EVE New Citizens Q&A

Nevermind, sorry.

i do not believe that anyone here gives a **** about your sexuality,
that said i found this, granted it s fairly old but might still be of some use to you.
regardless , good luck in your searches and welcome aboard

I don't see what's wrong with joining a large community, by the way : you will be faster in contact with helpful people and will have more opportunities to learn and attend fleets or whatever you want to do in EVE.

Edit : unless their gameplay or time zone are not compatible with yours, of course.

No one here really cares about things like that. Nor do we need to know your sexual preference as it is completely irrelevant to the game. The most important thing is you DONT make a big deal out of such things. Also you need thick skin. If you are easily offended, eve is not for you or any MMO for that matter. We pick on each other about various things, its perfectly normal and everyone experiences it.

What alliances/corps care most about are going to be if you are active and if you are going to contribute something to the corp/alliance. The only other relevant things are what time zone you live in and what languages you are proficient in understanding.

Speaking as a member of the previously mentioned group (though it's no business of anyone else where I am in there), just make friends with cool people. I've been in many groups in my life all centered around different ideals and goals.

The group I fly with now has been together for years. Our definition of self is having fun. And by that we thrive. This is a game and to focus on anything else is to miss the point. Activist groups belong in government halls and college campuses.

I should probably also address this as it is a common newbie question... and a good one at that.


Not off the top of my head.

Generally speaking... the smaller, more "cozy" corporations do not advertise themselves. They simply do what they enjoy doing.

So here is the question of the day OP; what do you want to do?

This question will decide where you will go hunting for people who have a similar game mentality and/or general community you wish to join.

For example:

Do you want to get involved primarily with PvP?
- Take a look at Faction Warfare. Basically you become an "old school" privateer and play capture the flag for star system control.... but with guns and missiles.
- Build a good amount of currency, research some ships you want to try attacking other players in (hint: stick with small, cheap stuff), move it close to low-security space (0.4 to 0.1 systems), fit everything up, and blitz through low-sec. Attack anything that moves.
- Join a Merc alliance and learn from people with lots of experience. Offer a helping hand as much as you can. Be their "meatshield."

If you do any or all of the above (hint: none of them are mutually exclusive) enough times and talk to the people who blast you to pieces (hint: ask them questions on how you can improve) you may be invited to fly with them.

I think I probably understand the rationale of why you're asking this (since I have quite a few friends who are on social media/play MMORPGs who are in the community and have experience online prejudice) and I guess it stems from looking for a supportive environment to have fun in.

I think what's been said by several other people here, is, generally speaking, true of Eve, eg: that there is very little in the way of homo, bi or trans phobia. Whilst it's true that I have, on occasion, come across some prejudiced attitudes in Eve chat channels, this is generally rare (or at least people being silly enough to vocalise attitudes like this is).

I think the comment that I mostly empathise with is the one written by Evi Polevhia. Like her I tend to play with people who are cool and that I have fun with.

You will find characters (people) in Eve who are vile, nasty, prejudiced and sociopathic, I regard these people as the Sith. If you avoid them and look to play with people who are full of light, life and who are cool and fun (in effect, the Jedi) you'll have a great time in the game, irrespective of the RL nature of the people who are behind the characters.

For a newbie, security status can be indicative of how inherently 'good' or 'bad' people are. This is not to say that I've not met people with negative ratings who are trustworthy and/or nice and who have been helpful, but tread very carefully. If someone has a positive security rating it might indicate that they're a bit friendlier, although because people have multiple characters, still be very cautious at first.

If you do start getting harassed, file a petition and block the offenders from contacting you. Life is way too short to put up with bigots and idiots.

Good, trustworthy people are out there though, and we can always use more classy friends, search and you will find us.

If you are asking this because you've experienced prejudice in other MMOs or online games (Call of Duty and World of Warcraft being particularly bad), EVE is different.

In my experience the only communities that are seriously prejudiced against LGBT people (or other groups like people of colour) are corporations that make a career in highsec and try to avoid combat (miners, missioners and the like).

This isn't saying that everyone in those corps are prejudiced, but that a large percentage of them will drop all sorts of prejudiced slurs and I assume that people that use homophobic slurs are quite homophobic.

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If you are asking because you want to use EVE as a vehicle to get to know more LGBT people in your area - it's probably not going to work that way as EVE players tend to group up based on shared in-game interests, not shared out-of-game interests.

The reason I made that comment is because it is true.

Decent people don't call someone a "n***** f**" (that's one racist and one homophobic slur if it's not obvious) even if they are angry at them. (They might swear at them but not throw around RL slurs).

The number of times I've been called something like that by a, um, client is extraordinary.

By contrast I've not encountered anything like that despite often being on voice comms with other gankers, not even when someone screws up really badly.

My only experience with null entities has been on the periphery of Goonswarm, who seem mostly inclusive but do have a small minority of homophobes. But I'm not actually certain of the culture there because I've never been a member.

Confirming.

In my humble experience, I have seen more non-facetious vitriol and anger coming from so-called "peaceful" / "pacifist" players than from players who actively hunt and gank others.


Sure... the players who hunt and gank are offensive in their own way (nothing is off the table to make fun of), but I vastly prefer it over people who say "I HOPE A DOG KILLS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND HAS SEX WITH THE CORPSES" (an insult I received some time ago from a miner I ganked) and actually mean it.