HE SAID JEHOVAH!
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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.
Give me your thoughts.
(Nice read by the way, that link!)
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I feel like we’re getting sucked in talking to an AI bot…
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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.
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My motivation is just to arse about in space.
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.
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Orca Capsuleer Elite XIX Skin
It’s currently on sale for 17m ISK.
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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.
Have fun!
Nobody knows how much ISK anyone else has.
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.
EWWW!!!
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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.
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You have the freedom to use A.I responsibly. Just remember this is Eve Online Forum. We disagree on everything. 
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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.
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Boomers 
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Not quite. I was born in the 70s.
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I still do. Well, not reports or essays, but my own thoughts. Still using ink and paper.
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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 use Grok sometimes. I’m allergic to chatpt due to its wokeness.
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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.
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