Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
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Posted - 2011.12.11 19:07:00 -
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I have tried so many times to get people into eve and only a handful have even tried.
I usually entice them with words of hope, courage and empire building, try to compare it to Privateer for the old folk or Freelancer for the newish. I try to explain them how to do this or that, how my ship can do this or that, show them the eve promo videos, show them the novels, of all the eve authors (the less sucky is Tony and I have grown used to his style) and lend them said novels, explain to them the intricacies of the market, show them about the CSM and how they fly anybody without any real reason to Iceland, showed them the QEN (when it was available updated), proceed to detail the story behind the Amarr/Minmatarr and the Gallente/Caldari , the Jove, show them cool spin pics of ships in my hangar, tell them about the limited capabilites of PVE (which despite over 70% of people using it in their playerbase, they still neglect it) show them awesomeness of the Hotdroppin' and blob pvp of 100000000000232444 vs 1 , the detailed intricacies of gatecamping, how plex works, and usually after a while, of trying to explain I end up saying "Look, I DONT EVEN KNOW WHY I PLAY THIS"
"Just play it, if its for you, you'll see. Ill pimp you with a tier 2 or 3 T1 frig and a mill isk and roam in the world"
I usually never see them again after I give them the frig and the million isk. I remember I even bought a couple frig BPO's and researched them (and keep doing it after 2 years) to mass produce disposable frigs to give to all the newcomers I have invited.
Honestly, in my ubergeek experience, explaining eve is like playing tabletop RPGs . No matter what you say, people need to be seated in front of the gaming table/monitor and PLAY ... if you have a good group of people to do it, you will get hooked on D&D or WFRP or Dark Heresy or even EVE.
Explaining is sometimes such a moot endeavor. Useless, I think it's better to invite them, log in with them, give them a frig and fly around using Vent and explaining how things works when you in low sec and 10000304235025 people gank you both and then he/she/it will understand, if no one in lo sec (which is the norm), just go to goon territory, explosions will be had or Amamake for lulz. Man I miss Amamake.
Friend gets podded, sees how more or less what game is about and decides. I have had about 90% drop rate, with only 2 guys of all my invites staying longer than the trial. EVE is simply not for everybody, despite all the flashy stuff, ships and CLOTHES you want to introduce into this game.
I just have an alt for that single purpose, giving friends a frig and go together to get podded, thats how eve should be explained to everybody in the beginning.
If the newcomer can't stand the thought of losing a ship (remember to tell them the trip is just that a trip and react in shock when you are being targeted and ship violence ensues) AND losing it afterwards, then I proceed to explain more about industrials and mining. But I just focus on them being ganked and acting surprised at being targeted to make the experience more genuine for them.
That's just me tho, and my sub rate of accounts is pretty lame.
Probably there's a better way but honestly, I'm not bothering I feel this way is the more VISCERAL.
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