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Happiesgoeslucky School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 0	Posted - 2013.03.14 07:15:00 - [1] - Quote How do I go about enjoying this game with my girlfriend? We just got done playing borderlands 2 for like 5 hours. (Yeah I know I"m lucky) We enjoy this game, but I'm just unsure on how we're supposed to play this together....its not like other MMO's where we can share a quest and go explore the word together. The way missions work seem weird. We have to both accept them and then do them separately if we fleet up? Is there something we are missing? I suppose my question is this: How do you play eve with your SO or friends?
Talisa Latarien Dark Tempest Enterprises IMPERIAL LEGI0N 14	Posted - 2013.03.14 07:32:00 - [2] - Quote The answer is simple. If you plan to do missions together, then be in fleet, one of you takes the mission. Then you do it, and split the rewards when the one of you, who took the mission, reports on its completion. Edit: starter missions and epic arcs will have to be done for each of your chats, but you can still split cash and standings rewards.
ShahFluffers Ice Fire Warriors Late Night Alliance 2090	Posted - 2013.03.14 07:55:00 - [3] - Quote Like the above posted said... you can do missions together by being in a fleet. However one of you need to be in the mission area first before the other can warp to them. Other fun things you can do together include, but are not limited to... - exploration: one person probes down anomaly sites in space and loots, salvages, hacks, analyzes... meanwhile the other is the damage dealer that clears the site of any NPCs. - PvP: there are plenty of "duo" setups that are very effective, even at the newbie level. - Industry: each of you specialize in different things ranging from mining, processing ores, researching blueprints, manufacturing items from minerals, hauling, to starbase management. - scam people: get into corps, work your angles, steal everything when you get access... or one of you play the "fool" in need of help, the other as the "bully," and then wipe out any fool gullible enough to believe your act... etc. Change isn't bad, but it isn't always good. Sometimes, the oldest and most simple of things can be the most elegant and effective.
Inxentas Ultramar Ultramar Independent Contracting Home Front Coalition 386	Posted - 2013.03.14 08:45:00 - [4] - Quote Look up your GF in local / corp chat / private chat. Right Click > Form Fleet With Go from there! A tip about missions: each do a mission for an NPC corp of your choice. Then, help one another on subsequent missions. You will both gain standings as a Fleet for missions the other person completes. Mission givers will also ask you if you want to share ISK rewards with your Fleet.
Drago Shouna Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire 0	Posted - 2013.03.14 08:55:00 - [5] - Quote The only way to enjoy EVE with your girlfriend is by turning it off, going to the pub, then partake in other nocturnal activities have fun.
NightCrawler 85 Phoibe Enterprises Project Wildfire 312	Posted - 2013.03.14 09:01:00 - [6] - Quote Wow this is a question i have actually never seen here before, but a very good one Me and my better half actually met in EVE and one living in Norway and another one in US really does not make things like "dating" easy, thus we tried to find ways in EVE to be together. I will admit that we failed miserably at this one. Dont take me wrong, EVE is a great game but it does not allow you the same sense of.. togetherness as other games where you have more interaction does. In general i have found that couples that play EVE does not actually play together. They will sit in the same room and talk to eachother but their ingame activeties will be completely different. As an example he will be off in a WH with someone else, she will be running missions with someone completely different. In many cases people arent even in the same corp. So here is my advice to the both of you... Keep playing EVE, join the same corp if you wish, do things together once in a while (missions,pvp, mining,scout for eachother and so on) but understand the fact that with so many options and interests EVE provides (combined with the fact that "a ship" really dosent add to you feeling close to someone, and yes i know i will get some comments on that statment ) you will end up finding different enjoyable aspects of the game that you dont have in common. Also, before the idea even can occur to you.. Be very casius of running off and starting a corp together! In EVE ,like with any game, running a corp/guild/cabal/clan is rough because it takes so much time. In EVE its taken to a new level and its very easy to have ingame arguments transfer to your real life. And trust me sometimes i wish i dident have to sit and try to explain what my plans are for recruiting over the dinner table while listening to my better half trying to figure out how to word a post about the new ROE policy I wish you both the best of luck tho and hope you will be able to find a way to play EVE as a couple Phoibe Enterprises official recruitment thread
Bret Crendraven Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 1	Posted - 2013.03.14 10:00:00 - [7] - Quote All I'm going to say is... I wish my partner was as interested in games as yours are...
Xscape State War Academy Caldari State 1	Posted - 2013.03.14 12:54:00 - [8] - Quote Bret Crendraven wrote: All I'm going to say is... I wish my partner was as interested in games as yours are... +1 all my gf understands/plays is facebook games....
Lost Greybeard Drunken Yordles 319	Posted - 2013.03.14 14:34:00 - [9] - Quote Side note: if you're hoping that Eve holds up to Borderlands in the side-by-side co-op sense, you're setting the bar a leeeeeeetle bit too high. Borderlands and Borderlands II are essentially the best co-op games published in the last decade. No quantity of internet spaceships can ever hold up to Butt Stallion or Dr. Ned Who Is Definitely Not Doctor Zed In A Mask. That said, like all the above posters have noted, you can fleet up or form a corp (or just a chat channel) for essentially anything you could do single-player. The most comparable experience to blasting midgets across a map with an exploding shotgun where the gun also explodes like a grenade when the clip runs out is probably signing up for Faction Warfare, coming up with literally the cheapest frigate build you think you have any chance of killing anything with, and going forth to get blown up. However, I DO have just one question for you: .... .... .... ... EXPLOSIONS!?!?!?!
Kyra Quinn Federation of Elsinore 17	Posted - 2013.03.14 15:48:00 - [10] - Quote Find a goal you both agree to, in a shooter the goal is obvious and in your face making the choice easy (and actually non-existent). In EVE having the same goal doesn't necessarily mean doing the same thing at the same time. Missions are very straight forward, boring and linear. Try something more diverse and interesting, something that actually requires teamwork. Oh and don't think in stereotypes or make suggestions based on them, that's a good way to have it go sour. The adventures of a newbie: http://kyraquinn.wordpress.com/
Ovv Topik Proposition Thirteen The Third Rail 333	Posted - 2013.03.14 16:01:00 - [11] - Quote Happiesgoeslucky wrote: How do I go about enjoying this game with my girlfriend? Dude! Don't be using the GF word on here!!! You'll give the rest of the players ideas! Then EvE really will be dead! Surely the explicit language filter should check for this kind of subversive content. Innominate Nightmare, :"Your Mother is an exotic dancer, and your Sister works in a Quafe factory!GÇ¥
Kahega Amielden Rifterlings Point Blank Alliance 677	Posted - 2013.03.14 16:18:00 - [12] - Quote Missions are the shittiest game mechanic by a wide margin that CCP has ever come up with. Almost every other activity will reward you for doing stuff with other people. So, find something cool that isn't missions (there's a lot), and do that.
Vortexo VonBrenner Coldest Sea Sailing The Honda Accord 44	Posted - 2013.03.14 17:02:00 - [13] - Quote Happiesgoeslucky wrote: I suppose my question is this: How do you play eve with your SO or friends? Easily done - just do the same things together, no big trick to it at all - and in fact EVE is more fun if you do things with others. Even sometimes more boring tasks such as mining are made much better if you are on voice chat with others (mining fleets are sometimes called "chatrooms with lasers" for a reason). There are as many ways to play this game with others as there are ways to play this game... Happiesgoeslucky wrote: The way missions work seem weird. We have to both accept them and then do them separately if we fleet up? No. Not sure how the tutorial/career missions work, but regular missions don't work that way Happiesgoeslucky wrote: Is there something we are missing? Yes, seems so. Just don't miss out on the potential fun of playing EVE together, which is very easy to do I'm listening to-áBj+¦rk, playing EVE, eating fishsticks, and I'm cold....this is immersion gaming.
Daniel Plain Science and Trade Institute Caldari State 870	Posted - 2013.03.14 17:38:00 - [14] - Quote it's hard to say what you should do as different people enjoy different parts of EVE. if my significant other was interested in the game, i would probably try to run some duo lowsec roams in cheap ships. unfortunately, not only is she not interested in EVE, she is even less interested in pvp in general. you both should take some time to look around and find out what each of you enjoys about eve and then try to find some synergy. if for example you are interested in running missions and she enjoys doing farmvilley stuff, you could leave salvaging, converting LP and selling stuff on the market to her. if one of you likes pvp and the other one likes mining, you could set up a retriever trap in lowsec and smack wannabe gankers in the face. i could go on but you probably get my point. "I don't troll, I just give overly blunt responses that annoy people who are wrong but don't want to admit it. It's not my fault that people have sensitive feelings" -MXZF
Andres Talas Occupational Hazzard Get Off My Lawn 85	Posted - 2013.03.14 21:37:00 - [15] - Quote Happiesgoeslucky wrote: How do I go about enjoying this game with my girlfriend? We just got done playing borderlands 2 for like 5 hours. (Yeah I know I"m lucky) We enjoy this game, but I'm just unsure on how we're supposed to play this together....its not like other MMO's where we can share a quest and go explore the world together. The way missions work seem weird. We have to both accept them and then do them separately if we fleet up? Is there something we are missing? I suppose my question is this: How do you play eve with your SO or friends? Things I'd think about include - exploration sites ... one of you deals with the rats, while the other one unlocks the boxes, salvages or whatever - blitzing missions/combat sites ... something thats tough for a solo pilot will be blitzed by two players - PvP ... fighting as a pair is more effective than fighting as individuals. Note one of you could be in a "specialty" ship like an ECM Blackbird or a Logistics space healer - trade ... one of you scouts the route while the other follows in the slow, vulnerable cargo ship If one of you really likes, say, the scanning minigame, then they can be finding something while the other one belt rats or something.
Sabriz Adoudel Resurgent Threat 113	Posted - 2013.03.15 05:34:00 - [16] - Quote Set traps for each other. Go roaming together in lowsec, hunting random people, and if you can't find prey, shoot each other. '... you cannot reason with the mining bots, you cannot negotiate with them, you can only bring them judgement in the form of Navy Antimatter, turn their Mackinaws to salvage and dust, smartbomb their pods, and burn their Mining Link implants with sweet incense...'- The Gospel according to St James 315
Happiesgoeslucky School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 1	Posted - 2013.03.15 13:09:00 - [17] - Quote Thanks for the replies, lots of good information here for us. She is not really into pvp all that much, but one thing that we do enjoy is exploration. It seems like 9/10 sites you find are wormholes so what the hell, we'll start there. Being two low skilled and knowledge challenged individuals, is going into wormholes worthwhile at all? As a team, what the hell do we do when we get into one? Thanks.
Jonah Gravenstein Khalkotauroi Defence Labs 6444	Posted - 2013.03.15 13:27:00 - [18] - Quote Happiesgoeslucky wrote: Thanks for the replies, lots of good information here for us. She is not really into pvp all that much, but one thing that we do enjoy is exploration. It seems like 9/10 sites you find are wormholes so what the hell, we'll start there. Being two low skilled and knowledge challenged individuals, is going into wormholes worthwhile at all? As a team, what the hell do we do when we get into one? Thanks. Wormholes are tough on newbies, the NPCs are nasty and they hit hard, the residents can be even nastier, and they will send you home via the podgoo express. If you venture into them my main advice would be bookmark, bookmark, bookmark. Eve in a nutshell, it's you vs the universe, and every machiavellian space bastard in it.
Xercodo Xovoni Directorate 2225	Posted - 2013.03.15 15:34:00 - [19] - Quote Got mine hoked on BL2 too. For a week she was obsessed with trying to kill terramorphus xD The Drake is a Lie
Forum Clone 77777 State War Academy Caldari State 72	Posted - 2013.03.15 19:30:00 - [20] - Quote Shoot her ship! Loot her wreck! Yarr all the goodies!
Sabriz Adoudel Resurgent Threat 120	Posted - 2013.03.16 11:23:00 - [21] - Quote Happiesgoeslucky wrote: Thanks for the replies, lots of good information here for us. She is not really into pvp all that much, but one thing that we do enjoy is exploration. It seems like 9/10 sites you find are wormholes so what the hell, we'll start there. Being two low skilled and knowledge challenged individuals, is going into wormholes worthwhile at all? As a team, what the hell do we do when we get into one? Thanks. Until you can both fly battlecruisers and have the skills for a tech 2 tank, and can afford to lose both your BC and your pod, do not go into a wormhole. '... you cannot reason with the mining bots, you cannot negotiate with them, you can only bring them judgement in the form of Navy Antimatter, turn their Mackinaws to salvage and dust, smartbomb their pods, and burn their Mining Link implants with sweet incense...'- The Gospel according to St James 315
Kurt Saken State War Academy Caldari State 81	Posted - 2013.03.16 18:26:00 - [22] - Quote Happiesgoeslucky wrote: As a team, what the hell do we do when we get into one? Jump into a C1 with your battle cruisers and you won't have problems tanking the rats. They don't scramble so if you are in trouble just warp out. Bring a salvager module fitted if you want to make isk. Run your ship scanner and warp to an anom. Perimeter Camps are easy enough for two low skilled BCs Probably a Manticore will be stalking you cloaked so when the site is close to be cleared be ready for a good fight. Or maybe not. If you get killed don't get mad and open a covo with your killers asking for more detailed info about wspace and you will have a good chat, and probably you will make new friends. Wspace is EvE
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen Lords.Of.Midnight 78	Posted - 2013.03.18 15:21:00 - [23] - Quote Talisa Latarien wrote: The answer is simple. If you plan to do missions together, then be in fleet, one of you takes the mission. Then you do it, and split the rewards when the one of you, who took the mission, reports on its completion. Edit: starter missions and epic arcs will have to be done for each of your chars, but you can still split cash and standings rewards. Perhaps I am too machevelian, but I think his time is better spent getting his vagina-module enabled partner to infiltrate juicy target corps and use said feminine wiles to achieve director-level access faster than a peen-module enabled player can. Then issue a war dec and use her to feed real-time location updates of players and fleets, or even lead a fleet to their doooooom... Ahem...or you could just fleet-up & blast rocks together in an asteroid belt... http://evedarklord.blogspot.ca
Talisa Latarien Dark Tempest Enterprises IMPERIAL LEGI0N 16	Posted - 2013.03.18 15:50:00 - [24] - Quote Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote: Perhaps I am too machevelian, but I think his time is better spent getting his vagina-module fit partner to infiltrate juicy target corps and use said feminine wiles to achieve director-level access faster than a peen-module fit player can. Then issue a war dec and use her to feed real-time location updates of players and fleets, or even lead a fleet to their doooooom... Ahem...or you could just fleet-up & blast rocks together in an asteroid belt... Ssshh! And there I was with my machiavellian plan to recruit them both when the right moment presents itself... Ah well.
J'Poll The Fiction Factory Tribal Band 1985	Posted - 2013.03.18 18:05:00 - [25] - Quote Talisa Latarien wrote: Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote: Perhaps I am too machevelian, but I think his time is better spent getting his vagina-module fit partner to infiltrate juicy target corps and use said feminine wiles to achieve director-level access faster than a peen-module fit player can. Then issue a war dec and use her to feed real-time location updates of players and fleets, or even lead a fleet to their doooooom... Ahem...or you could just fleet-up & blast rocks together in an asteroid belt... Ssshh! And there I was with my machiavellian plan to recruit them both when the right moment presents itself... Ah well. With that alliance ticker..... good luck, I doubt they need more spaiz.
Pierre Echerie Horseshoe Industries 22	Posted - 2013.03.18 18:17:00 - [26] - Quote J'Poll wrote: With that alliance ticker..... good luck, I doubt they need more spaiz. Can't have too many spaiz.
Strepor State War Academy Caldari State 5	Posted - 2013.03.19 04:19:00 - [27] - Quote There is nothing more romantic then running contract scams in Jita, or perhaps take her out miner bumping.
Happiesgoeslucky School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 1	Posted - 2013.03.20 18:37:00 - [28] - Quote Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote: Perhaps I am too machevelian, but I think his time is better spent getting his vagina-module fit partner to infiltrate juicy target corps and use said feminine wiles to achieve director-level access faster than a peen-module fit player can. Then issue a war dec and use her to feed real-time location updates of players and fleets, or even lead a fleet to their doooooom... Ahem...or you could just fleet-up & blast rocks together in an asteroid belt... I feel like this should be funny but the apparent sarcasm is lost on me In any case, thanks for the suggestions. We're having trouble enjoying this game together in the way that we generally enjoy....pretty much any other game. Missions are boring as hell, mining makes me want to smash my monitor into the wall, and we've been told not to bother entering wormholes. I just bought and sold a plex thing, perhaps now I can have fun with some cheap frigates. We're trying hard to enjoy this game.
darmwand Repo. 100	Posted - 2013.03.20 18:53:00 - [29] - Quote Happiesgoeslucky wrote: I just bought and sold a plex thing, perhaps now I can have fun with some cheap frigates. Oh definitely, a plex should give you enough ISK to fit, roughly, 50-60 t1 frigates for PvP (including T2 guns, tank etc) just be prepared to lose lots of them until you get the hang of things. darmwand Repossession Agent http://www.repo-corp.net/ Recruitment is OPEN
NightCrawler 85 Phoibe Enterprises Project Wildfire 325	Posted - 2013.03.21 08:11:00 - [30] - Quote Happiesgoeslucky wrote: I feel like this should be funny but the apparent sarcasm is lost on me In any case, thanks for the suggestions. We're having trouble enjoying this game together in the way that we generally enjoy....pretty much any other game. Missions are boring as hell, mining makes me want to smash my monitor into the wall, and we've been told not to bother entering wormholes. I just bought and sold a plex thing, perhaps now I can have fun with some cheap frigates. We're trying hard to enjoy this game. Its actually a very realistic scenario which can be both good and bad depending on who you ask. For me personally i would advice against it purely because im a bit tired of females "abusing" their...well power over men just to get what they want without having to work for it. But thats just me, and i know many (both men and females) have no issues with this, and it is EVE after all I noticed your still in an NPC corp which means that your both still trying to play EVE on your own. I have already said earlier in this thread that being able to play EVE as a couple turned out pretty badly for my better half and my self, and i stand by that. So my advice is that you both try to find a corp that you can both enjoy, get involved with more people and stop thinking that you have to "play" the game together. Believe it or not but just being in the same corp will open up a lot of options, amusing discussions about the game, allow you both to try more things and the freedom to play together when you feel like it or split up and go and do seperate things with corp members. You cant force your self, or anyone else to like EVE, and chanses are high that you wont like doing the same things all the time, and if you really want to keep playing EVE this is something you both have to accept and adapt to. EVE is not like other games were you "play" together, but at the core you both play the same game so in a sense you still do play togeher (its very hard to explain). So short version.. Do things seperatly, small chat about that awesome new ship you got, or how well her character turned out, discuss skills, try to decide on a corp or just involve your self in random conversations in local were you both can participate. Just because she is mining and your doing missions it dosent mean that you cant be "together" Phoibe Enterprises official recruitment thread The Eve Reader - -áAudio Recordings of Eve Chronicles

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