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Patient 2428190
DEGRREE'Fo'FREE Internet Business School
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Posted - 2011.04.19 16:18:00 -
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Its less s*** than every other MMO I've tried and I've been here far too long already ...Then when you stopped to think about it. All you really said was Lalala. |
HeIIfire11
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Posted - 2011.04.19 16:31:00 -
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Originally by: Naomi Wildfire That said i'm flying all races and think every race is fun and they are balanced.
I admit I did lol...very hard infact.Good one,made my day
You were joking right?
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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2011.04.19 17:37:00 -
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Edited by: Ana Vyr on 19/04/2011 17:42:38 Edited by: Ana Vyr on 19/04/2011 17:41:48 For me, it's the love of sci fi and the complexity of the game model, and the fact that you can enjoy said complexity without having to be at the keyboard 100% of the time. It's a relaxing game to play as an industrialist. I don't have to schedule play time around my family. Very convenient.
When I want guild interaction (drama) and heavily focussed gaming (can't tear eyes off the screen or it's a wipe), I play WoW. I tried nullsec alliance play for a while a couple years ago in EvE...the extreme drama and the fact that you really can't trust anyone not to screw you over for ISK in EvE, made that lifestyle unbearable. You really need to focus and have massive gameplay time to make that work, I think. In WoW everything is bite sized, you can form a raid and run it inside of three hours. EvE wasn't like that at all...sometimes it took 3 hours to form the friggin' fleet, and the action can be unending at times. That sort of thing doesn't work well when you have a couple of young kids and many other responsibilities. After all that effort, you are rewarded with a slideshow, watching tiny litte red X's blow up other red X's, with all the graphics bling that is so beautiful in EvE turned off. I just don't understand the appeal, unless it's from a pure military strategy standpoint, and only the officers really got to partipate in that bit. Shrug, to each his own.
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J Kunjeh
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.04.19 17:55:00 -
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Edited by: J Kunjeh on 19/04/2011 17:55:42
Originally by: Ana Vyr
When I want guild interaction (drama) and heavily focussed gaming (can't tear eyes off the screen or it's a wipe), I play WoW. I tried nullsec alliance play for a while a couple years ago in EvE...the extreme drama and the fact that you really can't trust anyone not to screw you over for ISK in EvE, made that lifestyle unbearable. You really need to focus and have massive gameplay time to make that work, I think. In WoW everything is bite sized, you can form a raid and run it inside of three hours. EvE wasn't like that at all...sometimes it took 3 hours to form the friggin' fleet, and the action can be unending at times. That sort of thing doesn't work well when you have a couple of young kids and many other responsibilities. After all that effort, you are rewarded with a slideshow, watching tiny litte red X's blow up other red X's, with all the graphics bling that is so beautiful in EvE turned off. I just don't understand the appeal, unless it's from a pure military strategy standpoint, and only the officers really got to partipate in that bit. Shrug, to each his own.
And some people wonder why so many pilots have no desire whatsoever to go out to 0.0. I personally would love to go out to null at some point, but stories like the above surely make me wonder if it's even worth the effort.
~Gnosis~ |
Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2011.04.19 18:01:00 -
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I didn't mean that to be disheartening per se. It's just a reflection of why I wasn't able to enjoy alliance life. In a nutshell, I just didn't have the time for it.
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Solstice Project
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Posted - 2011.04.19 18:11:00 -
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Freedom Of Choice.
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Lost Greybeard
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Posted - 2011.04.19 18:47:00 -
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Skill advancement tied to real time (rather than grinding) and a complete reliance on pvp, with location and context only defining the _manner_ in which PvP occurs.
Basically, it's the MMO closest to a real RPG rather than a Korean-model "RPG". ---
If you outlaw tautologies, only outlaws will have tautologies. ~Anonymous |
Solstice Project
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Posted - 2011.04.19 20:19:00 -
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Edited by: Solstice Project on 19/04/2011 20:20:29 Edit: Oh, the profanity filter misses some words i guess ... ^^
Originally by: Lost Greybeard Skill advancement tied to real time (rather than grinding) and a complete reliance on pvp, with location and context only defining the _manner_ in which PvP occurs.
Basically, it's the MMO closest to a real RPG rather than a Korean-model "RPG".
Okay. That ... and freedom of choice.
= the fact i can ...
... say **** (you), ****, *****, *******, sucker, idiot, moron in public ... ... can name my ships in offensive ways others definitly get disturbed from (it's a tactic ^^) ... ... blow up a noob because he annoys me, smacks in local or for no particular reason ... ... can hunt somebody, almost kill him and then hunt together with him ... ... can scare the **** out of ppl while being AFK ... ... trade, produce, just fly around looking at stuff ... ... DISCO IN A BATTLESHIP IN HIGHSEC (still have to do that one) ...
To sum it up, what made me love EvE is THIS particular video ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZ0EcsneSg
Freedom of choice.
Welcome ... to EvE Online.
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J Kunjeh
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.04.19 20:21:00 -
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Originally by: Ana Vyr I didn't mean that to be disheartening per se. It's just a reflection of why I wasn't able to enjoy alliance life. In a nutshell, I just didn't have the time for it.
I know you didn't. But I'm already very familiar with the amount of time and dedication a null player can end up putting into the game. And yeah, I don't have the time to spend 10 hours straight fighting one battle. I wish my time were that free!
~Gnosis~ |
Nyreanya
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Posted - 2011.04.20 00:34:00 -
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It's a heartbreakingly beautiful game. There's no quick win, it's a gradual EVEntual climb to the top, and even when you get there there's more to aspire to. It's a universe driven by the players, everyone fighting for rEVEnue, rEVEnge, are achiEVEment. It's an EVErlasting sandbox where the clEVEr and persEVEring are rewarded. |
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Holy One
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Posted - 2011.04.20 01:27:00 -
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pvp. but with the proliferation of caps and the summer taking hold its dried up completely since incursion.
seriously dead last two months.
ubsub time till winter I guess.
BBQ makes me hungry for more... |
Methesda
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Posted - 2011.04.20 03:18:00 -
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Unlike <every> other MMO I've tried (which is a few), Eve is the only one that I can play as little or as much as I like, and I never feel like I've been left behind, or that there isn't something new to try.
I have taken a number of breaks during my time, and I've never regretted firing up the account again, so this is true on a long term scale as well as a day to day scale.
Also, the community here is vastly more mature than any other I've ever met. There are still some bad words said between adversaries, but I have never felt that there are a lot of people in Eve who play solely to verbally abuse others.
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Christopher AET
Segmentum Solar Intergalactic Exports Group
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Posted - 2011.04.20 06:47:00 -
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Because I look after many children and I feel responsible for them. Any CEO of a decent size corp probably knows what I mean. Also choosing a target and slowly crushing them over many months. (Ambushes/Threats/Misdirection/omgwtfcapdrop). It's the fact that fighting a war requires so much. Espionage. Propaganda. Subversion. Aggression. Subtlety. Overt fury. All viable tactics when applied properly.
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Lissian
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Posted - 2011.04.20 11:32:00 -
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I can only go by my first impressions as a new player, but where do I start? The limitless sandbox gameplay... The wonderful graphics, sound and music... The unique and interesting skill system... A clever character deletion system, that lets you can change your mind, and stops hackers deleting chars immediately... An in-game mail system that actually stops spam being sent to you... An amazing character creator/customiser... The fact that EVE feels more like an environment than a game...
As I've discovered, it's the wonderful community that makes EVE what it is, and why I play it. Couple of nights ago I finally got around to asking for some help on an SOE epic arc mission - Chasing Shadows; Parthus' cap drainer was proving a little... expensive. So I put out a request in local... I had a very nice offer I had to turn down as I was invited to fleet with three very friendly and helpful players, one of which not only helped me defeat Parthus but also very kindly offered to stick around for the rest of the arc, helping me with Dagan. And then they gave me advice as to what to do next. That never happened in WoW, unless you were in a guild. Just making a request in a regular chat channel and getting help like that? Never.
That's why I play EVE.
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Seul Manus
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Posted - 2011.04.20 13:37:00 -
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No other game like it ATM, and its slowly becoming a WoW type world, once we can walk in stations.
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Garbol Hellbrecht
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Posted - 2011.04.20 14:21:00 -
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I like how my wallet icon blinks. oooooh... shinny....
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Norian Lonark
Gallente Black Thorne Corporation Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2011.04.20 14:23:00 -
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Originally by: Shawna Gray Its the only mmo worth playing.
This sums it up. I tried other MMO's but nothing really compares to Eve or has been able to hold my attention for as long. For all the things CCP might get wrong they get a hell of a lot more right.
The first MMO I ever played was Ultima Online the reason I played that was the freedom choices you could make player driven world the immersion and number of great people playing the game..
Sadly for me UO became stagnant I tried a number of MMO's played for a few months and moved on because everything else was the same cookie cutter grind then I came across Eve and that feeling when I first booted up UO came back and has stayed the community is great, CCP has great vision and the game gives freedom, complexity and immersion that nothing else out there offers.
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Jodie Amille
Gunship Diplomacy
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Posted - 2011.04.20 15:48:00 -
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Eve is, and has been for a few months, a 15$ per month chat client and character development system.
I am debating cutting back to one account again cause pvp has become terrible due to people being raging vaginas and refusing to undock without 30 friends with them. --------
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Vani Nostro
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.04.20 16:10:00 -
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Aside from the overall setting, immersion and strategy-like gameplay which I find pretty good there are two other rather important things:
1. It is not converted into mainstream crapware by the big game companies yet.
2. It has a mac client (even if it is through wrapper software it is still playable in OS X)
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Sader Rykane
Amarr Midnight Sentinels Midnight Space Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.04.20 16:37:00 -
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Originally by: Calathea Sata In the beginning for spaceship coolness. Later for the level of immersion and depth of the game, also interesting backstories etc. And now, to troll the forums like a ****in champ.
finished your post for you.
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Ioci
Gallente Morrigna Order
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Posted - 2011.04.20 18:11:00 -
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I don't know why I keep playing. 2 years ago I spent $1000 a year on EVE and was religious about Skills and never losing a minute. Now I spend maybe $200 a year, could care less if I lose a day or 2 with inactive skills. Anything I wanted 4 years ago I gave up on. Have no long term mission. I don't hate EVE. I brag it up every where I go but for me it's not as enchanting. It is still fun in small doses and it has brilliant concepts even if there are mechanical barriers that make most of those concepts unobtainable. |
Fulmar Muse
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Posted - 2011.04.20 18:59:00 -
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2 words ... --> !!!STAR WARS!!! <-- something to do with that
....that, and I love the complexities and wonder that you find in something as deep and huge as eve!!! it's like those weird bushes you saw whn you was a kid, where you was certain there was giant and his pet tarantula living inside...
that kind of shi7... that's why really.
"Keep on doin what you doin, do it gud.. huuh!"
Super fly] |
Spacewarp
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Posted - 2011.04.20 19:08:00 -
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Where else can i fly in the biggest meanest spaceships, armed to the teeth with big guns and still be named a carebear :p ?
Honestly: the fact that you can become almost whatever you can think of is awesome in EVE. And when your chosen path isnt working that well as you expected?......you dont start a new toon, but just the smae in a total new direction. I LOVE EVE!
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Zyress
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Posted - 2011.04.20 20:28:00 -
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Really it's all about spinning my ship in station really quickly
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Yue Rubens
Fnord Works Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2011.04.20 20:55:00 -
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Edited by: Yue Rubens on 20/04/2011 20:57:30 Edited by: Yue Rubens on 20/04/2011 20:55:57 To OP:
Many years ago I played X-Beyond the frontier (part 1) and loved the idea, but urged for it to be multiplayer. To discover the same principles in EVE fascinated me.
My main excuse to play eve is that I come into contact with the english language, as I study translation at university.
When I founded fnord works 4 years ago with leshie I never thought it would go this far, and I have to say my reasons to play eve have and continue to change daily.
Liked the industrialist side, then began to warm to pvp. Now I love small/med gang pvp in my scimitar, it's one of the main reasons I play. Most other content in eve is pretty dull and badly designed (nice work on the incursions tho ccp^^), but that's not what this is about.
Nowadays, I don't really care what I do as long as it keeps my corporation going. It's with who I do it what matters, and for what I do it. EVE is the people you play with.
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Tyberius Rage
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Posted - 2011.04.20 21:38:00 -
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I ask myself this question all the time.
There are many negative aspects of EvE that I greatly dislike. First and foremost is much of the negativity that is displayed between people. Quite frankly many people treat one another with disdain and disrespect without regards for the impact one causes on another. This game breeds a culture of hate through war that is really unhealthy psychologically. Second I dislike much of the cheating that takes place within the game itself. Whether it comes from RMT, Botting, Stealing, or Scamming. There seems to be a culture that goes along the lines of, "Well it has happened to me, so I cam going to do it to someone else. - As if two wrongs make a right. Instead it creates a vicious cycle that continues to breed within the game, and carry's outside the game as well. I am a firm believer that people think that because you can not see the person face to face that it is OK to treat one with little regard to how ones actions affect another. It is a rather sad picture of how corrupt humanity is, and EvE generally feels. I don't feel it is all in good fun. Because I have personally been a part of factions that spew such behavior, and quite frankly it is disheartening. So if I had to close this rant, I would like it like this, "Can't we all just get along?" Seriously, yes, it is just a bunch of pixels, but the people staring at the pixels are real and what each of us does truly affect one another. I personally don't hold any hope that this will change. All I can do is be as honorable as I can be, and hopes that people will treat me the same. The last thing I hate is how EvE feels like I am wishing my life away. I think it comes with the way you develop your character - in REAL TIME. It's kind of like watching your child grow up (I have 3). While it happens the time goes by slowly, but one day you look back and your kid is 18 and you wonder, where in the hell did time (and my life) go. I started playing EvE when i was 32, and now I'm 37 - I don't know where the last 5 years of my life went. I really don't even have anything to show for it as I don't even have the same character I started with. This makes it even even worse. Depressing.
Now, I love EvE because it is massive, beautiful, and exhilarating to play. EvE is a game that is 98% of the time passive, and 2% of the time aggressive. That aggression brings out such an adrenalin rush that after your nerves calm, you rush around looking for a way to get that feeling again. It is like a doped out person looking for his next high. This can't be healthy on the nervous system. I also love dreaming about the future, and what it would be like to live in space and fly around in space ships. It makes me sad to know that I live in this time, and will never see what will become. I guess playing EvE fills my sci-fi fantasy. I enjoy it greatly. I love EvE because it is quiet, and alot of times I can collect my thoughts and meditate on the plethora of things that go through my mind. I love EvE because it is played by other adults, and so I don't always feel like such an immature kid because I still love to play video games. But I mostly love EvE because I get to be a part of something outside of the real world that I don't really get to be a part of outside the game. That is a community of nerdy computer geeks who relate to me, and whom I relate with as well.
Anyway, now that I written this lame ass book, all I can be grateful for now is that I wrote it on an alt nobody knows.
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