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On January 12 2012 13:52 Reborn8u wrote:
I'd like to take a minute to clear a few things up for new people. A lot of people who start out in eve are in for a culture shock. This game is not only incredibly complex, but incredibly unforgiving.

The people who have risen to the top, did so by being tough, thick skinned, and cruel. This is EVE, not WOW, not Mario Party, not any other noob friendly, hold your hand game. If you want swimming lessons go play another game, because in EVE and in the Hatchery, we are going to throw you into the deep end of the pool. If you start whining and complaining, "save me, save me, this is unfair" a bunch of people are going piss on your face when you come up for air, and laugh as you drown.

In EVE you will be punished severely for your mistakes by the games mechanics. When you do moronic things while flying with people that could possibly get them killed, you will get an ear full. If your feelings are going to get hurt when 1. people call you an idiot, 2. blast you for not thinking more than 1 step ahead of what was happening, 3. they ask you if you're "completely fucking retarded" because you have zero situational awareness, you will not make in this game or in our corp.

Hatchery has some of the best pilots and financial masterminds in all of EVE. They are only willing to help you, if you put forth the effort to help yourself. If you are willing to fuck up, take an ear full, learn from it and keep flying you could do well. If you will take just 5 minutes to look something up BEFORE asking for the answer to be handed to you, you may do well. If you aren't willing to take time to READ the information that has been provided and easily available with google, people will not bother trying to help you. No one is going to hold your hand and spoon feed you. Some will be more patient than others, some will be very rude. Deal with it. Wipe your own ass, we don't provide diapers.

This isn't preschool

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The weak, the timid, the non-resilient, and the stupid will perish. No one will even flinch in remorse. Little kids don't play this game, it's too hard and takes too much dedication. I've yet to meet anyone in this game who wasn't at least 17. The vast majority of people who play eve are mid 20's college students. This game takes brains, patience, fortitude and attitude at the right times for the right reasons.

Try to realize that because of how unforgiving eve is and because of how sharp the learning curve is, the vast majority of people just give up after just 1 or 2 weeks. So if you try EVE and get the impressions that everyone is a major dick. This post will hopefully provide some context (if you even bothered to read it)



However, if you do have thick skin, if you are mentally tough, if you do listen to critisism (even when they are dicks about it) and keep going, keep learning, keep improving, keep researching, and keep asking the right questions ( the right question is something you have already looked up and still don't get), you will find that the hatchery is fucking awesome.

You will fly in fleets outnumbered 4 to 1 and crush your opponents. You will have more isk than you can keep track of, and you will have a great time tasting the delicious tears of the weak. You will learn more about this game in a few months than most of it's players have learned in years. Most of all you will make some great friends, spend a lot of timing laughing till you cry, and stand with those who were forged in fire and emerged as steel.

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Ben
yup and all the tackle rifters you guys use so well kept point on me like hot fudge on a sunday