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How do you explain EVE to friends

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Nolak Ataru
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#101 - 2014-11-15 20:30:21 UTC
Think WoW. Now remove GM / DEV accountability to the playerbase, add spaceships, and add broken SOV mechanics.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#102 - 2014-11-15 20:38:57 UTC
EVE is Megacity one only in space and more violent.
Xorth Adimus
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#103 - 2014-11-15 21:15:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Xorth Adimus
I don't:

1. Eve also seems to attract everyone on earth with an antisocial personality disorder, although this number is still actually small, there are just enough of these special snowflakes to make eve .. special.
2. People who have played eve have likely quit.
3. People who play eve will generally be full of hate towards players I associate with.
4. People who don't play eve would 99% be scared of the entire concept if you took the time to explain it to them or be a secret special snowflake.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#104 - 2014-11-15 22:58:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
#105 - 2014-11-16 07:51:03 UTC
VoIP with space themed wallpaper.
Mike Adoulin
Happys Happy Hamster Hunting Club
#106 - 2014-11-16 08:07:34 UTC
Sometimes people ask me about EVE.

I tell them if they want to play a game where you can lie, cheat (to a certain extent...), steal everything that isn't locked up and nailed down, and scam your little rabid gerbil guts out, then it's the game for you.

Then I mention it has spaceships and stuff.

So yeah, I pretty much compare it to law school.

Everything in EVE is a trap.

And if it isn't, it's your job to make it a trap...:)

You want to know what immorality in EVE Online looks like? Look no further than Ripard "Jester" Teg.

Chribba is the Chuck Norris of EVE.

Savesti Kyrsst
All Cats Are Beautiful
#107 - 2014-11-16 15:35:02 UTC
I just explain it's a game about making nerds angry.
Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#108 - 2014-11-16 16:08:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Jarod Garamonde
Explaining EVE to family members that don't "get it":


Cursory Guide to the Different Races in EVE Online:
Gallente: Descended from Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, and French, with a government styled exactly like the one modern-day American Libertarians want. Pretty much laid-back space hedonists, but will jack you up, oldschool if you actually manage to upset them.

Caldari: The fascist/corporatist result of the Japanese and Germans piling into a spaceship and setting off to a distant solar system. Everyone knows their place and stays in it. Unfeeling and driven by only two things: money and f**king HATING the Gallenteans.

Minmatar: Black Vikings. I'm not even joking. Seriously one of the coolest concepts for a sci-fi race, EVER. Using archaic technology and ships that look like they were pieced together in a junkyard, they still manage to routinely rip the other races' faces off and wear them.... as long as the fight doesn't last TOO long.

Amarr: What would happen if you crossed Catholics and Muslims, let them do all the things they actually want to do with society, and then gave them laser beams? The Amarr. Seriously scary culture. Good thing their ships suck ass.

Jovians: You can't play as these guys. Genetically modified badasses that could utterly steamroll the other races if they weren't so busy being depressed and reclusive. Originally conceptualized as actual aliens, but later toned down to just transhuman walking science labs. The developer employees used to all have characters of the Jovian race, but that inexplicably got tossed out a few years ago. Presumably because some players just will not stop asking "so when do we get to play as Jovians?"
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Anke Eyrou
Hades Sisters
#109 - 2014-11-16 16:40:40 UTC
I don't, I let the other half do it.

I expect to get this post deleted or locked. So much for freedom of expression.

Zedutchman
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#110 - 2014-11-16 20:48:05 UTC
It's what real life would be if people were really immortal.......

Everyone trying to get rich by ripping each other off...

Or people just killing each other all the time, because it doesn't really matter..


But mostly people trying to get rich by killing each other all the time.
Seifer Al'Masy
Kenshin Industries.
Kenshin Shogunate.
#111 - 2014-11-16 22:08:54 UTC
Like someone once said....

"Eve is a cardboard box, half a million players in it, and no rules"
Velarra
#112 - 2014-11-17 03:24:04 UTC
You know that Easter egg flight sim that was in Excell? Or was it Open Office? Yeah. Now turn it into an mmo with spaceships.
Celina Shi
Intergalactic systems
#113 - 2014-12-09 20:37:31 UTC
Now that the new trailer is out things are changing :) people are like : Damn, this is the game you have played for years?? I got my mates girlfriends liking this now.
inta Vakaria
BoomTime
House of Boom
#114 - 2014-12-09 21:03:53 UTC
Eve is an online chat room, with a spaceship mini game that got out of hand.
BoBoZoBo
MGroup9
#115 - 2014-12-09 21:08:50 UTC
Show them the EVE IS REAL video.

Primary Test Subject • SmackTalker Elite

Altirius Saldiaro
Doomheim
#116 - 2014-12-09 21:23:08 UTC
Its a Click Fest
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#117 - 2014-12-09 21:39:15 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
I have tried many, many times.

My friends just tell me to be my age (59) and stop playing a kids game...

Your friends sadly have no idea.
I can tell you I know quite a few that are older than you that play this game. One of them is even on my team (no, it's not me).

Virtually all my real life friends (regardless of age) that are interested in Science Fiction and online gaming already play EvE....Cool
The selling points have mostly been 'hardcore SF'', 'difficult' and 'deep'.

ISD Ezwal Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)

Phoenix Jones
Small-Arms Fire
#118 - 2014-12-09 22:36:07 UTC
I have to show them videos to really explain it.

Used to be this one

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QhJkGhYG1s

When they ask what the community is like, I show them this great guy and how even older people play

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLdYVELWrQ


When they ask how fleets and cons are I show them this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NyPyh9Qtawk (Warning language and reading)


If they ask about harassment, I usually show them a video from a eve famous person wearing a Harry potter hat, and how they were dealt with.

If they ask why the heck they should bother. I say it's for moments like this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0


Yaay!!!!

AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#119 - 2014-12-09 22:49:13 UTC
Sadly I don't have any friends that fit the EVE profile, most don't even touch computers on a regular basis. When I tell them that I've been playing EVE for over 7 years, I can see that they have trouble understanding how that is even possible.

To explain what it is about, I usually explain what attracted me in the first place: a scifi game that lets you fly a huge selection of ships, and more or less do as you please in the huge universe to explore. You can find some nice asteroids to mine and make that your business, fight against NPCs, join player-run groups and join massive player fights, become a trader in a thriving and cutthroat economy, manufacture almost any item usable in the game, explore deep space and wormholes, fly around in a cloaked ship, build your own space station, colonize planets to create massive manufacturing installations, create awesome looking characters, document your travels with screenshots gorgeous scenery, delve into a rich background story, roleplay a real scifi character, run your own massive player group and conquer entire regions of lawless space, defend known space against invasions by body snatching crazed humanoids, pick one of the four factions and fight for a real cause, discover hidden treasures outside the beaten baths, clone yourself...

Explaining this to people that have not experienced EVE is quite hard... but in the end what matters is: "It's a lot of fun."

Lone wolf and nomad extraordinaire. eve.aeonoftime.com

dark heartt
#120 - 2014-12-10 00:22:33 UTC
This is how I explained it yesterday after some questions from a mate about the HED-GP fight:

"You don't control a character, you control a spaceship. That spaceship can be anything from a tiny little frigate to a massive capital ship. Each ship is good at different things. You can mine space rocks, shoot bad guys for money, explore the universe for loot to sell, shoot other players, or work with hundreds or thousands of other players to control space. You train skills in real time, so even right now as I'm talking my two characters are progressing in the game."

"However the game is harsh, so don't expect to have your hand held. Everyone who has made Eve their home has worked to do so. They learned from doing, from reading and from listening to others who know what they are talking about. When you die, your ship and all it's gear is lost to you forever. It's also an always on PVP game. Even in the supposed 'safe' areas you can die at the hands of another player if you aren't careful. But loss is ok, and I've had more fun losing ships than winning fights sometimes."