EVE General Discussion

I guess when I first started playing the whole ship-as-an-avatar thing was a bit weird and not being able to see yourself as a person (no CQ) meant that EVE felt a little one-dimensional to me.

However, the lore of the pod and capsuleer pilots kinda helped win me over. Funny because I am not into RP in EVE in the slightest but there was still something about the lack of a humanoid avatar that grated with me.

Glad I stuck with it.

It wasn't a terrible ending, just rushed.
The whole thing about the ME trilogy was about the journey, not the destination.
With so many loose ends due to the plethora of choices to be made,
it was little surprise that they would try to reign in everything, neatly.
Now did they succeed? Not in a perfect way no.
Do I respect the franchise still? Yes!

Eve has a a back story, lore?

Don't know any of it and could not care less if I tried.

What players do in the game provides the only lore I have any interest in.

for my day to day flying?

nothing.


That said, I really, really like reading all the chronicles, books and back story tidbits and I feel it adds an important layer to the 'feel' of the game.

It's good lore for immersion, it's a rich universe of benefit for everyone. I'm not a rp'r but I'd pay my sub just to read the chronicles, it's entertainment when I can't get to my pc.

Very little. All the good lore is in books and videos and very poorly presented inside the game.

This post made me think of this article.
http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/8521/Games-and-Story-The-Third-Paradigm.html

CCP should look into storytelling methods appropriate to games, not books and movies.

I'm not an RP'er but I like the lore. It makes the game more than a physics engine with ship statistics.

I chose my character faction and bloodline because it seemed the closest match to my own philosophy. Since I'm terrible at FPS games I deliberately picked a missile-based faction. Yeah, all that turned out to be pointless in the long term seeing as we can fly any type of ship but perhaps it helped me integrate into the game, even if only a tiny bit. Lore didn't dictate what type of ships I fly, but it did help me ease into my starting ships.

I wish the lore played a more meaningful role in current events. I can understand why certain events in lore are not present in the game (the Elder war and the Nefantar's actual purpose, for instance) because they would break certain game mechanics such as standings. As it stands now the lore makes as fascinating but static reference to what has happened in New Eden's past with minimal impact on its future. I would love to see this changed.

Zendane

I hereby award you ALL THE LIKES!!!

It was great fun and experience during and after Apocrypha when CCP Dropbear was leading an active conversation with players regarding the lore behind wormholes. If I remember correctly, there were 3 main threads discussing the subject and all of them were pretty epic. Here's one of them: http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=1314015

I was telling the whole story to many new players that I've met during the last couple of years. About sleepers, Vitrauze project, how some of the planets in EVE became shattered, the significance of Oruze Osobnyk and it's meaning and The Mirror. No matter what the main play style of the player I was telling the story was - casual player, highsec carebear, hardcore PvP-er - everyone enjoyed it and got hooked on the storyline.

The story was one of the best pieces of Sci-fi I've encountered and I'm sure at least some of the players that have heard/read it are in the game because of it, no matter what they are doing in-game now.

So kinda like a mute Vherokior then?

doh!