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What does the concept of "home" mean in EVE Online?
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Selinate
#21 - 2012-08-24 23:17:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Selinate
It only really starts to feel like home once you've set up a POS or outpost in it IMO. When you're sitting in an NPC station anywhere, it never really feels like "home". This is one of the things I think could be worked on by the devs to make Eve much more... fluid. Some method of designating a home station or home system, if you will, in high sec where you can personalize your captain's quarters or hangar in general. That plus personal space stations that are basically larger captain's quarters where you can anchor up on your own and dock and such, but that might only be any good if they ever get WiS fully realized, where you might be able to install side-games and stuff in your station where you might be able to play for isk and such. Something like this would truly bring in a lot of subs also, I think, since this appeals to Eve for a LOT of people, and if you only allow one station per account, then I would think Eve would have more than enough room for all of them. Possibly not. I guess I can't accurately estimate how much space that would take.

I would also like filthy strip clubs and bars realized in Eve, but I realize that will probably never come to fruition.
Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#22 - 2012-08-24 23:26:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Brooks Puuntai
In all seriousness there was one location that I lived in years ago and to this day is the only place I've ever actually considered my home. It was the highsec pocket in Placid. I don't know why but I loved that area. Might have to go back.

CCP's Motto: If it isn't broken, break it. If it is broken, ignore it. Improving NPE / Dynamic New Eden
James 315
Experimental Fun Times Corp RELOADED
CODE.
#23 - 2012-08-24 23:33:22 UTC
Selinate wrote:
It only really starts to feel like home once you've set up a POS or outpost in it IMO. When you're sitting in an NPC station anywhere, it never really feels like "home".

Personally I prefer to "dock" in open space, while cloaked. AFK cloaking is my version of docking. Smile

MinerBumping.com
Large Collidable Object
morons.
#24 - 2012-08-24 23:38:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Large Collidable Object
All in all, it depends on the character I play on - picked bookmarks as the common denominator because I tend to share them between alts.
However, I must say it's probably the places I spent my most active times in and that would be Cloud Ring and Syndicate.

Miss those golden Cry Havoc days. Haven't been there in quite a while, but my guess would be I still have the most bookmarks in that area.
You know... [morons.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjOx65yD5A)
John Rando
Tax Evaders Un-Incorporated
#25 - 2012-08-24 23:43:49 UTC
Being in a 0.0 sov alliance I consider "home" whatever system our alliance is staging out of while deployed somewhere. Whenever we're not in a war then home is our main system in our territory.

However, I've never had a real feeling for any particular system besides a class 5 wh system I was in for a few months before I even had 10mil SP and only 1 toon. I loved that shithole and the friendships it forged. The remote feeling and attachment is like no other.

Now, the only home-like feeling I have is wherever my corp and alliance bros are at, so wherever they are at is home to me. In short what I am saying is that "home" to me is mainly the people you surround yourself with, because that is what makes this game enjoyable.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#26 - 2012-08-24 23:45:46 UTC
Home is where you hang your hat. EVE has no hats yet, thus we have no home.

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Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2012-08-24 23:49:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Vera Algaert
"Home" is for me the area where my main spent his first few months. It's a very boring and empty part of space and I would not want to live there today - but whenever I pass through I feel "at home" in a way that no other place in EVE can match.

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Greenmachine Sale
Cathars
#28 - 2012-08-24 23:52:07 UTC
A home to me is having a friendly Ibis in my ship hanger which is quite easy to get now-a-days.
Kuring Irvam
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#29 - 2012-08-24 23:57:38 UTC
Home for me is not some random chunk of space. Owned by either alliance or empire. I consider home to be my Corp chat channel. Where all my friends live no matter where they are in that vast emptiness of the Eve universe. It's the place that will always be there when I log in and out. Smile
Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#30 - 2012-08-24 23:57:58 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
Home is where you hang your hat. EVE has no hats yet, thus we have no home.


On an alt this is actually true. I have him in a exploration fit pilgrim and just pick a random direction and go. Scanning systems for radar/magnetometric sites, sometimes dip into a WH but usually just as a gateway to a reach another place in K-Space. When ever I pass near a trade hub I dump loot and move on. Only assets I have is those in my ship, and no home.

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Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#31 - 2012-08-25 00:04:20 UTC
When I hit assets to see which system has the most stuff.
Mechael
Tribal Liberation Distribution and Retail
#32 - 2012-08-25 00:24:59 UTC
Home is where the heart is, so my real home is in all of my clones' chests.

Whether or not you win the game matters not.  It's if you bought it.
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#33 - 2012-08-25 00:28:49 UTC
My pod. Other than that, it is where my pod happens to be at the time.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
Tiger Would
Doomheim
#34 - 2012-08-25 00:30:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Tiger Would
A more serious response.

Home is:

Where you dare to fart without excusing yourself or holding back

Edit: IN EvE tiger in EvE

A POS maybe, if you have one.

Once you think you have it all, you have actually become ignorant towards everything else.

T. Would
Lord Arakkis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2012-08-25 00:37:35 UTC
Seismic Stan wrote:
Some say a man's home is his castle. For others it is wherever they lay their hat. The concept is just as nebulous in the New Eden sandbox.

In EVE Online, what does the concept of "home" mean to you?



Home is where the majority of my assets are.

Your still a child in the eyes of the universe
Korsiri
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#36 - 2012-08-25 00:57:01 UTC
Whereever my current base of operations is, especially if there are manufacturing slots open and no queue ^_^
Santiago Fahahrri
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#37 - 2012-08-25 01:23:21 UTC
Home = ship.

I'm a nomad / scout. Any system I'm in can be home, it's all about my ship, not location.
Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#38 - 2012-08-25 01:32:52 UTC
Seismic Stan wrote:
Some say a man's home is his castle. For others it is wherever they lay their hat. The concept is just as nebulous in the New Eden sandbox.

In EVE Online, what does the concept of "home" mean to you?


George Carlin explained it best, I think.
Belshazzar Babylon
Doomheim
#39 - 2012-08-25 01:52:36 UTC
Home is my Orca.
Charles Baker
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2012-08-25 01:54:16 UTC
Seismic Stan wrote:
Some say a man's home is his castle. For others it is wherever they lay their hat. The concept is just as nebulous in the New Eden sandbox.

In EVE Online, what does the concept of "home" mean to you?


Home is where the fleets fly.