No.

EvE is the only game I play and none of my work colleagues are into gaming as far as I'm aware, so it never really comes up.

I often have the forum running in a tab while I'm working (like at the moment), but no one really sees that either because I'm in my own office when I'm not out on field work.

I'm a developer, so conversations at work drift around to games quite a lot when we're at lunch or whatever. I have no idea what they are talking about most of the time. Before I was a software Dev, I was a classical violinist, so I think most of them don't think of me as being that much of a tech nerd. But then one of them asked me if I game. And I said I play EvE. The general consensus after that was that I'm hardcore neckbeard now. And maybe a psychopath.

I kid you not, a guy walked up to me a few days after that and said, "So I heard you play eve. Man. That's crazy. Do you think you could help me with this code I'm having problems with?" Haha! No one ever asked me for help before that. Ever.

I read that last part as "Man that's crazy. You must be good with Excel."

I read that last part as "Man that's crazy. You must be good with Excel."

And if so, how did you bring it up in the initial conversation? How do you describe the game to them? And what reactions do you get when people find out you play EVE?

Did that once:

"Yarda" : Look, internet-spaceships
Colleague : You play that in a group?
"Yarda" : Yes. Awesome to see all those ships undock!
Colleague : How large should a group be before individual choices and behavior are significantly influenced by peer pressure you reckon?
"Yarda" : Cool question. Anyway, I can put any gun on my ship I want, customizing my ship to
Colleague : If we were to ask every player at what point they stop feeling like an individual but part as a group, we might be able to get some interesting data.
"Yarda" : ....
Colleague : If we can run proper statistics on it, we may be able to start questioning what personality traits influence the point at which someone is no longer making decisions for themselves, but for the group. We'd have to measure that too tho.
"Yarda" : DUDE! Spaceships man!
Colleague : Are you in a big group?

I stopped right there and went for a smoke. Never brought it up again either.

Did that once:

"Yarda" : Look, internet-spaceships
Colleague : You play that in a group?
"Yarda" : Yes. Awesome to see all those ships undock!
Colleague : How large should a group be before individual choices and behavior are significantly influenced by peer pressure you reckon?
"Yarda" : Cool question. Anyway, I can put any gun on my ship I want, customizing my ship to
Colleague : If we were to ask every player at what point they stop feeling like an individual but part as a group, we might be able to get some interesting data.
"Yarda" : ....
Colleague : If we can run proper statistics on it, we may be able to start questioning what personality traits influence the point at which someone is no longer making decisions for themselves, but for the group. We'd have to measure that too tho.
"Yarda" : DUDE! Spaceships man!
Colleague : Are you in a big group?

I stopped right there and went for a smoke. Never brought it up again either.

I've spoken to people about it at work. Some of them play online games, but I've not found anyone else who plays EVE, or understands what its about more than superficially.

Its possible there is a player out there who just hasn't revealed themselves so they can find out who my character is and gank me.

And people don't believe me when I tell them EVE induces paranoia...

I am a nurse, the only male nurse in my entire building. None of my co-workers, all female in case you missed it, are gamers. One time I was asked what I do for a hobby and I attempted to explain eve to a bunch of non-gaming female nurses.

I don't believe I was understood.

Know that feels. Nurse too, and none of my co-workers "get" online gaming.

Do get to play at work sometimes, though. Kids love spaceships and explosions, so I'll hook my laptop up to the TV in our common/game room, close local, and go gank miners for awhile.

Do get to play at work sometimes, though. Kids love spaceships and explosions, so I'll hook my laptop up to the TV in our common/game room, close local, and go gank miners for awhile.

I want to stay employed, so no, I don't tell people at work I play Eve.
Why would I want people to know I am involved with a game that has attracted so much well-documented sociopathic behaviour in the media?

After someone stumbled over and sent out the link to my youtube presentation from eve vegas... yes they know now...

And with your recent cameo in yet another EVE youtube release there's an opportunity to be outed, errr, discovered all over again!

And if so, how did you bring it up in the initial conversation?

How do you describe the game to them?

And what reactions do you get when people find out you play EVE?

I want to stay employed, so no, I don't tell people at work I play Eve.
Why would I want people to know I am involved with a game that has attracted so much well-documented sociopathic behaviour in the media?

speaking as a guy about to turn 55 this year, don't sell us old '50 year olds' off so quickly

they might have the patience to actually appreciate a game that is not based on reaction time

m

But I got a much better reaction when I told them I fell asleep on my couch in my underwear and with an open tube of crazy glue in my hand...

And if so, how did you bring it up in the initial conversation? How do you describe the game to them? And what reactions do you get when people find out you play EVE?

Shhh don't you dare!

I want to stay employed, so no, I don't tell people at work I play Eve.
Why would I want people to know I am involved with a game that has attracted so much well-documented sociopathic behaviour in the media?

Why would I want people to know I am involved with a game that has attracted so much well-documented sociopathic behaviour in the media?

That sounds like a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

I want to stay employed, so no, I don't tell people at work I play Eve.
Why would I want people to know I am involved with a game that has attracted so much well-documented sociopathic behaviour in the media?

Most of the numptys I work with arent even sure what computer games are.
They play candy crush on their phones and their kids play console games.
When I have tried to explain to them what an open ended MMO is, they look at me like lobsters are crawling out of my ears.

Most of the numptys I work with arent even sure what computer games are.
They play candy crush on their phones and their kids play console games.
When I have tried to explain to them what an open ended MMO is, they look at me like lobsters are crawling out of my ears.

After someone stumbled over and sent out the link to my youtube presentation from eve vegas... yes they know now...

They're all like... "HOLY %($"!" I WORK WITH CHRIBBA??1"

And if so, how did you bring it up in the initial conversation? How do you describe the game to them? And what reactions do you get when people find out you play EVE?

speaking as a guy about to turn 55 this year, don't sell us old '50 year olds' off so quickly

they might have the patience to actually appreciate a game that is not based on reaction time

m

Even in an FPS game it becomes more entertaining to sneak up on them and hit them in the head with a rifle butt.

I just found out that a co worker of mine used to play EVE. Apparently my stories of the game have inspired him to resub his account.

That's awesome to hear. Unfortunately, most of the gamers my wife and I know are the...ehhh...new age gamer: zero patience, and demand for instant gratification.

The older I get the more twitch gaming strikes me as silly.

Even in an FPS game it becomes more entertaining to sneak up on them and hit them in the head with a rifle butt.

In one of the battlefield series I had the gamertag 'old guy with a slow connection' just so it would hurt that much more when I did things like that

I go to college under scholarship.

I got into the Lan club (basically the college's online-gaming club) and introduced them to it by actually playing some at a meeting.

The administration chose to test to see if it was a worthy idea to sponsor a corp. 17 other players opened trial accounts to join my own and test EvE. They all played the trials heavily the entire two weeks and worked as a team most of the time.

The college offered to pay for the subscriptions for the entire group a full year.

I am the ONLY player in EvE right now (none of the others took up the college on that offer). When asked why, the others said EvE was NOT friendly to new players.

The college did the same thing with WoT (World of Tanks) and the clan in that game is going great and getting better.

So, yeah, people know I play EvE and wonder why.

My subscription expires this November. I will be playing other games after then.

there's only like 2 ppl at my work that play pc and they play crap like bf4

everyone else is console scum, seem the majority of the human race is dumb enough for stupid in your face bullshit like call of duty

I go to college under scholarship.

I got into the Lan club (basically the college's online-gaming club) and introduced them to it by actually playing some at a meeting.

The administration chose to test to see if it was a worthy idea to sponsor a corp. 17 other players opened trial accounts to join my own and test EvE. They all played the trials heavily the entire two weeks and worked as a team most of the time.

The college offered to pay for the subscriptions for the entire group a full year.

I am the ONLY player in EvE right now (none of the others took up the college on that offer). When asked why, the others said EvE was NOT friendly to new players.

The college did the same thing with WoT (World of Tanks) and the clan in that game is going great and getting better.

So, yeah, people know I play EvE and wonder why.

My subscription expires this November. I will be playing other games after then.

One of my co-workers play Eve, like in missioning and mining. I tried to have him give up his char names to me so that I could gank the living **** out of him. Sadly, no luck

Dude! What school do you go to!? :P

Can I have your stuff?

The college considers online gaming as an important aspect. Another sudent informed me EvE online is now being presented as an example of how NOT to operate an MMORPG to the game design department.

My subscription expires this November. I will be playing other games after then.

The college considers online gaming as an important aspect. Another sudent informed me EvE online is now being presented as an example of how NOT to operate an MMORPG to the game design department.

I was in conversation with a guy who runs a recruitment agency about eve. He said that some multinationals like to hire eve players who run successful corps /alliances as it shows a certain skill set suitable for some well paid jobs. He also stated that more of his clients will not hire people who are/where members of goons. Apparently it is a viewed as a sign of weakness of character. And yes his company does research the people it recommends to its clients....so if you a goon don't post the fact on social media .

I was in conversation with a guy who runs a recruitment agency about eve. He said that some multinationals like to hire eve players who run successful corps /alliances as it shows a certain skill set suitable for some well paid jobs. He also stated that more of his clients will not hire people who are/where members of goons. Apparently it is a viewed as a sign of weakness of character. And yes his company does research the people it recommends to its clients....so if you a goon don't post the fact on social media .

Seems unlikely

Unless he wants to fail

1> Experianced players are allowed to prey on new players with impunity (this is how the victims see it). Whether true or not, most players do not enjoy being ganked before they even know how to play a game, especially if they are operating vessels they are not allowed to arm. Most new players perceive this as just being 'fresh meat' for established players.
That perception extends to the tendency to wardec new corps, especially corps desiring non-pvp operations like mining and industry. Such actions shut down any desire to delve into that part of the game as well.

2> EvE online is virtually forcing players to team up just for survival. Sometimes, even the most team-oriented player desires a relaxed solo experiance. EvE discourages such a playstyle and is getting closer to punishing 'solo operations'. This is again how the new player sees it. True or not, this perception governs whether the new player will want to continue playing the game.

3> while complexity is a large draw for many players, sometimes a players wishes a more... relaxed... experiance. EvE offers little in this frame and It seems CCP is actively trying to discourage such desires. Whether this is true is irrelevent when the new player thinks the game simply can't be played if and when he wishes only to relax.

In the year since the test, I have stated all these problems several times on the forum. Each time I was ignored by CCP and usually I was flamed by other players whose playstyles meshed fully with CCP's vision.

As I have stated many times, whether the perception is true or not is irrelevent. If a new player perceives he is not welcome in a game (except as a target for more established players), he is unlikely to continue playing that game.

She just graduated from "Game Design" with a 3.6 GPA.
She had a job lined up before she graduated and in now settled out of state in her new job.
Note her job is with an online gaming company.

So before then go around giving away your 200 ships and surprising people.

Sounds like a pretty cool college to pay for subs.

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If this thread is any indication, Being known for playing EvE is not exactly a favorable idea in the working enviornment.

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After someone stumbled over and sent out the link to my youtube presentation from eve vegas... yes they know now...

This thread s a pretty good indicator that something is wrong with the entry level of EvE.

I consider the tutorials amoung the best I've seen, but what happens after going thru the tutorials is convincing new players to quit.

If this thread is any indication, Being known for playing EvE is not exactly a favorable idea in the working enviornment.

I guess this is not a problem to CCP, though I'd like to know why.