They're called Guardian pilots.

EVE players and developers alike tend to praise the game for its emergent social structures and frequently express the hope that EVE as a "social experiment" can help us understand how similar structures came to be in real-life

Lore wise Pod Pilots are in fact Gods at least in comparison to the civilian population.

Holy **** where do I start with this one. WOW IS THAT WAY --->


Really.....I honestly dont think priests should be allowed to play MMO due to the large child populations that play them it leads to bad things with priests touching you in special places.


Jerry Sandusky called he wants his child **** returned.



Before you know it these WOW Refugees will be asking for a mission group finder so they dont have to actually talk to other players.

How come we do just fine without priests in EVE (without even noticing their absence) when we apparently can't do entirely without them in our (enlightened, 21st century) real life societies?

No chefs in EVE, either.

They're called Guardian pilots.

EVE players and developers alike tend to praise the game for its emergent social structures and frequently express the hope that EVE as a "social experiment" can help us understand how similar structures came to be in real-life.

With this background in mind, I'd like to raise the question "How come there are no priests in EVE?"
(or if there are "priests", who are they?)

One feature of many real-life societies seems to be the division into a clerical class, a warrior class and a producing class.

And while the warrior class and the producing class are clearly separated in EVE (admittedly more clearly on the character level than on the player level), the metagame has not brought forth anything resembling an actual clerical class from my point of view.

The closest we have come to the development of a priest class is probably some 0.0 alliances that keep political leadership and (tactical) military leadership carefully separated - but even alliance leaders that never log into the game itself lack any association with the sacred (and the authority this creates).

How come we do just fine without priests in EVE (without even noticing their absence) when we apparently can't do entirely without them in our (enlightened, 21st century) real life societies?

IRL: There's a toon called PriestSJ (or something like that) that helps host Fly Reckless now. He's a man of the cloth in real life. And I'm an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church myself (performed two marriages IRL).

In-game: The Amarrian culture is full of spiritual types according to lore and background.

Oh, and I'm hoping and praying you don't mean a priest "class". If you do, go back to WoW.

If there were priests in the game, I would soon get into the habit of killing them.

Or butlers.

EVE players and developers alike tend to praise the game for its emergent social structures and frequently express the hope that EVE as a "social experiment" can help us understand how similar structures came to be in real-life.

With this background in mind, I'd like to raise the question "How come there are no priests in EVE?"
(or if there are "priests", who are they?)

One feature of many real-life societies seems to be the division into a clerical class, a warrior class and a producing class.

And while the warrior class and the producing class are clearly separated in EVE (admittedly more clearly on the character level than on the player level), the metagame has not brought forth anything resembling an actual clerical class from my point of view.

The closest we have come to the development of a priest class is probably some 0.0 alliances that keep political leadership and (tactical) military leadership carefully separated - but even alliance leaders that never log into the game itself lack any association with the sacred (and the authority this creates).

How come we do just fine without priests in EVE (without even noticing their absence) when we apparently can't do entirely without them in our (enlightened, 21st century) real life societies?

EVE players and developers alike tend to praise the game for its emergent social structures and frequently express the hope that EVE as a "social experiment" can help us understand how similar structures came to be in real-life.

With this background in mind, I'd like to raise the question "How come there are no priests in EVE?"
(or if there are "priests", who are they?)

EVE players and developers alike tend to praise the game for its emergent social structures and frequently express the hope that EVE as a "social experiment" can help us understand how similar structures came to be in real-life.

With this background in mind, I'd like to raise the question "How come there are no priests in EVE?"
(or if there are "priests", who are they?)

One feature of many real-life societies seems to be the division into a clerical class, a warrior class and a producing class.

And while the warrior class and the producing class are clearly separated in EVE (admittedly more clearly on the character level than on the player level), the metagame has not brought forth anything resembling an actual clerical class from my point of view.

The closest we have come to the development of a priest class is probably some 0.0 alliances that keep political leadership and (tactical) military leadership carefully separated - but even alliance leaders that never log into the game itself lack any association with the sacred (and the authority this creates).

How come we do just fine without priests in EVE (without even noticing their absence) when we apparently can't do entirely without them in our (enlightened, 21st century) real life societies?

Because no one care about religion when science reigns supreme. We get enough evangelical nutters in the real world.

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Adjective:

(of a job or person) Concerned with or relating to work in an office, esp. routine tasks.
Of or relating to the clergy.

EVE players and developers alike tend to praise the game for its emergent social structures and frequently express the hope that EVE as a "social experiment" can help us understand how similar structures came to be in real-life.

With this background in mind, I'd like to raise the question "How come there are no priests in EVE?"
(or if there are "priests", who are they?)

We have priests, they're called command ships.

Command Ships are more like Bards.

Logistics ships are the Priests.

But there are a fair few people who RP priests out there as well.

But there are a fair few people who RP priests out there as well.