EVE General Discussion

The Vikings are from Iceland, and geometry is the study of rocks. 'Mericans...

Most of the people who never make it past their trial accounts are people who don't want to play EVE. What I am concerned with is that smaller but critical group of people who just need to hear a friendly voice to explain to them, "There's not much you can do right now in the game." This how a trainer in the first corp I was a member of with my first character in my first month put it to me when I asked him why I kept getting killed whenever I tried anything but mission running. Suddenly the light bulb lit. It was my expectations, my timeline that was off. Not my playing ability. So I asked if I could do any volunteer work to help run the corp. I was told that there was nothing someone with my skill points could do to help run the corp. Now, as someone who had spent much of his adult life running volunteer organizations in the real world, I immediately understood that this was just not true.

This thread is by far much funnier & entertaining than the OP's.
However I must point out (and since we all play internet spaceships) that Geometry while similar to that "Japanese art of making paper birds and things" is really: The scientific study of matter in outer space, especially the positions, dimensions, distribution, motion, composition, energy, and evolution of celestial bodies and intewebz spaceboats. Also I thought Minnesota was in Iceland?!?

All Players

You will be part of a team where everyone is respected for the game they play. Lack of alliance infrastructure means we all keep our ISK to buy our own ships and play the game of our choice. We will have to respect you. If we are not running things to your satisfaction and you can't make the Alliance change however it is it would have to change in order to accommodate you, your corp can just leave. You are still in NPC nullsec or hi sec or wherever and you have as good a claim to the place as we, your former alliance. Nobody has to take bad treatment from some feckless geek at his computer keyboard with delusions of adequacy because he can kick their entire corp out of "his" alliance and strand all their stuff in now hostile space. Gentlemen, I say to you with all due lack of decorum: screw that. There is absolutely no reason you have to put up with that sort of thing in your computer game and we won't ever again if we can make this work. And we'll have made something that will demand better EVE play from all of us, right through to the top. Now that's saying something.

Well I've not been a fan of PvP since early in the game but I know people who thrive on it. And I know people who think the indy side is too boring for words--they'd be bored just saying how bored they are by it. And then there are the people who find neither of these quite right. They are looking for the metagame.

I am 17 years old and just started the game this last month, and frankly I think it is great. I'm already forming plans that will take a long time to come to fruition, and the best part about it is that I don't have to play all day long like I did when I played WoW. Given the fact that the game is currently revolving around my own choices gives me the liberty to enjoy my personal life outside of the game more. That said, I really don't understand why the OP seems to believe unless you are 27 you can not enjoy this game. Maybe it will be harder for me to learn some aspects and balance it with school, but I seem to be doing alright.

Step 2: Recruiters and recruits.

Get your recruiters into the newbie systems. You can do this with alts quite effectively. You drop and drag links to your corp into local chat and start bantering. Invite everyone in local to your public channel. for an example of a public channel see our Vomitorium Emporium. Your public channel should be stocked with all your members possible and make it mandatory for recruiters and officers. Do yourself the favor of having only one public channel. You public channel should have all the necessary links, Skillpoint and other requirements, names of recruiters, voice comm info, etc.

By inviting people into your public channel you are pre selecting for an audience receptive to meeting new people. This is so important its easy to overlook. The people who do not want to chat with new people who are not interested either do not accept the invite or they leave. The people are left are a "captive audience" who have given you the first go ahead to interact without which any efforts are almost certainly waste. Let your members know before you are inviting new people for them to have fun bantering with and they will help you just by being their usual wiseass selves.

You job is to move them from local to the public channel, to your corp, to voice comms, and finally to your roster of people who have assignments or at least are showing up on a semi regular basis to stuff.

the vikings are from denmark..... well not anymore.... but they were.

Hrm lemme think about this....

... Spending time engaging intelligence and problem solving skills -- check!
... Adjusting to changing conditions -- check!
... Avoiding harmful ultraviolet rays -- check!
... Practicing fine motor skills -- check!


Yup, looks like she's a live one captain!

Course I could be spending my off hours sitting in front of the boob tube, rotting my neurons in mindless 'activity'... because that's an accepted, PC-okay pasttime!

God, I love my computer.

insert obligatory /oldtymer "In my day, we played MMOs with PAPER and PENCILS!! and we had to beat the paper to pulp ourselves nobody could afford dice and don't get me started on the pencil lead....." rant

:P

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I want to award +2 internets to this fine young man. I've not encountered a 17 year old with this much skill at writing and clarity of thought in years. Well done young sir, and my compliments to your teachers!

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