EVE Fiction

Now, if the A'J project still was running, I would write an article about how those monoliths (there are many of them) are celestial waypoint markers used by the Talocans millenia ago.

Sadly, no more A'J project.

I hope you are not labouring under the erroneous assumption that real life history is logical and makes sense.

What happened to the Viking colonies in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia? Where they not self sufficient enough to survive?

The Chinese once had a large fleet of sailing ships that sailed as far as Madagascar. But when Europeans first reached China, China no longer had large sailing ships. Why would one of the world’s great naval powers give up it’s navy?

The EVE lore makes as much sense as much of our own history does.

No.

I was suggesting that being in a space ship in space could be the most interesting part of the story. And during that interesting part of the story I don't want to confine my lead character to a pod.

While your entire post was great, this part stuck out (yes, I am taking your statements out of context, but this is what stuck with me). Mostly because, I don't follow how you can say that not all capsuleers have a blood-lust, then go on to talk about the missioners.

While it's not really used in game, this page has some rough guidelines on crew sizes for the ships...

so, using that table, and an "average" L4 mission (chosen at random from eve-survival) -- Intercept the Saboteurs.

(gate)
2x Destroyers @ 10-30 crew
3x Frigates @ 2-10 crew

total: 26 - 90 dead

(deadspace pocket)
6x Frigates @ 2-10 crew
5x Destroyers @ 10-30 crew
3x Heavy Assault Cruisers (Corpum Arch Priest/Sage) @ 20-75 crew
6x Cruisers @ 20-75 crew
8x Battlecruisers @ 40-170 crew
3x Battleships @ 200-550 crew
3x Interceptors (Elder Corpii Upholders) (Web/Scramble) @ 2-10 crew
3x Blood Raider Transports @ unknown crew

total: 1168 - 3925 dead


overall total for one mission then is 1194 - 4015 NPC crew members killed, assuming 100% death rates. Obviously the numbers can be skewed a fair bit by the survival rates as noted in the table on the evelopedia site.

A mission-runner can finish what ... 5-10 such missions in an hour? (I don't know, I don't mission)

I sometimes think that EVE has a problem with scale. Just can't really buy the fact that the Crew pods are too small for the overview if mine, which can't be way too bigger than theirs, isn't. Not only that, but i happen to believe that one, ten or one hundred escape pods may bail out unoticed, but not the thousands that bigger ships have.

Again on scale, i cannot see how a single pod like mine, when put side to side with, say, a cruiser, could correspond to, at least, one half of the number of passengers CCP tells that it can accomodate. Well, they could have explained the lack of pods in the overview with gameplay reasons, and not lore ones.

Thoughts on that?

I'd like to clarify my last paragraph: what i was trying to say is that i don't see an in-game cruiser model, for example, having enough size to make for 15 or so pods that should happen to have a size like mine. Not to mention the space that would have to be reserved for all the ships systems, living quarters and, well, everything else.



I'm actually trying to say that i believe that pods, in this game, are oversized, or maybe ship models are maybe not big

Sci-Fi writers have no sense of scale
You might also want to check out the entry on Bellisario's Maxim.


As for the opening post of the thread - I don't like to look at things that black and white, and if there's anything I've noticed from official chronicles, there are more shades of grey in EVEverse than on this forum layout. Becoming a capsuleer doesn't necessarily mean abandoning your humanity. Sure, Prime Fiction generally paints us nothing but near-godlike mercenaries loyal only to their next paycheck, but why limit yourself to such a narrow pigeonholing?

Firstly, there's more career options available than just destroying pirate hives / enemy strongholds for the highest bidder - and infact this is one part of EVE I just prefer to ignore most of the time, character storyline wise at least. When you think about it too hard... Well It's just best not to. Right, career options.. Well, you can become an industrialist , an industrial pilot, a market player, a miner, heck, storyline wise a capsuleer could become little more than a glorified tourist shuttle pilot, a slave trader - imagination is the limit as in any other fiction, really.
While it makes sense that many capsuleers are combat pilots and therefore prefer to be detached from crews, this doesn't quite hold true for say, a Freighter pilot. Freighters are notoriously slow, and you'll find playing space-farmville on GalNet interesting only for so long. To me it would only make sense that you'll socialize with the crew during long jumps, or at least be more "hands on" with everything. This, of course, doesn't mean you'll start walking around your ship (is it even possible to leave the pod while in control of a ship?), but holoprojecting your avatar around a ship. If you think that's unpractical, well, not necessarily. The shipboard AI can handle the most mundane functions and alert you should there be something requiring your immediate attention, like a warp tunnel breach.

Yes it is. It's said in the books that there are some ships with internal pod gantry here and there, not only the Significance.
For instance, the MLS Morse is a Drake... Piloted by a non-capsuleer.

About the pod size topic: Remember that our pods carry armor and equipement needed to withstand punishment enough miliseconds to transfer the neural snapshot to the next clone. Crew escape pods are likely "coffin-sized" like has been said, and there aren't enough for everybody in the crew.
About why don't the crew escape pods appear on the overview, it's easy: a CONCORD did it. Hard restrictions on your targeting systems to avoid unnecesary deaths.

About more than one capsuleer per ship, definitively no.

You should, they have so much shocking info!