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Mudkest
MetaForge
Ekliptika
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Posted - 2007.05.17 09:13:00 -
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so if you're a really cold-hearted sos you can go flying next to the ship you are about to destroy firing smartbombs to get all those escape pods that come out? :/
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DiuxDium
Free Mercenaries Union
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Posted - 2007.05.17 09:48:00 -
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 Originally by: Mudkest
so if you're a really cold-hearted sos you can go flying next to the ship you are about to destroy firing smartbombs to get all those escape pods that come out? :/
Crew don't get pods.
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Aterna
Talon's Grasp
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Posted - 2007.05.17 10:20:00 -
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I think he means escape pods in the more traditional sense, not capsules, but Star Wars style pods. The kind that thud down on the nearest planet and activate a homing beacon.
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Seidr
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.17 12:26:00 -
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I ponder how many incalculable millions of crew been turned to invisible-corpsicles over the years.
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Renox
Gallente
Celestial Apocalypse
Insurgency
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Posted - 2007.05.17 12:41:00 -
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A few facts from the prime fiction.
Pod pilots are the only humans that can reliably use clone to escape death as the proces fries the brain and as such the proces has to only ever happen when the person is a few moments from certain death (pod is breached). The pod is the only thing that so far has proved to guarentee that this is the case.
The pod pilot replaces the entire command bridge of a ship taking away the lenghty proces of passing orders down the chain of command. The ships piloted by pod pilots are also rigged to further make use of the special abilities of the system further reducing the needed crew. This optimisation enables frigates to be flown by the pod pilot alone. Anything larger then a frigate needs more crew though, numbering the thousands when we reach battleships and God know's how many on a dread/carrier.
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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.17 14:52:00 -
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Originally by: DiuxDium
Originally by: Mudkest
so if you're a really cold-hearted sos you can go flying next to the ship you are about to destroy firing smartbombs to get all those escape pods that come out? :/
Crew don't get pods.
Crews certainly don't get PODs, only few elite POD pilot like us have them. But there are escape boats on ships. Even today's warships have life boats on them, I don't say why EVE ship don't have any lifesaving escaping devices for the crew.
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LeMoose
The Collective
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2007.05.17 15:27:00 -
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Originally by: Kern Geist
Originally by: DiuxDium
Originally by: Mudkest
so if you're a really cold-hearted sos you can go flying next to the ship you are about to destroy firing smartbombs to get all those escape pods that come out? :/
Crew don't get pods.
Crews certainly don't get PODs, only few elite POD pilot like us have them. But there are escape boats on ships. Even today's warships have life boats on them, I don't say why EVE ship don't have any lifesaving escaping devices for the crew.
i cry a tear everytime i blow up a ship for all the lifes i ended
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Caffeine Junkie
Caldari
Elite Storm Enterprises
Storm Armada
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Posted - 2007.05.17 16:24:00 -
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I am responsible for a lot of people's deaths then!
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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.19 06:23:00 -
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Edited by: Kern Geist on 19/05/2007 06:21:18
The reason for those people who refuse to believe there are crews is because they don't wanna feel the pain and sadness of the fact all these people are dying when they blow up ships or getting blown up. LOL
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JoCool
Caldari
kleptomaniacs
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Posted - 2007.05.19 08:14:00 -
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Originally by: 000Hunter000
hm.. does race matter? what i mean is would caldari serve on a caldari ship that is commanded by a Gallente? 
I'm not a biggot so tbh i don't care what race my crew is as long as they do their jobs it's fine by me, if they have a problem about shooting their countrymen they can always quit.
what is the big question is.. do crew have clones? and if not, why would one want to serve on a warship thats prolly gonna get blown up? For the Amarr i can understand, they prolly use lots of slaves addicted to Vitox but the other races? Caldari? perhaps the honor of dying in battle? (sounds a bit too much like klingon to me hehe) Minmatar.. chance to take a potshot at their former amarrian masters? there willing to die for that? but Gallente? were quite the peaceloving race... why would my fellow countrymen risk their precious lives?
EDIT: almost forgot hehe, kewl pics OP
Because life on a Gallente ship is one big party!
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Kodiak31415
An Eye For An Eye
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.05.19 08:28:00 -
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Small note, according to the pictures, a probe is longer than a 747.
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Neuromandis
Novastorm Inc
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.05.19 08:40:00 -
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Suddenly, I have been promoted to scout/podpilot/whatever to mass murderer 
I always self-destruct my ravens at the end of their insurance 
7.000 kills each???!!!!?!?!?!?!?
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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.19 08:59:00 -
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Edited by: Kern Geist on 19/05/2007 09:04:01
Edited by: Kern Geist on 19/05/2007 09:02:49
Originally by: Kodiak31415
Small note, according to the pictures, a probe is longer than a 747.
Yes, even the smallest frigate in EVE is larger than a Boeing 747-400 jet, an average cruiser in EVE is bigger than any ship we've ever built in real life, and a Titan is as long as the entire Manhattan Island of NYC. The next release of EVE would show pilot physically walk to their ship which would help us get a grasp of their sheer size.
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n0thing
Northern Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence.
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Posted - 2007.05.19 09:44:00 -
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Originally by: Neuromandis
Suddenly, I have been promoted to scout/podpilot/whatever to mass murderer
I always self-destruct my ravens at the end of their insurance
7.000 kills each???!!!!?!?!?!?!?
Well maybe they escape is standart life-capsules few secs before.
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Arkios Odymei
Incarnation of Evil
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Posted - 2007.05.21 04:26:00 -
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/me sighs...
I feel compelled to post this every time I see a poster who who refuse to accept that our ships have many people onboard... Here we go:
FFS SHIPS HAVE CREWS!!!! - As told by CCP GINGER of the EVE DEV TEAM
Also Read some EVE Chronicles.
And this short story has a nice section on the fourth page in that tells about how the pod works in a ship:
Originally by: Forsaken Ruins
Mattias focused the drone cameras on the Blackbird, inspecting the massive gashes in its hull. Judging from the metallic carnage, he estimated that sections of at least 6 decks were now exposed directly to space. Somewhere beneath where he was sitting, hundreds of crewmembers were sealing off compartments, fighting electrical fires and desperately struggling to keep his ship's vital systems functioning. How many of them died because of this, he wondered. As the captain of the ship, he was sealed inside a pod made of an ultra-strong, Jovian-manufactured alloy and neurologically connected to the Blackbird's systems. Inside of it, so long as the ship was intact, the captain was immune from harm. It was the Jovians who had introduced this remarkable innovation, and it had changed the face of naval warfare forever.
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Modern day starships are massive and incomprehensibly complex. Before the pod, there were so many points of failure between a captain's decision and the execution of his orders. The ability to create a direct neurological connection between a human mind and a ship's systems reduced those points of failure to zero. Commanding a starship was now a natural extension of the mind's will. All a captain needed was to just think about what he wanted his ship to do, and it was done.
To Mattias, it was all so impersonal. Because of the technology, a captain could skipper numerous ships over the course of a lifetime without ever meeting a single crewmember from any of them. Mattias was one of the few who made an effort to meet at least some. It seemed like the least he could do in exchange for their unquestioning faith in his abilities, and their trust in him to keep them alive.
And yes, everytime you lose a ship hundreds, if not thousands, of people die (and none of them have a clone, they are just regular Joes and not elite pod pilots like you and me.)
All you guys who believe the "No-crew-because-I-use-robotics/drones/mental powers/fedos" really need to give in and accept that we have crews.
Originally by: Marcathonas
Moros + huginn + bubble = super happy carnage time.
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whitcombe
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Posted - 2007.08.01 05:22:00 -
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Cloning is for the elite and relatively rich - aka- pod pilots :D
Now consider that each planet has billions of people, all wanting to make a living - if you ask me the cost of materials for ships and insurance includes the salary of our crew. Personally i use 'ruthless' an eve online novella as a pricing base for the average bloke. with drug slingers making acouple thousand isk per major trade 
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Caithan ArcFade
Caldari
Cornerstone Unlimited
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.01 05:44:00 -
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Wait...EVE is going to have actual Avatars?
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IceForce
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Posted - 2007.08.01 06:00:00 -
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well why doo u think they put small arms in the game? so we can kill each other`s in stations
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Gariuys
Evil Strangers Inc.
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Posted - 2007.08.01 07:48:00 -
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Originally by: Neuromandis
Suddenly, I have been promoted to scout/podpilot/whatever to mass murderer
I always self-destruct my ravens at the end of their insurance
7.000 kills each???!!!!?!?!?!?!?
What you can't roleplay having your crew abandoning ship before you blow it???
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Aravel Thon
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Posted - 2007.08.01 08:01:00 -
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I put on my robe and wizards hat...
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J Valkor
Blackguard Brigade
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Posted - 2007.08.01 08:06:00 -
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I killed a million people today for 10 cubic meters of Quafe Ultra.
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Steini OFSI
Gallente
Minigame
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Posted - 2007.08.01 08:11:00 -
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Originally by: J Valkor
I killed a million people today for 10 cubic meters of Quafe Ultra.
It is Ultra, I think it's worth few million lives as long it's not mine
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Pottsey
Enheduanni Foundation
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:23:00 -
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Edited by: Pottsey on 01/08/2007 09:27:17
Edited by: Pottsey on 01/08/2007 09:26:24
There was a good background story in Eon about Ship crews. In short 95% of them die when a ship exploding acording to the paper work. In reality most of them survive in a long list of ways, get life insurance then go and work no another ship.
Some survive in space suits until savagers turn up, others use escape pods e.c.t
ôPod pilots are the only humans that can reliably use clone to escape death as the proces fries the brain and as such the proces has to only ever happen when the person is a few moments from certain death (pod is breached). The pod is the only thing that so far has proved to guarentee that this is the case.ö
ThatÆs the old background story. Technology has moved on Pod pilots donÆt need to be in a pod anymore to get cloned and they donÆt have to die in the processÆs. Jump clones for example let you jump between bodys.
Some famous and rich people also have clones so its not just pod pilots.
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cal nereus
Bounty Hunter - Dark Legion
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:34:00 -
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A ship that is piloted normally requires a much larger crew than a ship piloted by one of the legendary pod-pilots (us).
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Starraker
KDM Corp
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:47:00 -
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Originally by: Marduk Felzhen
Haha, wouldnt it be slick if crew became a sort of new module for ships? I.E tech ii exotic dancers increases overall effectivness of ship, or like you could launch tech ii homeless people at other ships and they would cling onto them and bog down their sensors or whatever
Well I always saw it like this; your skills determine how well you can give orders to your crew, too keep everything nice and optimal.
If you know what is important about a certain system you make your crew buff it up a bit above optimal. Hence the small increase in effectiveness.
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Gabriel Karade
Quam Singulari
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.08.01 10:00:00 -
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Ah I loved those schematic-type diagrams of the ships when I first joined, shame they didn't keep them and update them with the new ships. Heh, plus they almost have sensible masses for the Battleships too (>2 million tonnes)...
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