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Acheron Cyc
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Posted - 2005.12.13 07:06:00 -
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I'm just curious if I'm the only one who gets this feeling but why not ask. Does anyone else gets a sudden rush of adrenalin for example when you warp in a low sec system and you see a ship with an orange square on the other and you sort of start hoping that it wont lock you? Once I was aproaching a stargate 0.4 sector ready to jump back to a 0.5 zone when an orange-squared Harpy dropped from warp(I was in a Moa but we all know that AF vs Cruisers battles don't always end like one might think). A few seconds passed when suddenly the last thing I wanted to happen, happened. The little ass start to lock on me but I was already close to the gate and jumped before he could complete the targeting. I didn't expect the adrenalin rush as soon as I saw the orange square, your heart starts to beat faster and had to take a break at the nearest station to calm down a little. This was the first time I was so evidently shaken by a game. Anyone else experienced this?
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SengH
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Posted - 2005.12.13 07:10:00 -
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lol you should try fleet battles... jumping in and seeing 60+ red squares on your screen and knowing theres only 30 in gang. Then the guy next to you decloaks and all hell breaks loose... FC yelling orders... craziest experience ever in a game. btw.. taking shots right before fleet battles helps ALOT.
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Taz Devlin
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Posted - 2005.12.13 07:14:00 -
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 Originally by: SengH
lol you should try fleet battles... jumping in and seeing 60+ red squares on your screen and knowing theres only 30 in gang. Then the guy next to you decloaks and all hell breaks loose... FC yelling orders... craziest experience ever in a game. btw.. taking shots right before fleet battles helps ALOT.
THE most insane gaming moment yet... I love this game.
In the beginning the Universe was created.
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Spy4Hire
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Posted - 2005.12.13 07:20:00 -
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Hitting a jump gate and getting a black screen for 2 minutes, then having it clear up in a station.
That's adrenaline... rage.
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Calshim
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Posted - 2005.12.13 07:24:00 -
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Welcome to EVE with added High Blood Pressure 
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SengH
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Posted - 2005.12.13 07:24:00 -
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Originally by: Spy4Hire
Hitting a jump gate and getting a black screen for 2 minutes, then having it clear up in a station.
That's adrenaline... rage.
Sorry to hear you missed the FOE wars. Those were good times 150v150 @ the Obe DED Stn. The fight went on so long that both sides moved off the grid drones and cans trailing the whole way. Relatively lag free too in comparison to todays lag ( yeah its not saying much ).
Fun times... too bad the server cant support it anymore
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Haniblecter Teg
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Posted - 2005.12.13 07:29:00 -
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Edited by: Haniblecter Teg on 13/12/2005 07:30:06
Originally by: SengH
lol you should try fleet battles... jumping in and seeing 60+ red squares on your screen and knowing theres only 30 in gang. Then the guy next to you decloaks and all hell breaks loose... FC yelling orders... craziest experience ever in a game. btw.. taking shots right before fleet battles helps ALOT.
Oh god, this is the best.
me: "Is anyone in *-* system?"
random pilot: "Yes, we're here"
me: "You sur..."
FC: "STFU, Primary ***, Secondary ***...regrouping!"
EDIT: OP, please use paragraphs, helps reading immensly.
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MaiLina KaTar
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Posted - 2005.12.13 09:38:00 -
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To be honest I get more excited from small skirmishes compared to fleet battles.
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Gericault m0id
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Posted - 2005.12.13 09:44:00 -
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I get a serious adrenalin kick from ambushes. Especially where I'm the bait 
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hired goon
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Posted - 2005.12.13 10:08:00 -
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I don't get that any more, unless I have a lot to lose, and it seems as though I will actually lose it.
I wish I did though, apparently it's good for you, to keep your heart beating fast. And let's face it, Eve is the only excercise I get.
-omg-
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kopite
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Posted - 2005.12.13 10:12:00 -
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Dodging hostile forces in 0.0 flying a Badger2 knowing they are on to you and that if they get a decent camp set ahead of you, all the instas in the world wont help is a rush, even more so than when u can actually defend yourself.
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Mallikanth
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Posted - 2005.12.13 10:20:00 -
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I with you on this, Acheron Cyc.
Everytime I mine in low sec I get a increased heart rate just sitting their watching local while my barge does it's thing. even the preperation, looking at the map for 'clues', gets me started.
It's one of the many reasons I play the game, as has often been said before by others, in that we get a sense of 'reality' in this game. We work hard for what we've got and risk of loosing it gets the adrenaline pumping.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Dan Grobag
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Posted - 2005.12.13 10:24:00 -
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ah that adrenaline rush, when you wait 2 hours for a fight an suddenly everything explode in 2 minutes
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Scalor Valentis
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Posted - 2005.12.13 10:27:00 -
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loong long ago i was like that...
now im like vietnam war veteran, need to cut myself to feel alive.
this is the end, my only friend, the end...
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Tanya Kovacs
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Posted - 2005.12.13 10:35:00 -
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You can get a very "nice" rush of adrenaline even in missions. When your armor and hull is going down (when you are a shieldtank) and you scream at the monitor "warp! warp!!! warp!!!!!!! come on - waaaarp!!!!!!!!"
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randy andy
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Posted - 2005.12.13 10:47:00 -
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Originally by: Tanya Kovacs
and you scream at the monitor "warp! warp!!! warp!!!!!!! come on - waaaarp!!!!!!!!"
even better one is Npc hunting in 0.0 and you try to warp and you can't as the npc warped stopped you so you have to kill the small fast npc so you can warp and you have less then 50% of hull left
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Jim Steele
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Posted - 2005.12.13 10:52:00 -
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Originally by: randy andy
Originally by: Tanya Kovacs
and you scream at the monitor "warp! warp!!! warp!!!!!!! come on - waaaarp!!!!!!!!"
even better one is Npc hunting in 0.0 and you try to warp and you can't as the npc warped stopped you so you have to kill the small fast npc so you can warp and you have less then 50% of hull left
Even better armour tanking when that happens, you dont have armour as backup! I think my record is warping with 7% hull.. naturally my pants were slightly wet after that.
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Snake Jankins
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Posted - 2005.12.13 11:01:00 -
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Edited by: Snake Jankins on 13/12/2005 11:05:54
Originally by: Tanya Kovacs
You can get a very "nice" rush of adrenaline even in missions. When your armor and hull is going down (when you are a shieldtank) and you scream at the monitor "warp! warp!!! warp!!!!!!! come on - waaaarp!!!!!!!!"
I know that too, well. Sometimes in group fights, when you are main target and the armor goes down in seconds.
Last time I had it, when I attacked a frig with my missile crow. The frig was a rail enyo and his mate came when I was deep in armor and I was scrambeled and out of cap, because the new fitting I tried out totally sucked.
So I clicked jump to planet like mad. I just wanted to warp out fast, after getting blown up.
Somehow I wasn't scrambeled anymore and jumped away, was followed to 2 planets until I have found a safe spot in the context menue. So I sat there with a burning crow in about 20% structure.
edit: Guess the enyo ran out of cap because of it's repper and so the war disruptor, went off. Big luck.
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Balazs Simon
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Posted - 2005.12.13 11:03:00 -
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Originally by: Jim Steele
Originally by: randy andy
Originally by: Tanya Kovacs
and you scream at the monitor "warp! warp!!! warp!!!!!!! come on - waaaarp!!!!!!!!"
even better one is Npc hunting in 0.0 and you try to warp and you can't as the npc warped stopped you so you have to kill the small fast npc so you can warp and you have less then 50% of hull left
Even better armour tanking when that happens, you dont have armour as backup! I think my record is warping with 7% hull.. naturally my pants were slightly wet after that.
Now I done that with a uninsured megathron fitted with all prototype gauss 425s in PVP... (I just realized my ship insurance expired duringthe fleet battle... well from that point my ad.rush was a bit harder ;) )
What do you think about my pant ??? 
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Siigari Kitawa
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Posted - 2005.12.13 11:06:00 -
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heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Pontus
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Posted - 2005.12.13 12:14:00 -
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i utterly suck at pvp The adrenaline rush makes me completly unable to think or do annything , i just freeze up :P
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Araviel
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Posted - 2005.12.13 12:22:00 -
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if you like the adrenaline dont ever become rich,
i think my wallet size has killed alot of fun for me in the game, when you can loose a 1bill ship whitout caring.
im actually thinking of donating it away to try and get that wonderfull adrenaline feeling back. 
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Khabok
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Posted - 2005.12.13 12:36:00 -
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My thing is, I gotta NOT let the adrenaline take over.
Last night, I was in an 0.4 system, when some self-proclaimed "Anti-Pirate" asks me in local, "What's your business here, Khabok?"
Of course, I answer "None of yours, to be certain", and went about my merry little business.
Well, here I was feeling all bad in my brand new Prophecy, heading out to do my first mission for a new agent, warped to the gate, and some random Raven pilot opens up on me. I hit the burners, make it out, armor up, and eventually come back to smack talk him a little as I head back to the station at end of mission.
Well, lo' and behold, the original "anti-pirate" is waiting at the station for me. Battleship vs Battlecruiser, and I'm in a pod before I can even select a new warp point.
<sigh> Said he killed me because I was smacktalking him with the "my business is none of yours" thing. I guess that makes me a threat to his "protected" system somehow.
All I'm saying is, if you're gonna pirate, at least own up to it.
<sigh> Well, back to mining in a frigate until I can afford a new cruiser.
Khabok
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Mangus Thermopyle
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Posted - 2005.12.13 12:36:00 -
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I dont get any big rushes for PvP. I have played shooters on competitive level for years, even won the UT EuroCup a couple of times. I guess I am just used to intense situations.
Smaller fleets are more exciting than big fleets though. 10 vs 10 frig battles can be really intense.
Or when you are hunting rats, find a 3 BS spawn with lots of webbing and scrambling frigates, jump in and start killing the frigs, and right at that moment the local fills up with hostiles, and you know you cant get away until you have killed the frigs
Originally by: Tholarim
And i don't mind being dispised.
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Zephirz
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Posted - 2005.12.13 12:46:00 -
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Hell yeah EVE = adrenaline
2 days ago i logged into Eve after 2 days not logged in...
I started flying through 0.0 a bit and at some point i notice this -v- guy folowing me... He was in a taranis i was flying a claw... I just got the interceptor so my skills were still pretty low and i ran
he stayed right behind me for a while... he had instas i didnt...
A few jumps further i figured that he would be away from his friends by now so i turn around and engage... and on top of it all
I won
omg i was still shaking of that 20mins later :D first REAL solo kill first tiem fighting in 0.0... I loved it :) would never leave 0.0 anymore if it wasnt so hard to get replacements
well lost 2 ceptors since and losing isnt nearly as much fun as winning :P
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Xantina
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Posted - 2005.12.13 12:49:00 -
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The other day I had intel of a war target in H. system. Had chased him around once, he logged off. So when he was back on another day I decided to pay him a little visit, grabbed my stabber and headed towards the system where I expected him to hang out. Turned out my intel was correct yet inclomplete: upon jumping into H. there were no less than 6 hostiles at the gate. The good thing was that the Stabber was rigged with WCS so I managed to jump out with nothing more than some shield damage.
I spent some interesting 10 minutes moving between safespots, scanning, trying to find out if they had speparetd in order to intercept me at a gate (ny now I DO have instas for all the gates  ) Finally I managed to sneak out of the system.
I doccked at a station where I was safe, only on the wrong side of the gate. I bought a shuttle and started scouting an alternate route, most of the way through lowsec space, one with a podkill spot, bookmarking system after system in order to clear a path for my cruiser. All in all it was the second best entertainement (other than finding my war target solo as I had hoped) ^^
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Zephirz
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Posted - 2005.12.13 12:49:00 -
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Edited by: Zephirz on 13/12/2005 12:50:39
Originally by: Araviel
if you like the adrenaline dont ever become rich,
i think my wallet size has killed alot of fun for me in the game, when you can loose a 1bill ship whitout caring.
im actually thinking of donating it away to try and get that wonderfull adrenaline feeling back.
o/o/ empty wallet here
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Layrex
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Posted - 2005.12.13 12:53:00 -
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Edited by: Layrex on 13/12/2005 12:53:39
Originally by: SengH
lol you should try fleet battles... jumping in and seeing 60+ red squares on your screen and knowing theres only 30 in gang. Then the guy next to you decloaks and all hell breaks loose... FC yelling orders... craziest experience ever in a game. btw.. taking shots right before fleet battles helps ALOT.
yeah man it's amazing. especially the first time. my corp had just joined nbsi, I think we were taking SMASH space along with F-E. My first time doing anything like that so I was so nervous, was in my new cerb too. And then I think it was an ATUK fleet comes up behind us, more flashing red than i'd ever seen. and the targets start to get called, heart hasnt pumped like that since my first kiss.
shame i don't have time to be in an alliance anymore. 
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Snake Jankins
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Posted - 2005.12.13 13:19:00 -
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Edited by: Snake Jankins on 13/12/2005 13:24:22
Reminds me of a fight vs. RAT a few weeks ago.
-GE- and us where roaming around in some BS and frigs to find something to kill between Curse and HED-GP.
Then we met RAT on our way. So the situation: we on safe and RAT somewhere else, both jumping around from time to time.
We came to the conclusion that we want to try it, so an agreement was made in local that we meet for a fight at a gate, RAT waiting there for us.
Our gang leader said that, if they are doing such a deal with us, they are well prepaired for such a fight.
My heart going *boom*. Our gang leader started the gang warp with the question: "Are you ready to die ?"
Well, we warped in, performed bad, e.g. me attacking the wrong target in the beginning, they were as good as expected and ripped us apart.
But our egg formation on our flight home looked really funny. First time I saw something like that.
So I think it was worth it after all and it was a better feeling than to run or hide on safe. 
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Grimpak
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Posted - 2005.12.13 13:23:00 -
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adrenaline rush? dodging 5/6 G/IRON inty fire yesterday in my crusader, in the AZN system
Dunno in the end if you guys were screaming "OMG GET THAT GUY" or if you guys were just "meh"
Great rush tho. Been a while since I had one
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HUGO DRAX
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Posted - 2005.12.13 13:25:00 -
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coolest thing is knowing there is a huge gatecamp waiting for you on the otherside as relayed by the guys behind the line then taking the plunge only to see the blob and then warping to the CO at a SS hoping you dont get scrambled. Then engaging the blob when the team is ready :)
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Tonkin
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Posted - 2005.12.13 13:27:00 -
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best rush i got, was fighting a pirote at a station, i warped my wounded geddon to 15km from the station, and a big red flashing pirote started shooting me up, he was at 25km from me and i had tachs on, multies for the win, he did not last long and im suprised i won on a damaged ship with no hardners and no gank setup on. but the rush a few nights ago killing a dread that was fantastic.
look for killing serpentis dread topic to look what i did.
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Chrizto
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Posted - 2005.12.13 13:29:00 -
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Your reaction is normal and bth very cool, only downside is that an adrenaline rush might stop you of thinking clearly.
I too remember those times, do they go away? They'll easen off bit by bit, also as you gain experience and think you can handle the situation. There'll be a time you won't have those rushes anymore because of little events like you describe, but will when flying something you don't want to lose. Also when the time is you got a 1bil+ wallet and only flying in a ship worth less than 30m (af), you won't be nervous anymore, cuz who gives about losing it.
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Wanoah
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Posted - 2005.12.13 15:43:00 -
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It is the period just before combat that really gets me. The waiting. Endless waiting. Anticipation. Once I have the flashing squares on my overview and primary is called, nerves are forgotten. I can relax and just focus on what I'm supposed to be doing.
Yeah, the nerves and the adrenaline come from the knowledge that it matters if you win or lose. The outcome is important because of simple pride, or financial loss, or effort that is wasted. I don't mind losing as long as I have some fun in the process. I guess that's why we complain about lag more than anything else in Eve: it's the one thing that removes the fun. If you're gonna die, you want to actually be involved in the process.
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