Lets all take into account the case of the Mithril Bikini i.e. end game armor. Why is it that this protects so much better against a wall of fire than a level 2 full body suit of armor? Does this not bug you? Reality states that the full body armor would protect you wayyy better... its full body! That Mithril Bikini would only protect your naughty bits from the fire. Now believe me, I'm all for full mythical protection of my bits, but not at the expense of the rest of me! Now, you combine this end game armor with a sword so big that it dwarfs me. Why the hell would I choose this? Why is the giant sword that is clearly made for a giant given to a normal sized person? I can't even make a chop without jumping to gain leverage! Bah! Whatever happened to the efficiency of normal weapons? It seems like the higher my level, the more awkward my choices of defenses and offensive hardware. I start the game looking like a normal warrior... I end the game looking like a warriors younger brother wielding his hand me downs.

And to make a similar comparison.. he loves Minecraft 20x more than Defiance.. and Minecraft (to me) does not look visually appealing in comparison. I guess I can just chalk it up to EVE being a type of game he's not keen on playing.

Lets all take into account the case of the Mithril Bikini i.e. end game armor. Why is it that this protects so much better against a wall of fire than a level 2 full body suit of armor? Does this not bug you? Reality states that the full body armor would protect you wayyy better... its full body! That Mithril Bikini would only protect your naughty bits from the fire. Now believe me, I'm all for full mythical protection of my bits, but not at the expense of the rest of me! Now, you combine this end game armor with a sword so big that it dwarfs me. Why the hell would I choose this? Why is the giant sword that is clearly made for a giant given to a normal sized person? I can't even make a chop without jumping to gain leverage! Bah! Whatever happened to the efficiency of normal weapons? It seems like the higher my level, the more awkward my choices of defenses and offensive hardware. I start the game looking like a normal warrior... I end the game looking like a warriors younger brother wielding his hand me downs.

Now I have the image of you in a bikini talking to a muffin....I'm going to have a troubled night I know it.

I don't talk to him... he talks to me! And its not a bikini.. its my Mithril endgame armor!

And finally, lets not be disturbed over my muffin fetish, lets be disturbed because someone over at Blizzard felt it was appropriate to violate a wild boar with rolled coin.

I don't talk to him... he talks to me! And its not a bikini.. its my Mithril endgame armor!

And finally, lets not be disturbed over my muffin fetish, lets be disturbed because someone over at Blizzard felt it was appropriate to violate a wild boar with rolled coin.

Someone over there dose it consistently though, to enter herds(?) Of them at a time

to be fair, eve kind of requires you to make friends with people while starting out, and it's generally accepted as being a necessary part of actually accomplishing anything

I know actually talking to people and treating them like human beings is wonderful.

Secondly, if people refuse to play a game where being mean is possible, there are already plenty of MMOs to cater to their cowardice.

Yes! They must be cowards in real life! I've always said the marines should recruit warriors from these forums because it's home to such brave dragon slayers like yourself. Yay you!

Anyone against douchery must obviously be a coward.

So tell me again where Kaarous mentioned real life?

And here comes the troll brigade. Read his post and figure it out (I was kind enough to quote it above). "But but but... he didn't actually say real life so there!"

So tell me again where Kaarous mentioned real life?

You see that as a problem OP, I see it as EVE working as intended, weeding out the weak minded "I am a hero!!!" type gamers who wouldn't like EVE anyway, even beofre they try (and fail at) the game. That's most of the gaming world, hell, it's most of humanity.

English is not my native language but I keep trying to improve it

Eve deliberately excludes the stupid and the weak willied.
Its reputation is a reflection of that.
Your "ex" player quote is from infinity ziona...nuf said.

Grow up, eve is hard and we make it that way because we like it that way

You see that as a problem OP, I see it as EVE working as intended, weeding out the weak minded "I am a hero!!!" type gamers who wouldn't like EVE anyway, even beofre they try (and fail at) the game. That's most of the gaming world, hell, it's most of humanity.

It's not that CCP has given the Asylum keys to the patients, well maybe it is exactly like that, but that was probably not the original intent. But it is what we have now, and new players are more and more likely to be victims since the demographic is prone to unbalance in the side of predators and not to the builders/explorers.

One aspect I "fear" (eventually altering the game, if not outright cancelling it) would be someone already mentally unstable gravitating to play Eve and diving head first into all the "evilness" allowed by the game. Instead of them realizing it is but a game, nope, this lunatic would take it to the extremes.

Yep. CCP doesn't need their money.

Anyone seen a legit subscriber count in a while? No? Didn't CCP brag, errr, publish that number every year?

I think Kaarous is pretty consistent about referring specifically to in-game behavior and choices and excluding any comments about real life.

I think it's not good that you're not able to cleanly maintain this distinction to make an argument. Troll brigade, indeed.

I love how the concept of game balance literally isn't even on the table for you. Like if the game isn't tipping the scales in favor of "the bulders" aka your own playstyle then EVE is dying.

This is the game for the predators. But not because the scales are tipped in our favor, but because unlike most other games we are allowed to exist in the first place. So yeah, there are a lot of us.

I think you can spin this with semantics any way you want. The intent here is meant to insult the person not playing your way by calling them cowards. The rage against carebears isn't that they are "role-playing cowards", it is the attitude that these players have that drive you to say such hateful drivel against them. And Kaarous is no new face at this.

Not everyone finds douchbaggery acceptable behavior. And the kicker is this doesn't make them cowards for thinking this way.

And Kaarous Aldurald get rid of the persecution complex, this dynamic does lend itself to balance, if the game gets to many predators and not enough prey, just like in all habitats, the predators die off with no food to eat and the prey repopulates in relative saftey.