It's about time the psychologists turned up here.

It's about time the psychologists turned up here.

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.

You lost me at question 1. What is your gender.

Did you mean my gender, or my toons gender? Cus' there both the same.

I couldn't complete the survey. Answering the questions about myself was easy, but the questions about my in-game character are the same. Would my character enjoy going to an Art gallery? Does he plan ahead and organize things? Does he feel satisfied with himself? What the **** has this to do with EVE? There are no Art galleries in EVE and EVE characters cannot feel anything.

Sorry, but this survey can only be completed by roleplayers, who are a tiny fraction of the EVE playerbase.

Spoiler:

Science will determine that EVE players are cool bros.

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.

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.

Who else instantly thought of the "free money as a psychology data gathering"" scam?
Glad to see it really happened

To say that those that fail at Eve are only the lowest common denominator within a bracket of society is again stereotypically foolish. And though it makes for great post and reading for the lolz it again fails at the reality. Many people who you might consider smart or successful in RL will also fail at Eve for many different reasons.

There has been one other survey I participated in that I did get ISK for, just as he promised. That one was the standard Sociology questionnaire though, so I could see why it would need a carrot to get answers.



The whole 'fail at EVE' thing is where I tend to diverge from convention at times. I honestly do not believe you can fail at EvE - IF you allow yourself to taste everything that's to offer here, and see what you actually like.

Perhaps that's the true problem - motivation. That's been the number one reason why I've stepped away from the game for awhile, or just from various player corps.

I've done quite a number of things, both on the combat and industry sides. I like to do things on both, and I hate things on both. But my own quandaries stem from the need to find a community to truly fit in with; And as someone who's not actually played combat MMOs prior to this (both Myst Online and Second Life are cooperative in nature), its been my biggest challenge. After all, trust isn't exactly in great supply here, and I exude it so much it sometimes scares people off.

[BTW, get rid of sec status hits in Low Sec (or restrict it to podding) and I'd be down there a lot more often. I'm probably not the only one too.]

I couldn't complete the survey. Answering the questions about myself was easy, but the questions about my in-game character are the same. Would my character enjoy going to an Art gallery? Does he plan ahead and organize things? Does he feel satisfied with himself? What the **** has this to do with EVE? There are no Art galleries in EVE and EVE characters cannot feel anything.

Sorry, but this survey can only be completed by roleplayers, who are a tiny fraction of the EVE playerbase.

I find it interesting that most EVE players wouldn't classify themselves as roleplayers, yet they do things to people in-game that they'd never do IRL, citing that "it's just a game". Acting differently in-game is sorta roleplaying, isn't it?

The alternative explanation is that they'd randomly attack people and scam IRL if they could get away with it.

I too would be interested in reading the results of this study.

Spoiler:

Science will determine that EVE players are cool bros.

Protip: Surveys are the lest scientific data gathering method, just one step up from making stuff up (you get other people to make stuff up for you instead).

My only gripe is that the wording of certain questions would be similar but switched around so if one question was phrased positively, the similar one would be phrased negatively. Was a little confusing.

Is that on purpose?

Protip: Surveys are the lest scientific data gathering method, just one step up from making stuff up (you get other people to make stuff up for you instead).