Mr Mieyli
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2017.05.17 01:54:29 -
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Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:OK Here is some WolfhammerGäó brand wisdom:
I have worked in technical fields since around 1992. Back in my day, before these blasted kids started their incursions onto my lawn, people who did anything technical were inherently self-starting.
Be advised that this was BEFORE google.
Eve Online started, by my estimation, roughly 5 years before the beginning of what appears to be a kind of societal collapse. How so? Well roughly 10 years ago I was a mere monkey amongst mental giants in my field: engineer types mainly. I used to get pulled aside and asked "how come you never became an engineer?". I told them I had too much of a sense of humor.
Now in the present, a new crop of people sit in front of keyboards. Millenials mostly. My generation went into early retirement or got "kicked upstairs" or something.
People who don't think. People who don't look up any documentation on how to do things and actually read them. People who have to ask every damned little question for every damned little thing. People calling themselves "engineer", or "software developer", or "product manager" who can't troubleshoot anything. They sit there and expect "point and click all done" and any departure from expected results, here come complaints, endless questions, pity...
And for the last 10 years I have watched this gradually take on. "Oh Bob does not work here any more. He retired/got promoted/quit. His replacement is Brandon/Kaily/Caitlin/(insert any other stupid millennial name here)".
The trend of giving kids "special" names, as if it was going to give them some specialness in life, started in the late 1980s. When I see one of those names in my in-box I can accurately predict what will happen next. I had a job that went from pleasant to acid reflux. And it happened so gradually I didn't see it at first.
So... a couple of decades of Ritalin, Listicles, and participation trophies have brought us to.... this? if there had been alpha clones at the inception of Eve, the noob zones would look like Uedama at certain times with all the ships bumping each other constantly.
Even with the NPE we had then: "Here's a noob ship. Here's how to undock and fly it. Now f**k off".
So it's not Eve's fault. It's... well the fault of my generation mainly. We're crappy parents. We remembered when we fell off our bikes or had to punch a bully to be left alone and then went on some crusade to ensure that the next generation would be coddled to (mental) death. Now we see the results in the game. I see the results IRL. Every day.
Adapt or die?
The people you describe are not millennials but have been here for all of time. There are active people and then there are reactive people, and it may even be true that millennials contain more reactive types than previous generations because of the spoonfeeding of high grade entertainment they have become used to.
Reactive types of people love to consume, they struggle to think for themselves, but they can be perfectly capable of complex tasks if given the task, they fit in naturally in groups where the group can decide on a direction and they can contribute. I'd argue a very large number of eve players are this type.
Active types take control of the direction of their lives. They force others to react to them, to deal with the reality they have created. Many eve players believe themselves to be in this category, but really very few of them are. James315 or the mittani come to mind as players who altered the reality of eve. These are the leaders, FCS, the content creators of new Eden.
If you want to make use of millennials, get them behind you and show them fun. Do things that you need a group for where you can be the leader, unless of course your just as reactive as these millennials.
A case for more AoE in EvE
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