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Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
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Posted - 2013.09.23 18:22:00 -
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I find real life is a nice occasional respite from the hyper-tense, disappointment-fueled, predatory maze that is New Eden. There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance. |
Guttripper
State War Academy Caldari State
332
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Posted - 2013.09.23 18:30:00 -
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While heading to work at night and driving through some seedier areas on the south side of Chi-town, I mentally note what the security standings for the area would be and how often I see Concord (police). |
Jenn aSide
STK Scientific Initiative Mercenaries
2843
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Posted - 2013.09.23 18:36:00 -
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EVE has helped me realize that all life is interconnected. I mean really.
I once had a good part-time job that I liked very much and that i would work at a few times a week after getting off from my full time job. I had a good boos till he retired and this guy named Charles C. Pruitt took over and decided to streamline the operation. The FIRST thing chuck did was reduce my hours. So I quit.
That night I went home and realized that CCP had nerfed the hell out of one of my favorite ships. Then it hit me, the new Bosses instals where also "CCP" and the FIRST thing he did was nerf my job right out from under me.
Moral of the story is that anything named CCP is going to screw you |
Nuela
Beacon Light Corporation Beacon Light Alliance
156
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Posted - 2013.09.23 19:51:00 -
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Eve has taught me that scams are even more commonplace than I naively thought.
I now see scams everywhere. Sure, they may not be as malicious/aggressive/intense as Eve scams (the ones that are I was always aware of)...but I now see the 'smaller' scams for what they are. |
KuroVolt
The Legion of Spoon Curatores Veritatis Alliance
733
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Posted - 2013.09.23 19:58:00 -
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I LIVE IN A BOX.
Thank goodness the building next to me has wifi. |
Sir Spottington
Merchants Trade Consortium The Last Chancers.
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Posted - 2013.09.23 20:40:00 -
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nothing, its a game...... |
Dracnys
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Posted - 2013.09.23 20:56:00 -
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I love playing with the EVE markets and decided to study economics IRL. |
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CCP Sunset
C C P C C P Alliance
205
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Posted - 2013.09.23 22:48:00 -
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Came to FanFest Met a boy Fell in love Moved to Iceland Got married Started working at CCP Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks
I love EVE <3 European Associate Sales Specialist, Presenter: EVE TV, tea enthusiast. |
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Makoto Priano
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
4773
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Posted - 2013.09.23 22:58:00 -
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Wait, what? Congrats, Sunset! \o/
One hell of a life accomplishment right there! Good luck with the first three months of alarm clock ops. ;) |
Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
54
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Posted - 2013.09.23 23:39:00 -
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CCP Sunset wrote:Came to FanFest Met a boy Fell in love Moved to Iceland Got married Started working at CCP Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks
I love EVE <3 We have a winner.
There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance. |
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Ezslider
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
12
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Posted - 2013.09.23 23:45:00 -
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Sir Spottington wrote:nothing, its a game......
^^this
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Ivan Krividus
Born Crazy Brothers of Tangra
14
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Posted - 2013.09.23 23:51:00 -
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It provided a refuge from the crap communities of every other game, and made me think more cunningly in other games too. Try doing a gold doubling or trade scam in WoW, for instance. Its hilarious |
Felicity Love
Whore and Peace
856
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Posted - 2013.09.24 00:44:00 -
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EVE online gave me a renewed meaning to the word "gank", in the purely virtual sense.
Before that, "gank" was what I did with TOW2 missiles during my military career -- I only wish there was a "Killboard" back in those days.
Proud Beta Tester for "Bumping Uglies for Dummies" |
Luis Graca
209
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Posted - 2013.09.24 00:55:00 -
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CCP Sunset wrote:Came to FanFest Met a boy Fell in love Moved to Iceland Got married Started working at CCP Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks
I love EVE <3
I can understand the part where you met a boy at fanfest, but how the hell did you marry someone you meet at fanfest? they are all horrible people you can check by the letter the work of the last fanfest send to CCP
If it was because of the alcohol can you say what have you drink cause that must be really good
Also more important congrats for the baby |
Large Collidable Object
morons.
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Posted - 2013.09.24 01:43:00 -
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Luis Graca wrote:
[...]alcohol [...]baby
Sounds quite plausible - also should perfectly qualify him/her to become a future CCP CEO.
Considering recent balance decisions, suffering from FAS obviously increases chances to get a job at CCP.
Congrats :). You know... morons. |
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
3413
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Posted - 2013.09.24 02:45:00 -
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This game is the advanced version of something I tried to do in the late 90s using Java and RPC. It was mainly an academic endeavor.
So we had bad spaceships in wireframe zipping about and the one "NPC" was a big borg cube that said "resistance is futile" on the "radio channels" and kept killing everybody with missiles for which there were no models.
The frame rate on a 586 was around 6 FPS and the communications and update structure for the models was so bad it would make you cry.
So in 2006 when I started playing, I got renewed interest in graphics and programming because of this game. I had prior to that moved to electronics since the late 90s after getting burned out preventing Y2K disasters on big boring corporate mainframes.
Because of this, OpenGL. Because of that C++.
That knowledge got me the job I took on in 2007, 3000 miles from where I started, that I still have today. |
Tuggboat
Oneida Inc.
25
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Posted - 2013.09.24 03:12:00 -
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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Such characters in colour dim I mark'd Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd: Whereat I thus: Master, these words import. |
Mascha Tzash
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.09.24 08:11:00 -
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CCP Sunset wrote: Came to FanFest
Met a boy Fell in love
Moved to Iceland
Got married
Started working at CCP
Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks
I love EVE <3
I have my fingers crossed for a healthy baby. |
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CCP Falcon
4084
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Posted - 2013.09.24 10:32:00 -
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It's an eleven year long story that involves a Rattlesnake, a few trillion ISK, a rabbit-eared skull, 200 crazy pirates, corp theft, 1100 pages of player fiction, a couple of thousand roleplayers, two girlfriends, two boyfriends, two masters degrees, a 120mph car crash with a triple end over end flip, Cards against Humanity, drunkenly breaking into my apartment after forgetting my keys, seven Fanfests, five Alliance Tournaments, three Fanfest Tournaments, a drunken Dev Quiz, Russian Roulette with a nerf gun, being set on fire three times, six vacations in Iceland, three Icelandic new year's celebrations, a locksmith, Wonderwall, sleeping in a hedgerow, a campsite in northern Denmark, sleeping in the same bed as 6 of my corpmates (at the same time), a snowy hot tub after a five course lobster dinner and over 40 player gatherings across the world.
...and that's just the tip of the iceberg when I was (relatively) sober.
Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.
CCP Falcon -á || -á EVE Community Team -á || -á EVE Illuminati -á || -á Live Events Organizer
@CCP_Falcon -á || -á-á@EVE_LiveEvents |
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Rana Ash
Gradient Electus Matari
247
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Posted - 2013.09.24 12:09:00 -
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It tought me that you do not quit EVE, the nice people from CCP came to my home and told me so. |
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Jove Death
EVE Corporation 987654321-POP The Marmite Collective
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Posted - 2013.09.24 12:14:00 -
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CCP Falcon wrote:It's an eleven year long story that involves a Rattlesnake, a few trillion ISK, a rabbit-eared skull, 200 crazy pirates, corp theft, 1100 pages of player fiction, a couple of thousand roleplayers, two girlfriends, two boyfriends, two masters degrees, a 120mph car crash with a triple end over end flip, Cards against Humanity, drunkenly breaking into my apartment after forgetting my keys, seven Fanfests, five Alliance Tournaments, three Fanfest Tournaments, a drunken Dev Quiz, Russian Roulette with a nerf gun, being set on fire three times, six vacations in Iceland, three Icelandic new year's celebrations, a locksmith, Wonderwall, sleeping in a hedgerow, a campsite in northern Denmark, sleeping in the same bed as 6 of my corpmates (at the same time), a snowy hot tub after a five course lobster dinner and over 40 player gatherings across the world. ...and that's just the tip of the iceberg when I was (relatively) sober. Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.
You do know theres no space beer truck right?. Humour me what would you do if 40000 people turn up at fanfest asking you for a beer?. Bet you wish you were in that inty to gtfo quick?.
Quoting "you will die" in EvE is fail Chars dont die in EvE. Unless you have a heart attack eek
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Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
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Posted - 2013.09.24 12:36:00 -
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Jove Death wrote:You do know theres no space beer truck right?. Humour me what would you do if 40000 people turn up at fanfest asking you for a beer?. Bet you wish you were in that inty to gtfo quick?. Maybe this is the way Eve will change my life. Why doesn't Quafe have a line of craft beers? A little seed isk, bump up my resarch skills a bit . . . voila! There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance. |
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
1688
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Posted - 2013.09.24 13:56:00 -
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Rejoining EVE switched my obsessions. Was obsessed with guitars and guitar equipment, always looking for the perfect tone. Or another perfect tone. Or the sound that guy got on that album. Therefore a constant quest for better guitars, better amps, different effect pedals. Since getting back in EVE, my guitar playing skill has taken a nose dive, but the family Wallet balance has gone up. |
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
4342
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Posted - 2013.09.24 14:48:00 -
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At the end of 2008 I joined EvE to find some better PVP. PvPers tend to need a lot of ISK and so I went to the most obvious ISK related section: Market Discussion.
I couldn't understand a single word, of all that jargon, I barely knew what a bank account is. No study about finance at all as well.
Then with much trial and error I started getting the first concepts and not too much time later I became an auditor and 3rd party service. Then one day I got shown Block Ukx website and exchange (BSAC), which totally resembled a real corporation with real documents, listings and whatsnot. That stuff fascinated me enough to push me studying real finance. I became also an EvE trader.
Meanwhile in RL my country dug deep in recession and I, like many others, lost my job, for years.
At this point EvE took over RL: I started trading in RL and applying the very same concepts I learned in game. It worked and I could live in RL thanks to having learned concepts in EvE!
At a certain point RL trading took over EvE's as well: I started applying advanced finance I learned in RL to my EvE play and it worked too!
I even created a free software to turn EvE markets data into real trading platform candle stick charts (and at the subsequent Fanfest the charts were shown like mine).
Even more, one day I was explaining my EvE-acquired methods in a RL finance forum when a guy who dabbles in finance sent me a PM and offered me a job.
So I got a real job because I posted some of what I learned in EvE! And the same guy who used to not know anything beyond a bank account, is now consulted in RL by a circle of people for their investments! Auditing | Collateral holding and insurance | Consulting | PLEX for Good Charity
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Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries Solar Assault Fleet
672
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Posted - 2013.09.24 16:53:00 -
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Jove Death wrote:CCP Falcon wrote:Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story. You do know theres no space beer truck right?. Humour me what would you do if 40000 people turn up at fanfest asking you for a beer?. Bet you wish you were in that inty to gtfo quick?.
Given his job I'd guess that it would be quite a normal day at the office ... ;)
CCP Eterne: Silly player, ALL devs are evil. CCP Fozzie: When Veritas describes a programming challenge as "very hard" I tend to believe him.
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Chatti
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
20
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Posted - 2013.09.24 16:55:00 -
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What has EVE taught me?
Well after a while at my RL job I'm now trusted with a few responsibilities around the office.
I have access to the stock room, the key cabinet and I know where the petty cash tin is kept.
One of these days I might have to "work late", load up the office pool car with all my new post-its, paperclips and ball point pens and have me a -ú500 spending spree before driving into the sunset!
It's gonna be epic.
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Katherine Raven
ALTA Industries Intergalactic Conservation Movement
0
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Posted - 2013.09.24 17:00:00 -
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CCP Falcon wrote:Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.
If you're ever in western Canada stop by Edmonton, we throw a player gathering and we'll all share stories. If you come, drinks are on us. |
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
4262
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Posted - 2013.09.24 17:42:00 -
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how has eve shaped my real life?
well...let's see...it's shaped about 8 pounds i didn't have last year onto my body. |
Zimmy Zeta
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
31750
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Posted - 2013.09.24 19:02:00 -
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So this guy who brought me into Eve-he plays an unhealthy lot of MMOs, but only played Eve for maybe a year, then he left and I somehow stayed.
He is constantly trying to get me into the latest MMOs he is playing, currently it's some weird kung fu stuff, Age of Wu Lin or something like that.
Every time he tells me about this game (and he does this far too often imho, but being a good friend, I usually try to at least appear superficially interested), he complains about how dastardly, evil and malicious their enemy guild (or is it school, sect? dunno...) is.
And each time I reply that I find their creative exploits and griefing admirable and genuinely inspiring. So several days ago he yelled at me that Eve had turned me into a complete @rsehole and he was no longer interested in ever playing an MMO with me, unless to fight me and every single person I would ever ally with in game.
Thank you, Eve. Just think of how bad an average post by me is, and then realize half of them are even worse |
Amitious Turkey
The Red Circle Inc.
124
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Posted - 2013.09.24 20:25:00 -
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Since I played Eve since I was 12 years old (10 years), I can't point to one specific thing the game has not influenced. I can say however that the biggest two things were these:
1. Dedication. I never would have gone to college or authored and self-published my first book without Eve's influence in this. I had to learn how to pick myself up after losing shiny ships :(
2. Guts. Closely related to 1, but this means I can stand up to things I find wrong. I used to be a wimpy weakling who begged for his life over local chat, or bigger kids would intimidate in the schoolyard. Now, coupled with some martial arts training, I am a confident human being in both body and mind.
Still no girlfriend though. I like to lick things.
Haunting the forums since 03. |
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