EVE New Citizens Q&A

Don't be ashamed that one of your progenitors got busy with a Matar slave. That's self hatred.

Seriously though if you are thin skinned this is not the game for you and especially not an RPer and especially especally not an Amarr RPer. Your race enslaved the Minmatar. Just the fact that you are Amarr will bring down upon your head extreeme hatred from all the Minmatar RPers. Some people play this game just to play the role of the bad guy and run around and try to pretend that they are some bad ass hard core nasty pirate and then hate on what they call RPers. This is an RPG we all role play some people just haven't made peace with it.

uhhh..... That's not role playing that is real life. We don't put actors in jail for playing a serial killer in a movie but we do put people in jail if they actually go out and kill people. I want to avoid going into the real life consequences of long term getting into the mindset of someone truly evil but there is a difference between in game and out of game. Role playing is something that people "pretend" in game and in character. When you take it out of game and out of character we call it criminal.

You seem to be having difficulty grasping the concept of these boundaries or the fact that almost everyone RPs even if they don't play RPGs. You act one way at work and another way around your family and a different way around someone you are trying to impress to get into their pants. I don't think in my life I have ever met someone truly genuine 100% of the time. When I go to work I put on a uniform and have to fulfill a "role" and make my customers have some confidence in my ability to solve their problems. Some people play the role of a faithful spouse while they are actually getting some action on the DL. When you were growing up your parents played the role of parents when they were around you and a guarantee that they were totally different people when they were not around you but in adult situations.

While I'm not much of a role player, I think those that do- like CODE, are playing Eve right. Eve is, after all, an RPG. I gave it a try with an FW alt, but found no one really willing to engage.

Few players have much in the way of imagination or creativity in this game. Most just come to forums to ask 'how to' or 'what is best'....but you never see 'what is most fun?' threads.
They are content to play someone else's game, spam what works for other people, and obsess over 'winning' rather than enjoying. These are the people concerned with isk/hour or crying that their ship just got blown up. They are also the people most likely to run to CCP to remove any adversity with the hand of Dev-god patches rather than deal with things within the game itself. Again, going back to their lack of creativity. They remove the 'game' from Eve, and turn it into spreadsheets-in-space or a river of tears and appeals to Devs.

Roleplay away. You won't find much support for it, but you'll be having fun while others aren't.

No, I won't let this die just because the person in question now is too ashasmed of responding.

This is an important matter and shows what's wrong with so many people on so many levels.

Well, there was that one time when we were up in the Spine of the World...

I thought it was "What happens in Arabel, stays in Arabel"

@OP
Eve is all about playing it your way - never let anyone tell you differently. Emergent gameplay, which is Eve's backbone, is derived from this notion.
Roleplay how you want to roleplay; everyone has their own style.
Be flexible enough to flow with the situation as it transpires (I find it a lot more enjoyable this way as there is less parameters to fill and more surprises).
There is no right way, so just do as you see fit.

In the end...
It's important that you enjoy it.