


In this role, members are encouraged to treat all players with respect regardless of affiliation. "Signal Cartel is a service corporation to all of New Eden. For those unfamiliar with the Signal Cartel Credo:
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That's right, the leadership of the Eve-Scout Enclave answered questions about how to apply the credo of the Signal Cartel to various situations. If Royce and Lefebvre believe the tone of player communities is set from the top down, those on the recording I listened to Saturday night believe in the power of players to create communities from the bottom up. But I won't delve into old news as I am more interested in the topic of game communities. The feeling flows both ways, and the Goon's disdain for Massively helped spark the creation of. If anyone detects a note of "Grr Goons!", I do too. The punishments given to offending players tell players what the designers want the game to be, so it falls on the side of the studio to determine what sort of environment they ultimately want to encourage." EVE Online has a contentious and nasty environment not just because of the mechanics that encourage self-serving competition but also because the studio behind the game actively encourages players to be cutthroat and rewards members of the community who do so. "A lot also depends on how a game’s community is moderated, just the same.

Next up came Eliot Lefebvre, who offered this conclusion: Some games actively seek miscreants as their core constituency, and once your community has been tainted by or overrun by toxic players, it’s almost too late to salvage it." "In the meantime, I’d like to see MMO studios work on prevention. The first poke came, perhaps unsurprisingly, from Editor-And-Chief Brianna Royce: A Massively article on toxicity in a player base usually means shots fired in the direction of CCP and EVE players and the usual suspects did not disappoint. The subject was how to deal with toxicity in MMO communities. The article appeared last Thursday on Massively but I didn't see it until Saturday.

Over the weekend, I encountered an article and a recording, both referencing community and player behavior in EVE Online.
