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Keat0n The Pakk Syndicate Capax Infinitus 0	Posted - 2011.12.11 04:16:00 - [1] - Quote What do you tell people when they see you playing EVE, and they ask what its about? I've run into this constantly where i'll be playing and i'll have people ask me "well what's the point? what are you doing right now? why?" I usually tell them its too complicated for me to explain or that the point is just to blow stuff up. Anyone else come up with a different, wittier response?
Kaylyis Aces wild mining corporation The I.D.E.A. 0	Posted - 2011.12.11 04:27:00 - [2] - Quote Keat0n wrote: What do you tell people when they see you playing EVE, and they ask what its about? I've run into this constantly where i'll be playing and i'll have people ask me "well what's the point? what are you doing right now? why?" I usually tell them its too complicated for me to explain or that the point is just to blow stuff up. Anyone else come up with a different, wittier response? I tell them it's something to do if you're either a masochist or have the patience of a saint. I don't recommend EVE to my friends. None of them have my tolerance for insane timesinks where you cannot achieve anything cool without paying X amount in subscription money first. Before you say it's a lie, tell me how many people succeed in fleet actions, PvP or incursions without elite core and gunnery skill proficiencies as well as the ship skills, and without having to be carried by the people who DO have this. Or being lucky enough to have eighty enraged buddies who haven't trained past frigates to rabidly swarm people and things which annoy them.
Herzog Wolfhammer Sigma Special Tactics Group 286	Posted - 2011.12.11 05:08:00 - [3] - Quote EvE is a very hard game to describe. I just tell them it's like being in a really cool science fiction novel that is still being written.
Bane Loppknow Aliastra Gallente Federation 17	Posted - 2011.12.11 05:15:00 - [4] - Quote I tell them it's to do whatever I want, in space.
Nikodiemus Perkone Caldari State 3	Posted - 2011.12.11 05:17:00 - [5] - Quote I tell them I just finished beating off and this is the second most useless thing I can find to pass the time.
Kordoc Death Metal Rooster 13	Posted - 2011.12.11 06:17:00 - [6] - Quote I tell them its the only game that have real consequences. I ask them if when they shoot a lvl50 nub in modern warfare that same nub lost any perks and the gun they earned, would it be cooler game. They say yes, but most of my friends don't like sci-fi or fantasy. Or to lose their e-stuff either. Wimps.
Nyio Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation 310	Posted - 2011.12.11 06:19:00 - [7] - Quote "This is too complicated for you to grasp, even if I should take the time to try explain." CCP In-Game Event 2011.11.23 GÇó Nyio GÇó Grenade? GÇó Forums
Riley Moore Sentinum Research 32	Posted - 2011.12.11 07:31:00 - [8] - Quote "I like space" Need Researched BPO's? Be it drones, ammo, charges, you name it, visit my forum store now! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=445524#post445524
ShahFluffers Ice Fire Warriors 218	Posted - 2011.12.11 07:50:00 - [9] - Quote I tell people, "it's like EXCEL spreadsheets but with spaceship graphics and people who want to destroy your spreadsheet as thoroughly as possible." "Just because I seem like an idiot, doesn't mean I am one." ~Unknown
Zarutha The Night Crew The Night Crew Alliance 38	Posted - 2011.12.11 08:00:00 - [10] - Quote I keep the door to my office locked when playing eve, that way I can dodge any questions. When people ask what games I play, I tell them Modern Duty or Call of Warfare, something they have heard of, then quickly change the subject.
Keat0n The Pakk Syndicate Capax Infinitus 1	Posted - 2011.12.11 08:20:00 - [11] - Quote Zarutha wrote: I keep the door to my office locked when playing eve, that way I can dodge any questions. When people ask what games I play, I tell them Modern Duty or Call of Warfare, something they have heard of, then quickly change the subject. My favorite is Call of Warfare: The Empire Strikes Back
Dbars Grinding Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation 73	Posted - 2011.12.11 08:35:00 - [12] - Quote People dont see me. But i tell my friends that id rather play EVE than raid the new deathwing raid and they laugh at me. I then tell them they are missing out on one of the only true MMO.
Handsome Hussein 208	Posted - 2011.12.11 09:02:00 - [13] - Quote I told my brother-in-law, who is a bigger gamer than I, that it's a libertarian paradise in space. Very few rules, free market, player-created content, pure PvP (with very few exceptions). It's a time-waster of epic proportions, but you need to be prepared to nut up. It's a griefer's paradise, a gaming experiment, science fiction in its purest form. When you boil it down, though, it's just spaceships. And that's what makes it so ******* awesome. Leaves only the fresh scent of pine.
Solstice Project Cult of Personality 274	Posted - 2011.12.11 09:48:00 - [14] - Quote It's the only real MMORPG out there. Inappropriate signature removed. Spitfire
Gerrick Palivorn Caldari Provisions Caldari State 36	Posted - 2011.12.11 09:56:00 - [15] - Quote I tell them its a game of infinite possabilities and variety since practically nothing in the game is static an almost everything is competition on some levels. Actions have real recourse and if you screw up, there is no respawn with your epic gear readily at hand. They generally turn and run at that last part, but a few are intrigued and have signed up.
Skydell Space Mermaids 9	Posted - 2011.12.11 09:57:00 - [16] - Quote I tell people I owe the Mafia alot of money and this is what I need to do or they will break my knee caps.
baltec1 235	Posted - 2011.12.11 09:59:00 - [17] - Quote Its a terrible internet spaceship game made by vikings in a land of ice and fire that will suck you into a dark oblivion of hate and rage.
Ptraci 3 R Corporation 245	Posted - 2011.12.11 10:49:00 - [18] - Quote I tell them it's about internet spaceships and no you can't have a go.
Klandi Consortium of stella Technologies 31	Posted - 2011.12.11 10:56:00 - [19] - Quote A good friend (having got caught playing Eve at work) told his superior Eve was a graphical front-end for a SQL DB checking program for both PEN testing and integrity, consequently it had to run at least twice a week. I am aware of my own ignorance and have checked my emotional quotient - thanks for asking
Vicker Lahn'se Eternity Inc 23	Posted - 2011.12.11 11:04:00 - [20] - Quote Keat0n wrote: What do you tell people when they see you playing EVE, and they ask what its about? I've run into this constantly where i'll be playing and i'll have people ask me "well what's the point? what are you doing right now? why?" I usually tell them its too complicated for me to explain or that the point is just to blow stuff up. Anyone else come up with a different, wittier response? I tell them that it's complicated and open ended. Half the fun is learning how the complicated mechanics work. The other half is being able to choose between a wide variety of careers, ranging from running factories to hunting down other players. I also add the disclaimer that it's pretty boring for an outsider to watch, much like how it would be to watch someone else read a science fiction novel.
Ivan Joukov Astromechanica Maxima Astromechanica Federatis 2	Posted - 2011.12.11 11:14:00 - [21] - Quote "I'm in space, I can do everything, fighting, trading, there are thousands of human players in the same galaxy with me, I can meet them all around a stargate or at a station exit. Anyway actually I'm just chatting. Yeah and I spin my ship." -áDavai!
Aine Morchet State War Academy Caldari State 11	Posted - 2011.12.11 12:27:00 - [22] - Quote "If you really think about it, isn't life just a big spreadsheet? I just blew your mind didn't I."
Doc Severide Caldari Provisions Caldari State 0	Posted - 2011.12.11 12:45:00 - [23] - Quote Keat0n wrote: What do you tell people when they see you playing EVE, and they ask what its about? I've run into this constantly where i'll be playing and i'll have people ask me "well what's the point? what are you doing right now? why?" I usually tell them its too complicated for me to explain or that the point is just to blow stuff up. Anyone else come up with a different, wittier response? Since I only play at home in my locked house if anyone asked me my first question would be "Did you break in here to violate me? The anal lube is on the desk."
Apollo Gabriel Mercatoris Etherium Cartel 338	Posted - 2011.12.11 13:32:00 - [24] - Quote I tell them shhh ...I'm hunting rabbits I'm a ***** profanity filter that can catch and ***, but fuckin little else. -á
Long John Silver Republic Military School Minmatar Republic 26	Posted - 2011.12.11 14:55:00 - [25] - Quote No-one else knows that I play EVE, so the problem doesn't arise. Long John Silver \| Pirate Alt-áand Forum Troll.
Mara Rinn Cosmic Industrial Complex Cosmic Consortium 341	Posted - 2011.12.11 15:01:00 - [26] - Quote It's EVE online, a virtual world set in a dystopian future where capitalism is the only law, spaceship pilots are immortal, diplomacy matters, and trust is the most valuable asset that anyone can have. Essentially it's Capitalism & Gunship Diplomacy at its finest, set in the far future. If you'd like to have a look, I can offer you a trial and some one on one instruction. The first month is free!
Jenshae Chiroptera 243	Posted - 2011.12.11 15:34:00 - [27] - Quote I have no one to tell about EVE. They all try to shut me up and don't want to hear about it. Ideas and stuff EVE - the game of sand castles, either building them or kicking them down.
Emiko P'eng 7	Posted - 2011.12.11 16:00:00 - [28] - Quote I Say EVE Online is the great, great, grandson of the BBC Micro 'Elite' game. It is a sandbox game that allows you to build spaceships, space stations and allows you to explorer Which instead of a universe full of NPC Pirates, EVE has a far meaner and nastier set, real players who can show the real depths of human depravity! Which makes it a far greater challenge to overcome all the odds to survive and thrive! Not a game for WoW kiddies, who are after instant gratification of their addiction to instant gratification
Karn Dulake Souls Must Be Trampled The.Alliance 153	Posted - 2011.12.11 17:51:00 - [29] - Quote I dont have any friends in RL My only friends are my agents and they sometimes say they are glad to see me :( Sometimes im a sad panda. EDIT i once left my vent on and went shopping i came back with a friend and as i walked in it sounded like 50 Americans in my living room. When she said "what the hell is that". The only thing i could say was "Dont ask". I just could not expain it more Something Awful. A beacon for tearful, lonely neckbeards.
Aqriue Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 194	Posted - 2011.12.11 18:08:00 - [30] - Quote Its a game where you can be a **** if you like and have zero repercussions to your physical self while at the same time hurting someone else emotionally. Its the internet, win/win where you can feel ike the man you want to be while suffering real life issues that you can in turn inflict on others. Disclaimer: Not that I do it, but "tears" that so many thrive on for entertainment and lack of respect is just a general opinion I have of the EVE community.

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