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How has EvE helped shape your life? your real life..

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Ezslider
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#41 - 2013-09-23 23:45:35 UTC
Sir Spottington wrote:
nothing, its a game......


^^this
Ivan Krividus
Cold Lazarus Inc
The-Expanse
#42 - 2013-09-23 23:51:59 UTC
It provided a refuge from the crap communities of every other game, and made me think more cunningly in other games too. Try doing a gold doubling or trade scam in WoW, for instance. Its hilarious
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#43 - 2013-09-24 00:44:44 UTC
EVE online gave me a renewed meaning to the word "gank", in the purely virtual sense.

Before that, "gank" was what I did with TOW2 missiles during my military career -- I only wish there was a "Killboard" back in those days. Lol

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Luis Graca
#44 - 2013-09-24 00:55:32 UTC
CCP Sunset wrote:
Came to FanFest
Met a boy
Fell in love
Moved to Iceland
Got married
Started working at CCP
Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks


I love EVE <3



I can understand the part where you met a boy at fanfest, but how the hell did you marry someone you meet at fanfest? they are all horrible people you can check by the letter the work of the last fanfest send to CCP

If it was because of the alcohol can you say what have you drink cause that must be really good

Also more important congrats for the baby
Large Collidable Object
morons.
#45 - 2013-09-24 01:43:10 UTC
Luis Graca wrote:


[...]alcohol [...]baby


Sounds quite plausible - also should perfectly qualify him/her to become a future CCP CEO.

Considering recent balance decisions, suffering from FAS obviously increases chances to get a job at CCP.

Congrats :).
You know... [morons.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjOx65yD5A)
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#46 - 2013-09-24 02:45:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Herzog Wolfhammer
This game is the advanced version of something I tried to do in the late 90s using Java and RPC. It was mainly an academic endeavor.

So we had bad spaceships in wireframe zipping about and the one "NPC" was a big borg cube that said "resistance is futile" on the "radio channels" and kept killing everybody with missiles for which there were no models.

The frame rate on a 586 was around 6 FPS and the communications and update structure for the models was so bad it would make you cry.


So in 2006 when I started playing, I got renewed interest in graphics and programming because of this game. I had prior to that moved to electronics since the late 90s after getting burned out preventing Y2K disasters on big boring corporate mainframes.

Because of this, OpenGL. Because of that C++.

That knowledge got me the job I took on in 2007, 3000 miles from where I started, that I still have today.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Tuggboat
Oneida Inc.
#47 - 2013-09-24 03:12:06 UTC
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.

Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Such characters in colour dim I mark'd
Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import.
Mascha Tzash
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#48 - 2013-09-24 08:11:54 UTC
CCP Sunset wrote:

Came to FanFest

Met a boy
Fell in love

Moved to Iceland

Got married

Started working at CCP

Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks



I love EVE <3




I have my fingers crossed for a healthy baby. Smile
CCP Falcon
#49 - 2013-09-24 10:32:50 UTC

It's an eleven year long story that involves a Rattlesnake, a few trillion ISK, a rabbit-eared skull, 200 crazy pirates, corp theft, 1100 pages of player fiction, a couple of thousand roleplayers, two girlfriends, two boyfriends, two masters degrees, a 120mph car crash with a triple end over end flip, Cards against Humanity, drunkenly breaking into my apartment after forgetting my keys, seven Fanfests, five Alliance Tournaments, three Fanfest Tournaments, a drunken Dev Quiz, Russian Roulette with a nerf gun, being set on fire three times, six vacations in Iceland, three Icelandic new year's celebrations, a locksmith, Wonderwall, sleeping in a hedgerow, a campsite in northern Denmark, sleeping in the same bed as 6 of my corpmates (at the same time), a snowy hot tub after a five course lobster dinner and over 40 player gatherings across the world.

...and that's just the tip of the iceberg when I was (relatively) sober.

Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.

Big smile

CCP Falcon || EVE Universe Community Manager || @CCP_Falcon

Happy Birthday To FAWLTY7! <3
Rana Ash
Gradient
Electus Matari
#50 - 2013-09-24 12:09:07 UTC
It tought me that you do not quit EVE, the nice people from CCP came to my home and told me so. Big smile
Jove Death
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2013-09-24 12:14:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Jove Death
CCP Falcon wrote:

It's an eleven year long story that involves a Rattlesnake, a few trillion ISK, a rabbit-eared skull, 200 crazy pirates, corp theft, 1100 pages of player fiction, a couple of thousand roleplayers, two girlfriends, two boyfriends, two masters degrees, a 120mph car crash with a triple end over end flip, Cards against Humanity, drunkenly breaking into my apartment after forgetting my keys, seven Fanfests, five Alliance Tournaments, three Fanfest Tournaments, a drunken Dev Quiz, Russian Roulette with a nerf gun, being set on fire three times, six vacations in Iceland, three Icelandic new year's celebrations, a locksmith, Wonderwall, sleeping in a hedgerow, a campsite in northern Denmark, sleeping in the same bed as 6 of my corpmates (at the same time), a snowy hot tub after a five course lobster dinner and over 40 player gatherings across the world.

...and that's just the tip of the iceberg when I was (relatively) sober.

Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.

Big smile


You do know theres no space beer truck right?. Humour me what would you do if 40000 people turn up at fanfest asking you for a beer?. Bet you wish you were in that inty to gtfo quick?. Big smile

oh and on the OP. My partner hates me as I now have 2 pc's and 4 22inch wide screen monitors sitting in the living room playing EvE

Quoting "you will die" in EvE is fail Chars dont die in EvE. Unless you have a heart attack eek.
Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
#52 - 2013-09-24 12:36:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Amhra Rho
Jove Death wrote:
You do know theres no space beer truck right?. Humour me what would you do if 40000 people turn up at fanfest asking you for a beer?. Bet you wish you were in that inty to gtfo quick?. Big smile

Maybe this is the way Eve will change my life. Why doesn't Quafe have a line of craft beers? A little seed isk, bump up my resarch skills a bit . . . voila!

There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#53 - 2013-09-24 13:56:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Rejoining EVE switched my obsessions. Was obsessed with guitars and guitar equipment, always looking for the perfect tone. Or another perfect tone. Or the sound that guy got on that album. Therefore a constant quest for better guitars, better amps, different effect pedals. Since getting back in EVE, my guitar playing skill has taken a nose dive, but the family Wallet balance has gone up.
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#54 - 2013-09-24 14:48:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha
At the end of 2008 I joined EvE to find some better PVP. PvPers tend to need a lot of ISK and so I went to the most obvious ISK related section: Market Discussion.

I couldn't understand a single word, of all that jargon, I barely knew what a bank account is. No study about finance at all as well.

Then with much trial and error I started getting the first concepts and not too much time later I became an auditor and 3rd party service. Then one day I got shown Block Ukx website and exchange (BSAC), which totally resembled a real corporation with real documents, listings and whatsnot. That stuff fascinated me enough to push me studying real finance. I became also an EvE trader.

Meanwhile in RL my country dug deep in recession and I, like many others, lost my job, for years.

At this point EvE took over RL: I started trading in RL and applying the very same concepts I learned in game. It worked and I could live in RL thanks to having learned concepts in EvE!

At a certain point RL trading took over EvE's as well: I started applying advanced finance I learned in RL to my EvE play and it worked too!

I even created a free software to turn EvE markets data into real trading platform candle stick charts (and at the subsequent Fanfest the charts were shown like mine).

Even more, one day I was explaining my EvE-acquired methods in a RL finance forum when a guy who dabbles in finance sent me a PM and offered me a job.

So I got a real job because I posted some of what I learned in EvE!
And the same guy who used to not know anything beyond a bank account, is now consulted in RL by a circle of people for their investments!

EvE Online portal | EvE markets tutorials
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#55 - 2013-09-24 16:53:13 UTC
Jove Death wrote:
CCP Falcon wrote:



Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.

Big smile


You do know theres no space beer truck right?. Humour me what would you do if 40000 people turn up at fanfest asking you for a beer?. Bet you wish you were in that inty to gtfo quick?. Big smile


Given his job I'd guess that it would be quite a normal day at the office ... ;)

CCP Greyscale: As to starbases, we agree it's pretty terrible, but we don't want to delay the entire release just for this one factor.
Chatti
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2013-09-24 16:55:13 UTC
What has EVE taught me?

Well after a while at my RL job I'm now trusted with a few responsibilities around the office.

I have access to the stock room, the key cabinet and I know where the petty cash tin is kept.

One of these days I might have to "work late", load up the office pool car with all my new post-its, paperclips and ball point pens and have me a £500 spending spree before driving into the sunset!

It's gonna be epic.
Pirate
Katherine Raven
ALTA Industries
Intergalactic Conservation Movement
#57 - 2013-09-24 17:00:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Katherine Raven
CCP Falcon wrote:


Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.

Big smile


If you're ever in western Canada stop by Edmonton, we throw a player gathering and we'll all share stories. If you come, drinks are on us.

As for me, Eve has actually somehow made me more social. Not sure how that happened. It also rescued me from WoW. I've become more organized and diligent.

TL:DR Eve has made me a better person.
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#58 - 2013-09-24 17:42:13 UTC
how has eve shaped my real life?

well...let's see...it's shaped about 8 pounds i didn't have last year onto my body.
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#59 - 2013-09-24 19:02:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Zimmy Zeta
So this guy who brought me into Eve-he plays an unhealthy lot of MMOs, but only played Eve for maybe a year, then he left and I somehow stayed.

He is constantly trying to get me into the latest MMOs he is playing, currently it's some weird kung fu stuff, Age of Wu Lin or something like that.

Every time he tells me about this game (and he does this far too often imho, but being a good friend, I usually try to at least appear superficially interested), he complains about how dastardly, evil and malicious their enemy guild (or is it school, sect? dunno...) is.

And each time I reply that I find their creative exploits and griefing admirable and genuinely inspiring.
So several days ago he yelled at me that Eve had turned me into a complete @rsehole and he was no longer interested in ever playing an MMO with me, unless to fight me and every single person I would ever ally with in game.

Thank you, Eve.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Amitious Turkey
10kSubnautic
Warriors of the Blood God
#60 - 2013-09-24 20:25:22 UTC
Since I played Eve since I was 12 years old (10 years), I can't point to one specific thing the game has not influenced. I can say however that the biggest two things were these:

1. Dedication. I never would have gone to college or authored and self-published my first book without Eve's influence in this. I had to learn how to pick myself up after losing shiny ships :(

2. Guts. Closely related to 1, but this means I can stand up to things I find wrong. I used to be a wimpy weakling who begged for his life over local chat, or bigger kids would intimidate in the schoolyard. Now, coupled with some martial arts training, I am a confident human being in both body and mind.

Still no girlfriend though. What?

I like to lick things.

Haunting the forums since 03.