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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#61 - 2013-04-19 00:16:54 UTC  |  Edited by: ShahFluffers
To the few gamer friends I have I explain EVE as a space version of pre-Trammel Ultima Online... on crack.

To your average gentile I explain that EVE is basically a dystopia... with heavy influences from the 'old wild west' and 19th century 'Robber Baron' period... with spaceships, immortality, and [more or less] legalized murder."

How did you Veterans start?
SmilingVagrant
Doomheim
#62 - 2013-04-19 00:19:07 UTC
Let me tell you a little story.

My wife is pregnant with our fifth child, she craves the attention of her husband knowing soon that we will once again be blessed with the progeny of my great loins. She came to me last night, the pregnancy barely showing, glowing in the moonlight on our terrace as I sat enjoying a glass of wine and camping a gate in my stealth bomber.

"I wish you would stop playing this stupid game, we're going to have another child soon." she said. And I was aghast. Did she not understand that I was already doing all I could to ensure that the child would have a solid future. In spaceships? Clearly this was my fault. I hadn't talked with her about the dire import of the work I was doing.

With heavy heart, having hoped to postpone this talk about how the galaxy was filled with the lowest of the low I pulled up the Galactic Map and began to explain the realities of why I had to continue the fight.

"This is a map of the great players in spaceships. Some day our son will inherit all I conquer. But the universe is untidy. It has undesirable elements within it."

My hands waved lightly over the eastern side of the map.

"Here are the Russians. The communists that saint Regan slayed in his mighty crusades of the 1980's, no longer able to propagate their foul communist propaganda in the real world due to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1989 they have retreated to spaceships in an attempt to corrupt our youth."

My hand graced to the south of the map, hovering over Providence

"And here we have... roleplayers. People who fly spaceships only as an ancillary to their foul pursuits. Only in this region will you find a space captain who his a hermaphroditic wolf taur tigershark hybrid."

She gasped, she had been on the internet, she knew what dark secrets lay in the south.

"That's right. Furries."

My hand creeped over to the east of the map

"And here, here we find the worst of them all. Mens Rights Activists. Pony worshipers. Paedophiles."

This time she found her voice...

"Redditors"

I nodded before continuing.

"So I take offense that you view this as me simply playing a video game... I am not merely eating dots in a line, I am not jumping on mushrooms. My spaceship is a firey sword sent to wipe the unclean from the galaxy, and I wil...."

I was interrupted by a knock at the door...

"The pizza guy is here."

~fin~
SmilingVagrant
Doomheim
#63 - 2013-04-19 00:24:34 UTC
It was pepperoni fyi, we made hot love afterwards as pizza grease congealed on our naked bodies.
Minty Aroma
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#64 - 2013-04-19 00:30:27 UTC
Mum, Dad... I'm piloting spaceships!
Wyte Ragnarok
#65 - 2013-04-19 00:44:06 UTC
What's Eve Online?
"A space game"
What does it include?
"Spaceships"
What do you do?
"Shoot stuff"



Eve in a nutshell.
Zale Lennelluc
Blue Star Corp
#66 - 2013-04-19 01:27:19 UTC
Wyte Ragnarok wrote:
What's Eve Online?
"A space game"
What does it include?
"Spaceships"
What do you do?
"Shoot stuff"



Eve in a nutshell.


And all the other 5000 things Roll
Elysium Foxx
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#67 - 2013-04-19 05:52:56 UTC
My fiance calls it space invaders online... I gave up trying to correct her a long time ago.
Cryxx Nadoa
Doomheim
#68 - 2013-04-19 06:51:00 UTC
"pew pew spaceships in space"...yeah, that's more or less it.
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#69 - 2013-04-19 08:24:08 UTC
I don't.

"This game isn't for you."
John DaiSho
Quam Singulari Industry
Roid Suckers
#70 - 2013-04-19 08:34:11 UTC
I build and sell stuff that kills people to groups of people that are enyoing killing each other day in day out.
So basically, I have the best customers EVER!
Didn´t you want me to become a sucessfull businessman since...forever?
The VC's
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#71 - 2013-04-19 13:33:48 UTC
Some friends know of the game 'Elite' so I tell them it's the modern, Internet version of that. Others know about WoW. I tell them that eve is to wow as rugby is to red rover.


If that doesn't work I explain the economic system, that it is a complete closed system held on a single server and that the only other thing in the world like it is the actual economic system of planet earth.


Then I give up.
Uzbeg Khan
Henehen Conflict Logistics
#72 - 2013-04-19 13:38:46 UTC
Cable Udan wrote:
Whenever a workmate or friend asks I just say it's internet spaceships and leave it at that, though my fiancée knows all about fleets and blowing people up for fun and profit and thinks it's endearing and cute that I enjoy Eve so much.


Don't worry, that will stop soon enough.

Things I hate: - Signatures - Irony - Lists
Skawl
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#73 - 2013-04-19 14:43:21 UTC
SmilingVagrant wrote:
Let me tell you a little story.

My wife is pregnant with our fifth child, she craves the attention of her husband knowing soon that we will once again be blessed with the progeny of my great loins. She came to me last night, the pregnancy barely showing, glowing in the moonlight on our terrace as I sat enjoying a glass of wine and camping a gate in my stealth bomber.

"I wish you would stop playing this stupid game, we're going to have another child soon." she said. And I was aghast. Did she not understand that I was already doing all I could to ensure that the child would have a solid future. In spaceships? Clearly this was my fault. I hadn't talked with her about the dire import of the work I was doing.

With heavy heart, having hoped to postpone this talk about how the galaxy was filled with the lowest of the low I pulled up the Galactic Map and began to explain the realities of why I had to continue the fight.

"This is a map of the great players in spaceships. Some day our son will inherit all I conquer. But the universe is untidy. It has undesirable elements within it."

My hands waved lightly over the eastern side of the map.

"Here are the Russians. The communists that saint Regan slayed in his mighty crusades of the 1980's, no longer able to propagate their foul communist propaganda in the real world due to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1989 they have retreated to spaceships in an attempt to corrupt our youth."

My hand graced to the south of the map, hovering over Providence

"And here we have... roleplayers. People who fly spaceships only as an ancillary to their foul pursuits. Only in this region will you find a space captain who his a hermaphroditic wolf taur tigershark hybrid."

She gasped, she had been on the internet, she knew what dark secrets lay in the south.

"That's right. Furries."

My hand creeped over to the east of the map

"And here, here we find the worst of them all. Mens Rights Activists. Pony worshipers. Paedophiles."

This time she found her voice...

"Redditors"

I nodded before continuing.

"So I take offense that you view this as me simply playing a video game... I am not merely eating dots in a line, I am not jumping on mushrooms. My spaceship is a firey sword sent to wipe the unclean from the galaxy, and I wil...."

I was interrupted by a knock at the door...

"The pizza guy is here."

~fin~



I got funny looks as I laughed heartily out loud in the office.
Domina Trix
McKNOBBLER DRINKING CLAN
#74 - 2013-04-19 14:52:40 UTC
Q: How do you explain EvE to friends and family

A: Spreadsheets in space populated mostly by neckbeards that consider a computer game to be brutal.

Two of the defining characteristics of a carebear are wanting other players to play the way the carebear wants and whining on the forums for the game to change when they don't. Yet I see more threads on these forums from gankers than I do miners whining about wanting the game changed to suit them.
Virginia Virdana
RSM Inc
#75 - 2013-04-19 15:15:49 UTC
It's the last bastion of sociopaths, psychopaths, smacktards, trolls and whiners, liberally sprinkled with people who want to help. Or at least tell you what you did wrong that resulting in your spaceship going boom. You should never play it, as once you understand what the skill queue is for, and how it works, your life is dominated by ensuring that you are able to update it. 
They say never come to a gunfight armed with a knife.   You appear to have come armed with a spoon.
Muad 'dib
State War Academy
Caldari State
#76 - 2013-04-19 15:59:36 UTC
God's Apples wrote:
My mother has a surprising good grasp on how this game works...


i hear she has a good grasp.......

Cosmic signature detected. . . . http://i.imgur.com/Z7NfIS6.jpg I got 99 likes, and this post aint one.
Wyte Ragnarok
#77 - 2013-04-19 16:33:45 UTC
Zale Lennelluc wrote:
And all the other 5000 things Roll


Hence why "spaceships" is the easier answer.
CMD Ishikawa
New Eden Public Security Section 9
#78 - 2013-04-19 16:44:49 UTC
Skawl wrote:
SmilingVagrant wrote:
Let me tell you a little story.

My wife is pregnant with our fifth child, she craves the attention of her husband knowing soon that we will once again be blessed with the progeny of my great loins. She came to me last night, the pregnancy barely showing, glowing in the moonlight on our terrace as I sat enjoying a glass of wine and camping a gate in my stealth bomber.

"I wish you would stop playing this stupid game, we're going to have another child soon." she said. And I was aghast. Did she not understand that I was already doing all I could to ensure that the child would have a solid future. In spaceships? Clearly this was my fault. I hadn't talked with her about the dire import of the work I was doing.

With heavy heart, having hoped to postpone this talk about how the galaxy was filled with the lowest of the low I pulled up the Galactic Map and began to explain the realities of why I had to continue the fight.

"This is a map of the great players in spaceships. Some day our son will inherit all I conquer. But the universe is untidy. It has undesirable elements within it."

My hands waved lightly over the eastern side of the map.

"Here are the Russians. The communists that saint Regan slayed in his mighty crusades of the 1980's, no longer able to propagate their foul communist propaganda in the real world due to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1989 they have retreated to spaceships in an attempt to corrupt our youth."

My hand graced to the south of the map, hovering over Providence

"And here we have... roleplayers. People who fly spaceships only as an ancillary to their foul pursuits. Only in this region will you find a space captain who his a hermaphroditic wolf taur tigershark hybrid."

She gasped, she had been on the internet, she knew what dark secrets lay in the south.

"That's right. Furries."

My hand creeped over to the east of the map

"And here, here we find the worst of them all. Mens Rights Activists. Pony worshipers. Paedophiles."

This time she found her voice...

"Redditors"

I nodded before continuing.

"So I take offense that you view this as me simply playing a video game... I am not merely eating dots in a line, I am not jumping on mushrooms. My spaceship is a firey sword sent to wipe the unclean from the galaxy, and I wil...."

I was interrupted by a knock at the door...

"The pizza guy is here."

~fin~



I got funny looks as I laughed heartily out loud in the office.


Same for me here...!!! ... hahahahahaha

They think I'm crazy ... lol

...

Some of my friends understand the game and say "It's awesome", but only a few, for the rest of the firends, relatives and other people is not even worth trying to explain.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#79 - 2013-04-19 16:50:28 UTC
A terrible internet spaceship game they should play.
FeralShadow
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#80 - 2013-04-19 17:38:55 UTC
I simply tell them it's a spaceship game where I'm a pirate and loot and pillage innocent people at a whim.

Though I'm no longer a pirate, I figure that's the best way to describe it.

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