EVE General Discussion

So, I remember having nightmares or night terrors about eve online.

(I used night terrors in subject so it wouldn't be misunderstood for the ship...)


I remember the first couple of nights I was in 0.0, I had all sorts of dreams that I would lose my Armageddon - Either to ganking, rats or because we would lose the station somehow.

Since I remember having nightmares related to my first Paladin or my first Nightmare - Always about losing them in a dumb way...

I know I'm not the only one, please share your story :P

Also, what helped me, was to come to terms with the fact that I will lose the ship in the end, so no reason to worry about it.
Also I rename them - that way I care less about them somehow...

Duuude....

Video games should not give you nightmares. Take a break, you are WAY to emotionally invested.

We built something great.
We weren't going to let them destroy it... Not without a fight.
I remember we set a trap.
All we had to do was hold them up, and let the big guns do the killing.
We had no idea what was coming.
It was an ambush. They hit us from long range.
It's like going into a gunfight with a knife.
It's a helpless feeling... Watching your friends get shot up.
But the fleet commander.... He kept it together.
They were counting on me to fly through 200 clicks of space, directly through a wall of gunfire.
My hands were shaking... I didn't think I was going to make it.
There I was, flying through the whole pack of them.
From up close our weapons tore them to shreds. They had it coming! We weren't going to let up.
We held our ground. We still are, to this day.
I don't know how to explain this, but I'm telling you: it was so real.
I was there.
I'm telling you....
I WAS THERE.

Hmm, maybe I'm to emotionally invested..

But damn, when you have played the game for more than 3 years, just thinking about how much I have invested in it.
And then the thought of how much a Nightmare is worth converted to irl money... that scares me a bit :P

Heh heh heh. Not with EVE, and not night "terrors" (since dreams don't scare me, BOO!) But, when playing competitive Battlefield 2, when I went outside and saw someone on the street I'd look over their heads for a red (enemy) or blue (friendly) tag. Not scary but very eery. I'd also get out of their LOS till I made an ID...shhh...don't tell anybody. I plan to run for president.

Well in past few days, when i got brain reset /again

I somewhat run away from "nightmares" to EVE forums, reacting on reaction being reacted etc. It helped. All in my head was acting like several posters and consulting stuff.

I dreamt I was in Anarchy once. Don't remember what the dream was about.

So...ill tell my story. It has nothing to do with EvE but with another game.

I spent a lot of time playing Left 4 Dead as I am big into the whole killing zombies thing. One morning I was driving to work. It was still dark out and it had rained the night before. I was crossing an intersection and some light glinted off a puddle of water in such a way that I could have sworn I saw out of the corner of my eye a guy running directly at me. It looked like a god damned zombie with its arms flailing as it ran towards me. Freaked me out for a couple of seconds and I actually stepped on the gas pedal. Heart was pounding and everything. Needless to say I took a break from L4D for a bit after that one.

I used to work in a Greenhouse and would load Red Azalias in my van to sell to florists, this was a daily thing I did each morning. I took LSD one night and all I kept seeing were red Azalias, even when I closed my eyes. Apart from smelling the colors on my bed, it was pretty cool.

i had a nightmare once where a load of douchbags took over half of nullsec in eve and another load of russian douchebags took over the other half of nullsec and they both became bff's where nullsec is now really boring...........seriosly woke up sweating