EVE General Discussion

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So, I've often been interested in live streaming on Twitch. One big thing I'm wondering about how to do it without giving away to many details. By details I mean how do people in these nullsec alliances twitch without giving away intel or things that are sensitive? Just curious. I've hidden the system name and my route, but if people are really paying attention they will know where I am because of the Overview. Right? So, How do YOU Twitch? :p

There are some ways to blur/black out pretty much everything that will give away your location, and of course, you can set up a delay. No matter what you do, though, unless you want to just broadcast a black image, if someone sees your stream and decides to crash it, he'll be able to find you

People will at least know the region you are in from just looking at the nebulae in the background, they may recognize the system from the location of stations or other celestials as you fly by them, and if they know your character name, they can just pay a locator to find you. Especially in nullsec, chances are high that you have been scouted already anyway.

The people that are streaming Eve are either fully aware that they can be found, or they are completely oblivious of the danger they are in.

Also, don;t advertise your twitch stream in your bio!

Had somebody in our wormhole before Xmas, briefly caught a glimpse of him, checked his bio and saw a twitch link.

Checked it out and he was live streaming at the time with no delay, made it rather easy to gank him

What's the point in watching others play videogames? Why not just play the game yourself?

because I'm somewhat burnt out and get more entertainment ship spinning and chatting while watching a stream than flying around myself most days.

You will have a far more enjoyable experience playing WITH your stream snipers then against them. It's going to happen, regardless what you do. Prepare for it and fly cheap. Youll make friends much faster that way, and fans!

Overlays, overview config, added delays, and minimizing unnecessary things. Cover sensitive chats and such. If you're trying to hide your location because you're hauling or PVEing, from my experience that makes people want to gank you more. I've also seen people guess my exact location in chat solely based on nebula and other background references. Then you add locator agents on top of it all. Frankly over the years I've stopped giving a ****, especially since I PvP on stream, and I want people to come find me. Some of the best fights I've had has been stream viewers tracking me down.


Ultimately it depends on what you want to do and hide. Sensitive chats, intel channels, etc, I could see wanting to hide, but your location, route, fit, etc, tends to be easily figured out based on mechanics in-game, and various ways out.

Edit:

To add, there are three primary ways to stream. EVE has the Twitch capability built in, X-split, and OBS (Open Broadcaster). I don't particularly care for X-split as the times I've used it, it eats up more resources than OBS. OBS has a lot of neat plugins and capabilities if you're willing to put some effort into it. I use it for normal streaming, multi-streaming (multiple perspectives in a fleet), and putting together the NT Collides tournament broadcasts.

in some aspects you can watch someone and learn a new trick or tactic. Or if your an addict, you can get your fix by watching someone else play while your at work or on vacation.

its pretty much like everything, why watch baseball on tv when you can go join a local game and play instead?

humans by nature are voyeuristic. We get a weird pleasure out of watching other people

See that's the thing, I don't watch often but the few times I have it wasn't because of the streamer but because of the inevitable stream snipe and the hilarity and/or tears that ensue.