EVE General Discussion

Figuratively speaking, of course

Extra credits for people that can define...

RL hi-sec

RL low-sec

RL null-sec

RL wormholes

But...........eve IS real.............

Be careful who you trust.



Time's Square.

Detroit.

Somalia.

Middle of the Amazon Rainforest.

When I go to my inlaws I hold my cloak as long as possible.

Really , i take a 220mm auto-cannon and barrage ammo . They stopped inviting me over

In order:

Prison ward (you can easily hurt someone, but you're not going to get away with it unless you pay off the guards)

New York City of the 90s. (you're going to get away with it)

Somalia (warlords control what space they can hold by force of arms)

No good RL analogy.

EVE can teach you money management, that goods things always take time and that if its too good to be true its most likely a scam.

I had quite some prejudice concerning the kind of gamer that plays MMO's, and I have to admit I was wrong. Who would have thought that I'd enjoy the company of griefers, scammers and pirates? Either I am a soulless MMO bot myself, or most of the players are actually sociable people. I'm inclined to believe the latter.

I went to a theme park the other day ("Movie World" on the Gold Coast). I found it very boring. Sure, the stunt cars pulled some neat stunts, but the forced smiles, the dreary look on the "escapee" as he was running away from the crashing and burning police cars … it was all so staged. I could tell that each of the actors had done this so many times that there was no enjoyment left in the activity of driving stunt cars any more. They were burned out theme park veterans, raiding the same content over and over again with no purples left to collect.

Then we went to the beach. There's nothing at the beach but lots of sand, and water that moves on its own accord in semi-predictable ways (we call that semi-predictable movement "waves" and "rip"). Everyone that was there was there because they wanted to be there. Some people were just sun bathing, others were playing volleyball on the beach (and some of them … well, let's just say that beach volley ball is a great sport whether you are participating or spectating), some were playing cricket, and some were just throwing balls around in the surf for something to do.

Remembering that the most important thing in EVE is to have friends, I decided to apply my EVE knowledge to the beach life. I wandered around these groups and asked if I could join in. The 20-something girls playing volleyball just laughed at the old guy trying to join in — they probably checked my corp history and thought I wasn't actually there to play volleyball, and expected that I'd spend most of my time awoxing. The people sunbathing probably didn't want company (they were there to enjoy the sun and the surf, and not the people). So I ended up fielding in a game of cricket (they invented a new position for me, "left right outfield" which is probably a step up from "silly mid on"). We had a bit of fun, then they went home for their barbecue.

I'm not sure what the moral to the story is, but the people I saw at the theme park (employees and visitors alike) didn't look like they were having anywhere near as much fun as the people on the beach.

RL hi-sec: gated community, lots of hard working blue collar people with mundane lives and too many kids to feed.

RL low-sec: any bad neighborhood, lots of crime, nice people get ganked if they accidentally step in

RL null-sec: off the coast of Somalia. Lots of large forces around and solo pirates running about in between

RL wormholes: oil rig. Out in the middle of no where for months at a time, drilling for isk