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Empyrean Online -- What's beyond the door?

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Makoto Priano
Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#21 - 2013-10-23 17:12:25 UTC
That seems--

Well. Far be it from me to judge you for that.

Uh.

Carry on.

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Fredfredbug4
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2013-10-23 17:32:36 UTC
Next thing you know there'll be a Galnet shooter based on Mercenary Clones and be poorly integrated with Empyrean Online.

Watch_ Fred Fred Frederation_ and stop [u]cryptozoologist[/u]! Fight against the brutal genocide of fictional creatures across New Eden! Is that a metaphor? Probably not, but the fru-fru- people will sure love it!
Anabella Rella
Gradient
Electus Matari
#23 - 2013-10-23 18:10:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Anabella Rella
I've heard a lot about this so-called "game" from the younger people who work for me. There seem to be two types who enjoy it; the loners with long shaggy beards who have socialization issues and the apparent sociopaths who enjoy randomly blowing up everything they can for what they term "the lulz". The one thing that unites both groups is drinking heavily while playing and their hatred of 3-D avatars and that little closet-thingy they live in. Shocking!

They also seem to alternate between an unhealthy fascination with what another pilot called "space lesbians" and making horrible homophobic comments to each other. Incongruous!

Altogether it sounds like a pretty unpleasant little game filled with unpleasant little players. I hope the general public don't think we really live and behave as we're portrayed in this travesty of a game!

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
Anslo
Scope Works
#24 - 2013-10-23 18:13:52 UTC
Eeeh let's be real...we do. I mean come on.

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Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Doomheim
#25 - 2013-10-23 20:09:33 UTC
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:
I found the lack of customization options for my Minmatar Sebiestor freedom fighter lacking. Seriously, where are the rank marks? Those arm tattoos they have in the game resemble more closely something a Deteis biker might have than anything a Matari would ever permit to be inked on their bodies.


As a member of the Kaalakiota Motorcycle & Sidecars appreciation society, those arms tattoos look like nothing compared to what is normally worn as a sleeve tattoo -- they are extremely lacking in intimidating embroidered floral prints and patriotic Caldari paraphernalia such as birds and mythological beasts.

Andrea Okazon wrote:

You know what might tempt me over to Empyrean? Pets. Lots and lots of pets. Yes, I already have 137 little fluffies, but **** I just want a few more, is that so much to ask?


I think this is a fantastic idea. Nothing says you've made it in life like a pointless virtual pet purchased with real life currency.

You could also have a breeding mini-game, where you trade your pets with friends, and see if you can make new breeds. Like a vicious attack furrier or the like.

Karmilla Strife wrote:
All of you are playing it wrong. The focus of Empyrean online has always been on the spaceships that your avatar flies. You should stop worrying about "captain's quarters", lack of tattoos, or the fact that your avatar's hair always mysteriously hovers a couple inches over their shoulders.


I find this hard to believe. What point is there to playing if I am unable to engage in interior design and character customization? I already do enough things in spaceships during my day job. In addition, as a stereotypical capsuleer, I find spending copious amounts of ISK on overpriced personal accoutrements as adequately displaying my contempt for humanity in a virtual world. Starving orphans in the street? Not my problem, I would rather spend my disposable in-game income on platinum embroidered socks. Woven from spider silk. By spiders that have been genetically engineered to spit out platinum silk. Then hand-woven by Intaki mystics on their fortress monastary only once every decade.

Andreus Ixiris wrote:
No, no. Seriously. Decant, go into your quarters, do a precise count of the number of walls you find, and if you discover a wall with a numerical value exceeding three but not by a statistically significant number, look at it really carefully.

Don't do this if you're prone to attacks of suspicion or paranoia.


I see only four walls and five lights in my room at present.

Silas Vitalia wrote:
I hear tales the developers are stubborn and cruel slavers, entrenched in an arctic fortress on a frozen world deep in null sec.

I hear the "captains quarters" program was initially developed as a virtual reality interrogation program for prisoners of war. The prisoners are sentenced to an eternity in these drab apartments, the door to freedom right in front of them yet always locked.

A few hours in that half-finished virtual world and they will tell you anything you want to know.


That would be almost Caldari except it lacks a narrator with a soothing voice who will ask you kindly to perform hazardous tasks that cannot be completed and then mock you for your inadequacies and point out your glaring flaws.

Obviously, if you were better at it, you could open the door.

I seem to have been overcome by a wave of nostalgia for my youth.

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Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#26 - 2013-10-23 20:26:02 UTC
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:

I see only four walls and five lights in my room at present.


There. Are. FOUR. Lights. FOUR.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Doomheim
#27 - 2013-10-23 20:31:26 UTC
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:

I see only four walls and five lights in my room at present.


There. Are. FOUR. Lights. FOUR.


Please come to my office, Tuulinen.

I will be more than glad to show you that there are in fact, five lights.

Kurilaivonen|Concern
Anslo
Scope Works
#28 - 2013-10-23 20:55:11 UTC
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:

I see only four walls and five lights in my room at present.


There. Are. FOUR. Lights. FOUR.


Please come to my office, Tuulinen.

I will be more than glad to show you that there are in fact, five lights.


Can I record what happens?

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Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Doomheim
#29 - 2013-10-23 20:58:24 UTC
Anslo wrote:
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:

I see only four walls and five lights in my room at present.


There. Are. FOUR. Lights. FOUR.


Please come to my office, Tuulinen.

I will be more than glad to show you that there are in fact, five lights.


Can I record what happens?


Why would you want to record a casual conversation over tea?

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Anslo
Scope Works
#30 - 2013-10-23 20:59:55 UTC
I like tea.

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Scherezad
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#31 - 2013-10-23 22:04:19 UTC
The room I live in is virtually identical to the one in this game. Just, well, I have a bathroom. And cleanliness. Who lives like that, really?

Maybe I should ask for a larger dorm.
Fredfredbug4
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#32 - 2013-10-23 22:26:04 UTC
After digging around through the Galnet page for the game I found something quite interesting. There's a forum board where baseliners pretend to be their character ("roleplaying" I think it's called) and debate international politics. It seems to be mimicking our own Intergalactic Summit!

Watch_ Fred Fred Frederation_ and stop [u]cryptozoologist[/u]! Fight against the brutal genocide of fictional creatures across New Eden! Is that a metaphor? Probably not, but the fru-fru- people will sure love it!
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#33 - 2013-10-23 22:30:35 UTC
That's just adorable.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Makoto Priano
Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#34 - 2013-10-23 22:31:48 UTC
Oh, Maker. Does this mean they have even less of a clue how things work than some of the Summiters here?

Is that even possible?

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Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Doomheim
#35 - 2013-10-23 22:36:54 UTC
Why anyone would want to roleplay a spaceship is beyond me.

Granted, everyone seems to want to be a Thorax in there.

Kurilaivonen|Concern
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#36 - 2013-10-23 23:14:46 UTC
But did you know that attached to this game you are talking about they have debating channels and one of those channels is dedicated solely to role-playing? And that certain players in that role-playing channel are letting their in-game characters play a game very similar to the game they are playing themselves?
There might even be players that decide their in-game character is role-playing to play a game in which their in-game character is playing a game.....

I know this might sound blasphemous to some, but the question arises: Who is playing us?Shocked

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Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#37 - 2013-10-23 23:33:30 UTC
CAN SOMEONE TURN OFF THAT REALLY LOUD FOGHORN NOISE?

I SURELY CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO HEARS IT

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
Makoto Priano
Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#38 - 2013-10-23 23:37:37 UTC
ISD Ezwal wrote:

I know this might sound blasphemous to some, but the question arises: Who is playing us?Shocked


Sir, I think you need to lay off the X-Instinct.

Or is it drop? I can never keep my boosters straight.

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Meriks Friggson
Moira.
#39 - 2013-10-24 00:14:54 UTC
What's everyone's characters names? We should all fleet up some time and run some missions or something.
Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Doomheim
#40 - 2013-10-24 00:18:07 UTC
Meriks Friggson wrote:
What's everyone's characters names? We should all fleet up some time and run some missions or something.


Rietap Turinen, member of Brack Region. Alliance.

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