At the moment the number of people is decreasing if anything.

CCP reduced the grind?

Instead of grinding rep for a variety of entities, you can now focus grind LP and ISK in quest hubs but you will grind the same amount. And what ever happened to EVE is hard, HTFU? EVE is m'eh, wait for primary?

I read the forums every now and then and all I see is so many players crying about game mechanics. Like ganking haulers and miners, scams in jita, Wardecs being a greifer tool, High sec not safe and more. Thing is, this has been going on all the time, and puzzles me how people can't learn from the past? So is EVE's overall IQ dropping?

It's as low as always, as evidenced by the typical posters in this forum.

It's just that the average percieved IQ is higher in Eve than in so many other games. DunningGÇôKruger effect is strong among most people here.

Its not EVE, it humanity as a whole. idiocracy is now a documentary

Who said those so called famous words?
What you meant to put was "Ignorance is bliss"Dunning-Krueger effect is a real thing.

I DON'T GET IT I DON'T GET IT I DON'T GET IT AND PROJECT MY OWN ISSUE ONTO YOU

I think what we are finding is a new class of gamer who wants instant gratification because they are so used to getting it.
Many games that are being released now across all platforms bear more resemblance to the arcade games of the 80's and early 90's.
We have a generation of players who have been brought up on games on facebook and mobile platforms.
Games with the complexity of Eve are a very rare breed these days.

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Google is a wonderful thing but copy and paste does not make you intelligent.
I shall just say this, A pseudointellectual will be condescending and make you feel stupid for either not knowing what they know or believing what they say to be true. Now that is true of you!

Progression is a reward in itself. Progression is gratifying. Fast progression even more so, especially when the game is hard.

^ This.

sol,
you're arguing with npc's,
this has (arguably) about as much merit as arguing with your own alt.

Awaiting with great anticipation..

Well, I was happy to have one Lightsaber.


But I saw the bad guys get to have two at the same time..

I'll be happy to examine data you might have that correlates reaction time to IQ. That article doesn't contain this data..

Why might this be the case sol?

Automaticity can be disrupted by explicit attention when the devotion of conscious attention to the pattern alters the content or timing of that pattern itself.

But when given the request with what sounds like a reason but isn't,
compliance jumped back to 93%. Langer, Chanowitz, and Blank are convinced
that most human behavior falls into automatic response patterns.

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"Intelligence" and IQ are two different concepts, and people incorrectly treat them as synonyms. Mixing intelligence and IQ is a mistake the OP has already made.


We could debate all day about what "intelligence" means, since it is an extremely subjective word. Is it social intelligence? Business intelligence? Ability to play chess? Ability to play Starcraft? It opens the question to an endless amount of criteria.

IQ, on the other hand is a fairly standardized test, measuring very specific aspects of cognitive processing.


I personally would be very cautious about debating intelligence. I think it is too subjective and too general of a topic to expect any real agreement.

I'm aware that the above comment is a tad condescending.

Note to self: Mention IQ in thread title, watch all the ugliest fish ambush the tasteless bait.
Oh, and Sol, could you not? Pretty sure you're not trolling so it seems your fedora has eaten your brain.
No more books, please, no more.