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"Why should you play EVE Online?"

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Chopper Rollins
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2015-11-28 00:35:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Chopper Rollins
Bumblefck wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
This is one of the few games that allows for a predator role.

Come hunt your fellow man.



"He was after the most challenging prey of all...MAN"


Dude...i don't want to sound politically incorrect ot nothin, but that sounds pretty fabulous.

Goggles. Making me look good. Making you look good.
Solai
Doughfleet
Triglavian Outlaws and Sobornost Troika
#22 - 2015-11-28 01:36:36 UTC
Buy 20 frigates. Fit all 20. Sub another account. Tell your friend to log in. Give him 10 of your ships. Undock and duel each other for a while. At least this way, you can get him straight at the action.

And if the action isn't what he's most interested in, then figure out what he would enjoy out of the game, and guide him through that instead.

Or you can lure him in with a plan. Tell him what you'd like to do in game with him. A heist? Lead battles? Corner the market? Plant him as a long-term spy? Make a plan, with him in it, and tell him how it could go down.

Give him some material to read or watch to get him interested, like this
https://www.themittani.com/features/largest-virtual-battle-ever?nopaging=1
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O56g8KC6CM
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0

There's a lot of material out there to amp people up. If he declines when presented all this sort of thing, then that's that.
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#23 - 2015-11-28 02:07:53 UTC
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Otso Bakarti
Doomheim
#24 - 2015-11-29 03:25:20 UTC
Verana Elspeth wrote:
He should play EVE Online so that he can bare witness to the glorious CODE \o/
Pretty funny, both the usage and coming from CODE. Bare witness? It's "bear" witness, as in "carry the word." Unless, of course you think bear could only mean that fuzzy thing you sleep with. *chuckle*

There just isn't anything that can be said!
Nat Silverguard
Aideron Robotics
Aideron Robotics.
#25 - 2015-11-29 05:19:37 UTC
for the lolz

Just Add Water
lost packet
Alpha Flight
#26 - 2015-11-29 12:56:51 UTC
Otso Bakarti wrote:
Verana Elspeth wrote:
He should play EVE Online so that he can bare witness to the glorious CODE \o/
Pretty funny, both the usage and coming from CODE. Bare witness? It's "bear" witness, as in "carry the word." Unless, of course you think bear could only mean that fuzzy thing you sleep with. *chuckle*


Maybe he is trying to encourage more people to play EVE naked? Most people do right?

Alpha Flight are recruiting pilots | Almost Broken are recruiting corporations
Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#27 - 2015-11-29 14:38:33 UTC
Having someone to play with would be awesome!

@lunettelulu7
Merovee
Gorthaur Legion
Imperium Mordor
#28 - 2015-11-29 21:21:41 UTC
Pay for his ships and skills, do level 4 missions till he learns to fight, set up a base near 0.0 and start hauling out the cheap battle cruisers, attack. Cool Hmm good advice. Blink

Empire, the next new world order.
Shallanna Yassavi
qwertz corp
#29 - 2015-11-29 22:39:22 UTC
lost packet wrote:
Otso Bakarti wrote:
Verana Elspeth wrote:
He should play EVE Online so that he can bare witness to the glorious CODE \o/
Pretty funny, both the usage and coming from CODE. Bare witness? It's "bear" witness, as in "carry the word." Unless, of course you think bear could only mean that fuzzy thing you sleep with. *chuckle*


Maybe he is trying to encourage more people to play EVE naked? Most people do right?


It won't let us.

That's probably a good thing. If it let us fly naked, most of us would be.

A signature :o
Logan Revelore
Symbiotic Systems
#30 - 2015-11-29 23:33:28 UTC
One of my friends kinda wants to try and play, and yet, he still doesn't want to. It's the pure sandbox that kills it for him I think, the lack of goals served by the game, the expectancy that he sets his own goals fully.

I do believe that a sandpark model would make our friends join us in the game.
CCP Darwin
C C P
C C P Alliance
#31 - 2015-11-30 00:12:39 UTC
Logan Revelore wrote:
One of my friends kinda wants to try and play, and yet, he still doesn't want to. It's the pure sandbox that kills it for him I think, the lack of goals served by the game, the expectancy that he sets his own goals fully.

I do believe that a sandpark model would make our friends join us in the game.

Tell him I gave him a goal. Kill them all.

CCP Darwin  •  Senior Software Engineer, Art & Graphics, EVE Online  •  @mark_wilkins
Markus Reese
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#32 - 2015-11-30 00:24:43 UTC
CCP Darwin wrote:
Logan Revelore wrote:
One of my friends kinda wants to try and play, and yet, he still doesn't want to. It's the pure sandbox that kills it for him I think, the lack of goals served by the game, the expectancy that he sets his own goals fully.

I do believe that a sandpark model would make our friends join us in the game.

Tell him I gave him a goal. Kill them all.


Promoting awox. For shame.

To quote Lfod Shi

The ratting itself is PvE. Getting away with it is PvP.
Pryce Caesar
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2015-11-30 03:59:51 UTC
Kira Kaliandra wrote:
Long story short,

I'm on a mission, a mission of peace and ...

I said short story, so, I've got a friend who likes games such as EVE but for some reason he doesnt want to at least try this.

I want to convince him to give it a shot (i do think he will like it) but my usual attempts have failed so far!


Look at the title, read it and tell me, why should he play eve online? Maybe with your help ill manage to "recruit" him to the dark side.


The Plan to Recruit Friends

Step 1: Create a Corp for you and your friend(s) in High-Sec, or invite them to a Corp you are already in. When they sign into the game for the free trial, invite them to your Corp. You will be able to show them the basic ropes of Eve Online in High-Sec, and help them get on their own two feet. There are many Corps in EVE built around helping newcomers get on their feet, and interacting with the Corps members will make them more at ease in the Eve Universe.

Step 2: Advise them to run the Career Agent Missions first. They will be able to familiarize themselves with the basic mechanics of Eve Online, and help them decide how they want to play the game of Eve Online.

Step 3: Familiarize them with the various skills of EVE Online. It can be too easy to train skills that you may no longer use in the distant future, so help them organize a skill plan that fits what they want to do in EVE Online.

Step 4: Run Missions together until they can start flying on their own. Missions will help give them on-hands experience, build up ISK, and give them an idea of how battles in Eve work and the skills required to fight effectively. That is pretty much the purpose of missions in High-Sec outside of money-making: familiarizing characters with the skills required to maximize their efficiency in the field they want to participate in.

That is my advice, at the very least. The rest will all depend on whether or not they want to continue playing by the time their trial period starts to run out. I am a full-time fighter and part-time miner, personally, so I wouldn't know what to suggest (yet) if they want to go into business and become a tycoon in the Eve market.

Tell your friend that EVE Online is a social game, where the key to success is as much about working with other people as it is working on your own. As long as you are there supporting them in their earliest days and later on, I do believe you can get your friend to like the game.
Paul Pohl
blue media poetry
#34 - 2015-11-30 04:22:24 UTC
a) because it is beautiful
b) it's not the game you think it is - or doesn't have to be
c) for all it's faults, it's still here - which kind of proves both a and b correct

I'd advise just getting your friend to try the game, not overly coaching them and see where it goes....
Kira Kaliandra
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#35 - 2015-11-30 04:52:24 UTC
Hey guys, thanks a bunch for all the replies!

I think im starting to have some success, he is slowly giving in!!
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#36 - 2015-11-30 05:32:10 UTC
Markus Reese wrote:
CCP Darwin wrote:
Logan Revelore wrote:
One of my friends kinda wants to try and play, and yet, he still doesn't want to. It's the pure sandbox that kills it for him I think, the lack of goals served by the game, the expectancy that he sets his own goals fully.

I do believe that a sandpark model would make our friends join us in the game.

Tell him I gave him a goal. Kill them all.


Promoting awox. For shame.


Shame nothing. That (was) one of the most iconic acts in EVE Online. It defined our game and who we are as players better than pretty much everything else.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#37 - 2015-11-30 06:31:58 UTC
Because Star Citizen is still in early alpha, and Tranquility has another year or so before its a ghost town (mostly unrelated).

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
Atum' Ra
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2015-11-30 09:34:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Atum' Ra
Cool graphics, which no one can enjoy because the camera is always at the maximum distance. Instead ships only icons. The almost complete lack of logic and physics in mechanics and balance. Because Eve is Excel with graphical user interface.
I (we) play because nobody has done something better. That's why Eva is the best! Lol
BuckStrider
Nano-Tech Experiments
#39 - 2015-11-30 18:36:59 UTC
Kira Kaliandra wrote:
Hey guys, thanks a bunch for all the replies!

I think im starting to have some success, he is slowly giving in!!


That's great!

Pretty soon, he'll be doing the new craze that has taken over all of Eve Online!

PvL (Player v. Login)

Mine smart. Mine safe. Purchase your mining permit today...... www.minerbumping.com
Markus Reese
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#40 - 2015-11-30 18:51:55 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Shame nothing. That (was) one of the most iconic acts in EVE Online. It defined our game and who we are as players better than pretty much everything else.


Funny you say that. In corp killing was a pivotal part of my getting locked into eve. I was just teasing ccp, since this is eve. When I was noob, had a corp killer get in. People ranted and whined. I got into a tackle griffin and shouted charge! First pvp as well as I got final blow, in a pod no less. Awox deatt with, it was awesome and to this day has created a unique perspective for how I view eve and the important role new players could have in combat without negating value and importance of veterans and sp

To quote Lfod Shi

The ratting itself is PvE. Getting away with it is PvP.
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