EVE General Discussion

Laptop that I use to play Eve is in the living room. Wife is in the living room with her parents and some of her friends. I am in the bedroom on a lousy old computer which cannot play Eve. If I go to get the laptop without engaging the visitors, I will seem rude, get agro from my wife and most likely be drawn into a conversation with her family and friends. In other words, it will be difficult to extricate myself with the computer in a way that will not ultimately cause me aggravation.

Thus, I come to you my fellow Eve brethren. I need suggestions as to how to get in there, get the computer and get out, without being drawn into conversation with the visitors and without seeming rude.

Send your [insert pet species here] to get it.

Smart bomb

Make retching noises as you go and say you need the laptop to look up a home remedy for excessive nausea and gas. Doubt they will ask you to stay.

Greetings capsuleer,

As the Plunderbunny has stated - you are already being rude. Your partner will already likely be hostile towards you; so whether you fetch the laptop or not you're in for it anyway. Fetch the laptop if you want to play; say hello and make your excuses.

In other words - man up, grow a pair and stand up for yourself.

Regards,

Shian Yang

well, in case you aren't trolling...

walk into the living room, pick up the laptop, and engage them in conversation for several minutes. during the conversation, announce you are thirsty and head off to the kitchen. actually get something to drink and on the way back to the bedroom, let them know you need to email your boss about something important. enter the bedroom and fire up eve.

I am going to take a slightly different angle on this scenario.

Go talk to the people. Be charming, nice, generous and smile a lot. Make sure the drinks are cold and full. They will leave eventually. You might actually have a good time. When they do leave you can claim your prize.

Your over the generosity must be rewarded. The wife will have to hold off on agro. In the end, you might get MORE playing time. Plus you should be drunk by then.

then again....I tend to be overy patient....and must of my ideas suck.

You need to install Teamviewer on both computers so you can remote the good one from the crappy one. It is how I mine at night when I can't sleep without leaving the bed and waking up the wife.

EDIT: Tell the wife you forgot a power setting and it might hurt the battery if there is a grumble from her. That should buy you the time to install team viewer and get the password setup and ID number. Also, don't forget to turn off the power settings when you close the lid and turn off the sound.

You have 2 options :

Engage in conversation. Make wife happy. May even lead to multiplayer activity even more fun then eve, and you can always go back to Internet spaceships afterwards

or

Do the cloak + mwd trick, and hope they haven't put a bubble on the living room door. Go with stealth as this is most likely a situation where overwealming force would be considered inappropriate.