Eve isnāt about fair. Its mostly who you know, what you know and how much isk you have. Itās cut throat. āSuck it up, buttercupā is something you may hear a lot.
EVE is fair if you mean fair in terms of opportunities.
If you mean fair in terms of outcomes, no. EVE is not fair at all in terms of outcomes. Then again trying to assure fairness in outcomes is a recipe for Hell on Earthā¦so who gives a ā ā ā ā aside from some blinkered socialists.
Yes itās fair.
Every mechanic that someone else has access to, I do too. Every mechanic I have access to, everyone else does just as equally.
Nothing more fair than that.
I agree with Buldathās description based on the rules being equal for all. It answer the question in the subject accurately I find.
But is it fair to the individual player? No, not really. Assuming you mean by individual player any video game player then no. Most games, which offer a progression over time are naturally unfair to the individual player.
It is the player with the longer game time who gets an advantage over those who only started playing recently.
But even without game mechanics, which reward players for their play time through bonuses, do players gain natural experience and thereby gain an advantage through learning over the new and inexperienced players. This unfairness can be offset even more in an MMO, where a long time player can have many, experienced friends compared to the new player, who still needs to make friends (there are exceptions to this of course).
EVE is a fair game whose mechanics lead to a heavy bias to reward some playstyles more than others.
The only thing that matters imo, you can still have fun and grow at your own pace, despite the inequalities.
I thought about which game is actually fair considering what I wrote above, and I can only think of Rock, Paper & Scissor. Itās a game, which is quickly learned and offers no kind of progression what so ever. Worst case would be a person who needs 2-3 attempts to understand it, but after which it simply remains what it is. Any success or failure rate of Rock, Paper & Scissor one may experience will come from the choice of opponent, but the game itself is so simple that it is also why it is fair to the individual player.
The fun of it is also then very short. But there is rumour of one player who has not ever lost and who can beat any opponent in a game of Rock, Paper & Scissor. Who really knows?!
PS: Sorry for the fail reply. I didnāt notice until now that I wanted to reply to the OP, and who I quoted, but my comment itself shows as being a reply to you. I must have clicked on the wrong reply button I guess.
Spock.
No, the lizard
Not everything is fair play in in EVE. But everyone is.
I heard a cobra once bit his leg. After 3 days of excruciating pain the cobra died
Its true, Chuck Norris is poison.
What an odd thing to say. His tears are the only known cure for cancer. Itās too bad he doesnāt cry though.
Another sign of the depths of his evil.
Fair, yes.
Balanced, no.
Oh yeah, children not dying from hunger, old folks not being administered to death in retirement homes, lifes not pre-determined by daddies wallet, people not having to live under religious fundamentalists, diseases healt when itās possible, not just when one can afford itā¦ it would be hell. Really bad, these socialists. How dare they?
Indeed, abolishing workhouses and eliminating endendured labour was the worst thing that happened to society, didnt you know that?
No Eve Online is not fair.
- The indy/mining ships do not have enough defensive capability when compared to the offensive capability of ship. These two types of ships should have evolved side by side but did not.
- I look at Eve Online like a 12 grader kicking the crap out of 1st graders and then bragging about it. When a 600 character alliance can war dec or strong arm rob a 5 character corp, something is wrong.