Eve Community and Why I Did Not Stay (for those trying this game out)

CardinalSin

Zeifear, my characters name online is Cpt Cucumber. By all means give me a shout online.

Nick 

Static_Wolf

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Originally posted by Tycalibur

I'm going to sound like an azz here, cause I just uninstalled EvE to make room for a few other MMORPG demos.
Let me praise EvE first. Intelligent writing oozes from this game. The game makes SWG: JTL look like a play-dough joke. The tutorial is awesome. And the game is huge.
Maybe too huge. No, I'm not talking about getting used to all those stargate jumps, those are perfect times to go flip the laundry, make lunch, sit on the can, etc.
The community is what bugs me somehow. I'm trying to understand the TRUE gap between the Vets and the noobs. Not the noobs that do nothing but complain, mind you. You will have those in any game.
It took almost two days to get through the tutorial. That tutorial is highly necessary if you're going to make it the first week.
I ran missions. I ran more missions. I understood the levelling system quite well. After awhile, I began to feel kind of lonely.
Having run a few guilds myself, I'm particularly picky about what group of players I join. I have to make sure they're as right for me as I am for them...because when I join, I tend to be someone a lot of people can depend upon, and I don't like my good nature being taken advantage of by my own guildmates.
So I joined a Corporation Recruiting Channel. I listened to several sales pitches. Naturally, some of them were good, some of them I could see right through. Some of them were complex Corporations, some of them were very simple. A plethora of choices. But I measure the mettle of a guild, and its people. But enough about how I pick one out......I picked a few that looked appealing to me.
To my surprise, these couple of corporations weren't inducting. Why were they advertising? For people who stayed longer than 14 days. Ok, fine. How about running missions with a corporation person? Maybe to show me some new things while I make up my mind whether or not to join this game? Nope.
They don't help anyone but members.
You know.....after the NGE went live, I hated noobs that were handed the entire ship and had the gall to stand outside a starport and demand money from me in SWG. But the ones that asked for help completing a mission......I would always help. A chance to make a friend, maybe even a long-term one that might help your guild become stronger with age in the long run.
But this attitude with the Corporations.......apalling. I wish I could remember which server this was on, because I've uninstalled the game since then.
I honestly felt that a game with a more 'international' community would contain nicer people, and on the surface, it appears to. But you Corporation Leaders are far too paranoid for your own good. Had I been shown the ropes by just one of you, I might have stayed. There are far too many unexplored paths in this game that I wish to learn... and since it is an online game, with an online community, I was looking forward to learning them as a part of a group of friends. Instead what I see at the onset is a stubborn, apprehensive, somewhat paranoid and selfish veteran community.
Perhaps you are truly entitled to your standoffishness.....so if I may ask, what exactly is the problem? Why are you all so reticent to help a non-member learn other aspects of the game?

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Ouch.

Dekron

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