EVE Fiction

My take on it has always been that the taxes I pay to Concord and the insurance I take out on ships is more than enough isk to support quite a retinue of "sailors and dockworkers"..

If Eve were an economic simulator* then finessing labor out of the economic equation is a serious oversight. Shame it might have have made for an interesting mini-game, increasing our sense of immersion.


edit: * perhaps not, after all we are the only true consumers aren't we

I think salaries can be explained away through the various taxes, fees and costs associated with the purchase and operation of the ship.

One thing is for certain, the flow of isk has not been a real issue (even for noob pilots) unless you think of the earliest year(s) of EVE (ie. 2003-4).

I admire your interest into writing about the world we spend so much time in. As many before have stated whether distanced or personal all pod pilots have crews both large and small. this is supported by lore. and in many of the chronicles.
this is a link to a piece I wrote awhile back about one of my RP toons thoughts and interactions with pod ship crews.
http://thestormrageclan.blogspot.com/2011/06/ship-captain-crew.html
fly safe

i always picture my avi on the bridge giving commands as the captian does the inside is windowless but has a massive holoscreen displaying the exterior image capturd by the cam drone and the crew are treated like tools as capsuleres are trained to remain distant of all others but thier fellow capsuleres

Also take in mind there are escape pods for the crew that they can use when the ship is in danger and the damage is reaching critical level of the structure for example. But the escape pods are not much usefull to the crew if noone come in search for them and rescue the crew afterwards.

Suddenly I'm thinking of 2001 and the computer aboard, except we capsuleers are the computer. There's got to be cameras inside to monitor internal functions and the crew... though that has to be disconcerting as hell.

thanks for the feedback I will change the background soon as possible.

There was this Pirate MMO that was taking Crew into account. I think it was Discovery Online or Bounty Bay I can't remember. Anyway most of the game was unrealistic except for the naval part which was really cool, your ship would operate with less efficiency if you were missing men. You could suffer crew losses in battle, during storms, or even due to starvation and sickness if you were at sea for a long time without enough supplies.

I wish there was something similar in EvE, but if they add crews they totally have to add Ship Interiors and a "Board" option when you right click.
That's an idea to recycle Incarna...

Honestly, I think all the discussion over the lore/gameplay differences highlight the real problem with Eve backstory. Because the game is meant to be literal, it results in things that make no sense and IMO take the fun out of the universe.

Any time anything happens it's because capsuleer this and capsuleer that. Even half the heads of state, if I remember, are capsuleers often for little discernable reason. Everything is ridiculously focused on the guys you play as, which makes sense in a game, but not in a story.

If I remember, travel times across the cluster are meant to be as in game - that's an hour or less from a random hisec to Jita. Where's the majesty of unexplored space if we're actually meant to believe we can hop around anywhere in the galaxy in an hour or two?

Mission running as people have said makes no sense. Rather that 'that's just gameplay', it's canon that, yes, billions do die to mission runners every hour because :GRIMDARK:.

And so on. The scope of a game is always going to be more limited than that of its setting, because one is limited by what realistically works for a fun game and the other is limited by imagination. But when you make the scope of the game almost 100% representative of its entire setting, you limit the setting massively. And now this is so ingrained that people are doubting the existence of crews because their overview isn't spammed with a million escape pods every time they get popped. And those skyscrapers in Mass Effect? Nope, nobody can go inside lorewise because Shepard can't, duh.