I have no issue with Solo play, even if I don't understand why you would want solo play in Eve. What I have an issue with is this = Usually people who solo play get angry if something bad happens to them. As an example:

I have an RL mate who I introduced to Eve. He has always been notorious for only playing single player games, and despite my best efforts decided that he would treat Eve as one also. He thinks that High sec is supposed to be totally safe and that scamming is the work of the devil.

About a year after he started up, he decides to drop money on a bunch of plex and fully faction fit a mission running apoc to the tune of 2 billion. He then goes and runs missions in the same spot for 2 or 3 months (closer to 3 I think). When he is running a mission someone warps in and steals some junk loot and goes flashy to him. He tries to kill that person, and loses his 2 billion isk ship in what I'm sure is someones glorious failmail.

20 mins later I receive a text that he thinks CCP is bad for allowing something like that to happen in a high sec system and that he shouldn't have lost his ship. He rages for a long time about this and loses several other ships in ways that he shouldn't (jumping to lowsec in machs and poorly fitting ships). Then just after Retribution is released he loses a faction navy omen by shooting the wreckage of something I had shot (and therefore owned). He had set his safety to red, and then proceeds to blame CCP for allowing his ship to get destroyed.

I'm not saying that all solo players are bad. In fact I'm pretty sure that the silent majority really help the game (your red frog truckers and the solo indy setups out there), but the vocal minority who feel so entitled that they rage at things that are quite frankly their fault and wouldn't happen if they took the time to learn about the game, and learn the lesson that in this massively multi-player game, there are other players who want to harm you and there are steps you need to take to not fall victim to them. However if you fail to learn that, then don't whine about it on the forums or in local. Pick up the pieces and move on. Eve is a fantastically unforgiving game and for most people that's what they enjoy about it, what drew them into Eve. Don't let that end because you died a few times and can't handle it.



This is pretty much my point.