Your chatgpt is even worse at making bad assumptions than many forum posters, likely because no thought went into it.
I like well-written text and enjoy reading books. I often even enjoy reading badly written text if written by a human because I can decipher what thoughts the writer has and is trying to convey.
I mean, I’ve read a lot of that here on the forums.
Chatgpt posts?
Like the link @Skadoos shared: I would rather read the prompt.
Just have to jump in with a quick EVE history lesson.
PLEX was originally introduced to combat RMT.
Dodgy sites were selling ISK generated by botting operations.
Acknowledging that there are people prepared to just buy ISK, regardless of the risks this entailed and backed by widespread community hatred of RMT, the Pilots Licence EXtension was introduced.
As an anti-rmt measure, it’s been spectacularly successful.
I sit with a balance below 2bn, I don’t really care, i have between 5 and 10 of every ship that I like to fly, bases in various places across NE, a manufacturing base with I keep billions in minerals and materials, etc.
I don’t need a high balance unless I’m looking to get something going, like some sort of project, which I’m not bothered about right now. When I do I’ll maybe unload some assets.
The game is only about ISK when, you make it about the ISK.
I can mine 1 billion ISK or buy Plex, but so far never bought Plex to convert to ISK. I don’t pursue making ISK as a good goal, but it helps achieve some goals. Some set their goal to get skilled. but the most an alpha can use is about 20 million points. Once they are done, they either need a new goal, or they need to continue with omega skills.
When I started playing here 5.2 M ISK bought 1 Plex, maybe you could still get it for 5.0, I don’t see how even at 7.0 you get $4 for 1 B ISK. $5 buys you 100 Plex 5.9 buy price gets you 590 million. I don’t see where you are getting it for $4, unless you are buying something other than Plex. They can sell it tomorrow for 2 cents and it still won’t change the way I play this or any other game.
I guess it boils down to the type of player you define yourself to be. I for example, can play Bingo Blitz for free without cracking open the piggy bank for more time and buffs. I am playing Bingo online and not winning real money. It is a game, not an occupation.
Personally I don’t PvE…I generally only do PvP…which is why I buy PLEX to convert to ISK. I simply don’t have time to mine for 15 hours, and I find fighting NPCs boring. Buying PLEX is maybe a once a year thing…and in fact, as I’ve only lost about 10% of my total worth over the years I have not bought PLEX for about 9 months or so. There’s really no point in having more ISK than I actually ‘need’.
Gerard, I get that you romanticize the charm of flawed human writing—typos, run-ons, and all. But let’s be honest: half this forum reads like a spilled energy drink on a keyboard. If a tool like ChatGPT helps someone organize thoughts, make a clearer point, or just get the courage to post, what’s the harm?
You’re welcome to prefer handwritten napkin notes scanned into the forum if that’s your thing, but some of us enjoy content over provenance. Whether it’s typed by a person, polished by a tool, or dictated by a parrot—if the message lands, it counts.
I’d rather read flawed human writing of real EVE players who wish to share their ideas about EVE than wade through automatically generated text without soul or intention, however flawless the grammar may be.
After all we’re here to share our opinions and ideas about EVE, not to see who can generate most flawless text.
It would be a nightmare for me if this forum turned into a place where people only talk to eachother through chatbots, where you never know whether some written text is the actual opinion of that person or an LLM artefact that they didn’t delete. Where the ratio of text volume to message massively increases to the point that people need chatgpt to summarize it all to distill the message from the pages and pages of text.
I wanted to point out the flaws in assumptions you made in your last post, but realized you probably did not even make those assumptions yourself, which would make it pointless for me to point that out as I’d be arguing against an LLM.
Please stop spamming the forums with automatically generated text.
So we have spell check and AI to improve posts now? In my day, we wrote reports and essays with an ink pen during class with no books or computers for aid.
Your concern about “automatically generated text” overlooks a key point: the tool doesn’t replace the human—it amplifies them. You’re not talking to ChatGPT. You’re talking to me, using ChatGPT to better express my ideas. That’s no different than someone using spellcheck, Grammarly, or even Google to refine their posts. Are we going to ban those too?
You assume that writing without “flawless grammar” is more “authentic,” but that’s a false dichotomy. Good grammar doesn’t mean a lack of soul—it means clarity. If I use a tool to help me communicate more clearly and effectively, that enhances the conversation—not dilutes it.
The fear that the forum becomes unreadable because of too much content is not a problem with ChatGPT—it’s a problem with attention span and critical thinking. If someone can’t handle reading a few extra paragraphs, that’s on them. We don’t need less expression; we need more literacy.
And finally, if your argument hinges on the idea that it’s “pointless” to engage with a post because I might have used a tool to help me write it, then you’re not debating content, you’re gatekeeping method. Either refute the argument or move on. Don’t dismiss it because it was too well written.
So no—I won’t stop contributing thoughtfully written posts just because they don’t meet your arbitrary standard of “soulful imperfection.” If anything, that’s the kind of elitist attitude that kills discussion, not fosters it.
I’ve never seen so many of em dashes in a paragraph in my life, definitely talking to ChatGPT and not a person. You’re just going to get yourself ignored for leaking slop into our game, that’s all.
You express a lot of faux-righteous indignation and insult when anyone questions your use of AI word-generators, for some reason.
Not sure what the actual trigger was here: it appears you made a long AI post to make a short point, but then edited it down (3 edits) to three sentences.
And apparently those three sentences express everything that was relevant. Which is why it got a like from me.
To skip past all the AI posturing and moralizing, just consider that ChatGPT-style tools will never accomplish more than summarizing what has already been said, in different words and format. It provides nothing new and no new insights.
If a summary/recap is what is needed, for example of a long debate attempting to cover multiple aspects of an issue, then it can be a great tool. However you’ve used it to summarize, for instance, a thread that was something like 10 posts long with only a few points made.
I get that you’re exploring a new toy and amusing yourself, which is fine. However “wall of text” posts generally receive pushback regardless of how they’re generated. AI is a tool like spreadsheets, sure, but if I ask a store clerk “how much does this cost?”, it’s rather pointless for him to bring me out a stack of spreadsheets to review.
If you’re going to be honest about “hey you don’t like my posts just scroll past them”, then start flagging them at the top with “AI; DR”. But since if you’re making posts, you either want people to read them, or want them to approve of your posts, you should note how few likes your (or any other posters’) AI summaries get.
Apparently people don’t find the text version of spreadsheets any more interesting than the numeric ones. A tool is only as good as the use you put it to.
