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What is EvE's flair?
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NEONOVUS
Mindstar Technology
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2013-05-18 19:55:11 UTC
What makes EvE truly unique?
Like how the Command and Conquer series had the MCV and build patterns or how Battlefield had a combined arm simulation and Arma, Arma made you appreciate how it was all a game.
Malak Dawnfire
Unquestionable Prosperity
Grand Inquisitors Federation
#2 - 2013-05-18 20:07:40 UTC
Being allowed to completely destroy a person that you dislike is something entirely unique. Sure, in other MMOs you can "kill" their characters but nothing is a better feeling, I imagine than knowing something you did could set somebody behind weeks if not more.
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#3 - 2013-05-18 20:14:43 UTC
EVE's current minimum is 37 pieces of flair.


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There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
mechtech
Ice Liberation Army
#4 - 2013-05-18 20:25:52 UTC
The player driven market/fact that 95% of items are player produced, and the single shard universe.
Hra Neuvosto
Party Cat Enterprises
#5 - 2013-05-18 20:25:56 UTC
The chat system.
Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-05-18 20:28:39 UTC
Varius Xeral
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-05-18 20:41:12 UTC
multiboxed hisec mining of course

the supposed silent majority of eve players

Official Representative of The Nullsec Zealot Cabal
Gensou Amatin
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-05-18 21:14:25 UTC
The feeling that anything you do has an impact on the world (no matter how small that impact might be).
Six Six Six
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-05-18 21:33:00 UTC
Being able to train anything with just one character.

Very long skill tree that's likely to keep growing.

CCP not producing linear content that you have to do in order to do more linear content.

Choices, you can choose to do what you want and if you're missing out on content it by your own choice and not game design (there are a few minor exceptions which hopeful will be addressed).

No achievements in game, which is a big plus.

Not a theme park (lets hope it never gets that way).

Everyone playing in the same universe.

Training whilst offline, which means you can get on with RL and still feel that you're progressing in-game.
Harry Forever
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#10 - 2013-05-18 21:39:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Harry Forever
building and destruction, the market and politics

Harry Forever vs. Goonswarm
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#11 - 2013-05-18 21:43:27 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
EVE's current minimum is 37 pieces of flair.




15 is the minimum.

but no one wants to do the bare minimum, right? i mean...is that the kind of pilots we want to be?
Lyza Kimbo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-05-18 22:04:55 UTC
Just the pure hardcore badness of death actually meaning something really significant.

Not some BS corpse run, not "BRB, I have to go grab my stuff from reclaim", and sure as peanutbutter not "wait 30 seconds before you can hit spacebar and respawn".

In Eve, dead is dead. Your ship is gone. You might be able to recover a few modules and a bit of the cargo, but chances are whoever popped you got that.

If you got podded, your implants are gone.

If you weren't paying attention to your clone, some of your SP are gone.

This aspect of the game makes at least half of the MMO players in the world unwilling to play Eve. But the other half is enough, as witness the fact that Eve is 10 years old and still vibrantly alive.

The only other MMO I have seen over that span of time is Anarchy Online, which was in a sad state by its 5th or 6th birthday, and fossilized by its tenth.
Barbelo Valentinian
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2013-05-19 01:30:25 UTC
EVE's main flair, for me, is creatiing an electrifying sense of immersion in virtue of the fact that you have to be alert or you'll lose stuff, and you may lose stuff even if you are alert!

I don't like the sandbox model in fantasy games, I prefer a cute story; but with an s-f game like this, it's the closest thing any of us are likely to ever get to actually flying a spaceship in a dangerous part of the Universe. It's a ridiculously simplified model, but it models enough to allow you to dream ... that you are there. Out in the infinite abyss, stars sparkling around you.

It's the most immersive MMO around (that's still of a modern quality). And I'm an immersion hound, so here I am.
Digital Messiah
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2013-05-19 02:00:20 UTC
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
Doc Fury wrote:
EVE's current minimum is 37 pieces of flair.




15 is the minimum.

but no one wants to do the bare minimum, right? i mean...is that the kind of pilots we want to be?

Look at Brian over there

Something clever
Ocih
Space Mermaids
#15 - 2013-05-19 02:20:43 UTC
EVE is EVE.

Why do I like bacon? It's a pigs ass but we like it.
Why do we like bewbies? There isn't much remarkable about them. Women have been pointing it out for years but we like em.

EVE is like Bacon and Bewbies. Dunno why, don't care. It's just good.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#16 - 2013-05-19 02:59:34 UTC
What makes it unique?

Is it that everyone plays in and affects the same persistent world as everyone else does?

Is it that the skill system is ingeniously built to give the veterans the perks they desire while keeping the newbie relevant?

Is it that almost every activity in EVE can be considered "PvP" since almost everything brings you in [direct or indirect] conflict with another player?

Is it that ship on ship violence is allowed in some fashion everywhere [except starter systems] in the game?

Is it that morally questionable acts of betrayal and thievery are not only encouraged, but celebrated?

Is is that the DEVs often troll their own players in various subtle (and not so subtle) ways?

No. EVE's flair obviously lies its wardrobe.

How did you Veterans start?
Gealbhan
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#17 - 2013-05-19 03:00:29 UTC
Ocih wrote:
EVE is EVE.

Why do I like bacon? It's a pigs ass but we like it.
Why do we like bewbies? There isn't much remarkable about them. Women have been pointing it out for years but we like em.

EVE is like Bacon and Bewbies. Dunno why, don't care. It's just good.



I don't eat pork and how do you make 5 pounds of fat look good? put a nipple on it.

Anyway - on topic - For me the flair is the ability to do whatever you want and chose a non-linear path.
Oberine Noriepa
#18 - 2013-05-19 04:40:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Oberine Noriepa
Its hardcore nature and sandbox gameplay. There's really nothing else like EVE out there. Well, maybe Dust 514, but that needs time to spread its wings.

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Zappity
New Eden Tank Testing Services
#19 - 2013-05-19 04:56:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Zappity
Scams, theft and griefing. And the fact that generosity, honesty and kindness actually mean something because they exist.

Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#20 - 2013-05-19 05:41:41 UTC
Malak Dawnfire wrote:
Being allowed to completely destroy a person that you dislike is something entirely unique. Sure, in other MMOs you can "kill" their characters but nothing is a better feeling, I imagine than knowing something you did could set somebody behind weeks if not more.


in most other mmos you can't kill them if they are on your side though. and that is what I love about eve, you can shoot anyone simply because you want to! Honestly I've had some moments where the most frustrating thing was I couldn't team kill some one.

@ChainsawPlankto on twitter
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