Your forgot the armchair generals.

i just made it through to part 2, questions about my ingame character

i neither roleplay something different than myself nor identify myself with the ingame character at all, i much more enjoy socialising with the guys (no girls in eve :( ) behind the character

so i answered all questions with 3, he/she wouldnt do anything at all, its simply me (with much less hair)

...snip...There are no art museums in Eve and AFAIK there's no equivalent. Another example is counterfeit money: I'd never use it IRL and there's no such thing in Eve. If it's simply referring to ill-gotten gains.. well hell yes I'd use it ...snip- Liang

Done. Given the way you've split it up I think it's going to make for some interesting analysis at the end. (Providing you trust this community to remain reasonably honest which ... you know )

Will you mind publishing results or a brief overview when everything is completed for those of us curious about this?



Wait what? I bump into them analysing everyone in just about every second thread. They're right up there with the vast profusion of lawyers, law enforcement officers, statisticians and software developers that inhabit these forums from their armchairs.

This is a Briggs Myers test, I might be interesting to see what different personality types select as character personality type, if there is any correlation.

I'm not sure what to do with that section because there's really no "character Liang".

...assume that the person has constructed a second "persona" to play online.

Personally, I think researching any inferred sociopathic dysfunction would have been a much more interesting study

This is a Briggs Myers test

I have noticed some severe pyschological disturbances among the 0.0 roaming gang population. It's the kind of thing that makes me think the humans behind the toons are seriously dysfunctional closet sociopaths.

Yeah, pretty much. I'm not sure what to do with that section because there's really no "character Liang". It's like asking what my monopoly shoe would do if there was an art museum in the game. I guess it'd buy it and roll for the next square... charge rent to anyone that came through later.

-Liang

Halfway through, I clicked next button and the questionaire reset and and went back to question 1

^ I'd thought that I was entirely alone in thinking something similar. Here's hoping some of that really is just online fun... and not the way these guys really think in RL.

I don't think most of them are rl psychopaths - take goons as an example:

A real goon (so not a WIgoon or something like that) comes into this game and is a goon from day one - he gets told "Here you go - you're a goon and this is what we do: Be as much of a psychopathic asshat and pain in the arse for everyone else as you can possibly imagine".

I'm convinced that whilst appearing as completely dysfunctional twats ingame, most of them are perfectly normal nerds who are just roleplaying douchebags - just look at Mittens' fanfest presentation.

I think that playstyle may be quite entertaining and help stress relief after a hard days work.

Concerning the survey itself: Just completed it some questions really were a bit odd and the question as to 'what my character would do' is really a bit awkward. My characters are just files containing information about skills, standings etc... - just like ships containing modules. To answer the questions, I had to rephrase them to "what would you do/how would people perceive you ingame" as opposed to the previous rl questions.

I can see your point. That's a good example of separating RL and ingame life. It's kind of RP, really. Goons do it with style, too (videos, posters, blogs, etc.)
On the other hand, I'm not so sure that everybody being sociopath in this game is separating RL from ingame life. Dominate somebody, humiliate him, collect tears, enjoy lulz. (And at the same time be a little anxious that the same might happen to you). It's a psychology with some people, not ingame RPing.

There may be some RL sociopaths playing and a game like eve certainly attracts this type, but from my experience most of the people appearing the most sociopathic are failures in RL compensating for the humiliations they suffer every minute not logged in. Would they kill random people in the street? No - they pack your shopping bag at wallmart if they have a job at all, go home and log on.

Eve is often called the smart persons MMO and most of the people I know for longer have a job, a degree of some kind and live a good life whilst they gank, scam and rob corps.

But of course it has a huge portion of chavs and white trash who "should of started" doing "gankz for teh lulz" way earlier, but these people usually come and go because they eventually find out that they just fail as much in Eve as they do in RL.

Eve-self esteem replaced their RL self esteem and I'm not sure if the questions asked in this survey weren't too obvious - but then again, I'm not a sociologist.

Anyway - I'm interested in the results nonetheless.

There may be some RL sociopaths playing and a game like eve certainly attracts this type, but from my experience most of the people appearing the most sociopathic are failures in RL compensating for the humiliations they suffer every minute not logged in. Would they kill random people in the street? No - they pack your shopping bag at wallmart if they have a job at all, go home and log on.

Eve is often called the smart persons MMO and most of the people I know for longer have a job, a degree of some kind and live a good life whilst they gank, scam and rob corps.

But of course it has a huge portion of chavs and white trash who "should of started" doing "gankz for teh lulz" way earlier, but these people usually come and go because they eventually find out that they just fail as much in Eve as they do in RL.

Eve-self esteem replaced their RL self esteem and I'm not sure if the questions asked in this survey weren't too obvious - but then again, I'm not a sociologist.

Anyway - I'm interested in the results nonetheless.