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What does the concept of "home" mean in EVE Online?
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Anya Ohaya
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#41 - 2012-08-25 01:56:53 UTC
The longer I spend in this game, the harder it is to move all my stuff. It's not just the multiple rigged battleships and dozens of smaller ships, it's containers full of BPO and BPC, raw materials and intermediate products (I often have a enough T2 materials to fill a hauler), spare modules and alternate fits, long term investments (like hundreds of navitas waiting for the rebalancing). Plus buy and sell orders worth half a billion, manufacturing and invention lines on the go, a POS for research, and PI planets.

I have enough ammo to fill an iteron.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#42 - 2012-08-25 02:11:59 UTC  |  Edited by: James Amril-Kesh
Home to me will always be S-EVIQ.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Luba Cibre
Global Song Setup
#43 - 2012-08-25 02:53:03 UTC
I live in my carrier, **** stations.

"Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise." 
Korg Leaf
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2012-08-25 02:58:05 UTC
Where ever I end up after a drunken roam! That's my new home =)
Ginger Barbarella
#45 - 2012-08-25 03:05:27 UTC
Minmatar FW. Although home is a crap-hole at the moment... ;-)

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Josef Djugashvilis
#46 - 2012-08-25 06:44:57 UTC
I lived in Amarr space for the vast majority of my Eve life, it never felt like 'home'

Moved back to Gallente space seven months ago, and it just feels 'right'

Foolish on a rational level, but it made me happier to move back to my Eve birthplace.

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Penelope Star
#47 - 2012-08-25 06:51:45 UTC
Home is the station where the bulk of my ships and mods are stacked. But I don't usually get too attached.

Thinking about it the solar system that felt most like home to me was the one I was most reluctant to move to! Coming back to the unpredictable, noisy, overpopulated shopper's & scammer's paradise and shithole that is Jita feels like heading towards the bright lights of the city. I love that place Big smile

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Myxx
The Scope
#48 - 2012-08-25 06:59:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Myxx
I've got four places in EVE I call home. One is near Amarr, another is near Hek, another is near Oursulaert, and the last ... is a complete secret.

Really, what it boils down to for me are places I've flown out of for extended periods of time. One happens to be where my corp is based, another is where I've pretty much lived on and off for the last couple of years, another is an old 'hq' of mine where I used to mine and where the second corp I ever joined was located.


Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
I lived in Amarr space for the vast majority of my Eve life, it never felt like 'home'

Moved back to Gallente space seven months ago, and it just feels 'right'

Foolish on a rational level, but it made me happier to move back to my Eve birthplace.



It really does. I have to go back to Gallente space every now and then and stick around for a few days, if not longer. I like going back to where it all started, and for me, thats maybe my 5th home. The Crux constellation holds special significance to me. I take every detour I can to go back there on my way to other places, just to pass through. I'll have a completely logical route through highsec planned out, and I'll notice it comes within 5 jumps of Crux. I detour, deliberately, to go through Crux on my way to my destination. It ends up adding like 15 jumps to my trip, but hey, hell if I care!
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#49 - 2012-08-25 07:03:34 UTC
I dwell in your home system, whilst being afk and cloaked.

Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord.

Don't talk to me unless you are IQ verified and certified with three references from non-family members. Please have your certificate of authenticity on hand.
Alice Saki
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#50 - 2012-08-25 07:08:49 UTC
Nomad ^_^

Space is my Home.

FREEZE! Drop the LIKES AND WALK AWAY! - Currenly rebuilding gaming machine, I will Return.
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#51 - 2012-08-25 08:29:50 UTC
I dont have one tbh. Ive been all over New Eden. Its the ship I fly or the accounts I have logged in. But in the game itself Id have to say its nowhere and everywhere. Its where I am atm. The "ground" under my own two feet, proverbially the Captains Bridge or the station I dock in to toss my **** and jacket on. Im a space junkie and tbh Id rather be out there than docked somewhere. Ive lived out of POSes and thats not a bad home as its MINE, but to share it with others sucks balls. So stations arent my thing, at least to call home. And I prefer it that way....

Alone, wandering the stars in search of myself perhaps.


Riches and glory or fame mean nothing. All is fleeting.


Maybe Ive found it out here already, found myself and everything.
Alone in the vast nothingness, floating amoung the stars, immortal, like some god.


Shell casings burning at my feet, lasers streaming past my hull. But silence inside where it matters the most.


Maybe out here is home....

floating amoung the stars..... at the Journies End

Have you heard anything I've said?

You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.
Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#52 - 2012-08-25 10:09:36 UTC
"Traveling alone through the depths of space. With no place to call home, I continue to wonder. Where ever the gates take me, however far I must travel.

Through the unknown I search for that which all have forgotten about. Whatever danger lies ahead, I will face and stay strong, or the shadows I will lurk."

CCP's Motto: If it isn't broken, break it. If it is broken, ignore it. Improving NPE / Dynamic New Eden
Christine Peeveepeeski
Low Sec Concepts
#53 - 2012-08-25 10:19:48 UTC
Large Collidable Object wrote:
The more bookmarks I already have in the area, the more homelike it feels.



This, closer i get to where i started PVP the more BM's I have. I know I'm home when i know how long it takes to warp between safes/celestials etc.

Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#54 - 2012-08-25 11:05:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Inxentas Ultramar
The dry spot next to the leaky steam pipe in my Hoarder's cargohold. I feel safer snoozing in between two frigates, and the sounds there somewhat block out that annoying "tick" in the engine turbines.
Burzrujat
XieDu Fleet
#55 - 2012-08-25 11:11:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Burzrujat
Molden Heath. There is no finer region.

Not many regions have their own community forum. MoldenHeath.net

Home in EVE is where your friends/enemies/acquaintances are. Although it seems silly considering it is an internet spaceship game -- we all have those areas of space that we feel more connected to, those places where we feel we belong; and naturally, that is where we end up accumulating most of our possessions. I believe that it is a normal human need to have a place to belong, perhaps even in a video game.
Frying Doom
#56 - 2012-08-25 11:19:12 UTC
The place where the bloody door won't open.

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#57 - 2012-08-25 14:01:15 UTC
Amarr Prime

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Seismic Stan
Freebooted Junkworks
#58 - 2012-08-28 10:56:52 UTC
There's a treasure trove of interesting responses here, thanks all.

This was actually a question related to the latest community Blog Banter - we've been experimenting with getting opinion from a wider pool than just those who make walls of text as a hobby. It's interesting to note the different interpretations of "home". Good stuff.

For those interested, the Blog Banter entries are listed over in the My EVE Blog Banter 39: Home thread.

There'll be a blog taking all your comments into account as soon as some poor bugger (probably me) goes through and summarises these 3 pages. Thanks again.

EVE Online: The Text Adventure --- GameSkinny Correspondent --- Freebooted Blogger
Rordan D'Kherr
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#59 - 2012-08-28 11:40:03 UTC
home = frontline

Don't be scared, because being afk is not a crime.
terzho
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#60 - 2012-08-28 11:56:17 UTC
Rordan D'Kherr wrote:
home = frontline


Pretty much