Cipher7
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2006.10.16 17:10:00 -
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Originally by: Jeem
First of all: to begin with, you have no control over your ship other than go to a destination. It takes some time to get anywhere in the ship you start with. Then, you get to click four or five buttons, drag one or two things from place to place and it's off again back to the starting point. It takes some time before you can do anything *other* than this. Training skills is a good thing, but at the early stages, it has very, very little noticable impact.
Alot of Eve players see it as "flying your ship" and I believe that's the wrong way to see it.
Even the smallest Eve ship is flown like a capital ship.
By capital I mean it's strategic control rather than tactical. You're not the pilot, you're the captain.
Me : Mr Chekov, orbit that hostile drone at 500m Chekov : Yes Kepten
Rather than actually you sitting there tugging on a joystick...and we're making a left...and we're making another left.....and we're making another left....and now we're making a left again.
The crew does all that stuff because you have other things to worry about.
Ostensibly while you're travelling you should be planning your skills on Evemon, studying the market, researching corps to try to find a good one to join, chatting in help, reading the player guide, practicing scanning, and so forth.
There is no point at which you walk up to an agent and say "Okay, entertain me."
Sorry, wrong game buddy.
In fact calling Eve a "game" is a fallacy.
Games exist to entertain you. Super Mario Brothers is a game. WoW is a game.
Eve is a second life in space, and a space simulator. It doesn't actually TRY to entertain you, it's a sandbox, an "operating system" in which you operate.
If you don't bring the fun with you, you won't find any.
It's really for brainy mature nerdy space cadets like me, for whom Star Wars was a religion, who always dreamed he could get away from mundane earth and live in space.
I'm always roleplaying. Even when I'm not roleplaying I'm roleplaying. Its almost impossible not to roleplay.
I can say "wassup dawg" and be totally in-character.
This is the future not the past, ostensibly they still play sports on some worlds. Maybe they play Basketball now wearing mag-lev shoes and a 40 foot high basket.
As far as you continuing to play Eve or not, I give you about a 50/50 chance of being Eve material.
You're smart, but I can tell you've played other MMOG's, they've already beaten any sense of imagination out of you, coddled your self-esteem, and crushed your spirit by making you do the Michael Jackson dance.
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