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Chimu Quien
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Posted - 2007.08.08 00:50:00 -
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It seems that everywhere I go, 75% of the pilots have d00d names and bios that verge on being obscene. In local the chat is smack talk or l33t speak.
In Eve we have a chance to create a space away from RL and live out a kind of sci-fi fantasy. Why do so few people take advantage of that?
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Raivi
Explosion Matrix
Derek Knows Us
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Posted - 2007.08.08 00:53:00 -
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There are plenty of people who get into character in this game. EvE's roleplayers are a really dedicated and creative group of people. There are a lot of corporations that roleplay as a group.
Check out the "Intergalactic Summit" and EvE Library" sections of the forums to meet a lot of them.
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Skornik
Gallente
BGG
League of Abnormal Gentlemen
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Posted - 2007.08.08 00:55:00 -
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I'm not a girl in real life - Iain M Banks said in his Culture novels I could change my gender - I fly an all powerful ship that responds to my brain impulses as I'm tied into it's system in a gel filled pod - yeah I'm getting into the sci-fi and RP... 
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Layrex
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.08.08 01:01:00 -
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It's hard to play it as a sci-fi RP game when everyone treats it like some sort of FPS....
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Patricia Bateman
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Posted - 2007.08.08 01:02:00 -
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I rolled a gallente char not long ago thinking I would could get a spaceship and roam the eve universe, discovering things and meeting people, mining, killing, etc.
Then it hit me - eve online is a huge economy pumping tens of thousands of ships into hundreds of wars and to attempt to RP it myself qua brave space captain in some kind of sci-fi game would be suicide.
In eve who/what you are doesn't actually 'exist' in the game, you are simply a heap of stats in control of a ship.
My MO now? Get money, turn it into ship and the biggest guns I can stick on it, get all the skill books I can afford, rat/mission run in low sec for muchos iskies and join a corp and have some fun blowing up other people doing the same thing as me =)
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Nicholas Barker
MASS
Ministry Of Amarrian Secret Service
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Posted - 2007.08.08 01:03:00 -
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itt we larp together!
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Danton Marcellus
Nebula Rasa Holdings
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Posted - 2007.08.08 01:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Chimu Quien
It seems that everywhere I go, 75% of the pilots have d00d names and bios that verge on being obscene. In local the chat is smack talk or l33t speak.
In Eve we have a chance to create a space away from RL and live out a kind of sci-fi fantasy. Why do so few people take advantage of that?
I do. While I like your name and take on the game I must say I'm offended by your scrawny face and illegally parked Raven.
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Tortun Nahme
Minmatar
Heimatar Services Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.08.08 01:33:00 -
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EVE IS NOT FICTION
im not crazy
Real men fly Pink.
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Nomakai Delateriel
Amarr
Delictum 23216
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Posted - 2007.08.08 01:42:00 -
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Originally by: Patricia Bateman
I rolled a gallente char not long ago thinking I would could get a spaceship and roam the eve universe, discovering things and meeting people, mining, killing, etc.
Then it hit me - eve online is a huge economy pumping tens of thousands of ships into hundreds of wars and to attempt to RP it myself qua brave space captain in some kind of sci-fi game would be suicide.
In eve who/what you are doesn't actually 'exist' in the game, you are simply a heap of stats in control of a ship.
Ok, so you're not the hero or the main character.
That doesn't mean that it isn't a sci-fi MMORPG. You have an alter ego. Whether you chose to roleplay your alter-ego or not is up to you.
As a roleplayer (or "immersionist" as some people would call me) I find that EVE has a very rich story to draw from if you want to play it that way. I basicly have the collective work of not only several authors, but the "fan works" of 200.000 players (since everything you do have an effect on the universe. This is not WoW or something like that. Everything you do has a very substantial effect, even if it's just bringing a few more ISK and minerals into the economy).
Of course the pod pilot population consists mainly of egomanical loonies with an e-peen complex, but I guess that's to be expected when they have an illusion of immortality (which is more like serial rebirth, as you die and die again and a nearly exact copy of you starts to exist every time you do. Quite disturbing really) and the capability to control a ship with mere thoughts.
If you want to roleplay, check out the Intergalactic summit or the Corperations and Alliance summit (both are RP only forums, the CAAS has additional rules).
A list of dedicated roleplaying corperations can be found here
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Dred'Pirate Jesus
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2007.08.08 01:46:00 -
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I play Eve like its Privateer with real people instead of npc's.. Those Dirty Minmater do well as substitute wannabe Kilrathi.. 
Originally by: David Hackworth
ò If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
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VicturusTeSaluto
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Posted - 2007.08.08 01:54:00 -
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Roleplaying makes no sense, it's a video game. In games, the only point is to kill- not to pretend to be a chick/hit on dudes pretending to be chicks. If you want to pretend to be someone else you should go use your acting talents IRL.
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Ehranavaar
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Posted - 2007.08.08 02:00:00 -
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being a pod pilot apparently changes your brain hormone levels. the empires like these changes as it reduces the number of malcontents at home and they can manipulate many pod pilots into being good and useful servants. those who cannot remove themselves from empire space where they will serve as a buffer against hostile alien contact.
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.08.08 02:01:00 -
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Originally by: VicturusTeSaluto
Roleplaying makes no sense, it's a video game. In games, the only point is to kill- not to pretend to be a chick/hit on dudes pretending to be chicks. If you want to pretend to be someone else you should go use your acting talents IRL.
I don't think there has ever been a more fitting time for this...
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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Chimu Quien
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Posted - 2007.08.08 02:17:00 -
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Originally by: Layrex
It's hard to play it as a sci-fi RP game when everyone treats it like some sort of FPS....
That's what I'm getting at. Where are the roleplayers? Where are the sci-fi players? I don't see any of the roleplay corps. Their players never chat in local. They talk in the forum, but in-game it's all l33t speak.
In local chat it's all about dirty jokes, what you saw on TV, what happened in school, movies, etc. It's the same in NPC corp chat, and even in most player corp chat.
Names spelled with bizarre combinations of letters and numbers, bios that verge on obscenity...
No wonder there are so many 1 player corps. I think lots of people just form a corp for themselves to get away from NPC corp chatter and because there are so bloody few mature player corps...
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Anator Namon
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Posted - 2007.08.08 02:27:00 -
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people roleplay to varying degrees... but
http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=472051
there definitely are completely in character chats, etc in some corps/alliances
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cal nereus
Bounty Hunter - Dark Legion
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.08 02:30:00 -
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I'm a roleplayer. I just don't roleplay on Eve. 
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Sereifex Daku
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Posted - 2007.08.08 02:30:00 -
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Originally by: VicturusTeSaluto
Roleplaying makes no sense, it's a video game. In games, the only point is to kill- not to pretend to be a chick/hit on dudes pretending to be chicks. If you want to pretend to be someone else you should go use your acting talents IRL.
1) While I only play EVE for the pew pewing, I do know that many play for other reasons, like manipulating the economy, achieving things with friends, and..oh yes, storytelling.
2) Not trying to attack you personally, but I think that this view is part of the reason that modern games suck. It's like 95% of games nowadays are just made for guys with way too much testosterone. I play games to shoot stuff, but I also like a story to go with the shooting of stuff, but since EVE is an mmo, it can not provide us with the kind of story that a single player game can. Thus we have roleplayers.
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Price Watcher
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Posted - 2007.08.08 02:58:00 -
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Role play is somewhat less than I expected when I started in 2004. For instance, most corps have members of all races.
If the background story held up 5% there would hardly be Minmatari and Amarrian-pig-dogs in the same corp. 
Most people do treat this as some sort of first person shooter. The number of griefer-punks rises every year.
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Tortun Nahme
Minmatar
Heimatar Services Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:01:00 -
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hey now, i have one amarr member in my corporation and we have perfectly good rp reasons for it!
Real men fly Pink.
I've been living in your cassette, It's the modern equivalent, singing up to a Capulet, on a balcony in |
Moon Kitten
GoonFleet
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:08:00 -
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One reason why there might be a lack of role players is because eve is one of the few sandbox MMOs with meaningful PvP mechanics.
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:12:00 -
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Originally by: Price Watcher
Role play is somewhat less than I expected when I started in 2004. For instance, most corps have members of all races.
If the background story held up 5% there would hardly be Minmatari and Amarrian-pig-dogs in the same corp.
Most people do treat this as some sort of first person shooter. The number of griefer-punks rises every year.
Not necessarily. I mean, aside from the Ammatar and such. There could easily be others who have cooperated with the Amarr.
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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PathetiQ
Gallente
The Rat Pack
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:20:00 -
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role playing is for rejected people in highschool dress in dark and ugly stuff!
Thats why we dont wanna "roleplay"
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Max Fantastic
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:26:00 -
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I think this might change when you get the option to walk in stations. EVE is currently very impersonal, IMHO. You're always in your ship, your're always on task in one way or another.
Having said that, I actually think it's almost hard to not be in character in this game. Even if you're talking stats and PvP tactics, it still fits-- it's like talking shop. Even d00dish names fit, as far as I'm concerned-- they're like call signs-- or expressions of a very egomaniacal mind.
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Kylar Renpurs
Dusk Blade
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:27:00 -
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Originally by: PathetiQ
role playing is for rejected people in highschool dress in dark and ugly stuff!
Thats why we dont wanna "roleplay"
Hey, those people are hawt :P
I tend not to roleplay in these games, more I just be myself, because isn't that in-character enough?
Sorry, but if EVE were a world where Ye-olde-english was part of the history of the books, or everybody knew what an electro-quantum-self-disrespec-tor was, then there'd be call to RP it. In a world where I could imagine I could exist, I don't think I really need to change anything about my attitude to escape from RL and be part of the new world. Because there's only one you. Awwwww,, group hug!
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Joskken Inx
PURE Legion
Pure.
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:27:00 -
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Originally by: PathetiQ
role playing is for rejected people in highschool dress in dark and ugly stuff!
Thats why we dont wanna "roleplay"
I don't like your generalizations. If I could side by side my in-game char with my own pic I would (and can if this forum let me), but being a nationalist, corporate-driven Caldari isn't much a departure from being a Marine, corporate-driven American tbh. At least in my "role playing" case.
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Minmatar
Sicarri Covenant
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:42:00 -
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I roleplay a highwayman... I look for little defenseless jetcan miners and take their trash while they insult my mother
Tic Toc Tic Toc , time is ticking ~Liz Kali
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Anferney
Ethereal Mercenary Services
FREGE Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.08 03:49:00 -
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Look at the player driven history of 0.0 and its rather complex politics. It may not be role-playing based off of the eve-story line, but it is a rather dynamic roleplaying of a bunch of tiny nations constantly beating each other into oblivion.
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cal nereus
Bounty Hunter - Dark Legion
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.08 04:22:00 -
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Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
I roleplay a highwayman... I look for little defenseless jetcan miners and take their trash while they insult my mother
You are an excellent roleplayer. 
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techzer0
IDLE GUNS
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Posted - 2007.08.08 04:26:00 -
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Originally by: cal nereus
Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
I roleplay a highwayman... I look for little defenseless jetcan miners and take their trash while they insult my mother
You are an excellent roleplayer.
He's my hero
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Curzon Dax
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2007.08.08 04:45:00 -
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Sure they do. Stop by the forum section for the Library or Role-playing...
Although you might find the roleplaying section a little odd. Its camped by Amarr players who don't log in to play because being Amarr sucks so hard. *laughing*
There's fiction out there, stories from in-game written; its just that you have to understand...it sounds like the places you go are in lowsec. I'd daresay that 75% of the pilots there are freshly in from a counterstrike match, and are using their parents' credit cards to play.
Here's a bit of sci-fi fantasy for you. Epic fight!
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