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Eri Sato
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-06-19 16:00:26 UTC
Years back, just before I joined EVE, I had imagined this great collective of people who lived an almost alternative, imagined life within the game. But, the more I look around, that just doesn't happen much if at all.

I'd look on peoples BIO's and hope to see some interesting, creative back story that the player had concocted, while playing up to that character's traits and personality when dealing with or chatting to them.

My question is; does anyone out there really get into character and create an ever evolving story out of it while they play, or are you the same person in EVE as you are in real life, just with a different name?



Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#2 - 2013-06-19 16:02:24 UTC
You'll find the role players over there: --> Intergalactic Summit

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ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-06-19 16:05:06 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
You'll find the role players over there: --> Intergalactic Summit


You'll find the application to become an ISD somewhere else on this website. Now please stop.

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Ma'Baker McCandless
The McCandless Clan
#4 - 2013-06-19 16:05:35 UTC
Eri Sato wrote:
Years back, just before I joined EVE, I had imagined this great collective of people who lived an almost alternative, imagined life within the game. But, the more I look around, that just doesn't happen much if at all.

I'd look on peoples BIO's and hope to see some interesting, creative back story that the player had concocted, while playing up to that character's traits and personality when dealing with or chatting to them.

My question is; does anyone out there really get into character and create an ever evolving story out of it while they play, or are you the same person in EVE as you are in real life, just with a different name?






Whut y'all talkin about?


We ain't no fan-tee-sists


That stuffs fopr yankees and carpetbaggers


Ah swear by my good eye, you tawk like a Gur-ee-sta, crazee tekeela drinkin rabbits
Tiber Ibis
The Paratwa Ka
#5 - 2013-06-19 16:06:56 UTC
Eri Sato wrote:
Years back, just before I joined EVE, I had imagined this great collective of people who lived an almost alternative, imagined life within the game. But, the more I look around, that just doesn't happen much if at all.

I'd look on peoples BIO's and hope to see some interesting, creative back story that the player had concocted, while playing up to that character's traits and personality when dealing with or chatting to them.

My question is; does anyone out there really get into character and create an ever evolving story out of it while they play, or are you the same person in EVE as you are in real life, just with a different name?




There are roleplayers. CVA is a roleplay alliance, although I don't actually know how much roleplay goes on there. Also there are many others, and you do see the occasional roleplaying in the militias. I would like to see more too as it adds to the flavour of the universe, although it is unrealistic to expect that to be the case as people of all types must exist in the same single shard universe.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#6 - 2013-06-19 16:12:29 UTC
Ma'Baker McCandless wrote:
Eri Sato wrote:
Years back, just before I joined EVE, I had imagined this great collective of people who lived an almost alternative, imagined life within the game. But, the more I look around, that just doesn't happen much if at all.

I'd look on peoples BIO's and hope to see some interesting, creative back story that the player had concocted, while playing up to that character's traits and personality when dealing with or chatting to them.

My question is; does anyone out there really get into character and create an ever evolving story out of it while they play, or are you the same person in EVE as you are in real life, just with a different name?






Whut y'all talkin about?


We ain't no fan-tee-sists


That stuffs fopr yankees and carpetbaggers


Ah swear by my good eye, you tawk like a Gur-ee-sta, crazee tekeela drinkin rabbits





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Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#7 - 2013-06-19 16:15:34 UTC
Eri Sato wrote:
Years back, just before I joined EVE, I had imagined this great collective of people who lived an almost alternative, imagined life within the game. But, the more I look around, that just doesn't happen much if at all.

I'd look on peoples BIO's and hope to see some interesting, creative back story that the player had concocted, while playing up to that character's traits and personality when dealing with or chatting to them.

My question is; does anyone out there really get into character and create an ever evolving story out of it while they play, or are you the same person in EVE as you are in real life, just with a different name?





EVE doesn't have much traditional "roleplay" because the actions of real live human beings trying to screw each other over in null sec and and wormholes is much more compelling than some imaginary conflict between some space empress and some space stock broker lol.

Why pretend to be a fictional Amarr slaveholder enslaving fictional minmatars when you can enslave real life people....by renting them space in Tribute or Vale?
S Byerley
The Manhattan Engineer District
#8 - 2013-06-19 16:18:29 UTC
OOC: I'm really a crippled Jewish Asian little-person female from Finland; how's my roleplaying holding up?
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#9 - 2013-06-19 16:20:23 UTC
I don't even use a different name. I'm Lord Ryan in RL too.

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Allieoren Sunji
#10 - 2013-06-19 16:29:43 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
You'll find the role players over there: --> Intergalactic Summit



your f5 must get stuck often

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Vrenth
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2013-06-19 16:29:52 UTC
You are making broad assumptions. We are not all navy pilots flying under rank. We are not "Ye Olde" fantasy characters fighting dragons. We are futuristic immortal warriors that are treated as gods among men. Do you honestly believe in this human future that these pilots would act any different from how our current majority of the eve community acts?

Sure, there are the minority that roleplay in faction warfare and other venues, but I like to think the majority are roleplaying in our own way. I certainly act differently in eve than I do in real life, I would define that as roleplay.
Eri Sato
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#12 - 2013-06-19 16:34:12 UTC
Vrenth wrote:


Sure, there are the minority that roleplay in faction warfare and other venues, but I like to think the majority are roleplaying in our own way. I certainly act differently in eve than I do in real life, I would define that as roleplay.


I think that's a very valid point. I suppose how we act in EVE is an extention of our own personalities, adapting to the environment we "live in" .

If EVE was real, I suppose I would be acting the way I do in game, because the world around me gives me little choice but to.
Johan Toralen
IIIJIIIITIIII
#13 - 2013-06-19 16:36:43 UTC
That whole miner bumping thing is role play as far as i can tell.

Personaly i have a couple rpg chars that i use for scamming and ganking. Such things always lead to more hilarity and entertainment when you attach some crazy fictional traits to your chars.
Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#14 - 2013-06-19 16:52:21 UTC
It's hard to role play when the lore is ambiguous at best.

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Souchek Lehman
Doomheim
#15 - 2013-06-19 16:55:13 UTC
Actually there are quite a few of us out there.
From large alliances like CVA, UK or EM. To medium size like IRED or Pyre. To any number of smaller groups from various factions.
Also a lot of solo RPers in non-RP corps or their own.
In fact one of the biggest EVE stories ever, the US heist was perpetrated by the infamous RPer Istvaan Shogatsuu and his group GHSC.
We are out there, just need to find us :).

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Rico Minali
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2013-06-19 16:59:40 UTC
Every single one of you reading this right now is a role player. The degree to which you roleplay is vast to be sure, but it is there in each and every person who plays Eve, because you PLAY Eve, you play a spaceship pilot, your name is almost certainly not your real life name and you dont act the way you do in real life, you do the kind of things you want to do in a sci-fi spaceship game. That, by definition is roleplaying.

Let the RicoHate begin....

Trust me, I almost know what I'm doing.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#17 - 2013-06-19 17:03:00 UTC
Rico Minali wrote:
Every single one of you reading this right now is a role player. The degree to which you roleplay is vast to be sure, but it is there in each and every person who plays Eve, because you PLAY Eve, you play a spaceship pilot, your name is almost certainly not your real life name and you dont act the way you do in real life, you do the kind of things you want to do in a sci-fi spaceship game. That, by definition is roleplaying.

Let the RicoHate begin....


I dunno about hate, I totally agree

Some people in some other threads (and a couple in this one) dont consider Rp important in an rpg.

How odd.

They also buy their characters instead of creating them.

Also strange.

Ah well.

At least it gives them time to complain about pointless things like the wiki lol

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

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Eri Sato
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#18 - 2013-06-19 17:06:19 UTC
Rico Minali wrote:
Every single one of you reading this right now is a role player. The degree to which you roleplay is vast to be sure, but it is there in each and every person who plays Eve, because you PLAY Eve, you play a spaceship pilot, your name is almost certainly not your real life name and you dont act the way you do in real life, you do the kind of things you want to do in a sci-fi spaceship game. That, by definition is roleplaying.

Let the RicoHate begin....


Definitely no hate here. What you said makes perfect sense :)
RAIN Arthie
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2013-06-19 17:21:02 UTC
Eri Sato wrote:
Rico Minali wrote:
Every single one of you reading this right now is a role player. The degree to which you roleplay is vast to be sure, but it is there in each and every person who plays Eve, because you PLAY Eve, you play a spaceship pilot, your name is almost certainly not your real life name and you dont act the way you do in real life, you do the kind of things you want to do in a sci-fi spaceship game. That, by definition is roleplaying.

Let the RicoHate begin....


Definitely no hate here. What you said makes perfect sense :)



We need to make an Eve RP video.
GreenSeed
#20 - 2013-06-19 18:02:58 UTC
what game have you been playing OP?


EVE has the biggest part of its user base made up of roleplayers. granted that most would deny it, or pretend that the things they do are "part of the mechanics of the game".

why do you think they fight in null? space? on a virtual game... space on a virtual game... i wonder, who would do that, if not a role-player. honestly if you ever played old games where rping was rare like on vanilla wow, nerds dreamt of a game where zerging tarren mill could actually result in a change to the game. too bad blizz introduced battlegrounds and RP in wow is now a thing of weird people.

miners in highsec, 70% chance hes roleplaying. has more than one account? hes talking to himself.

missioner, not likely, but on weekends when he goes warrioring around low. RPer. has a ganking alt? closet roleplayer.

FW grunt? full blown roleplayer, unless hes caldari. then hes probably a farming alt of some dude who is a roleplayer.

NPCnull deviant? those guys are so far gone they don't even need SOV to fight over. but, they usually stop when in combat, because pew pew is srs bsns.

WHdweller, Hardcore rper. unless they are in it for the isk. in that case, masochistic rper. either way, everyday before loggin out, they gaze upon the untamed vastness that encroaches around them and think to themselves "master blaster aint got **** on me".

station trader? they are often the weird kind of rper. you know, the kind that wants you to tell them they been a "naughty trader".

anyway, the thing that's a real rare sight on eve are the players that are completely "out of character", those are a very rare sight indeed. they are often new players that still resist the urge to name their drones, keep a tally on the "gudfits" they got on that good ol' wolf that refuses to die, or imagine scenes of sadness and sorrow after one of their battleships goes boom with god knows how many brave space cadets on board.

eve makes you weird if you weren't weird already, and if you were, then you'll fell like home.
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