EVE General Discussion

Doom and gloom end timers. the internet is full of them. if it's not an asteroid about to flatten us it's planet x or cerns a portal to hell or some other nutjob shite.

these people should just shut up and play and stop with the END IS NIGH! nonsense.

They're the crazy folk of EVE standing on a corner with a huge sign warning us all that it's all about to END!

hahahahahahaha silly people and their madness.

yea i guess i can see how important sub numbers would be with a few million tons of rock about to hot drop us. lol

I'd be willing to bet that people that do that suffer from some sort of anxiety condition (probably mild for most people). But it ain't nothing new lol..

My favorite theory is that people predict the end of things (Earth, EVE, themselves etc) as a way to combat a feeling of helplessness.

I just re-read the OP.

I try to be an open minded and considerate reader.
But I could not more strongly disagree with the suggestions listed at the end of the post.
I could not agree with a single one, and just couldnt believe what I was reading on most of them.

In another thread there has been long discussion about the changing preferences of the typical MMO player.

The kind of priorities and mindset this apparently growing segment of players has, is completely alien to me, and completely contrary to my own views. The logic they have is based on completely different premises to my own.

Maybe Im getting old (35), old-fashioned, unadaptable, or out of touch with whats hip.
But I cant agree with any of it, especially not when it applies to EVE.
And it seems they cant agree with anynof mine either.

Do they have a say equal to my own? Yes.

But I cant help but think they have lost touch and perspective on what EVE is, and are trying to make it into something it is not.

The worrying part, is there seems to be no possibility of compromise.
Our angles and perspectives are too fundamentally different.

it's a very silly place you know

But your stance still is FTP.....
Now when i started in 2010, i almost quit because rookie chat is useless beyond a certain point. The only thing that has saved me was running into someone in RL that got me into a player corp.....a PLAYER corp, where i learned a lot, and began to love this game for its complexity.

As to training people.....well on this character i have a good track record, nearly everyone that i have taught things too have stayed in game where RL things have not prevented them from playing. A few are avid FW players, a couple went out to nullseec, 1 became a career ganker, and few otheres are decent Manufacturers.....oh yeah one even became a well off station trader.....

The point is I dont need to go into rookie chat, and all my students are multi-billionares, and plex holders able to leave the nest and Play EvE standing on their own two feet.....what Rookies need to do is get out of their damn shell and find corps/players like myself willing to teach them......but first they must learn in EvE you have to take that plunge, you have to get into player corps, you have to be involved in the community in one way or another......in the game you are a Capsuleer....you can not die, and ships, gear, and Isk are very easy to come by.....once you learn how to get them.

So rookie chat....yeah im not a professor that stands in front of a class of 300 knowing that only 1 student will get a job after achieving their .10 degree, I am an in the Field professional that will show things hands on instead that will hire and keep the ones capable of doing the job and firing all the rest.