Demangel
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Posted - 2006.01.13 00:51:00 -
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I'm one of those folks who can say that EVE is one of the only games I've ever had actual dreams about (the other being NWN and it's toolset primarily).
These dreams are always some that hang around with me the longest, almost as long as those Ahem... you know... kinda dreams hehehe, But seriously, I found it amazing too, especialy since in many cases, I was growing bored with EVE or something.
Almost as if CCP knew, and sent me a dream with some big radar dish so make me wanna play again.
My dreams are always of EVe being more realistic, and lot more lonesome, I am always exploring some distant barely ever visited part of the game, and it's full of the most advanced NPC AI, and most unique looking systems.
In one dream, I make a wrong jump, and end up in this normally off limits part of EVe (not jove space, least it was never stated in my dream), and the gate behind me destructs... I check the map and I am over a hundred jumps from the nearest reentry point to the rest of eve (even 0.0.). I get a message that due to my distance from known relays, my clone will not activate if I die... This will not be a dream where I am WTFPOWNING in PVP or doing the same to NPC's, but more like star trek voyager, I am utterly alone in my rax, in an unspioled undiscovered part of EVE, where CCP is developing the next generarion in NPC AI...
I decide to start my trip, and do a little sight seeing, when I come across an ancient looking jump gate that seems to be doubling as some kind of station. Varients of Gallente and Cardari ships start lighting thier impulse drives near it, and I get a text message that the (can't remember the exact name), empire has determined me to be an outsider, and I am to be destroyed.
So knowing how EVE works, I warp out to avoid the NPC "rats" when i get a message in mid warp "We know where you are." and seconds after coming out of warp before i can react, 6 frigates are wapring in strategically around my rax, I web em down and send in the drones, and manage to kill the tacklers and scoop my drones just as the BS's arrive. I woke up in a cold sweat... And a HUGE smile. I realised this dream was based on a real event in EVE, when just after release my corp moved into a section of 0.0 space controlled by an NPC pirate corp which we had been ratting. For some odd reason, these rats behaved unusualy, and would follow us to our chosen station and crap. The entire constelation in fact was loaded with such "smart" bots, and when our corp finaly evacuated, I was one of the last to leave and was CHASED by the NPC factions police (at the time tristans worth I think about 9.5 to 10K each... back then that was BADASS as far as NPC's went). They never got me, but for the first time in a MMO, I really felt paranoid, and really it was even more exciting somehow than being hounded by players... Because it was totaly unexpected, and amazing.
MY most recent dream oddly picked up in the same general theme, I was in this estranged part of EVE, and had found a star system that was really not a star system, but a place where a star failed to form (or hadn't ignighted yet), and instead of planets there was nebulas and large asteroid formations where planets would. I came across an ancient looking wreck, but unlike usualy, it was interactable.
Then like that one part in homeworld (the first game, second mission), I investigated it, and a cutscene played with artificial life forms waking up as I came close, and the coolest rogue drones I ever could image started swarmmiing out after my rax. I woke up before any action, but I woke up thinking... Damn... Why can't they do this kind of exploration stuff in EVE...
I have since concluded that when I get the time/interest, I am going to do an EVE comic based on these dreams. Which will likely never happen, but would no doubt be fun to do if I ever find the time.
Galaxion > If you drove a car shaped like a thorax women would call you
Demangel > Dude... I would call..
Demangel > wait that sounded g@y I bet.
Galaxion > Just a bit.
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