Hesed
Sanguine Legion
Atrocitas
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Posted - 2006.08.04 21:18:00 -
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I don't really see how EVE can be harmed by closed communities, or separate communities.
Total internal consistency in groups can hardly be considered a natural state of things in larger groups. Only the technical feat of better organization and interdependence can be conjured through excellent planning.
EVE is a cold, calculating universe filled with self-serving, avaricious, conniving corporations motivated to equitable public posture in the marketplace. In practice it is filled with warm, helpful people who will kill you for existing, but who for the most part spend the greater portion of their time being unorganized. Those who are organized only seem so by comparison. If EVE had a Xenophon, he would go around studying the overt aspects of corp hierarchies and how isk and order flow from member to member, and how that shapes and stimulates their activity levels.
It's simply an element of tact that you don't go around a literary circle and point out that Camus' The Plague is meaningless because it isn't precisely based on a real city. Most are polite enough not to contradict you, but don't be surprised if they shuffle away from you with a perpelexed frown wondering why you ever had any desire to become literate since it would only inflict you with a sense of substitution.
EVE is not a mass-market consumable game. It's niche, and is primarily generated through participant contributions. EVE is a very small city, population 150,000. Its citizens will tend look for the virtues in your organization if you allow them.
Bob or other top alliances aren't harming EVE by being bored and blowing up weaker corporations and groups that are trying to assemble the delicate, fragile economic ties and emergent institutions between individuals that seem superfluous to most entirely-self-sufficient yet competitive pvp organizations. Those who constantly seek to find a use for other people generally aren't the best masochists, so they get suppressed over and over by the top agendaless alliances. Doesn't matter, they will succeed eventually, just as the tribes are crushed by the republics. Life is always tragic for the individual, but comedia is about community. Goons aren't harming EVE by being a separate entity large enough to have multitude of internal cleavages. EVE players would relate to (Boobies?)
The collective conscience of EVE is dormant, sleeping, and people wouldn't be here if they couldn't sense the dreaming giant. The active faces are only a small portion of the total City, and even those who deem themselves as involved as much as possible are only scratching the surface. EVE is a real community, probably more real than most contemporary ones, and it doesn't rely on any external or objective justification to exist. People want to be here because of the other people that want to be here.
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