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CCP Darwin
C C P
C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.11.14 02:26:22 -
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Celina Shi wrote:Im 37 years old, i dont tell my friends that i like to fly internet spaceships..
I'm 43, and most of my friends who would play a computer game at all find EVE kind of interesting!
Aside from explaining it in the context of my work, I've never felt awkward about talking about playing EVE. The way I'd explain it to friends or family is that it's a space-themed computer game with a huge world, shared by thousands of people, that is all about the conflict between self-organized teams of players.
Making clear that the fun of the game is essentially social contact between teammates is something that even the people I know who don't play video games understand.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Technical Artist, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
431
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Posted - 2014.11.14 02:45:56 -
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CCP Darwin wrote:Celina Shi wrote:Im 37 years old, i dont tell my friends that i like to fly internet spaceships.. I'm 43, and most of my friends who would play a computer game at all find EVE kind of interesting! Aside from explaining it in the context of my work, I've never felt awkward about talking about playing EVE. The way I'd explain it to friends or family is that it's a space-themed computer game with a huge world, shared by thousands of people, that is all about the conflict between self-organized teams of players. Making clear that the fun of the game is essentially social contact between teammates is something that even the people I know who don't play video games understand.
...and then you pod them?
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Cannibal Kane
Cannibal Empire
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Posted - 2014.11.14 08:15:04 -
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I did that to a buddy that joined eve. He did not know it was me at the time.
I actively hunt people I meet in RL I know play EVE, pod them and then say hello and buy them a beer.
"Kane is the End Boss of Highsec." -Psychotic Monk
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Scipio Artelius
The Vendunari
End of Life
21273
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Posted - 2014.11.14 09:53:54 -
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Cannibal Kane wrote:I actively hunt people I meet in RL I know play EVE, pod them and then say hello and buy them a beer.
You should go to Fanfest and see how many people avoid meeting you (then hunt them too).
Come Win At Eve - Join The Vendunari
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Adrie Atticus
Shadows of Rebellion
The Bastion
534
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Posted - 2014.11.14 10:03:39 -
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I told 5 people in total the following:
"Smallest thing you can fly is about 20 meters in diameter, largest thing you can fly is about 12km long, it goes permanently boom if you screw up and you can get 51 days of game time on my behalf."
2/5 took the bait, one stayed for 6+ years, other one is just playing Skill Queue: Online at the moment. |
Jenn aSide
Smokin Aces.
9008
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Posted - 2014.11.14 13:57:36 -
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Adrie Atticus wrote:I told 5 people in total the following:
"Smallest thing you can fly is about 20 meters in diameter, largest thing you can fly is about 12km long, it goes permanently boom if you screw up and you can get 51 days of game time on my behalf."
2/5 took the bait, one stayed for 6+ years, other one is just playing Skill Queue: Online at the moment.
Your record is better than mine, right now I'm 2 for 8.
The 6 that tried it and didn't continue still ask me about what's going on in the game all the time, 1 of those comes back ever now and again every couple years. So maybe call is 2.5/ for 8 lol.
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Mysa
EVIL PLANKTON
34
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Posted - 2014.11.14 16:22:46 -
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I say its like you know beeing sucked into one of those hypnotic space vaginas and instead of trying to escape you sit quietly alone complaining about everthing and and everbody not even trying to make it out of there. No one ever bother whit it..
SoloFoLife!
-KEKE the Merlin wonder
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Gaellia Bonaventure
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.11.14 18:38:42 -
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Celina Shi wrote:Im 37 years old, i dont tell my friends that i like to fly internet spaceships..
Then tell them you play an economic simulator because that would actually be closer to the truth.
Bring your possibles.
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Aurelius Valentius
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
394
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Posted - 2014.11.14 20:21:15 -
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You could use the work analogy:
It's like RL work where sociopaths and normal people interact daily in a real-time perpetual environment, but it's different because it's on a level playing field as gun-play is encouraged. |
Burl en Daire
M.O.M.S. Corp
76
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Posted - 2014.11.14 23:37:55 -
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This was on Twitter the other day. Made me laugh some, I may be a carebear but I'm not a blonde.
https://twitter.com/EVE_CSM/status/532783223731154944
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Nolak Ataru
Incursion Osprey Replacement Fund LLC
262
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Posted - 2014.11.15 20:30:21 -
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Think WoW. Now remove GM / DEV accountability to the playerbase, add spaceships, and add broken SOV mechanics. |
baltec1
Bat Country
Goonswarm Federation
13912
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Posted - 2014.11.15 20:38:57 -
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EVE is Megacity one only in space and more violent.
Join Bat Country today and defend the Glorious Socialist Dictatorship
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Xorth Adimus
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Legion
51
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Posted - 2014.11.15 21:15:32 -
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I don't:
1. Eve also seems to attract everyone on earth with an antisocial personality disorder, although this number is still actually small, there are just enough of these special snowflakes to make eve .. special.
2. People who have played eve have likely quit.
3. People who play eve will generally be full of hate towards players I associate with.
4. People who don't play eve would 99% be scared of the entire concept if you took the time to explain it to them or be a secret special snowflake. |
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
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Posted - 2014.11.15 22:58:24 -
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One of my favorite descriptions:
Could anyone explain - like I'm five - what Eve is? I don't play PC games or MMOs but I am absolutely fascinated by Eve and what is going on with the big battle.
Favorite promos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Ski9g3as4 |
Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
188
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Posted - 2014.11.16 07:51:03 -
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VoIP with space themed wallpaper. |
Mike Adoulin
Adolescent Radioactive Pirate Hamsters
988
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Posted - 2014.11.16 08:07:34 -
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Sometimes people ask me about EVE.
I tell them if they want to play a game where you can lie, cheat (to a certain extent...), steal everything that isn't locked up and nailed down, and scam your little rabid gerbil guts out, then it's the game for you.
Then I mention it has spaceships and stuff.
So yeah, I pretty much compare it to law school.
Everything in EVE is a trap.
And if it isn't, it's your job to make it a trap...:)
You want to know what immorality in EVE Online looks like? Look no further than Ripard "Jester" Teg.
Chribba is the Chuck Norris of EVE.
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Savesti Kyrsst
CTRL-Q
Iron Oxide.
15
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Posted - 2014.11.16 15:35:02 -
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I just explain it's a game about making nerds angry. |
Jarod Garamonde
Sardaukar Merc Guild
General Tso's Alliance
2131
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Posted - 2014.11.16 16:08:03 -
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Explaining EVE to family members that don't "get it":
Cursory Guide to the Different Races in EVE Online:
Gallente: Descended from Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, and French, with a government styled exactly like the one modern-day American Libertarians want. Pretty much laid-back space hedonists, but will jack you up, oldschool if you actually manage to upset them.
Caldari: The fascist/corporatist result of the Japanese and Germans piling into a spaceship and setting off to a distant solar system. Everyone knows their place and stays in it. Unfeeling and driven by only two things: money and f**king HATING the Gallenteans.
Minmatar: Black Vikings. I'm not even joking. Seriously one of the coolest concepts for a sci-fi race, EVER. Using archaic technology and ships that look like they were pieced together in a junkyard, they still manage to routinely rip the other races' faces off and wear them.... as long as the fight doesn't last TOO long.
Amarr: What would happen if you crossed Catholics and Muslims, let them do all the things they actually want to do with society, and then gave them laser beams? The Amarr. Seriously scary culture. Good thing their ships suck ass.
Jovians: You can't play as these guys. Genetically modified badasses that could utterly steamroll the other races if they weren't so busy being depressed and reclusive. Originally conceptualized as actual aliens, but later toned down to just transhuman walking science labs. The developer employees used to all have characters of the Jovian race, but that inexplicably got tossed out a few years ago. Presumably because some players just will not stop asking "so when do we get to play as Jovians?"
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That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...
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Anke Eyrou
Hades Sisters
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Posted - 2014.11.16 16:40:40 -
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I don't, I let the other half do it.
I expect to get this post deleted or locked. So much for freedom of expression.
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Zedutchman
The Miners of Hyperion
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Posted - 2014.11.16 20:48:05 -
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It's what real life would be if people were really immortal.......
Everyone trying to get rich by ripping each other off...
Or people just killing each other all the time, because it doesn't really matter..
But mostly people trying to get rich by killing each other all the time. |
Seifer Al'Masy
Adhocracy Incorporated
Adhocracy
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Posted - 2014.11.16 22:08:54 -
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Like someone once said....
"Eve is a cardboard box, half a million players in it, and no rules" |
Velarra
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Posted - 2014.11.17 03:24:04 -
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You know that Easter egg flight sim that was in Excell? Or was it Open Office? Yeah. Now turn it into an mmo with spaceships. |
Celina Shi
Intergalactic systems
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Posted - 2014.12.09 20:37:31 -
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Now that the new trailer is out things are changing :) people are like : Damn, this is the game you have played for years?? I got my mates girlfriends liking this now. |
inta Vakaria
Orbital Offence
14
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Posted - 2014.12.09 21:03:53 -
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Eve is an online chat room, with a spaceship mini game that got out of hand. |
BoBoZoBo
Paragon Fury
Tactical Narcotics Team
504
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Posted - 2014.12.09 21:08:50 -
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Show them the EVE IS REAL video.
Primary Test Subject GÇó SmackTalker Elite
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Altirius Saldiaro
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.12.09 21:23:08 -
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Its a Click Fest |
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2014.12.09 21:39:15 -
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Josef Djugashvilis wrote:I have tried many, many times.
My friends just tell me to be my age (59) and stop playing a kids game...
Your friends sadly have no idea.
I can tell you I know quite a few that are older than you that play this game. One of them is even on my team (no, it's not me).
Virtually all my real life friends (regardless of age) that are interested in Science Fiction and online gaming already play EvE....
The selling points have mostly been 'hardcore SF'', 'difficult' and 'deep'.
ISD Ezwal
Vice Admiral
Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)
Interstellar Services Department
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Phoenix Jones
Isogen 5
970
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Posted - 2014.12.09 22:36:07 -
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I have to show them videos to really explain it.
Used to be this one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QhJkGhYG1s
When they ask what the community is like, I show them this great guy and how even older people play
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLdYVELWrQ
When they ask how fleets and cons are I show them this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NyPyh9Qtawk (Warning language and reading)
If they ask about harassment, I usually show them a video from a eve famous person wearing a Harry potter hat, and how they were dealt with.
If they ask why the heck they should bother. I say it's for moments like this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0
Yaay!!!!
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AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
Joint Venture Conglomerate
60
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Posted - 2014.12.09 22:49:13 -
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Sadly I don't have any friends that fit the EVE profile, most don't even touch computers on a regular basis. When I tell them that I've been playing EVE for over 7 years, I can see that they have trouble understanding how that is even possible.
To explain what it is about, I usually explain what attracted me in the first place: a scifi game that lets you fly a huge selection of ships, and more or less do as you please in the huge universe to explore. You can find some nice asteroids to mine and make that your business, fight against NPCs, join player-run groups and join massive player fights, become a trader in a thriving and cutthroat economy, manufacture almost any item usable in the game, explore deep space and wormholes, fly around in a cloaked ship, build your own space station, colonize planets to create massive manufacturing installations, create awesome looking characters, document your travels with screenshots gorgeous scenery, delve into a rich background story, roleplay a real scifi character, run your own massive player group and conquer entire regions of lawless space, defend known space against invasions by body snatching crazed humanoids, pick one of the four factions and fight for a real cause, discover hidden treasures outside the beaten baths, clone yourself...
Explaining this to people that have not experienced EVE is quite hard... but in the end what matters is: "It's a lot of fun." |
dark heartt
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Posted - 2014.12.10 00:22:33 -
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This is how I explained it yesterday after some questions from a mate about the HED-GP fight:
"You don't control a character, you control a spaceship. That spaceship can be anything from a tiny little frigate to a massive capital ship. Each ship is good at different things. You can mine space rocks, shoot bad guys for money, explore the universe for loot to sell, shoot other players, or work with hundreds or thousands of other players to control space. You train skills in real time, so even right now as I'm talking my two characters are progressing in the game."
"However the game is harsh, so don't expect to have your hand held. Everyone who has made Eve their home has worked to do so. They learned from doing, from reading and from listening to others who know what they are talking about. When you die, your ship and all it's gear is lost to you forever. It's also an always on PVP game. Even in the supposed 'safe' areas you can die at the hands of another player if you aren't careful. But loss is ok, and I've had more fun losing ships than winning fights sometimes."
http://tetrisisunrealistic.blogspot.com.au/
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