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How to explain eve to a non-player.

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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#41 - 2014-01-10 20:52:33 UTC
Here's my take on EVE:

"At best, EVE is like speeding around in a stolen Pinto... vintage cannonball cannon ducttaped to the roof... your arm around the shoulders of a dead hooker... and 20 guys armed with frying pans chasing you down on vespas. At worst... it's EXCEL spreadsheets in space."

How did you Veterans start?
Marsha Mallow
#42 - 2014-01-10 21:00:55 UTC
Oh I didn't realise we were doing catchphrases.

Take it like a man?

Ripard Teg > For the morons in the room:

Sweets > U can dd my face any day
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#43 - 2014-01-10 21:33:07 UTC
I usually tell people it's a sandbox, so it depends how you play. PVP is everywhere and safety is never 100%, but there are shades of security governing what you can do legally. PVE takes a little more thought then standard fare mob grind, and PVP is completely ridiculous in a good way. Smart newbs can easily kill dumb veterans and such.

It's more a social game where you either build stuff or blow stuff up while chatting or talking on TS. Some people take it so seriously they rage in the chatbox when they die, it's funny. You see... when you die you lose your ship, and you will have to buy or build a new one: and good ships don't come cheap and take a long time to train for. So it takes some time and dedication if you wanna fly something impressive, but you can also buy lots of cheap ships and fly them like you stole them.

It's a very PVP oriented game and it isn't for everybody. It's nothing like World of Warcraft or any of those games. In Eve you can really play the villain or the hero, you aren't shoehorned into some dumb storyline or anything. It's really the players that make the history of the game, it's quite group-oriented with small and large player corporations and alliances all wanting a piece of the pie.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#44 - 2014-01-10 21:47:11 UTC
One of the Dayz standalone reviews on Steam sums up Eve nicely
"You either die a hiker, or you live long enough to see yourself becoming a serial killer murdering hikers"

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

New Player FAQ

Feyd's Survival Pack
Dave Stark
#45 - 2014-01-10 21:54:51 UTC
This is how you explain it.
Verdis deMosays
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#46 - 2014-01-10 22:09:01 UTC
With puppies like those, you just might have my vote!
Crazy Legs Finnigan
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#47 - 2014-01-10 22:09:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Crazy Legs Finnigan
edit: wrong thread
Inzax
#48 - 2014-01-10 22:10:34 UTC
Rayo Atra wrote:
My little sisters birthday party is tomorrow. I know the fat girl is going to get blobbed so quickly.


Actually, if we are talking piñata the attitude of the fat kid will go a long way in determining victory. Position, strategic bumping and fat kid could hold the cards. Hell, she could be her own jiggling blob and camp the pile of loot.
Rayo Atra
Guardians of the Volatile Wine
#49 - 2014-01-10 22:19:00 UTC
seriously, she kinda looks like a potato already, if she could camp like 10 off the cake, and drop 5 stupid friends to assist her, who knows how it might go down.

Tell you what I do like though: A killer. A dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold-blooded, clean, methodical and thorough.

-Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Natassia Krasnoo
R3D SHIFT
#50 - 2014-01-10 23:10:27 UTC
Crazy Legs Finnigan wrote:
Before CCP nerfs anything, they should realize that this type of meta is just going to come up again and that it's really their fault for making 0.0 a place where super alliance blobs > small gangs. Which is a real shame, because all of the previous trailers that highlight null sec talk about how 0.0 is comprised of multiple small alliances. In reality, it's come down to 2-3 mega blobs and their smaller allies.

Want TIDI to be fixed, no lame meta, etc? Fix null sec so we actually have space occupied by hundreds of small alliances rather than a few massive coalitions.

Edit:

P.S. - This is my troll account I use to grief in high-sec. I am writing down names of industrialists that made stupid remarks in this thread as part of my "2014 list of people to wardec if I'm bored" list.


Either you posted in the wrong thread or you're just a moron. So cheers. To moronic posts that have nothing to do with the original subject. **clink**
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#51 - 2014-01-10 23:29:49 UTC
Rayo Atra wrote:
seriously, she kinda looks like a potato already, if she could camp like 10 off the cake, and drop 5 stupid friends to assist her, who knows how it might go down.


You should fraps that and put it up on YouTube

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Crazy Legs Finnigan
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#52 - 2014-01-10 23:31:44 UTC
Natassia Krasnoo wrote:


Either you posted in the wrong thread or you're just a moron. So cheers. To moronic posts that have nothing to do with the original subject. **clink**


I posted in the wrong thread. Blegh
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#53 - 2014-01-10 23:34:09 UTC
bunch of stuff happening in space
Natassia Krasnoo
R3D SHIFT
#54 - 2014-01-10 23:36:53 UTC
Crazy Legs Finnigan wrote:
Natassia Krasnoo wrote:


Either you posted in the wrong thread or you're just a moron. So cheers. To moronic posts that have nothing to do with the original subject. **clink**


I posted in the wrong thread. Blegh



Good to know you're not just some random moronic poster. :)
Verdis deMosays
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#55 - 2014-01-10 23:44:13 UTC
Natassia Krasnoo wrote:
Crazy Legs Finnigan wrote:
Natassia Krasnoo wrote:


Either you posted in the wrong thread or you're just a moron. So cheers. To moronic posts that have nothing to do with the original subject. **clink**


I posted in the wrong thread. Blegh



Good to know you're not just some random moronic poster. :)


We would hate to have to write your name down and grief you :P
Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#56 - 2014-01-11 03:56:49 UTC
mm i do ask 1 question just one and that question will say if he is fit for eve or not.

The question i ask is? Have you got some very good patience? if he say yes he is ready for eve if he answer no then to bad. Not you`re cup of tea game.
Deunan Tenephais
#57 - 2014-01-11 04:05:24 UTC
Easy, you tell them this:
"In this game you pay for the lubricant other people will use on you. If they are being extra nice."

See, easy.
Malcolm Shinhwa
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#58 - 2014-01-11 05:45:12 UTC
Try this:

Have you ever been playing World of Warcraft and been standing next to a dude and though, "If the game would let me, I'd shove this dagger right between the ribs of this idiot standing next to me."

EvE.

[i]"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental[/i]."
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#59 - 2014-01-11 08:45:16 UTC
Johan Civire wrote:
mm i do ask 1 question just one and that question will say if he is fit for eve or not.

The question i ask is? Have you got some very good patience? if he say yes he is ready for eve if he answer no then to bad. Not you`re cup of tea game.


To be fair, patience is a requirement for playing most mmos

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Logical 101
PowerCow Farm
#60 - 2014-01-11 09:12:20 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
To be fair, patience is a requirement for playing most mmos

Yeah, but in EVE you can't lock yourself in a room clad in diapers for a week grinding to level 80 with your friends who are all doing the same thing. This was, of course, what made a person "hardcore" back in the day. Also, raiding things 24/7 and never slipping up lest you be shunned, pwning (remember that?) people in space bar PvP, and sucking up your experience loss from death because, yeah, we old schoolers were "hardcore" like that.

EVE takes patience when it comes to understanding effective fits, roles in fleets, different approaches to the game (whether PvP or PvE... subcap, cap, roaming, camping, exploration, missions, spinning ships and scratching balls), finding the right people to roll with, getting to know who's who on that hip, political scene we have going, and so on.

You can have more modest ambitions in EVE and steer clear of all that, but then you're kinda missing the whole end... game? Yeah. Game and endgame. And the postgame. And the after party. And the 4am stumbling through the park after everyone has gone home and you have no ****ing clue where you parked your car nor do you particularly care...