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How do you explain Eve to your friends and Family
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Muad 'dib
State War Academy
Caldari State
#81 - 2013-04-22 19:34:14 UTC
eve isnt real, you tuck yourself into a small cupboard for several hours making siren sounds imagining it all, but in your mind you are playing eve and have friends

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Annie Anomie
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#82 - 2013-04-22 19:59:17 UTC
I like space mugging idiots.
Minerva Zen
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#83 - 2013-04-22 22:17:54 UTC
With people who don't play games much, I've had pretty good luck starting out with what business publications say about EVE, such as having a stable playerbase for ten years. That piques their interest a touch. Then I explain how it's really cutthroat but very satisfying when you can do something right, and it has staked out a niche but intense following because it has a unique feel. Also spaceships.

People who do play games a lot, I have found, are even more prejudiced and don't even let me get that far. They jump right to bad second-hand experiences and being too tough to get into.

That's the problem with geeks. We all think we know what we want.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#84 - 2013-04-23 00:50:49 UTC  |  Edited by: RubyPorto
"Picture Space-Somalia with the financial controls of Gordon Gekko's Wall Street... that's 'High Security' Space."

also

"PewPew Spaceships ZOOM"

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#85 - 2013-04-23 00:59:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Arduemont
Quote:
How do you explain Eve to your friends and Family


"It's a really complicated sci-fi simulator base mostly around spaceships. Try it, because if you like it you'll never turn back. But frankly, you probably wont like it."

I have probably introduced 20-30 people to Eve in the time I have been playing. Only one of them still plays. The guy who introduced me to Eve doesn't even play any more.

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf
Soll Narana
Echelon Research
Goonswarm Federation
#86 - 2013-04-23 01:10:04 UTC
Cable Udan wrote:
Whenever a workmate or friend asks I just say it's internet spaceships and leave it at that, though my fiancée knows all about fleets and blowing people up for fun and profit and thinks it's endearing and cute that I enjoy Eve so much.


get that statement from her officially in writing before you say "i do".

seriously, do it. Make it part of a prenup. that feeling will change in less than 1 month as she's looking at a stinky pile of dirty dishes and you've got a headset on spinning a spaceship in station.
Darwins Hammer
Doomheim
#87 - 2013-04-23 03:41:57 UTC
As a sad lonely place full of people who consider themselves of value only when they play this game

Big smile
Aggroman
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#88 - 2013-04-23 04:18:39 UTC
i explain to them how epic it is, then they decide to play so i send them billions in plex and ships and they quit 2 days later, only to say they want to return a year later... so i can do it all over again in the hopes one of them will actually stay playing

countless billions down the toilet, i must be good at explaining how good it is to get them in the door but they give up and the cycle starts again

im actually in the process this very moment of helping a friend recover his account so he can contract me a rattlesnake and some other stuff back to me, this particular friend ive helped many times getting started, i should kow better by now...
Josef Djugashvilis
#89 - 2013-04-23 06:33:28 UTC
SmilingVagrant wrote:
Let me tell you a little story.

My wife is pregnant with our fifth child, she craves the attention of her husband knowing soon that we will once again be blessed with the progeny of my great loins. She came to me last night, the pregnancy barely showing, glowing in the moonlight on our terrace as I sat enjoying a glass of wine and camping a gate in my stealth bomber.

"I wish you would stop playing this stupid game, we're going to have another child soon." she said. And I was aghast. Did she not understand that I was already doing all I could to ensure that the child would have a solid future. In spaceships? Clearly this was my fault. I hadn't talked with her about the dire import of the work I was doing.

With heavy heart, having hoped to postpone this talk about how the galaxy was filled with the lowest of the low I pulled up the Galactic Map and began to explain the realities of why I had to continue the fight.

"This is a map of the great players in spaceships. Some day our son will inherit all I conquer. But the universe is untidy. It has undesirable elements within it."

My hands waved lightly over the eastern side of the map.

"Here are the Russians. The communists that saint Regan slayed in his mighty crusades of the 1980's, no longer able to propagate their foul communist propaganda in the real world due to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1989 they have retreated to spaceships in an attempt to corrupt our youth."

My hand graced to the south of the map, hovering over Providence

"And here we have... roleplayers. People who fly spaceships only as an ancillary to their foul pursuits. Only in this region will you find a space captain who his a hermaphroditic wolf taur tigershark hybrid."

She gasped, she had been on the internet, she knew what dark secrets lay in the south.

"That's right. Furries."

My hand creeped over to the east of the map

"And here, here we find the worst of them all. Mens Rights Activists. Pony worshipers. Paedophiles."

This time she found her voice...

"Redditors"

I nodded before continuing.

"So I take offense that you view this as me simply playing a video game... I am not merely eating dots in a line, I am not jumping on mushrooms. My spaceship is a firey sword sent to wipe the unclean from the galaxy, and I wil...."

I was interrupted by a knock at the door...

"The pizza guy is here."

~fin~



Rumours of my death are somewhat premature. I am presently on a tour of all the bars in Ireland with my best buddy, one Elvis Presley whom some of you may have heard of.

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pussnheels
Viziam
#90 - 2013-04-23 11:38:18 UTC
i gave up on explaining what eve is to others a long time ago
my wife just calls it ' his game'

the only person who ever showed interest was my direct chief at the office , no idea if he ever went to play it but i did remember he was looking at some eve related websites on his office pc

I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire
George Sand
Silver Wheel
#91 - 2013-04-23 12:05:58 UTC

My mum is at a respectable age (80+) and since she's not as mobile as she used to be I go there a lot to help out with shopping, cleaning, etc.
Because I spend a lot of time at her place I convinced here to get internet, even though she doesn't fully understand the concept.

So, one day I was playing eve at her computer and, because I was in a roam, TS was on as well.
When she walked by, she looked at the screen, and listened to the voices and said:

"Oooo, do these voices come out of space?"

And me, not knowing how to even begin explaining, chose the easy way out and said:

"yes, they do!"

Rana Ash
Gradient
Electus Matari
#92 - 2013-04-23 12:23:00 UTC
Alas i have tried to explain this to friends and some family, but only one nephew took to it.
And every christmas /midsummer we sit and talk, while the others around share blank looks. As he tells me of his adventures as a pirate and i tell him of my high sec fun and breif excusions into low sec.

We talk ships,fittings, coming expansions to EVE, funny stuff on the forums.

But he is the only one, otherwise it's blank looks, dismissal or bored expressions..
Murk Paradox
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#93 - 2013-04-23 13:32:26 UTC
"Mom, remember how I always liked spaceships? Now there's a game that allows me to fly one and blow them up with real time consequences. It's awesome."

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Sidrat Flush
KarmaFleet
#94 - 2013-04-23 13:47:05 UTC
I've tried a few times and succeeded once or twice, but only my uncle took to Eve in any big way. Sadly no longer playing due to more pressing matters related to cancer treatment and the withholding of his disability allowance; but that's a different topic.

I've made a revelation when it comes to describing Eve to non-Eve people and it should work on gamers and non-gamers.

"Next time someone asks me about Eve Online I will tell them it's about creating content for yourself and other people. The game would be nothing without other players."

http://www.minerbumping.com/2013/04/the-duel-that-was-part-2.html#comment-form

The above post can be found in relation to a story on the minerbumping.com website. If anyone wants to know what Eve is about, showing them that site and then the Eve survival website should show all that needs to be shown.

tl dr: The game is dull and unimaginative; the players are not*.

* To fit a ship badly for a role takes a lot of imagination.

Its time to stand up against the bad empire based CEO telling falsehoods about what new characters can accomplish and pushing them towards an in game experience of drudgery and loneliness keeping them in the shadow of ignorance for at nest their own profit at worse apathy towards all the experiences that Eve has to offer.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#95 - 2013-04-23 13:51:28 UTC
“Unfortunately, no-one can be told what EVE is — you have to see it for yourself…”

alternatively

“It's a market simulation that masquerades as a game about spaceships.”
Muad 'dib
State War Academy
Caldari State
#96 - 2013-04-23 14:05:28 UTC
Tippia wrote:

“It's a market simulation that masquerades as a game about spaceships.”


The light side makes things and the dark side blows it up.

With out each other, there would be no purpose for either.

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Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#97 - 2013-04-23 18:26:35 UTC
Schmata Bastanold wrote:
Funny thing is that when I started to play Eve my wife saw one of rat's haulers in some mission and she asked "Why are you shooting this vacuum cleaner?". It stuck and now my Eve time is my "vacuum cleaner time" which in fact confuses begeezus out of friends and family who are not aware of real meaning of that phrase and they hear I did it whole night.


I'd most certainly think "way to go, you two".