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CCP Claw
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:13:00 -
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Hi Everybody
I am wondering: what do you do in Eve?
Are you a pvper? 0.0 or lowsec? Pirate?
Are you not a PvPer? Industry expert? Mission runner?
What do you do in Eve, why do you watch the tournament, what makes it good for you - I'd love to hear from everyone regardless of your Eve 'career' of choice.
I look forward to your responses and will be reading every single one!
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Mariel Gude
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:18:00 -
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joined EvE i early early 09, ran some missions, saw AT6, been pew pew-ing in low sec ever since
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Ikoras
Minmatar Final Agony B A N E
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:23:00 -
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I live for busting roids. mainly empire. My main enjoyment is falling asleep in belts and getting ganked by dessies, slow comfortable spins in the station, and nice moonlit evenings. I watch the tournament for the commentary, it's like watching Jon Madden on ESPN.
Just wondering, if my team wanted to bring a battle Hulk, how many points would that be?
and claw.... <3
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Tortugan
Internal Anarchy Beyond Virginity
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:24:00 -
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I am an alt of CCP Claw.
True story.
:D
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Kilrath Uskarl
Caldari Eve University Ivy League
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:28:00 -
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Started playing March of this year.
Right now I just attempt to haul stuff around without losing my Badger Mark II (2 lost so far).
I'd love to get into PvP, but I want to know what I'm doing before I go off and start losing money. So reading reading reading...
The tournament was one of the things that convinced me to play EVE. I was looking for an MMO to play (never played one before besides MUDs) and I stumbled onto the videos for AT7.
I watch the tournament to see who is who out there, as someone who wants to PvP I can't think of a better way to learn than watching the best (and reading the killboards).
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MissBolyai
North Eastern Swat Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:31:00 -
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I used to be good at eve. Then I joined shinra. Then I joined RKK. Then I started my own corp. Then I went BACK to RKK.
I'm still recovering.
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Hustomte
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:32:00 -
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Im relatively new to Eve (started December 2009) I still live out in Empire space, but I am trying to get my skill points up to 10 million that most corps in 0.0 require for admission.
Of all the things you listed, I am neither... I am a strange player who loves exploring and spending most of his game time using scanning probes. I feel Covert Ops would be my best fit. I enjoy watching PvP and would love to get involved with some combat scanning, but I don't feel the knuckle-bashing is for me (it would be fun, but im not good at it, still trying to figure out what is going on exactly).
As a new player to Eve I have found the "basic commentary" that most users on here are ridiculing, as something I find very educational and informative during the tournament. My uncle is the one who turned me on to Eve Online and the Alliance Tournament. He's participating for the first time in the tournament with the R.A.G.E team, and I couldn't be happier for them. I have several friends and family following the Alliance Tournament online and they seem pretty interested in it so far.
Some users pointed out that commentators were "stating the obvious" during the matches, but this has proven critical in not having to explain what is going on to new people and (hopefully) new players to Eve while watching these wonderful matches.
Thank you CCP for organizing such a well thought-out Alliance Tournament, and broadcasting live! :) I have enjoyed every minute of it and can hardly wait till the semi-finals! Bravo!
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Tyrrax Thorrk
Amarr Guiding Hand Social Club Dystopia Alliance
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:33:00 -
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Edited by: Tyrrax Thorrk on 08/06/2010 02:33:51
i'm the leader of a gang of notorious criminals
but i'm pretty inactive right now
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Kashimir
Otoko no Baito The Polaris Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:46:00 -
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Don't really like introductions but I guess this is the least I can do to thank for these epic tournaments.
I've lived in lowsec all my Eve career really, in a small corporation made up of reallife friends and relatively recently joined to more-or-less nationality based alliance. Got my first taste of carebear's tears on a trial account and have been doing what one might call pirating ever since.
I have been closely following the tournaments since the 3rd alliance tournament and I really like where they are going. It's really interesting to see the contrast between the completely unfair universe of Eve and the tournament matches which rules ensure that all teams stand on the same level and that we get to see so called 'fair fights' that really can't happen in TQ. Also it's always really interesting to see how the current trends of TQ affect the setups fielded in the qualifiers and how the setups of the finals affect the future trends of TQ. But really, I'm loving the every single aspect of the tournaments, those were just the first things to pop up.
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Viper ShizzIe
Habitual Euthanasia Dystopia Alliance
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Posted - 2010.06.08 02:56:00 -
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I used to be relevant, now I just kill **** in lowsec with motherships v0v
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Bacchanalian
Stimulus Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2010.06.08 03:00:00 -
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Originally by: MissBolyai I used to be good at eve. Then I joined shinra. Then I joined RKK. Then I started my own corp. Then I went BACK to RKK.
I'm still recovering.
And then you went and joined :NESW:
I'm a bitter vet troll (it's true, Jade said so) that cares only about my killboard epeen. And frankly not much is actually untrue about that statement. I'm still about as ****ed off as I can be about them nerfing my Claymore (I'll give you that my 15k/s vaga was a tad too much, but come on, my Claymore can't break 3 now and has no place in a nano gang), remember when warp to ten made PvP better but my places window much worse, and got into EVE thanks to a combination of the GHSC article and that one I can't find anymore about the guy who ripped off a bunch of people by setting up an IPO to purchase an Armageddon BPO right when BS first came out. Ganked a Goonswarm Stabber in lowsec in my failfit Vexor and never mined a roid again.
Currently live in 0.0, and as you (Clamdongues) probably know am in an alliance that focuses strictly on small gang pew pew and if I may say so myself are pretty damned good at it. In my free time I spy, troll, steal, scam, and otherwise find new and creative ways to spawn more of the sweet sweet tears that make EVE the only MMO I've never unsubbed from since the first week I started playing.
A special thanks to all the CCP devs who support griefing, ganking, stealing, spying, and all of the things that make EVE unique in the universe of MMOs, and please for the love of all that is holy, never ever change your views on it. The day any of the above are seriously nerfed is the day I quit. Maybe that makes me a bad person (I'm actually a pretty nice guy IRL, and would happily buy a beer for anyone I stomp all over so long as I'm secure that they won't cram the pint glass into my face once it's empty), but I love the laissez-faire attitude EVE has on this stuff. I hear stories about WoW where people who do the equivalent of a corp infiltration/hangar theft get banned and the group that gets ripped off gets their stuff back. Never let EVE sink to that level!
I watch the tourney so I have a good idea of what other teams are fielding and what fotms are and how to counter them, because I love the tourney and want my teams to do well. ____________________ GM Sunshine > oops Neurotica > Hate to see a GM in your gang say 'oops'
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Arminas Montello
Gallente Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2010.06.08 03:34:00 -
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Well as a miner I generally been spending about 14 hours a day mining in Hi-sec the past two weeks. I can normally be found in one of the numerous Pakhshi 0.8 asteroid belts in my Retriever looking for a good solid Gallente mining corp.
Started out training skills early on to be a PvP/ Mission runner. But the sirens call of the asteroids during those missions lured me here and I haven't left since. Should have my Hulk in a few more weeks and then.... then I'll be master of my Asteroid Belt!
I love watching the tournament for a number of reasons:
A) Keeps me from getting hypnotized by staring at slowly spinning asteroids as my Strip Miners eat away at them.
B) Keeps me in business as people need ore and minerals to build ships to replace those Drakes people seems to foolishly build, bring and get blown-up.
C) Keeps me in the loop of new ships, PvP tactics, and action you just don't see or get from NPC belt rats.
D) Most important of all. I get to see Tournament Cat and StevieSG.
Keep up the great work CCP. AT8 is better than last!
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A HOBO
Kangaroos With Frickin Lazerbeams Negative Ten.
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Posted - 2010.06.08 03:46:00 -
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pvp enthusiast who enjoys sunsets and long walks on the beach, my favourit hobies are fideling with eft and getting shot at.
enjoy watching the alliance tourney cos its The fairest fights anyone will ever get AND its small scale pvp so indavidual actions still mater ^^ also love the challenge of participating, getting the right setup and seing a plan come through. (and potential prizes) Lovin the tourney great coverage this year.
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Bacchanalian
Stimulus Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2010.06.08 03:58:00 -
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Originally by: A HOBO
indavidual actions still mater
This plays a big role for me. You can watch a perfect counter get fielded and the countered team will somehow pull a win out of their ass thanks to a combination of quality FCing, quality piloting, and a poor show from the counter team. Watching instances where a team that's down to 2 ships turns around to win the match make the tourney worth watching. And frankly, no rules can make that more or less likely to happen. ____________________ GM Sunshine > oops Neurotica > Hate to see a GM in your gang say 'oops'
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Istvaan Shogaatsu
Caldari Guiding Hand Social Club
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Posted - 2010.06.08 03:59:00 -
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Been in school for years, which prevented me from playing Eve much. For two years, I lived in Jita and spun ships, while keeping my character in training.
Now that I'm back, I'm not really sure what to start doing. Corp robbery back in the day gave me enough money to play Eve for free forever. In the past, I flew in tournaments, but now feel so lost that I wouldn't dare inflict my incompetence on my team. Even if I wasn't incompetent, most of my connections are gone, and most of my hated enemies are dead.
My character can fly just about anything with its 100m+ SP, so I guess I will start looking for more super-capitals to steal.
The reason I still like watching the tournament, is that my team plays in it. Every one of their matches fills me with an equal mixture of anus-clenching terror and twitching excitement.
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WhiteGhostBear
Furs of New Eden
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Posted - 2010.06.08 04:26:00 -
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Hello Mister Claw!
I'm not much of a PvPer, though I do have some PvP experience (a bit of general low sec silliness, some ransom work, and a bit of FW). I am mostly involved in production and low-sec exploration right now.
The Tournament is simply fun. It's Eve's version of the SuperBowl / World Cup, and I like to see the different strategies in play and how the work against each other. It's also fun to know about some of the corporations (or people) in the tournament, and cheer for (or against) them. And, of course, there's some betting involved and every tournament must have a few moments of spectacular drama that will be talked about for a long time.
It also looks sweet in HD on a big flat screen television.
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Kishin Sendo
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Posted - 2010.06.08 05:08:00 -
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Edited by: Kishin Sendo on 08/06/2010 05:11:08 Hi Claw
Currently I have been setting in my best training implants for about half year now(with PLEX ofc) to prefect my pvp char. And I am also logon once in a while to chat with friend. However what I will not do is play the game, because jump in system + black screen + pod in station is just not that fun for me. However I do plan to go back to pvping again once the lag has been fixed along with the release of Duke Nuke Forever
I really enjoy watching the tournament, because seeings ships able to fire on each other without lag and module delay is just so beautiful, and seeing it keeps my dream alive, the dream of one day, I can pvp with no lag, but until then, I can only watch and hope.
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dexington
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Posted - 2010.06.08 05:42:00 -
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I started playing EVE around 2-3 weeks ago, and i've mostly been doing pve missions. After seeing the tournament i've started to read the beginners guide to pvp and piracy, it will properly take alittle longer before i have the skills to get into pvp, but it is definitely something i want to get into.
It was only because of some random forum post i ended up in the tournament thread, and found the link to watch the live stream of the matches. I really did expect much of the live stream, and being new to the game i expected that i would understand very little of what was happening. I very surprised about the quality of the video and audio and the work put into giving the live stream the TV look and feel, the production team has really done a great job.
For me it was without any doubt the commentators that made the tournament worth watching, i know that there is different opinions on the performance of the commentators, but alot of the stuff that people say was to obvious i did'nt know.
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Nybbas
Guiding Hand Social Club Dystopia Alliance
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Posted - 2010.06.08 06:06:00 -
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I try to see how fast I can make my ship spin around in station. Then when I'm bored of doing that I get characters in alliances, build up trusting relationships with individuals, then rob them blind when they're not looking. Rinse and repeat.
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Ran Khanon
Amarr Swords Horses and Heavy Metal
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Posted - 2010.06.08 06:42:00 -
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what do you do in Eve?
Mix of mainly carebearing lvl 4's, small time pvp, exploring, socializing and helping out folks and lately; high sec wardecs and pos bashing, hatching evil schemes.
Are you a pvper? 0.0 or lowsec? Pirate?
Only part time pvp'er. Learning more and more. I do regard it as the most exciting part of the game and the thing I will spend most of my isk on.
Are you not a PvPer? Industry expert? Mission runner?
Doing loads of missions as I really enjoy them as a nice and brainless activity for a few hours after a day's work and it pays the bills and then some. It is a relaxing activity, while pvp is an exciting activity; something which I am not always in the mood for.
What do you do in Eve, why do you watch the tournament, what makes it good for you - I'd love to hear from everyone regardless of your Eve 'career' of choice.
The tournament is something I looked forward to after last years matches and I watched a lot of the older ones multiple times. It is the pinnacle of small fleet warfare; all reasonably to highly skilled pilots in an 'even' encounter without the option to chicken out. This teaches a lot about strength and weaknesses of tactics, ships, group set-ups and pvp mechanics in general. Loving it. There's also the community aspect: seeing people that you know compete and siding for them is always cool.
I really like seeing alternative setups being used such as last year's Stealth Bombing runs by PL, something which you see much more often now.
p.s. I also love the Jita cam in-between matches. It beats looking at a fish bowl and television and I don't have to go there myself ;-) Help us to make parrots game related today! |
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Meiyang Lee
Gallente Azteca Transportation Unlimited Gunboat Diplomacy
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Posted - 2010.06.08 06:54:00 -
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I am wondering: what do you do in Eve?
Are you a pvper? 0.0 or lowsec? Pirate? Not really, I tend to be the one evading PvPers when in low-sec.
Are you not a PvPer? Industry expert? Mission runner? Mission-runner by trade, some exploration and a bit of industry (on the rise due to PI). Quite a lot of socialising too.
What do you do in Eve, why do you watch the tournament, what makes it good for you - I'd love to hear from everyone regardless of your Eve 'career' of choice. The tournament is something I look forward to because, while it doesn't represent reality, it does give a fairly decent insight in small group tactics and the overall combat trends in EVE (distorted somewhat because of the format, but you get the idea). Besides, there isn't much that's better than watching pretty spaceships go boom. At present I'm not all that active because work is keeping me rather busy, but I try to spend a couple of hours a week in EVE at least.
I look forward to your responses and will be reading every single one!
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LoveKebab
Caldari Shut Up And Play WE FORM VOLTRON
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Posted - 2010.06.08 07:08:00 -
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when im not playing in the tournament i run anomalies in stain \o/ xVid4PSP MKV Encoding Tutorial |
Kesper North
Caldari Epiphyte Mining and Exploration Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.06.08 08:47:00 -
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0.0 alliance leader, corp CEO, PVPer to the end.
I watch this tournament to see what tactics people come up with, to see the shocking defeats and miraculous victories. And, of course, to shout for my alliance's team. The tournament is what we all wish PVP was all the time - a fast-paced battle of wits, tactics and setups, rather than sitting in space praying my guns get unstuck in time to get on another killmail before the node dies...
-- Killed me? Read about it in my blog! Northern Lights: Solo PVP in EVE Online
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Pinky Denmark
The Cursed Navy Important Internet Spaceship League
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Posted - 2010.06.08 09:05:00 -
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Hey everybody - My name is Pinky Denmark and Im addicted...
I love to pvp and I have been doing low-sec piracy, 0.0 fleets and roams, Empire Warfare.
I have been playing this game for a while - I was even in alliance with TT back when he was only slightly annoying and somewhat sensible...
Back in the days I lived in 0.0 with IAC, I've been living in Curse with iPOD and I was living in the drone regions too... But then my corp started being inactive so I grabbed the leftovers and moved to empire.
For a few years I had tremendous fun with empire wars - wardeccing either substantially larger corps/alliances or seemingly strong organizations usually offers good, fun fights. Small RR fleets (3-6 ships), hac-fleets etc.
Today we joined our old lowsec friends and are now living in Providence - lots of 0.0 pvp with cruiser fleets, BC-fleets just roaming around having fun. I like it in BDEAL (Important Internet Spaceship League). All about having fun and rather blow up than have no explosions at all...
This year Im taking part of the tournament, but I love the tournament for this: *They are fair fights (by concept of equal oportunity) *the constant pvp multiple hours everyday delivered right to my screen *people not docking up or sandbagging with multiple logistics and big blobs. *I love people bringing lots of varied setups all with shiney ships you dont see blow up everyday *The commentators giving info and telling even if they are not 100% accurate *The feeling of being a proud Eve Player with this even going strong WOOHOO -
I'm a nice guy!! But plz hook me up with some pew pew... |
QwaarJet
Gallente hirr Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2010.06.08 09:08:00 -
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Been in the game since beta. Left and rejoined in April 2004, been playing ever since.
The reason I watch the tourney is the same reason I've played in 6 of them. It's my true passion in EVE. My first tournament was the second tourney for Chorus Of Dawn and I've been addicted to it ever since.
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Keitaro Baka
Babylon Scientific and Industrial Enterprises Babylon Project
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Posted - 2010.06.08 09:20:00 -
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Great to see princess Tyrrax and all his alts here :D
Started in beta, messed around a bit, finally made this carebear char about 6 years ago, focussing on drones (orly). RL and EvE don't often mix well so had my periods out of game. I generally hang around doing a mish or two, helping out newbs, rofl on the eve-o forums, spin me shippies in station and lol at people in local.
Started pvp bunny couple years back, joined the biggest bunch of drunkies I could find for some null sec pwnage, got decently pwned (<3 IAC) and ended up in FW now, killing noob squids and having fun with pirates.
But mostly I try to annoy people :D
All the above is prolly crap Drone Guide
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Sperrzone
Stardust Heavy Industries Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.06.08 09:22:00 -
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Edited by: Sperrzone on 08/06/2010 09:24:17 Joined eve early 2004 and pretty active all the time with some minor breaks due to ISP failover when i moved to another place
I am wondering: what do you do in Eve?
PVP all day \o/ prefer the small scale stuff but the Game itself forces you to do the lagfights mostly
Are you a pvper? 0.0 or lowsec? Pirate? 0.0 and a bit lowsec
Are you not a PvPer? Industry expert? Mission runner? i started as Miner but that got boring pretty fast
What do you do in Eve, why do you watch the tournament, what makes it good for you - I'd love to hear from everyone regardless of your Eve 'career' of choice.
I was watching it because initially i was on our Team but my GFX died 15 min before the fight started So i sat infront of the stream and was shouting targets at my Screen for myself and wishing the best for our ME Team.
Wish the PvP on TQ would be more like the fights in the Tournament, much more tactical, less blobby, laggy.
Looking forward to the next round
to my ME brosefs: "NC BFF NC BFF"
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Artemis Rose
Sileo In Pacis THE SPACE P0LICE
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Posted - 2010.06.08 09:32:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Claw Hi Everybody
I am wondering: what do you do in Eve?
I make my living in EVE by posting fake threads packed with lulz so people can be e-famous. Business is pretty good, as it is getting harder to impress people with "MAD LEET AWSOME SKILZOR" so most people just rely on my fake threads.
Quote: Are you a pvper? 0.0 or lowsec? Pirate?
Lowsec PvPer. Hellbent on the never ending mission to cleanse lowsec of impurities and making it a safer place for angels.
Quote: a) What do you do in Eve, b) why do you watch the tournament, c) what makes it good for you
a) Helping the EVE community in many ways, ranging from e-peen enhancements to angel preservation.
b) Love watching small scale PvP and plenty of out of the box tactics
c) The upsets and the close matches. *** Currently Playing: Trolls from Outer Space Current Equipment: VISAcard chain mail, +2 Amulet of Epic Whine, Self Banstick +2 WTB: +666 E-peen killboard stats |
BRooDJeRo
Cutting Edge Incorporated RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2010.06.08 09:41:00 -
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Edited by: BRooDJeRo on 08/06/2010 09:44:55 Hello Mr. Claw,
I'm a PVPer and ocasionaly a typical carebear since 2003. Basicly i follow my corps and alliance guidelines and try to forfill in their needs where needed. I watch the tournament simply because it exites me. Its fun to watch the different ships, setups and tactics go against eachother within a set of rules where total griefing isnt possible. (Bribes, backstabs and watfquitrage excluded) The tournament gives the citizens of eve a glimpse of alliances capabilitys and moral. In a way i see it as a worldcup.
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Scrobes
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Posted - 2010.06.08 09:43:00 -
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I started playing in September 2009. My only interest is PvE. We all play the game for different reasons, and mine is simply because I enjoy flying the different ships and shooting stuff (not people ;)). It's stress free and I just want to relax after work. ;) I doubt I'll ever leave hi-sec, but who cares. There is *no* other game that plays and looks like Eve, so here I am.
Anyway, just because I only play PvE doesn't mean I hate PvP, but it's not my thing personally in this particular game (I've played plenty of online FPS). So while watching the tournament might seem odd, I'm finding it very enjoyable. I don't know how to equate it. I don't own a Formula 1 car, but sometimes it's fun to watch the Grand Prix. I don't play football, but I like to catch an England match in the World Cup, if the opportunity arises. So, it's fun seeing all the different ships, the setups, the tactics, etc. I'm not rooting for any particular alliance, I don't care who wins. In fact I'd be more inclined to root for particular ships.
Oh and my hat goes off to the alliances bringing something more original to their lineups. I can understand why they're used; but seeing so many tengus, scimitars, hurricanes, drakes and angel ships is starting to get a bit old. ;p I mean that light-heartedly, but I'm sure most would agree. It's nice seeing the odd Ferox, Maller, Vindicator, and even a Hawk (!).
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