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Xzar Fyrarr
Minmatar
Suddenly Ninjas
Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service
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Posted - 2010.07.21 01:16:00 -
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Aside from the I Like To Blow Things Up In Spaceships , what are, if any, reasons you play EvE?
I continued playing personally because when my mom died 2 years ago, I wanted a way to vent anger in some way. Granted Battlefield 2 is much easier to do so on, it does not give the same Thrill EvE Online does when engaging in combat. Even to this day, although it is not nearly as breath-taking as it used to be, my heart-rate will increase and my hands would start to shiver periodically while engaged in combat. That happened much much more often when I first started PvPing, hardly ever happens anymore.
I remember a while back when I blown up a heavily faction fitted CNR...or some type of Marauder, I can't remember. Later that day I got EvEmailed about how I ruined the game for him. At this point in time, I was very happy that I was able to completely ruin someones gaming experience as I was still taking a major toll from my mother's passing. Guess I wanted to inflict , or the lack their of, the same type of pain I felt, through a video game of course.
With all that aside, I would think one of the main reasons I play EvE is because of it's NoMercyZeroTolerance atmosphere and a place to Release feelings of any kind. Gave someone 10 Rifters and 10 Thrashers and 5 Stabbers when he first started playing a month ago. Don't know if he is still playing. Blow up a 700mill + CNR years ago out of pure frustration and the , I want to say human but that doesn't feel right, need to destroy.
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Vaal Erit
Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2010.07.21 01:35:00 -
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 Originally by: Xzar Fyrarr
need to destroy
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It's not "Play through a pre-set story, become stronger, do endgame". Gameplay is open ended, and you make your own story. Unless you're too afraid of 'pvp grief' to do anything relevant |
Durnin Stormbrow
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Posted - 2010.07.21 02:38:00 -
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Edited by: Durnin Stormbrow on 21/07/2010 02:39:19
Originally by: Xzar Fyrarr
Aside from the I Like To Blow Things Up In Spaceships , what are, if any, reasons you play EvE?
It's a sandbox game. I don't want my games telling how to play & what to do. Give us the tools & we'll make our own fun.
It's skill based, not class based. I can pick and choose skills that I want, not just the skills my class or race gives me.
It's skill based, not level based. A 3 month old noob that specialized can pilot his ship as well as a 7 year vet, and possibly better.
It's a player economy and deeply interdependant. You don't just level crafting to make your own gear, anything you can make can be sold to someone else and, with some exceptions, has value.
If they'd show some real progress on fixing bugs & gameplay issues, complete additions to the game, and took a stronger stand against macros (not just RMT), I'd have nothing to ***** about.
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Bodrul
Caldari
Polaris Rising
The Spire Collective
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Posted - 2010.07.21 02:42:00 -
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go places, meet new people and kill them
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Researched BPO Lottery (Using Darkness+ Charibbas dice)
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Caldari 5
Amarr
The Element Syndicate
Hand That Feeds
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Posted - 2010.07.21 02:59:00 -
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To Collect and Fly Every Ship in the game :)
(I can already fly pretty much every T1 non-industrial SubCap, Slowly working on the T2s from Amarr atm)
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Zso Sahal
Minmatar
Multiverse Academy
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Posted - 2010.07.21 03:18:00 -
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Exploring.
Despite being 1/2 finished, the complexes and expeditions are downright addicting. I'm trying to play thru them all at least once, (inc expeditions) because the stories behind them are *usually* very good.
The sleepers-sansha-jove love triangle also has my brain tied in knots.
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Intense Thinker
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.07.21 03:54:00 -
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Because Eve won't let me go 
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MonwrathDisortium
Incarnation of Evil
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Posted - 2010.07.21 04:47:00 -
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I cancelled my accounts recently.
I was feeling like logging into eve was a job. If I didnt have at least 3 hours to play then it was worthless. I have been playing constantly since 2k5 and finally just kinda figured there has to be a better way to spend my time.
No you cant have my stuffs.
If eve ever makes a switch towards more of a small gang atmosphere I might come back.
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XXSketchxx
Gallente
Remote Soviet Industries
Important Internet Spaceship League
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Posted - 2010.07.21 05:23:00 -
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Quote:
I Like To Blow Things
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Opis
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Posted - 2010.07.21 06:00:00 -
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First of all, Sorry for your loss. Glad you found a creative outlet for your anger.
Personally I keep coming back to eve because no other game has the adrenaline rush that comes with taking a risk. Only in eve does loosing a ship and contents actually mean something. No loading a save game here. You have to live in game with your mistakes.
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Danika Drake
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Posted - 2010.07.21 06:13:00 -
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Intangible reasons mostly due to being cloistered in an unending rat-maze of a career IRL.
EVE is rather interesting, as you pointed out, in that it's more relaistically callus toward the utopian gaming notions like no-grief or very structured environment. I don't know if that draws me in, or if it balances out the sweetness of trying all the nifty carebear things I secretly enjoy... but at the end of the work day EVE is one of a select few things (including drinking, shaggin the wife, and playin football with my mates) that lets me come out of my pessimistic work-shell a while and enjoy myself.
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Ghaylenty
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Posted - 2010.07.21 08:01:00 -
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playing with friends, fw being slightly less blobby than 0.0...
my favorite way of playing is to not worry about making isk, but to think of creative ways to grief and gank people. :)
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Ti'anla
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.07.21 08:09:00 -
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Edited by: Ti''anla on 21/07/2010 08:09:04
I'm here for the sheer potential of EVE's concept and the simple fact that everyone roleplays. Unlike most MMO's, you simply can't not roleplay and it's bloody hard to break the proverbial fourth wall.
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Dr Fighter
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Posted - 2010.07.21 08:13:00 -
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log in to enjoy myself, and im never sure what will provide that entertainment in any specfifc 'session'.
somtimes just talking on vent/ts does it 
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Ran Khanon
Amarr
Swords Horses and Heavy Metal
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Posted - 2010.07.21 08:14:00 -
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Edited by: Ran Khanon on 21/07/2010 08:15:27
After returning to EVE after playing just about every subbed mmorpg under the skies I can say that for me it is:
ò freedom of choice & diversity
ò the game rewarding you for using your intelligence, social skills and talents rather than for following a predetermined path
ò meaningful consequences to being stupid and/or unlucky
ò community at the helm; from market to 0.0 politics
I have always been tempted to play a lot of other mmorpgs because I am a sucker for immersion (having an avatar rather than a portrait) and beautiful worlds to roam around in. My hopes are that Incarna will satisfy that weak spot and I'll never have to jump into other mmorpg's again and get disappointed because they all end up lacking in the above four points.
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Hari Markkus
Freelancing Corp
Confederation of Independent Corporations
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Posted - 2010.07.21 08:21:00 -
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It is all about character development for me.
I like starting of with a character that is small ans puny and building him up so that he is all butch and powerful. I then like to test my character in various scenarios (both PvP an PvE) to see how he copes. I use the results of these encounters to determine what skills or equipment I need to acquire next.
Unlike the OP I would get no pleasure in ruining someone's game. I totally endorse other players right to do so, but I prefer my opponents in PvP to be willing and ready to fight. I would get no pleasure in killing a ship fitted for PvE cause that takes no skill and does not develop my character in any way. (Unless we are at war, in which case the needs of the war come first)
I also don't get the hand shaking, heart racing buzz from PvP that others do. I used to be a professional footballer, and playing in front of 50,000 rabid fans make you develop strategies to deal with the nerves and adrenalin rush that such events bring.
So, to sum up, I don't play to blow things up. I play to watch my character grow.
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Noxidc
Black Nova Corp
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2010.07.21 08:36:00 -
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Ruining someones day fills my heart with happy feelings.
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Killer Gandry
Caldari
TerraNovae
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Posted - 2010.07.21 10:01:00 -
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The people I met and have fun with.
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Grek Forto
Malevolent Intentions
Dark Solar Empire
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Posted - 2010.07.21 10:03:00 -
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Because EVE is a harsh mistress. You always come crawling back to her, begging for forgiveness because you left at some point.
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Midge Mo'yb
Antares Shipyards
Circle-Of-Two
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Posted - 2010.07.21 10:58:00 -
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My corp and the need to make bears cry <3
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Julius Rigel
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Posted - 2010.07.21 11:11:00 -
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Originally by: Durnin Stormbrow
It's a sandbox game. I don't want my games telling how to play & what to do. Give us the tools & we'll make our own fun.
This.
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Domonique Molvoy
Exploitation Inc.
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Posted - 2010.07.21 11:20:00 -
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The tears my friend, the tears
Domonique Molvoy
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2010.07.21 11:37:00 -
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The Community.
Win a Freki for 10M |
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Jabezhane
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Posted - 2010.07.21 11:37:00 -
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Originally by: MonwrathDisortium
I cancelled my accounts recently.
I was feeling like logging into eve was a job. If I didnt have at least 3 hours to play then it was worthless. I have been playing constantly since 2k5 and finally just kinda figured there has to be a better way to spend my time.
No you cant have my stuffs.
If eve ever makes a switch towards more of a small gang atmosphere I might come back.
I just cancelled too. After 4 and a half years I need a break...maybe a long one.
Just cant devote the time anymore. Life changes etc. Everything is stored up in a station with dust sheets over it. Wanted to join a new corp but just knew I didnt have the motivation for it.
I was simply hanging on to build the toon up. Hit 70 million SPs and I reckoned enough was enough.
Should finish Warfare Link Specialist 5 just before I run out.
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Rawr Cristina
Caldari
Omerta Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.07.21 11:47:00 -
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community, single server, sandbox, future prospects
Have got bored of EVE many times to do other things, play other games, etc but always came back eventually. EVE is far from a perfect game, but has the advantage that for the past 6 years practically every MMO released has followed the same tired and broken formula (Questing, XP/Gear grinding, nobody really PvPing til endgame, etc)
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My Postman
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Posted - 2010.07.21 11:51:00 -
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I¦ll play Eve for only one reason.
I¦m trying to find someone (beside my alt and maybe chribbs) i can trust. I was¦nt sucsessful yet. Do you think i will have to search/play forever?
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Peter XZ
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Posted - 2010.07.21 12:01:00 -
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That you can be offline 99.99999% of the time, and, in due course, have just as powerful a toon, as an addict wasting hours on missions
Don't like games that make me waste hours on leveling. Life is too short to be endlessly glued to a monitor 
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Hari Markkus
Freelancing Corp
Confederation of Independent Corporations
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Posted - 2010.07.21 12:03:00 -
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Originally by: My Postman
I¦m trying to find someone (beside my alt and maybe chribbs) i can trust. I was¦nt sucsessful yet. Do you think i will have to search/play forever?
wasn't
You can trust me - to fix you spelling and grandma.
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Hari Markkus
Freelancing Corp
Confederation of Independent Corporations
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Posted - 2010.07.21 12:08:00 -
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Originally by: Peter XZ
That you can be offline 99.99999% of the time, and, in due course, have just as powerful a toon, as an addict wasting hours on missions
Don't like games that make me waste hours on leveling. Life is too short to be endlessly glued to a monitor
You don't have to. Just buy a high level character from eBay. You end up with the same thing, a character with lots of in game skill but a player with none.
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Codo Yagari
Yulai Guard
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Posted - 2010.07.21 12:28:00 -
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I like to kill pirates. Pure, simple and healthy!
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eliminator2
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.07.21 12:57:00 -
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well atm im not even playin eve ill check kb forums log in to check skill and thats i, for me eve has overloaded with blobs for what ones was a bs rr gang roamin for equal size and or a few bigger has now turned into caps on hold and loads of logis/ecm for simple fact every where you go in eve there is a blob or empty space never the inbertween, therefor i choose not to play eve anymore and might end up quiting at end of month
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I met Eliminator1..... I chewed it up, and spat it out. Now, he is my minion.
I kill miners and mission runners people say, I call them target pra |
Y Berion
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.07.21 13:05:00 -
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Because EVE is one of those rare games who don't treat players like idiots.
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Laanndo
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Posted - 2010.07.21 13:45:00 -
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Why do I play EvE?
I have 3 accounts, all science/industry/exploration.
I play Eve because it's the closest thing I have to explore space in the way I would like to in real life. Even though the galaxy of Eve (or Universe, though it looks like a galaxy] is not the same as our own; it still gives me the opportunity I will never get...to explore and conquer space.
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Demolishar
Internet Spaceship Raiders
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Posted - 2010.07.21 13:52:00 -
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I keep "playing" EVE, where "playing" means "logging in once every xx days to add more skills" because I have enough isk to pay for my accounts with PLEX well into 2011. Not continuing to train skills would be a retroactive waste of time.
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Ashley Sky
Guiding Hand Social Club
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Posted - 2010.07.21 14:35:00 -
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I started playing EvE over 5 years ago because my roomate was doing it and I wanted a way to talk to him because I didn't see him emerging from his room very often.
It was fascinating, and looked like it could have the potential to be fun. I soon found out that the game itself was pretty boring. It's only when I stopped thinking about playing the game and started working within the game mechanics to create dramatic social interactions, that the game started to become fun.
I play this game because of all the frustrated players who play the game, and my ability to make them dance like puppets, in a way that is more entertaining than reality TV. It's fun, it's relaxing, and opening a new hate mail feels like Christmas every time.
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Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
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Posted - 2010.07.21 14:37:00 -
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Because there is no set path...
Because I can progress skills AND work a full time job
Because things like can Hulkageddon happen (oh, and I am a miner not a suicide ganker)
Because of its size
Because of falcon?
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Jint Hikaru - Miner / Salvager / Explorer
"I've got a couple of Strippers on my ship... and they just love to dance!"
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Gilgamesh1980
The Black Rabbits
The Gurlstas Associates
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Posted - 2010.07.21 14:51:00 -
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as Chrib's always said, the community
and on top of that especially my alliance and our friends, make it a great place
Federic 'Gilgamesh1980' Chopin
Supreme Commander and Diplomat of the Black Rabbits and Gurlstas associates |
Dan O'Connor
Cerberus Network
Dignitas.
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Posted - 2010.07.21 14:57:00 -
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For the most part that you really don't know what happens next, that you have to use your brain a bit, but most importantly for the wide colorful variety of people I have met so far. Pretty funky ride.
Also for me from a technical point of view and being a developer, it's fun to traverse the database and find ways to create useful tools.
DB | Map
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Xikorita
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
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Posted - 2010.07.21 15:05:00 -
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For the solo/small gang PVP. It is so freaking satisfying to have a good fight.
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FunzzeR
Death of Virtue
MeatSausage EXPRESS
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Posted - 2010.07.21 15:29:00 -
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I shoot internet spaceships for the Scottish Folds on my desk. They tell me to do... Things... If I don't do them... They stop purring and terrible things happen...
Their latest command is to liberate miners from the oppression and clutches of the bourgeois and their imperialist agendas.
THE GUNS OF THE REVOLUTION WILL NEVER FALL SILENT. THE SCOTTISH FOLD WILL PURR AGAIN!!
PRAISE THE SCOTTISH FOLD!!
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Corozan Aspinall
Party Time Inc.
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Posted - 2010.07.21 15:52:00 -
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I think a lot of people play this game because unlike so many other mmo's it rewards a degree of comittment by making 'success' and other interaction dominated by obligations, require more than just grind. You need to think about how you approach every competitive aspect within the game space. Can't think of too many other games, online or off that facilitate this!
Unlike anything else on the market today, your intellect counts for more and there's enough challenge/depth to the game short and long term to allow almost everyone to find their own level of challenge and still have room left to be embarrassed by someone better.
This pleasure pain balance in eve is very very good and pretty unique. 
The single main reason I still play eve? Because I know out there someone is always going to be better than me and I find it exciting being (pleasantly) anxious about the prospect of running in to them. Can't say the same for my day job.
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Serpent Kamri
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Posted - 2010.07.21 18:06:00 -
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The people.
I stopped caring about CCP's half-arsed and incompetent fiddling a long time ago, the only thing I truly like about EVE is the fact it attracts intelligent and colourful people ( no, the entire 0.0 population is not like the CAOD crowd ).
My corporation keeps me playing.
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0oO0oOoOo0o
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Posted - 2010.07.21 23:08:00 -
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Basically I'm a sociopath. I hate the entire human race and want to inflict as much harm and pain to the fellow human beings as possible. Humans have laws though, courts and law enforcement, that don't let me enjoy my biases to the full. That's why I play Eve. Here I can inflict harm to people, without being persecuted by lawyers or the police. I can destroy, scam, betray and cause as much emotional distress to others as I like.
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Cipher Jones
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.07.21 23:25:00 -
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Edited by: Cipher Jones on 21/07/2010 23:25:31
I play EvE because of all you ***** ass "sociopaths", emo kids, and otherwise mal-adjusted douchebags. It hurts you more when you can't kill me than it hurts me when you do.
Watching you pieces of **** fail at your own game give me an e-chubby.
Truestory.
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Anslo
Disciples of Night
DEFI4NT
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Posted - 2010.07.21 23:36:00 -
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Money.
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Caria Alara
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Posted - 2010.07.22 02:27:00 -
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It's a game, where you can be the bad guys. And the good guys, and the meh-guys, and the carebears, and the tycoon, and the IHITROIDSWIFMAHLAZ0RZALLDAYLONG guys.. |
Halcyon Ingenium
Caldari
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
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Posted - 2010.07.22 03:28:00 -
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I've said before I like to master games, but I also like a good science fiction story, EVE lets me pretend to live in that story and take part in it.
tl;dr I'm a nerd.
Trolls? In my EVE forums? It's more likely than you think...
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Wonton Tomato
Suicide Girls
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Posted - 2010.07.22 05:04:00 -
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Ooh, my favorite flavor is real tears.
The game as designed isn't fun so I don't play by the rules. Actually I don't even play or pay a red cent. The ginormous wad I made from griefing is enough to buy GTC's. You see, my hope is that one special shiny day, I'll find someone in RL that needs a good torturing. Someone that really needs to waste their life chasing an overcomplicated carrot on a stick. That day I'll transfer my account to them and watch in glee as they suffer trying to play this st00pid game.
>>>Or... maybe when my mom dies I'll start playing again, who knows?
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2010.07.22 08:55:00 -
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I like that it is all one universe, if you meet someone who plays IRL, you never have to ask what side or server they play. One cold universe where your actions effect every one, where politics and planing can change the way we see and play the game.
Where you can be or do anything, any career, Miner, Combat, Trader, Hauler, Explorer, Archeologist, Industrialist, and when you through your wait behind a corp or a faction or an allience, people notice.
And it all centres around what you decide to be.
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Varrakk
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2010.07.22 09:13:00 -
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TBH, since Dominion there isn't much that makes me want to play EVE anymore besides my
loyalty to friends and allies.
Terrible lag, and even worse sov mechanics.
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Trauli
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Posted - 2010.07.22 11:39:00 -
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The only thing i care about in eve is SPACE POLITICS.
Everything else i couldn't care for :S
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inexistin
Rubbish and Garbage Removal
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Posted - 2010.07.22 16:46:00 -
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At first it was the storyline; I have to admit, I'm a sucker for huge sci-fi universes :P
Then I somehow managed to get my as* in the corp I still am today, and that started growing on me. Then we got in a nullsec alliance, and I discovered the allmighty pew-pew that fascinates me to this day.
TL;DR - The backstory, the pew-pew and the training newb on pew-pew basics; also, corp always keeps me entertained :P
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Ressiv
Cooperative Freelance Navigators Association
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Posted - 2010.07.22 17:03:00 -
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It has been said before, I'll use my own words tho:
- No skill grinding
- HUGE array of options to spend my in-game time on, ranging from PVE to suicide ganking all the way up to politics, espionage and everything that comes with that
- The fact that there is no protection against being stupid
- Great feeling of accomplishment when you pull things off, mainly because of previous reason
- Good amount of intelligent people in this game, as opposed to the generic run of the mill MMO's (well ... yeah .. there are exceptions)
- Everything is player controlled, player action shapes EVE to a great extend
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