You are either 10 years old, or badly need to find new friends. I don't have a single friend that would quit a game because they lost a round. So you and your friend are either 10 years old, or have the maturity of 10 year olds. Also if you beat a friend in a game, they no longer want to be friend with you? Ahhh it's good to be a grown-up, you deal with too much RL drama over a video game.

Yes that's rather insightful and applies to life in general, not just EVE. Poor health, and my dog, have taught me to enjoy the present rather than worry about the future (there is no future, if you go far enough) or mope about the past. The old saying "live every day as if it was your last" comes to mind.

One of the missions you do if you bother to do the tutorials requires you to lose your ship so you learn about insurance and all that.

You could also provide mentoring and sponsorship for your friend using the Goonswarm patented and tested system. Give him a [insert tier 3 frigate here] and tell him to go have fun. When he loses it, give him another. Keep doing that. Most skill books that newbies would want cost pennies to any seasoned player. Give him every skillbook he would need to keep him busy for the next six months.

Once you eliminate the financial burden of being a newbie, players will begin to experience Eve with the blatant disregard for their own well being needed to flourish in this game. It really works.

Lol, asking a 4chanSwarmer about eve online is like asking a pedo about pederasty believing he has a valid and sane opinion about it.

You could also provide mentoring and sponsorship for your friend using the Goonswarm patented and tested system. Give him a [insert tier 3 frigate here] and tell him to go have fun. When he loses it, give him another. Keep doing that. Most skill books that newbies would want cost pennies to any seasoned player. Give him every skillbook he would need to keep him busy for the next six months.

Once you eliminate the financial burden of being a newbie, players will begin to experience Eve with the blatant disregard for their own well being needed to flourish in this game. It really works.

What new players? I'm getting like 1:30 return from EVE buddy program invitations - people don't want to play this game even with 250m ISK booster bonus.

It's creepy to read through this post and actually have people trying to validate a sociopathic behaviour.

And there's a huge difference between the dark,harsh unforgiving nature of the Eve universe we all love and going as far as to propose and suggest known (and banned) military and psychological tactics to mold a friendly into your own vision of what they should be or what part they should play in YOUR game.

Scare-tactics, removal of personal-connections through immidiate loss,stalking, cultivation of a sense of false security. Where have we heard of this before? Hmm?

Teaching people how a game works is GÇ£sociopathicGÇ¥ now? Well, that really proves it: the word has lost all meaning and is now just used to mean GÇ£something I don't likeGÇ¥.

You realise, of course, that the OP is rather suggesting the opposite: the removal a the false sense of security; the maintenance of personal connections, in spite of the risks that come with it; the disarming of scare tacticsGǪ He's talking about teaching that losses can and will happen, for a number of reasons, and that they shouldn't bother you. Have a proper sense of security and suddenly, the scare tactics just won't work any more.

Sad thread. Look up "friend", it has nothing to do with shooting them in the back to prove the world is a dangerous place. Mentor, teach, educate will do every bit the same and more than the OP suggested. Shame people think this way..

One of the missions you do if you bother to do the tutorials requires you to lose your ship so you learn about insurance and all that.

You could also provide mentoring and sponsorship for your friend using the Goonswarm patented and tested system. Give him a [insert tier 3 frigate here] and tell him to go have fun. When he loses it, give him another. Keep doing that. Most skill books that newbies would want cost pennies to any seasoned player. Give him every skillbook he would need to keep him busy for the next six months.

Once you eliminate the financial burden of being a newbie, players will begin to experience Eve with the blatant disregard for their own well being needed to flourish in this game. It really works.

I got lonely in an all male corp and I recruited some of my friends at work to play.. They were fine in the game til some lone pvper blew up everything they had and podded them back to high sec when we were trying to fly the 26 jumps through low sec to get to our null sec home.