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CCP Loktofeit
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Posted - 2011.02.01 16:19:00 -
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I just recently heard about people using the ore in cans to play chess while mining, which I thought was a very cool and rather creative use of in game resources to create an entertaining diversion. I was wondering if there were other games or activities players had devised to pass the time. If you have links to any threads or sites about or related to this kind of stuff it would be greatly appreciated, also.
My two reasons for asking are 1) a genuine interest in community-created and emergent content, and 2) as a result of that interest, I like to feature community events and content in the newsletter. This seemed like an interesting new topic to spotlight this month.
What are some of the games you play in game while mining?
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2011.02.01 16:47:00 -
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I do play other things while mining, but I haven't been this creative and use games, that came with the PC or youtube videos as a distraction. That brings another point in mind though.
This isn't exactly on topic, but if you have plans for mini-games in the future(Incarna for example), you might consider allowing players to access some of them while in space. It will be really cool to play them in a station, but certain activities in EVE are very afk friendly and as your own post shows, there is a demand for multiplayer mini-games, that are accessable from anywhere in EVE. For example, a multiplayer chess game with EVE ships as game pieces might prove to be popular way to spend some waiting time and not be too demanding to program.
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Irida Mershkov
Gallente The Reformed Chaos Theory Alliance
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Posted - 2011.02.01 18:56:00 -
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I don't mine but do use the in-game browser to view the BBC and Al Jazeera etc. Although I'm not sure if it counts as to your question.
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2011.02.01 19:04:00 -
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While it is not exactly "play", and the fact that I am probably not the voice for the greater mining community, I have always found talking to the locals while mining to be a superb "game".
It (most of the time) give you a great insight to what others are doing and their feelings/interest in the game, and also if it happends to be a friday night and you're drunk - it tends to be a whole of off-topic chat going on as well hehe
/c
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ivar R'dhak
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Posted - 2011.02.02 01:54:00 -
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How the heck does one play chess with can-ore??
This sound vaguely indecent. ______________ Mal-¦Appears we got here just in a nick of time. What does that make us?¦ Zoe-`Big damn heroes, sir.` Mal-¦Aint we just.¦ |
Plentyn Annwn
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Posted - 2011.02.02 02:10:00 -
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Well, there was no mining involved but we did come up with a game called 'undock curling'.
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Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc.
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Posted - 2011.02.02 02:23:00 -
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Edited by: Slade Trillgon on 02/02/2011 02:27:51 Hey CCP Loktofeit, have you failed to upgrade your graphics card so you are able to create your avatar, or is the whip hitting that much more frequently in your department?
Also chess in a can is brilliant. I will have to remember the next time I am in a mining fleet.
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Originally by: ivar R'dhak How the heck does one play chess with can-ore??
This sound vaguely indecent.
Give 6 variants of ore a set chess piece for black and the same for white and then open the can large enough to be 8 by 8 item slots, and bam you have a chess board.
Slade
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Bek Thyron
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Posted - 2011.02.02 12:32:00 -
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Originally by: Slade Trillgon Edited by: Slade Trillgon on 02/02/2011 02:27:51 Hey CCP Loktofeit, have you failed to upgrade your graphics card so you are able to create your avatar, or is the whip hitting that much more frequently in your department?
Also chess in a can is brilliant. I will have to remember the next time I am in a mining fleet.
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Originally by: ivar R'dhak How the heck does one play chess with can-ore??
This sound vaguely indecent.
Give 6 variants of ore a set chess piece for black and the same for white and then open the can large enough to be 8 by 8 item slots, and bam you have a chess board.
Slade
Seriously. Astonishing. I love Eve. Way to wake the creative minds of players :)
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Simeon Tor
Picon Fleet New Eden Research.
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Posted - 2011.02.02 13:48:00 -
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I suppose you could also write the name of the chess piece on a bookmark.
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Barakkus
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Posted - 2011.02.02 15:43:00 -
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Edited by: Barakkus on 02/02/2011 15:45:02 I don't really play EVE while mining, I used to set my laptop up to mine and play Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops (except the performance of Black Ops is so bad I can only play 3 or 4 matches, then I have to actually reboot). The last update won't run on my laptop so mining and playing something else is actually out of the question at the moment. No video drivers available for my laptop past 2006. :( - - [SERVICE] Corp Standings For POS anchoring
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Milla Lekarariba
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Posted - 2011.02.02 15:44:00 -
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I SPY
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2011.02.02 22:32:00 -
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so mining is officially boring enough that ccp realizes we have to make up games to play just to get through mining.
last time I was in a group mining we mostly just bull****ted on ts for the whole time.
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Triple Entendre
Emergence Inc.
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Posted - 2011.02.02 23:25:00 -
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Edited by: Triple Entendre on 02/02/2011 23:37:17 Mining, gatecamping, roaming, idling about in space, setting up for a fleet, there's only one game to play...
Self destruct chicken!
EDIT: I have a habit of winning.
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Zars Boy
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Posted - 2011.02.03 00:25:00 -
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I play "catching up with the laundry" or "clean that room" "OMG it's gone midnight. I better cook a meal." is also a fav of mine.
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nahtoh
Caldari Brotherhood of The Saltire R-I-P
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Posted - 2011.02.03 00:33:00 -
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How close to poping can I get that barge? ========= "I am not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why can`t we just take the safety labels off everything and let the problem fix its self |
Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc.
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Posted - 2011.02.03 01:00:00 -
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Originally by: Simeon Tor I suppose you could also write the name of the chess piece on a bookmark.
Even betta
Slade
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Jago Kain
Amarr Ramm's RDI Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2011.02.03 01:16:00 -
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Originally by: nahtoh How close to poping can I get that barge?
Does this involve splashing it with water whilst muttering in a dead language and then quickly packing it off to another region if it gets caught diddling kiddies?
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Mister Cletus
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Posted - 2011.02.03 06:05:00 -
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I tend to play a lot of Whack-A-Mole while mining. Mole, of course, is just a codeword for anything you feel like whacking.
Ohhh, your talking about In-Game games. Sorry, I don't know any of those.
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Headerman
Minmatar Metanoia. Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2011.02.03 06:18:00 -
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When we are on big ops we like to play trivia over TS3... someone proposes something, and we write the answer into the fleet box... not very imagnitive, but the winner always gets isk :)
Another one is 'tell a joke. It has to be good or you are primary' lol
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CCP Loktofeit
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Posted - 2011.02.09 20:19:00 -
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So it seems most of the games played fall under the categories of 'screwing around in TS' and 'house chores'. :)
Thanks for the details on the Chess thing, all!
Originally by: Slade Trillgon Edited by: Slade Trillgon on 02/02/2011 02:27:51 Hey CCP Loktofeit, have you failed to upgrade your graphics card so you are able to create your avatar, or is the whip hitting that much more frequently in your department?
Slade
I completely suck at making characters, even with this massive beast of character creation kickassery that EVE now has. After my last attempt at trying to create a bad ass thug resulted in little more than a deranged-looking Freddie Mercury, I put that project on hold.
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TimMc
Brutal Deliverance Extreme Prejudice.
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Posted - 2011.02.09 21:32:00 -
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Any word on getting chess and poker built into the eve client for all the boring times in game?
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Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc.
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Posted - 2011.02.10 22:35:00 -
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Originally by: TimMc Any word on getting chess and poker built into the eve client for all the boring times in game?
Or, if/when Incarna hits they can gives us that three tiered (if I remeber correctly) chess like game from ST:TNG. That game always intrigued me on whether or not they actually created a game or was it all for looks.
Slade
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Scrap Dogg
Minmatar Brutor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.02.11 02:39:00 -
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well slade, i actually have somewhere a three tiered chess set, im not sue how its played, it was my fathers and we never played it but there seriousy is a game like that that has rules. Mimmatar in my blood. Gallente by my choice. Caldari as my weapon.
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Jon Taggart
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Posted - 2011.02.11 02:55:00 -
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Proof that mining itself should be a minigame! Bejeweled mining, or the mining system from Mass Effect 2!
Go go!
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Zhim'Fufu
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Posted - 2011.02.11 03:37:00 -
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I would play flash games out the whazoo whilst mining if the igb supported flash. But alas I have to run a seperate browser to go to kongregate or armor games.
Originally by: Response to bitter carebear tears in local [19:44:46] CCP Incognito > sorry i can't talk about game mechanics. you need to use your brains and figure it out.
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Herzog Wolfhammer
Gallente Sigma Special Tactics Group Fleet Coordination Coalition
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Posted - 2011.02.12 06:08:00 -
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Originally by: TimMc Any word on getting chess and poker built into the eve client for all the boring times in game?
You know what would really be cool:
Let players design games that the client can play. If there is no client customization, at least let it be this. A client game can be sandboxed much like a Java applet or a virtual machine (hence reducing risk of hacking).
Of course the code for the client I do not know but hey they embedded a browser in the game using a third party system so why not a game plugin?
Just thinking. There are a lot of other issues to tackle and we should presume that these games would be low on the list.
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Vak Keelin
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Posted - 2011.02.12 06:28:00 -
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I put on some music in my headphones, mute the game sounds and have a nice pinot while I watch my lasers pulse in the darkness.
I find belt rats to be a distraction as I have to change out my drones and one needs to keep an eye on local, but otherwise I find mining to be a very peaceful diversion. It beats just watching TV.
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Sral TBear
Macaroni family
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Posted - 2011.02.12 13:24:00 -
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I run X3 TC in second screen lol.....space...space...guuunzzz |
Ragnar256
Minmatar
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Posted - 2011.02.13 02:56:00 -
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I like a game of "whack-a-flipper" Only thing is they are somewhat rare in the systems I hang around in.
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Baeldaeg Aesir
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Posted - 2011.02.13 15:41:00 -
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One of the fleets I fly with has an external Scrabble game going on in addition to mining. Bunch of nerds we are.
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Sader Rykane
Amarr Midnight Sentinels Midnight Space Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.02.14 07:24:00 -
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I find it odd when a developer of a MMORPG essentially admits that an aspect of their game is so boring that you should probably do something else while engaged in the activity.
You know, instead of making threads like this, how about you work on something to make said activity engaging, interactive and rewarding so your players don't have to resort to playing something else to supplement the game that they pay $15 a month for.
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Haxfar Portlaind
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Posted - 2011.02.14 09:34:00 -
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Originally by: Sader Rykane I find it odd when a developer of a MMORPG essentially admits that an aspect of their game is so boring that you should probably do something else while engaged in the activity.
You know, instead of making threads like this, how about you work on something to make said activity engaging, interactive and rewarding so your players don't have to resort to playing something else to supplement the game that they pay $15 a month for.
Because that might be what he is doing?
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Alotta Baggage
Amarr Imperial Manufactorum Armada Assail
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Posted - 2011.02.14 10:04:00 -
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Originally by: Sader Rykane I find it odd when a developer of a MMORPG essentially admits that an aspect of their game is so boring that you should probably do something else while engaged in the activity.
You know, instead of making threads like this, how about you work on something to make said activity engaging, interactive and rewarding so your players don't have to resort to playing something else to supplement the game that they pay $15 a month for.
Then don't mine you stupid carebear
Originally by: Magnus Andronicus ur character looks like a f***ing clown dude.
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Sader Rykane
Amarr Midnight Sentinels Midnight Space Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.02.14 12:13:00 -
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Originally by: Alotta Baggage
Originally by: Sader Rykane I find it odd when a developer of a MMORPG essentially admits that an aspect of their game is so boring that you should probably do something else while engaged in the activity.
You know, instead of making threads like this, how about you work on something to make said activity engaging, interactive and rewarding so your players don't have to resort to playing something else to supplement the game that they pay $15 a month for.
Then don't mine you stupid carebear
Who said I mined?
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