I'm sure someone is going to call me a newbie whiner that should go back to WoW for posting this, but here goes.

EVE online puts a HUGE emphasis on joining a corp and interacting with others, yet my 2 months of experience playing the game and reading the forums have shown me that this game is mostly comprised of unfriendly bigoted people who would rather insult you or pod you than actually be nice to you.

No wonder CCP thinks that "what goonswarm wants" is the same as "what the player-base wants": the only players left on EVE are either goonswarm members, or newbies. All the old players have given up in disgust after loosing 2 plexes worth of ship, fittings and implants to a single ganker in a 7 mil (fully reimbursed) ship

It really comes down to this, do you want eve to grow and add more players? or do you want eve to belong to goonswarm? you can't have both. Unless people stand up and say "the goons do not represent me", this is going to turn into GooN Online instead of EvE Online. All the easy care-bear targets will be gone, and the only players left will be PvPers (just like lowsec/nullsec is now)

By invading highsec, goonswarm destroys highsec. I'm sure the "goal" (if there was one) was to drive more players to lowsec, but they really just drove highsec players off the game entirely

I now look forward to the 4 pages of goonswarm members insulting me and the week of random people following me around in-game stealing my loot and ganking me, just for speaking my mind.

EVE online puts a HUGE emphasis on joining a corp and interacting with others, yet my 2 months of experience playing the game and reading the forums have shown me that this game is mostly comprised of unfriendly bigoted people who would rather insult you or pod you than actually be nice to you.

Collectivism is pretty appropriate, teaming up and working towards a common goal really helps, but I really struggle to see how hegemony or communism could be related to EVE at all.

That is the most probable diagnosis in his case, i know this for a fact.

And that's what you should conclude because
A: You won't convince me this is a swell place to make friends
B: MMO's are about groupie, groupie gang bangs
C: I don't belong here because I didn't meet your criteria
D: I have a clinical disease because I don't know you or want to.

I'm in EVE because I pay for it and the last time I checked, you don't work for CCP so kiss my pale white Assperger

Collectivism through communism, held together by Hegemony.

Communism is an ideal that opposes autocratic rule and class based society but all communism creates autocracy and you either conform or you become the valueless bottom rung in the ladder. Hegemony occurs throughout EVE. See any NAP where a single alliance controls the wealth and the pets are allowed to be there under the umbrella.

It all serves to destroy individual identity and focus on the machine. You become a tool, convinced you are serving a greater purpose when all you are really doing is working for free.

If your corp has a war dec on it, then atleast you know that someone actively wants to kill you, and you can take precautions (spend isk on players to guard your ships and operations or something).

The alternative is to fit every ship you fly as if you were going into lowsec, all the time, for the once-every-three-weeks chance that someone might try to attack you. A ship scanner, warp stabilizer, and cloaking device aren't very useful in PvE missions, yet that seems to be the suggested course of action.

Forums =/= Game

why would I want to go to low sec when it just means waking up in a clone within 5 minutes? if I wanted to keep buying the same ship over and over again there is a self-destruct option, I don't need to fly to 0.4 space for that

You're playing Quake, in an online deathmatch. Someone shoots you in the head with a railgun. You respawn, spot them, fire a few shots and miss, and they rail you again. You respawn and they rail you again.

I'm here to bring more attention to a problem with eve and have a civilized discussion about it.

with a guaranteed 10 mil profit if they kill the hulk, even if they get zero loot.

You're going to need a destroyer most likely worth more than 10M ISK.

No you don't. You need friends in thrashers, t1 fit will do.

lol what

Just what I said. Null sec is full of really hardcore carebears. The whole game is full of them /us. The OP seemed to think that null sec was full of LEET PVP'rs or something. It's not. Many people(not all so don't freak out)in null are just as risk adverse as their high sec counterparts. Just because they join blob fleets now and again and get some kills doesn't mean they aren't carebears.

w/e

the "hardcore carebears" in nullsec don't whine when they get ganked, however

i'm sorry that you think that nullsec is supposed to be a PvP-only area

Yeah they didn't want those regions, stations, fleets, chairman anyway.

oh, right, a 500 million isk untanked ship that is AFK dying to destroyers is not indicative of a problem in the game

The problem is not this. The problem is that they can do this with disposable alts. Get rid of alts, make Eve a much, much better game.

The problem is not this. The problem is that they can do this with disposable alts. Get rid of alts, make Eve a much, much better game.