EVE Fiction

Because capsuleers mostly just care about capsuleers, and permadeath with a gimped character isn't much fun?

There are ships not piloted by capsuleers. A lot of them look like red plusses to us, and we blow through armies of them without a single thought.
Soon we get to deal with corporations and industries and whatnot run by undying mercenaries, too. That'll add a bit of variety at least.

The vast majority of our chronicles are about non-pod pilots. And yes, the vast majority of ships in the backstory are not piloted by capsuleers.

I must admit, it took me a little to get used to the concept of capsuleers. Mostly for the reasons you've listed. I saw the entire concept as a mere game-play justification.

But after really taking the time to enjoy the chronicles and novels, I've come to appreciate it as more than that. It's a unique setting we don't see in most other sci-fi. If it was simply about ships and crew in space, I'd need only turn to just about any other sci-fi setting.

Actually, the idea of binding man and machine is in most science fiction in one way or another, but specially in cyberpunk. And, to a great amount, EvE is the cyberpunk space opera.

But, that said, there have been in EvE many interactions that haven't had to do with capsuleers. I remember escorting the Speaker of Truths (which wasn't a capsuleer) to meet Articio Kor-Azor (which isn't a capsuleer either) and making the whole Empire turn. Or the war between House Miyan and House Darabi, two Holder Houses centered on their own politics and which cared prety little for us capsuleers. Gallenteans had an election as well, for example.

So, as you see, it's not all only about us. It's just that this is the side of the coin we get to see and play. We don't get to talk with our ship's crew even when they are there, nor interact with the merchants in the streets of any space station or planet we would like to visit. At least, we don't get to do that in game, which doesn't mean our characters don't do that RP wise.

I want to be a starship. :3

It sounds to me like you haven't done much reading, and haven't even scratched the surface.

Check out the fiction portal on the EVE Online Wiki, and take a look at some of the player created fiction that's out there.

if you dont like it stfu and gtfo

Wow this thread is new and exciting.

But let's see... So you feel like you are a starship. Well that's odd because I don't, every time I dock at some station (which I don't do often) I get out of the capsule and stretch my legs, thank you very much. Yes, we fans of sci-fi want to command a ship... So what? Should we have our toon looking trough the command bridge window, for you to feel it like real? In Freelancer (a spaceship shoot'em'up game back in the 2003) I never saw my pilot in space either, just when I docked up, and I don't remmeber it like being a spaceship either.

To me, this problem is all in your head and a misunderstanding of the whole 'you see and feel what if sees and feels' concept.

Regarding backstory being about capsuleers... Yeah let's see the books... Empryean age is about a crew of non-capsuleers, and a capsuleer who has become a mortal. The burning life has a corp agent and a belt rat as main characters, where the bad guy is a capsuleer. And Templar One has the same non-capsuleer crew, a dust soldier and a capsuleer of minor importance who cannot get himself killed.

Considering that capsuleers are the most powerful, rich, inmortal and deadly beings of the known universe, that seems a bit underwhelming. As for chronicles, I have yet to see one that features a capsuleer other than Jamyl Sarum.

All in all, sorry if you don't like to concept. We see a number of people around here who for some reason or the other seem to dislike that anybody could find engaging to tell and hear stories about it, or find interesting to speculate about how could it all be put together without breaking apart.
Why do they think that people isn't aware that this is a game and the story has been constructed in a way that it would explain the necessary game mechanics, and feel necesary to remind everybody about it every chance they get, will remain a bigger mistery than what are the joves up to.

Ah well I haven't read those yet, but still, as Sarum, I wouldn't consider them 'capsuleers' as their main trait. They are the governors of their empires, who happen to be capsuleer because it's something that gives added power, but they very seldom pilot any ship this days.

Well I agree with your statement, i do not believe Tirton is exactly being critical, more acting like a small child that kicks and screams because something isn't exactly to her liking (although in a somewhat more adult fashion). For this reason I can empathise with the statment made by Dex, even though I do not fully endorse it. Triton could in just a quick hour( or perhaps less) than reading, find many a reason to find the capsuleer and whole eve set-up engaging, but does not seem to want to do so.

I think in all Qvar has about the right of it, and summed up the whole thing very neatly, for which a big +1