love's gonna get you down!

O? I knew you changed your face but I didn't know you changed your name to Irony, since you've projected your inadequacies onto me.

Apparently you suggest you and I should talk.

Hello Irony Project

Touche. Fanfest DOES suck. However, I'm basing my anal-sis on pictures I've seen posted. I consider it a positive thing that I haven't spent thousands of dollars or flown thousands of miles over a video game. Adults simply don't do that. Good point.

However.....
I'm merely pointing out that the player-base of EVE is about as white as your average Star Trek convention. Sure, plenty of Asian gamers, but we all know that they don't really count as disadvantaged minorities. At least, not in the state of California they don't.

Quite easy for abusive behavior to be considered 'acceptable' when the targets of that abuse exist in such low numbers.

Case in point - its well known that lots of gays are employed by CCP. Therefore gay slurs, either in-game or on the forums, are taken seriously and rapidly dealt with with severe punishment. Their staff take it very personally simply because it cuts, shall we say....close to the bone.

When it comes to racial minorities, however - not so much. I theorize that this is simply because they are not significantly represented either in the playerbase or on CCP's payroll. Its well known that even blatant public racial attacks are ignored when they've been clearly brought to CCP Falcon's attention (for example, CODE members repeatedly called 'N*****' on a well known Bonus Room Soundcloud.)

CCP allowing the current state of affairs (unlimited ship naming) to continue is a form of passive racism that is nearly as bad.
They have a blind spot and I am simply shining a light on it. Its a small thing to ask, really, when it comes down to it.

You can disable the name column in Overview and show only the ship type, corporation, etc. You can also right click the ship in Overview to see the pilot without ever seeing the name of the ship. You've probably done this already, but fix your Overview so WTs/friendlies are properly highlighted.

The only reason you might be doing "Show Info" on a ship is to read up on what the ship can do? I suggest you start making yourself a spreadsheet that would help you instantly reference what type the ship is and what it can generally do. Being able to evaluate what kind of turrets a ship has by using "Look at ship" is also more useful than pouring over Show Info while things are happening very quickly.

Personally, I prefer people read ship names in Dscan or Overview. I tend to rename my ship randomly and it does throw people off sometimes..