EVE New Citizens Q&A

Stop confusing people ... -.-'

What he is saying is that you lack understanding of the matter,
which is the reason why you have issues with what you are having issues with.

People... characters ... roleplayers ... people prerending to be roleplayers.

In the end it's always a human and they all make the same mistakes.

A whole industry builds up on that.

That's EVE and it's not unique to RP vs Non-RP. There is conflict between every play style.

It's a very harsh place in the context of an MMO. Which is why a lot of us love it, and why some other people don't like it.


Haters are always gonna hate. I dunno about you though but I'm not having much fun when I'm being showered in a ton of hate, and at the end of the day when you log into EVE you should be here to have fun. So do your thing, have fun how you like to have fun. But also realise others are going to do the same and a lot of them enjoy trolling.

So in the end I think we find a medium point. For me I'm confident enough to start RPing in any local chat, and did as recently as tonight in fact (got a great response too which is unusual. Nice system I guess). But I'm not interested in spending hours reading troll posts or deflecting hate while I'm trying to have fun, so if the audience is hostile I'll eventually move onto somewhere that is more receptive. In other words, don't persist too much in places like Militia chat because at the end of the day you'll be the one struggling to enjoy yourself while the trolls are having all the fun in the world.



Yep. The Intergalactic Summit can be a lot of things, but the one thing it is not is a location.

I'll assume you're talking about the forum section, not the ingame channel. Some people treat their posts as a video interface of sorts, others treat it as a text interface. Just roll with it. Personally when I post in the IGS I consider it a forum; my characters are using a datapad or something and actually making forum posts themselves while sitting in their quarters.

When it comes to the Intergalactic Summit (or The Summit) ingame channels most people consider it a holo/video interface where everyone is using camera drones. Often people will post in a text format though, and when they do they will often prefix their messages something like this:

Erica Dusette > Text > So here I was, surrounded by Hostiles with no one but The Banana for backup when Suddenly...


Fighters and soldier types here can often include PVE'ers as well. Afterall they're always off fighting the Guristas or Blood Raiders or something, and many take that whole storyline thing quite seriously.


Wow, don't do that. You'll be missing out. Chat here in EVE is the same as many MUDs in that it's IRC based, with actions and such. Our avatars can't meet in person in EVE, so you still need to RP such things narratively or action-based.

When Erica is talking to someone in convo I consider it a holo/video comm. We can see each other, so I add in narrative of how things appear and what she is doing as she's talking.

Many people simply RP in-person meetings in the same way, over convo or in a channel. Even though these people aren't actually together ingame at the time they use what people call "the interbus shuttle service" to imaginarily bring their character's together. Personally I hate that and refuse to do any ingame RP in that way - if someone is meeting my character in person then they actually have to be at the same location before I start to RP the scenario. Most people aren't that strict though because it's not often practical.

Lastly, like every single part of EVE, the RP scene here is what you make it. CCP give us the basic framework and tools for everything and the players do the rest. If you're looking for strict guidelines and areas for RP, or firm moderation, well just like every other part of this game you will not find it here because that's not what EVE is about.

Have fun, do things your way, but watch and take guidance from others already doing it so you can still have a smooth time. RP is a little different in every MMO along with the community engaged in it and EVE is no different.

Not my intention, really. I simply meant to answer your title question from the OOC player's perspective. I don't have an issue with RP in general. I rather enjoy some of it. I do have an issue with some specific RPers, but that is unrelated.

I do hope you find your niche. I agree with Erica, militia chat is not the place. If consternation is your goal, you can hardly be surprised when people rage.

No wonder you're lonely. No true wormholer worth their salt calls it "J-Space" yo.

IT'S ******* W-SPACE.

Next you'll be saying Gallente aren't heathens and Thera isn't just more nullsec.

But anyway, w-space can be lonely but that's nothing that can't be solved by joining channels, making occasional trips to Empire or hosting visitors at your pos Tower. We do all of those and enjoy a healthy social life. You've got to want it, sir.

I have not read this entire thread so if someone said this already then I'm sorry but if this guy is Amarr and looking to RP you should look into CVA

https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/Curatores%20Veritatis%20Alliance

I know they are not has hard core as they used to be but I think that they are still pretty serious into their RP. You may want to look into this and see if it is up your ally.

Don't mind The Banana, sir.

She does love to stir people. Sounds like you have quite a reasonable outlook on things.

The weekend has been nice, I love the game and the RPers. I think I can totally live with where things are at. I like all of the characters I have met. Im having a lot of fun developing this character. The explanation was great Ms. Dusette on the chat and forums, but I am still getting used to it I guess. I still have sooo many questions about the game, most of them surrounding food.

Like, cinnamon donuts. I said something about that, then winced mentally because I wasn't sure there was cinnamon in the game. I knew there were donuts because of the silly donut holder in the market but....

Some people are very casual, making earth references in their bio and talking about stuff that i am not even certain exists in the world. Meh...I guess I'll learn.

I fall back on other weird things from sci fi novels I've read over the years to fill in the blanks.

Another thing is the skin coloration variance is quite extreme in the character maker. As Im trying to learn what is the norm, I examined all of the NPC's in the game through the NPC corps. All Khanid are light skinned. My character's whole family is BLACK AS BLACK can get. I thought that's what they meant by Dark Amarr, and I liked how it looked, alot. But I have yet to see a Khanid or Amarr, even player character, with skin on the darkest end of the spectrum. But it's a choice available.

I thought maybe I could explain it by saying her family had their genes manipulated a long time ago to melanize the skin to make their survivailty in space pre-capsule/clone tech more likely. UV rays and such....but I'd like to hear some perspective on this.

I don't know. First world problems.

- the majority of 0.0 folks roleplay that they're pvpers
- CODE roleplays that they're not bored of hiding behind 45k blues resulting in them hiding behind alts shooting stuff that doesn't shoot back
- a lot of players roleplay that they know how this game works
- I roleplay that I'm intelligent



Roleplay is everywhere.

That's probably the worst advice I've seen in this thread yet


Not really. Most gamers actually aren't so hung up, and fully understand the spirit games are played in.

The other kind, well I love to make them uncomfortable.

And in the light of my above post ....




I love white chocolate just as much as dark chocolate. ;)