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The best description of playing Eve Online...

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bbb2020
Carebears with Attitude
#1 - 2012-07-21 12:55:41 UTC
"Trying to solo Eve Online is like trying to solo Facebook"
(EVE Online creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson)

The whole article can be read here:
This is Why I Never Could Get Into EVE Online

Sounds good; but not being on Facebook, I wouldn't know.
Shameless Avenger
Can Preachers of Kador
#2 - 2012-07-21 13:16:25 UTC
Shenanigans... every noob ninja-looting lvl 4s knows you can do well while solo.

"This is the Ninja. He will scan you down; he will salvage your wrecks and there shall be no aggro"
Harold Tuphlos
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-07-21 13:42:53 UTC
Why did you waste 30 seconds of my life? That article has no content except that quote. Cry
Raya Chandragupta
Observant Eye Inc
#4 - 2012-07-21 13:49:31 UTC
You can do pretty much anything solo, apart from fleet PvP/Sov warfare (obviously) and higher class wormholes. Tedious stuff like mining, PvE or maintaining POS will be a bit less tedious if you do it with some others, though.
bbb2020
Carebears with Attitude
#5 - 2012-07-21 14:47:50 UTC
Harold Tuphlos wrote:
Why did you waste 30 seconds of my life? That article has no content except that quote. Cry


Actually think it say one fundamentally thing about Eve, and about something everybody on the forum is talking about - Why it is that so many new players quit after a short try at playing this game.

They are coming in, expecting to play a game but don't realizing that they have to play the game.
There have been much talk about how to change the game to make it easier for new players - new tutorials etc. but thats just making change for a game but not much talk about how to make change for the new players to get into the game.
Think CCP needs to focus more on that aspect too, as it (the switch) doesn't come automatically.

BTW: You're sitting on the forum 24/7 - you have no life to waste, so stop crying.

Now excuse me, as I'm going to watch 6 hours of Eve TV.
Jimmy Gunsmythe
Sebiestor Tribe
#6 - 2012-07-21 14:56:26 UTC
Harold Tuphlos wrote:
Why did you waste 30 seconds of my life? That article has no content. Cry


Fixed it for you.

Sadly, such a poor example to use, and yet, so very fitting. Facebook, the epitome of faceless thinking and emulating an automaton-like mentality is the example for some who can only parrot what they hear and not come up with their own thought process within Eve. I think some resist the anti-solo mentality becase it exists. Free-thinkers, as it were, those who do not need the herd to do what they consider fun or profitable.

John Hancock
Tiberius Amzadee
The Night Stalker Syndicate
#7 - 2012-07-22 01:27:42 UTC
The best description of playing Eve Online.
The Space Crucible!
A never ending sever test of new eden's immortals characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual,social,economic,and political forces.
Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-07-22 01:29:35 UTC
Tiberius Amzadee wrote:
The best description of playing Eve Online.
The Space Crucible!
A never ending sever test of new eden's immortals characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual,social,economic,and political forces.


amen
Abon
Pandorum Research Incorporated
#9 - 2012-07-22 01:29:37 UTC
EvE Online: Divided by Zero.
Nyreanya
Serenity Labs
#10 - 2012-07-22 04:28:40 UTC
EvE Online: No, I don't want to be your friend, but I'll double your ISK because I'm a nice person.

[/sarcasm]
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#11 - 2012-07-22 04:41:25 UTC
EvE Online: Why yes; you CAN do that!

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Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#12 - 2012-07-22 04:46:52 UTC
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode wrote:
EvE Online: Why yes; you CAN do that!

But but but... I want to boomerang.Sad
Chokichi Ozuwara
Perkone
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-07-22 05:00:22 UTC
Somebody should introduce Torfi Frans Olafsson to Chribba.

Tears will be shed and pants will need to be changed all round.
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#14 - 2012-07-22 07:12:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Chribba
Did he just say that there is one thing you couldn't do in the sandbox?

While I get his view, I definitely do not agree with that statement, it might not be optimal choice but soloing surely is a very valid type of play style, all depends on your end goal.

But of course, despite that, the interaction is a big part of it of course, and for that sake not going full solo is very much encouraged, because the community is awesome.

/c

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2012-07-22 10:26:48 UTC
Hurry Up and Wait: The Game.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Richard Desturned
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#16 - 2012-07-22 10:28:27 UTC
Chribba wrote:
Did he just say that there is one thing you couldn't do in the sandbox?

While I get his view, I definitely do not agree with that statement, it might not be optimal choice but soloing surely is a very valid type of play style, all depends on your end goal.

But of course, despite that, the interaction is a big part of it of course, and for that sake not going full solo is very much encouraged, because the community is awesome.

/c


if you play a multiplayer game solo, are you really playing it

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#17 - 2012-07-22 10:30:56 UTC
Richard Desturned wrote:
Chribba wrote:
Did he just say that there is one thing you couldn't do in the sandbox?

While I get his view, I definitely do not agree with that statement, it might not be optimal choice but soloing surely is a very valid type of play style, all depends on your end goal.

But of course, despite that, the interaction is a big part of it of course, and for that sake not going full solo is very much encouraged, because the community is awesome.

/c


if you play a multiplayer game solo, are you really playing it

I think we should clarify what we mean by solo play. Do we mean that solo players don't cooperate with other players, or that they don't interact with them at all?

One of them is perfectly fine in this game, the other is not.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Shanija
Confetti Explosion
#18 - 2012-07-22 11:16:33 UTC
Richard Desturned wrote:
Chribba wrote:
Did he just say that there is one thing you couldn't do in the sandbox?

While I get his view, I definitely do not agree with that statement, it might not be optimal choice but soloing surely is a very valid type of play style, all depends on your end goal.

But of course, despite that, the interaction is a big part of it of course, and for that sake not going full solo is very much encouraged, because the community is awesome.

/c


if you play a multiplayer game solo, are you really playing it

You can't play this game on your own. You're always logging onto the same server as other people. You don't have to choose to team up with people, though.

I don't play that way, but big part of the fun of EVE for me is seeing the crazy things that other people get up to. Some people can just enjoy playing with the market or what have you. It's not playing the game wrong, it's just playing it differently.
Pix Severus
Empty You
#19 - 2012-07-22 11:50:03 UTC
Even "solo" players interact with other players, there is no escaping it. Every time you sell your mission loot or ore, you are selling to players, every time you buy a new ship, or gun, or mining laser, you are buying from players.

Unless you do nothing in-game except for flying around in an Ibis, then you aren't playing solo.

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Alara IonStorm
#20 - 2012-07-22 12:01:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
EVE = Central Africa Online... In Space.

Hi-Sec is the poorly guarded UN Refugee Camp.
Low sec are the guys in trucks with machete's.
Null Sec is the warring paramilitary groups that call themselves freedom fighters.
Wormholes is the towns so small there are no roads, maps or law.
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