Oh i see op is suffering from burger syndrome.
How about we bann people not being able to log in on Thanksgiving?
Eve ia a game of consequences.
And especially burger should suffering from them
lol, dream on bud⌠Keep pushing those semantics if it makes you feel better about yourself. And by the way, your racist remark about the ole Red, White & Blue is just comicalâŚ
Ah-ha, so along with the words majority and plurality, we can now add racism to the list of terms you donât understand. Are you channelling a mixture of Balos and Salvos, or are you simply being you?
lol, sorry that youâre so bent on trying to prove USA doesnât have the majority of players⌠The fact that you actually believe that combining all the other Nations player percentages together and then comparing that amount to the USA player percentage is proof that youâre correct⌠OMG
Thatâs how majorities work in the real world. Even the dictionary definition youâre waving around says as much â which youâd know if youâd actually read it instead of doing your usual trick of cranking the outrage dial to eleven and blinding yourself with it.
TL;DR: Youâve used a definition that supports my point, called colours a race, and insisted 25% is somehow larger than 75%. Iâm afraid there arenât enough crayons to resolve any of that through education at an appropriate level.
Toodles.
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itâs not free stuff if you donât want or need it or even use it, its kind of like the propaganda trolls use to malign peoples genuine concerns.
Unwanted, though to be fair iâm sure your mom loves you more than sheâd love having her basement back.
That is actually the literal definition of âmajorityâ.
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Sigh. NoâŚ.25% is not âthe majorityâ. SheeshâŚwhy does this even need explaining ? Do people not even do basic maths at school any more ?
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I do apologize for those among my country men who are effectively illiterate, I assure you that not all of us are. Unfortunately we have a large portion of our populace who either deny reality or are just amoral liars. We simply used to call them trolls online, but I think itâs evolved to something more.
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Gawd, you really are dense⌠I never insisted that 25% was greater than 75%⌠So please enlighten me as to which Nation in that Dev Presentation had 75% of the player population in Eve?
Better yet, which Nation topped that Dev list for 20 years on having the highest percentage of player population in Eve?
Read it and weepâŚ
Dictionary
Definitions from Oxford Languages ¡ Learn more
ma¡jor¡i¡ty
/mÉËjärÉdÄ,mÉËjĂ´rÉdÄ/
noun
- the greater number.
âin the majority of cases all will go smoothlyâSimilar:
larger part/numbergreater part/number
major part
best/better part
Obviously your basic comprehension skills are sadly lacking⌠You really shouldnât have dropped out of schoolâŚ
Of all the Nations listed in that Dev Presentation, one Nation had over double the percentage amount of players in Eve for 20 years compared to any other Nation⌠That Nation was USA with 25%⌠The next closest Nation had 12%, next was 8%, etc, etc..
USA had over double the amount of any other Nation on that list⌠So Yeah, they had the majority of players in Eve compared to any other NationâŚ
Now stop combining all the other Nations into a single Nation, it only makes you look stupidâŚ
You are simply misunderstanding what that means, Iâm afraid. Here is a source that will slow-walk you through it.
noun
plural
majorities
-
the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total (minority ).
the majority of the population.
-
a number of voters or votes, jurors, or others in agreement, constituting more than half of the total number.
Glad I could be of service.
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Letâs strip away the fog, the theatrics, and the endless deflections: 25% is still less than 50%. Repeating it, italicising it, or citing cherry-picked dictionary entries doesnât magically turn it into a majority. Calling the largest single national slice a âmajorityâ is wrong, full stop. Aggregating all other nations isnât a dirty trick â itâs simple arithmetic: the rest of the players collectively are the majority.
Your mountains of text, insults, ad hominems and âlook how clever I amâ references donât alter the maths â they simply showcase an apparent inability to tell plurality from majority. End of story.
Bonus points: the forum rules frown on ad hominems. Given your habit of making accusations against others, may I suggest you follow the advice of Medice, cura te ipsum before harming something important, but tragically underutilised. And if that fails, perhaps a nice cup of tea and some basic arithmetic might work wonders.
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You might want to edit âunderstandingâ to read âmisunderstandingâ so that it makes sense.
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Whereâs the âgrammar policeâ when you need them? 
I miss the old forums. What can I say?
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Woop-woop, thatâs the sound of da police.
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I liked it because it reminded players that they had to word their posts as carefully as they flew! 
Figured you wouldnât answer the questions.. So instead you move the goal posts and change the numbers⌠
YawnâŚ
Pot calling Kettle, etcâŚ
Nice show of hypocrisy, hereâs one for youâŚ
Practice what you preachâŚ
You remind me of the old Sufi saying that âself justification is worse than the original offenceâ
The truly crazy thing is that your own âread it and weepâ refutes your interpretation rather than supporting it. What part of âlarger partâ are you failing to comprehend ?? Since when was 25% the âlarger partâ of 100% ? You donât seem to understand the very definition that you think you are using to refute everyone else. It actually refutes you !
But that is precisely how one defines majority ! Majority IS the portion of the whole. That has been its definition for 4000 years. It is precisely what âgreater partâ in your own definition meansâŚ..the greater portion of the whole.
That is what âlarger partâ MEANS. Has the penny dropped yet ?
Indeed, in UK elections it is often said that one party out of the 30 or so available â got no majorityâ if they fail to get more than 325 of the 650 seats in Parliament.
So please enlighten me as to which Nation in that Dev Presentation had 75% of the player population in Eve?
No single nation has 75% of the player population in Eve in that presentation. In the entire history of Eve Online, no single nation has ever accounted for anywhere even close to that number.
Better yet, which Nation topped that Dev list for 20 years on having the highest percentage of player population in Eve?
That isnât actually a question â itâs an attempt to reframe the discussion and drag it back to a point that no one is disputing. Yes, the US had the largest single national share. No one has claimed otherwise.
However, that does not make it a majority, and nothing youâve written changes the basic arithmetic.
Figured you wouldnât answer the questions.. So instead you move the goal posts and change the numbersâŚ
I havenât changed anything. The numbers have been the same from the start: 25% is less than 50% and therefore cannot be a majority in this context â or in virtually any other. That remains true no matter how many times you try to reposition the goal posts or redefine what a majority is.
YawnâŚ
Pot calling Kettle, etcâŚ
Are you suggesting that Iâve used âmountains of text, insults, ad hominems and âlook how clever I amâ references,â or that I have difficulty distinguishing plurality from majority?
Critiquing faulty logic is not an insult. Sarcasm is not an ad hominem. Pointing out mathematical errors is not a personal attack.
By contrast, calling people âdense,â questioning their education, and misusing the term âracistâ to score points are ad hominems, insults and personal attacks. They target the person rather than the argument â the textbook definition.
Nice show of hypocrisy, hereâs one for youâŚ
Practice what you preachâŚ
Iâve made no accusations â merely observations about historical behaviour patterns and inferences about the arguments presented. Those are not the same thing as attacking the person behind them.
If nothing else, this thread is an excellent reminder that plurality and majority are not interchangeable terms â no matter how loudly one insists otherwise.
Lets put it in a way that is unambiguous and clearâŚ
Imagine an election and there are 3 CandidatesâŚ.A, B, and C
Candidate A gets 35% of the vote
Candidate B gets 33% of the vote
Candidate C gets 32% of the vote
Candidate A may have the âlargest single portionâ of the voteâŚBUTâŚ.they do not have âthe majorityâ of the voteâŚ..as 65% of the electorate did not vote for them. They do not have the âlarger partâ of the vote and âlarger partâ most definitely means out of the entire 100%.
You are totally confusing âsingle largest portionâ with âmajorityâ. They are NOT the same thing.