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How do you explain Eve to your friends and Family
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Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#21 - 2013-04-18 12:50:21 UTC
Heh, Ron Paul in space :)

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Josef Djugashvilis
#22 - 2013-04-18 12:58:35 UTC
I don't.

Conversation never gets past them telling me to be my age and stop playing silly games.

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Lallante
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic
#23 - 2013-04-18 13:02:46 UTC
I have never told my friends about Eve. I recently partially "came out" to my girlfriend of 3 years, but even that was traumatic.
Frying Doom
#24 - 2013-04-18 13:03:46 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
I don't.

Conversation never gets past them telling me to be my age and stop playing silly games.


Show them a spread sheet and tell them to explain it to you, after all it is just a silly game.Lol

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!
Pepper Mind
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2013-04-18 13:08:35 UTC
"It's about spaceships, it's cruel, the most difficult, and most-bad-a**-game"

After that I buy a PLEX to feel that I'm fitting in this game, because i make profit.
Seleia O'Sinnor
Drop of Honey
#26 - 2013-04-18 13:12:09 UTC
A space game evolved from a spreadsheet while the GUI never made it past Excel 95 the ingame gfx is quite good. So is the handling and the depth of the game. Macros were and are a problem.

Odyssey: Repacking in POS hangars for modules +1,  but please for other stuff too, especially containers. Make containers openable in POS hangars.
Tom Bithoff
OSG Planetary Operations
#27 - 2013-04-18 13:12:25 UTC
Frying Doom wrote:

Show them a spread sheet and tell them to explain it to you, after all it is just a silly game.Lol


Sudoku with graphics. Then instead of showing the game, show a spreadsheet used to "solve" a problem within the game.
Din Chao
#28 - 2013-04-18 13:14:14 UTC
My girlfriend kind of understands it, she's played MMOs. The "community" aspect kind of eludes her, however.

My problem is convincing her that my interest is healthy and balanced, as opposed to her ex-boyfriend who played WOW for hours and ignored his kids...
Rocketfeller
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2013-04-18 13:16:54 UTC
Din Chao wrote:
...My problem is convincing her that my interest is healthy and balanced...

Sounds like she understands EVE pretty well.
ctx2007
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#30 - 2013-04-18 13:46:53 UTC
A place I would take my worst enemy and leave there to suffer in damnation.

A place they would not wish to see.

Mwahahahhahaaa!!!!

You only realise you life has been a waste of time, when you wake up dead.
mr ed thehouseofed
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#31 - 2013-04-18 14:04:19 UTC
i use a couple of lines on people .

1. i can explain eve to you, but then i would have pod you, steal your stuff and sell it at jita hub .

2. its training , i cant tell why, but you might want move underground , way under

the look on peoples faces are priceless

Big smileBig smileBig smileBig smile

i want a eve pinball machine...  confirming  CCP Cognac is best cognac
Doc Severide
Doomheim
#32 - 2013-04-18 14:05:09 UTC
I have no friends and never talk with family. Problem solved...
TestAltignore
Doomheim
#33 - 2013-04-18 14:06:24 UTC
Family and Friends are Idiots
highonpop
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#34 - 2013-04-18 14:11:51 UTC
lol that article says xxdeath has 30,000 members

FC, what do?
Din Chao
#35 - 2013-04-18 14:19:38 UTC
Rocketfeller wrote:
Din Chao wrote:
...My problem is convincing her that my interest is healthy and balanced...

Sounds like she understands EVE pretty well.

She understands addiction, yes.
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#36 - 2013-04-18 14:32:11 UTC
How is it that explaining pods is the most difficult part for you guys?? I usually don't have problems until they want to second guess the physics of wormhole space...

There's nothing worse than an EVE player, generally considered to be top of the food chain in the MMO world, that cannot smacktalk with wit and coherency.
Ayuren Aakiwa
When i Look Up At The Stars I Am Filled With Rage
#37 - 2013-04-18 14:37:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Ayuren Aakiwa
I explained eve, from my point of view, to my father recently...
" it's a sandbox game/universe all on the same server. You can get away with almost anything from robbing people, tricking them into giving you all their stuff and so on. There's non consentual pvp so you can ambush people that are just minding their own business. You can set up your group in a way that gives you an unfair advantage over smaller groups so they can't do anything to you, ransom them and kill them anyways..."

Then I described James 315's new order and what they do. My dad now has a trial account Lol
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#38 - 2013-04-18 14:41:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Debora Tsung
It's a little bit like work without the fun... very relaxing, no pressure...

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Velicitia
XS Tech
#39 - 2013-04-18 15:07:28 UTC
worst spreadsheet interface ever.

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2013-04-18 15:19:42 UTC
I usually just say its about blowing up internet spaceships.

Never had anyone show any further interest after that.

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