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Heroes and Villains
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Kyle Yanowski
Malevelon Roe Industries
Convocation of Empyreans
#1 - 2014-04-02 16:03:29 UTC
We're recording the next High Drag Podcast tonight, and the theme will be Heroes and Villains of Eve Online. I'm looking for some feedback on who your heroes and villains are within the game.

Keep in mind, that your heros and villains do not have to fit into the traditional notion of right and wrong, good and evil. Just please give an explanation for your picks.

Cheers.

Host of the High Drag Eve Online Podcast ( http://highdrag.wordpress.com). Director of Aideron Robotics.
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#2 - 2014-04-02 16:05:19 UTC
Elo Knight has been a personal hero of mine.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Goa Chai
Doomheim
#3 - 2014-04-02 16:06:02 UTC
We're capsuleers, terms like hero and villain are like clothing to be changed for the occasion.
Kyle Yanowski
Malevelon Roe Industries
Convocation of Empyreans
#4 - 2014-04-02 16:10:54 UTC
Goa Chai wrote:
We're capsuleers, terms like hero and villain are like clothing to be changed for the occasion.


I agree. I've been mulling this over for a bit; I'm having a hard time coming up with a pick for either Hero or Villain.

Hero: Anyone who gets a new player to stay in game.
Villain: Anyone who pushes a new player away from the game?

Like I said, harder to answer...

Host of the High Drag Eve Online Podcast ( http://highdrag.wordpress.com). Director of Aideron Robotics.
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#5 - 2014-04-02 16:11:54 UTC
Kyle Yanowski wrote:
Goa Chai wrote:
We're capsuleers, terms like hero and villain are like clothing to be changed for the occasion.


I agree. I've been mulling this over for a bit; I'm having a hard time coming up with a pick for either Hero or Villain.

Hero: Anyone who gets a new player to stay in game.
Villain: Anyone who pushes a new player away from the game?

Like I said, harder to answer...


A hero is just someone you look up to for inspiration. Nothing to do with player retention.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Goa Chai
Doomheim
#6 - 2014-04-02 16:12:29 UTC
I guess I'll pick the easy ones according to popular public opinion.

Hero: Chribba
Villain: Grrr Goons
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#7 - 2014-04-02 16:22:36 UTC
Heros : Everyone that tries to keep highsec dangerous, they make life interesting for people who are either lazy, stupid, incompetent or risk averse; and any combination thereof.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#8 - 2014-04-02 16:26:19 UTC
This thread makes me miss that old ornery Ginger Magician..

I wonder if he ever unloaded all his Tractor Beam BPOs?

☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#9 - 2014-04-02 16:38:19 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
This thread makes me miss that old ornery Ginger Magician..

I wonder if he ever unloaded all his Tractor Beam BPOs?


UnlikelyLol

/c

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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#10 - 2014-04-02 16:40:44 UTC
Heros: my CEO and some corpmates

Villains: everyone else... especially my CEO and ALL of my corpmates.


It just depends on my mood and perspective at the time.

How did you Veterans start?
BuckStrider
Nano-Tech Experiments
#11 - 2014-04-02 16:43:51 UTC
Kyle Yanowski wrote:
We're recording the next High Drag Podcast tonight, and the theme will be Heroes and Villains of Eve Online. I'm looking for some feedback on who your heroes and villains are within the game.

Keep in mind, that your heros and villains do not have to fit into the traditional notion of right and wrong, good and evil. Just please give an explanation for your picks.

Cheers.


Be very, very careful what you say. Someone may become 'unhinged' or 'emotionally distressed' to the point that it may be considered 'cyber bullying' or 'deformation' if you classify them as a hero or villain.

You have been warned.....CCP/CSM 'white knights' will be monitoring.

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Solecist Project
#12 - 2014-04-02 16:44:32 UTC
Heros: Psychotic Monk; Cannibal Kane;
Villains: I don't actually know any. First I thought of mentioning Dinsdale, but that'd be mean.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Ssabat Thraxx
DUST Expeditionary Team
Good Sax
#13 - 2014-04-02 16:51:13 UTC
I've always thought that there really are no "good guys" or "bad guys" in Eve. You (hopefully, and if you're lucky) find a group of people you like and get along with, and then it's you and yours vs. everyone else.

\m/ O.o \m/

"You're a freak ..." - Solecist Project
Solecist Project
#14 - 2014-04-02 16:55:15 UTC
Ssabat Thraxx wrote:
I've always thought that there really are no "good guys" or "bad guys" in Eve. You (hopefully, and if you're lucky) find a group of people you like and get along with, and then it's you and yours vs. everyone else.
First part never worked for me, while the latter part pretty much always applied. :(

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Ssabat Thraxx
DUST Expeditionary Team
Good Sax
#15 - 2014-04-02 16:57:39 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Ssabat Thraxx wrote:
I've always thought that there really are no "good guys" or "bad guys" in Eve. You (hopefully, and if you're lucky) find a group of people you like and get along with, and then it's you and yours vs. everyone else.
First part never worked for me, while the latter part pretty much always applied. :(


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\m/ O.o \m/

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Belt Scout
Thread Lockaholics Anonymous
#16 - 2014-04-02 18:47:00 UTC
Hero: Me

Villains: Everybody except me.

This is the EVE way.

They say most of your brain shuts down on the EvE forums. All but the impatient side, and the sarcastic side. No wonder I'm still awake.

**This IS my main so STFU.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#17 - 2014-04-02 19:29:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
[whoops, accidental derp. carry on]
Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#18 - 2014-04-02 19:53:20 UTC
"Hero" and "villain" are crutches used by lazy writers.

Be bold, pilot.

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I voted in CSM X!
stoicfaux
#19 - 2014-04-02 20:16:06 UTC
List of heroes.

List of villains.


Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Kyle Yanowski
Malevelon Roe Industries
Convocation of Empyreans
#20 - 2014-04-02 20:20:11 UTC
masternerdguy wrote:
Kyle Yanowski wrote:
Goa Chai wrote:
We're capsuleers, terms like hero and villain are like clothing to be changed for the occasion.


I agree. I've been mulling this over for a bit; I'm having a hard time coming up with a pick for either Hero or Villain.

Hero: Anyone who gets a new player to stay in game.
Villain: Anyone who pushes a new player away from the game?

Like I said, harder to answer...


A hero is just someone you look up to for inspiration. Nothing to do with player retention.



Thanks for the definition, but I disagree. A common quality among capsuleers who inspire (in my opinion) center around the notion of new player retention. Whether that is fleeting up members from the Scope, and taking them out to lowsec... or teaching a slingshot mechanic.

Host of the High Drag Eve Online Podcast ( http://highdrag.wordpress.com). Director of Aideron Robotics.
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