I have already quit playing, but I find the forum much harder to put down, evidently. I generally will look at any topics you or Black Pedro are commenting on in particular. I probably should not be participating, but its gotten to be a habit that will take time to break.
Also, as an aside, my personality type on the Meyers Briggs is ‘Mediator’ or some such. It is a habit in general for me to try to reconcile misunderstandings, so it’s *really* hard not to make an attempt when I think I could.
The why of preventing myself from doing it is that I have a limit on how much I can do, and at some point a lack of self restraint becomes self destructive. It becomes somewhat more important to choose my battles the older and slower I get. People who value you will worry about you if you’re over-extended, and it is exactly those people I want to cause the least problems for. I want them to feel assured that if I am offering to help, it is help I can afford to give so that nobody has to feel bad and we can both get on with our lives without worrying about ‘but what if…’ I also don’t want them giving me the evil eye when I’m trying to do something for some random. If I give them no cause to think I am self-sacrificing, they will not interfere with what I do (…as much).
The reason I peruse your topics is because your group has an under-represented perspective and I’m interested in what you think. I don’t know if it has much to do with my personality type unless it’s because my type is interested in what people think. I can get mainstream opinions from anywhere, but yours come only from you, pretty much.
If I had a fleet of 100 people at my disposal, and the Isk for ships/gear, ship replacement and wars and ganks.
I would burn highsec to the ground.
I state the isk part because in truth, people are only loyal if they benefit as well. I would pay each member (alts excluded) 500plex to 1000plex based on participation a month to keep their accounts running. There is no better incentive to get people behind you in EVE then the ability to get isk.
I think running a concept like this for year would be super interesting and see what was done and how much was destroyed vs isk spend.
If a genie of the lamp offered to grant you a wish, “overthinking” it is what would let you realise you might ask to be granted more wishes, or be granted the ability to grant wishes yourself…
The genie would probably not be happy about your choice, but that would be his problem, not yours…