Originally by: Ashaz

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After the first battle between pod pilots and classic crewed ships, the crewed ships were all rebuilt to use pods instead, cause without a podpilot they simply stod no chanse at all.

And as a side note, the rats are podpilots too.

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Originally by: CCP Abraxas

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Originally by: Cutie Chaser

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a combat story told from a pod pilot's point of view might help me understand what my character experiences on some level

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There's a couple of reasons I don't much get into that, though.

First, it's one of the favourite subjects for fan fiction writers to indulge in. Everyone has their own version of what happens inside the pod. If I start writing about it, and nail it into canon, it means that those versions are no longer valid.

Second, it's more of a subject for a scientific article than it is a story, and to be fair, I suspect that most people can imagine it with relative ease. You're floating around in a pod, your body wired up to controllers that give you pretty much the view you see on-screen. You can assume that anything happening on that screen, typing and clicking included, is a direct result of your brain deciding it and sending the appropriate messages to the ship's control systems: You are essentially willing it to happen, and it happens. I can write a scientific article about what happens where, and why you've got things like boosters, T2 modules and maximum speeds, but any story that directly relates the pod pilot experience is going to little more than, "It was dark and rather soggy. I had tubes sticking out of all sorts of places. Then a screen lit up, and I saw my ship floating in space, complete with the familiar icons and controls."

Third, the express nature of pod pilots hasn't really been established, in particular as regards their personalities. The ability for a human being to hook themselves up to their pod (after whatever rigorous training they underwent) and venture forth to murder uncountable numbers of people is something that I'll definitely look into at one point. That kind of thing interests me far more than the mechanics of being strapped into the pod.

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Originally by: Ashaz

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Then the pod technology was introduced and one single pilot could manouver an entire ship with his mind alone.
After the first battle between pod pilots and classic crewed ships, the crewed ships were all rebuilt to use pods instead, cause without a podpilot they simply stod no chanse at all.

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Originally by: Cutie Chaser

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a combat story told from a pod pilot's point of view might help me understand what my character experiences on some level

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Originally by: The Ratfink

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she gets knifed in the head you sick sick people

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Originally by: Ashaz

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Originally by: Cutie Chaser

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Originally by: Ashaz

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We don't. if you'd read the stories you complain about, you would know this.

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But this has come up on the forums many times, and there is documentation claiming we do.

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ok so let me give you a short explanation then, just to be nice.
The ships used to have crews. HUGE crews.
Then the pod technology was introduced and one single pilot could manouver an entire ship with his mind alone.
After the first battle between pod pilots and classic crewed ships, the crewed ships were all rebuilt to use pods instead, cause without a podpilot they simply stod no chanse at all.

And as a side note, the rats are podpilots too.
I love that shiplog about the guy spilling quafe in his pod liquid...

(With reservation for errors in case i remembered anythign wrong)

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Originally by: Josiah Majere

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I agree with the OP that having the picture on the main page seems like a bad call. I got really annoyed with the Eve Chron ads for the "torture methods" series. They were plastered all over the main page for months.

Let me sum up my feelings this way:

1. I get enough sick and senseless violence in RL just from the news media. I play EVE in part to interact with people from around the world and to at least temporarily forget how messed up the world we share really is.

2. From a marketing standpoint, what good does it do for the image of the game and CCP to be potraying this type of sexualized violence? Don't we WANT more female gamers to play EVE? Don't things like this hurt that goal?

Thanks for letting me rant.

-JM

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Originally by: Oveur

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And indeed, there will be beer

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