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How would you define eve-online ?
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Sernum
Infinite Point
Pandemic Horde
#1 - 2013-02-08 03:55:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Sernum
How would you define eveonline to someone who hasnt played a mmo. what sets eve apart from other games in the industry. You and i both know - but how would you say this to someone who doesnt understand or has never play any mmo?
writing a research paper thanks in advance.

Well Eve-online focuses its target market on people who do not need instant gratification for achieving tasks. CCP targets the most diabolic people on the face of the planet that spend weeks, months even years plotting out ways to demolish other players and their empires. Empires can which can consist of thousands of other real human players to put this into perspective. The game targets people who are extremely adapted to inspections tedious details and living a covert life with in other player ran alliances as a spy.

its a rough draft wrote in like 2 minutes but does this sound accurate and appealing?
Rich Uncle PennyBags
EVE Online Monopoly
#2 - 2013-02-08 04:07:22 UTC
Two words.

Internet. Spaceships.
Tah'ris Khlador
Space Ghosts.
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#3 - 2013-02-08 04:08:49 UTC
Rich Uncle PennyBags wrote:
Two words.

Internet. Spaceships.


Every time I explain EVE to an outsider, this is the first definition I use. Followed by "it's like WoW, but requires much more intelligence."

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#4 - 2013-02-08 04:11:05 UTC
Probably not the type of answer you're looking for, but I'd describe EVE as a mix of the best parts of "Firefly" and "Babylon 5" with a hint of "Close Encounters" thrown in (aka, Jovians).

Good luck with the paper.

Blink


"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Agnar Volta
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-02-08 04:12:01 UTC
EVE is a mix between playing Rugby with your mates and Facebook.

It's an aggressive sport, and a place where you can meet your mates in a virtual environment.



Mr Kidd
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-02-08 04:13:37 UTC
Hours of mind numbing tedium followed by a few minutes orgasmic euphoria.

Don't ban me, bro!
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2013-02-08 04:15:10 UTC  |  Edited by: DeMichael Crimson
Well, the usual expected response would be that Eve Online is a MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game). Specifically it's a Science Fiction Virtual Reality Simulation set in a futuristic space environment.



DMC

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NEONOVUS
Mindstar Technology
Goonswarm Federation
#8 - 2013-02-08 04:22:08 UTC
Welcome to Space 1920s New York.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#9 - 2013-02-08 04:26:41 UTC
"At best, EVE is like speeding around in a stolen Pinto, vintage cannonball cannon ducttaped to the roof, your arm around the shoulders of a dead hooker, with 20 guys armed with frying pans chasing you down on pseudo-Vespa-harleys. At worst... it's EXCEL spreadsheets in space."
~ Unknown

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ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#10 - 2013-02-08 04:50:45 UTC
I would say "Internet Spaceships" but then one of my other friends would say "HURR, ITS PRETTY MUCH SPREADSHEETS"

Now, more than ever, we need a dislike button.
Karl Hobb
Imperial Margarine
#11 - 2013-02-08 04:58:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Karl Hobb
"Almost free" market simulator set in a libertarian dystopia with a full-loss spaceship game built-in.

A professional astro-bastard was not available so they sent me.
Galenwade
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2013-02-08 05:28:34 UTC
A time sink
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#13 - 2013-02-08 07:30:56 UTC
Once this is done, maybe we will be able to explain it so people understand - http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-tale-of-internet-spaceships

/c

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Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#14 - 2013-02-08 07:36:04 UTC
Pax Coalitions Lol

CEO of Lanate Industries

Citizen of Solitude
Josef Djugashvilis
#15 - 2013-02-08 08:07:40 UTC
Eve is space capitalism - red in tooth and claw.

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Ai Shun
#16 - 2013-02-08 08:37:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Ai Shun
Sernum wrote:
its a rough draft wrote in like 2 minutes but does this sound accurate and appealing?


No. It sounds as if you've been the target of a scam. I'd try something like:

"EVE gives players freedom to choose their own path in the game in a universe populated with hundreds of thousands of other players; all vying for resources, power and whatever goals they set themselves within New Eden. It ignores traditional, developer driven games by placing the content and direction of the game within the hands of players and allowing them to shape their own experience whilst influencing that of others. Sometimes this is a negative experience, sometimes a positive one but overall the dynamic is vastly different to other online games and very appealing.

Players who appreciate anything from minute details and almost spread-sheet like attention to detail to those who enjoy being a stalking hunter with those blood pounding moments of pure, adrenaline fueled mayhem to those who are simply looking at gathering resources will find something of value within the game. Be they industrialist, miner, socialist, spy, pirate or militia - there is something for everyone in New Eden.

If they have the capability to grasp their own destiny and forge it from the very fuel of the stars. It helps of course if you're a lover of science fiction and if the thought of gigantic spaceships, multi-coloured lasers and the afterglow of engine trails. The core is that it allows you to experience and create the experience that you would usually only see in movies, alongside people from all over the world in a vast universe where even after years you would only have scratched the surface."

DMC wrote:
Well, the usual expected response would be that Eve Online is a MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game). Specifically it's a Science Fiction Virtual Reality Simulation set in a futuristic space environment.


Wow. Inspired.
Kiteo Hatto
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2013-02-08 09:47:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Kiteo Hatto
Extended Virtual Entity............of yourself, in space and stuff.


I shamelessly took that from Anno 2070.
Princess Saskia
Hyperfleet Industries
#18 - 2013-02-08 09:48:58 UTC
Spaceships!

/P

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Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#19 - 2013-02-08 09:51:56 UTC
Serious Business.
Hir Miriel
Elves In Space
#20 - 2013-02-08 10:14:32 UTC
EVE is a space opera musical...

Remember this excerpt?

~~~

Hi Ho Hi Ho
It's off to mine I go!

With every asteroid depleted
A ganker is defeated

Hi Ho Hi Ho

~ ~~ Thinking inside Schrodinger's sandbox. ~~ ~
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