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Are you behaving like an NPC?

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Alessienne Ellecon
Doomheim
#1 - 2015-09-03 13:25:47 UTC
Now, we know that most of the NPCs in eve are just mission agents: even some key characters are manipulated behind the scenes by CCP. (That's my understanding of it, anyway.)

But what about those 'Jita Bears' who stay perpetually docked in trade hubs playing the market? What about the researchers and vendors? In the traditional MMO model, those roles are filled by NPCs, but in EVE they are human players who just never mine, never rat, never run missions and would never dream of PvP. They are, in short, Nondricks.

If you follow that link, you'll see what I mean. EVE is filled with people who have taken on the traditional roles in order to sustain the galactic economy. But then I got to thinking: once citadels come out, could we begin to see lonely outposts with single players selling rare items? Could I get a invite to dock my cruiser at Slim Cognito's shack in some godforsaken wormhole system and buy some rare officer modules?

"CONCORD are the space cops. If you attack someone in a high-security solar system, CONCORD will commit police brutality." - Encyclopedia Dramatica

If EVE is a PvP game, then Anti-Ganking is emergent gameplay.
Avvy
Doomheim
#2 - 2015-09-03 13:27:48 UTC
Are you behaving like an NPC?

Yes, I'm the station janitor.
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#3 - 2015-09-03 13:43:25 UTC
Alessienne Ellecon wrote:
But then I got to thinking: once citadels come out, could we begin to see lonely outposts with single players selling rare items?
This is the only worry with citadels. Hopefully they'll be easy enough to assault that hub systems don't turn into that classic "50,000 market stalls" area you get in other MMOs.

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Tisiphone Dira
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2015-09-03 13:51:35 UTC
I'm the space-police/town-guard.

And that's the beauty of EvE, it's all player run!

There once was a ganker named tisi

A stunningly beautiful missy

To gank a gross miner

There is nothing finer, cept when they get all pissy
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#5 - 2015-09-03 13:59:37 UTC
im an exotic dancer

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Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*
Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#6 - 2015-09-03 14:03:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Persephone Alleile
I used to be a PVP pilot like you but then I took a Republic Fleet Phased Plasma round to the knee.
Mina Sebiestar
Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate
#7 - 2015-09-03 14:13:17 UTC
I am undocker...i just have to do it....

You choke behind a smile a fake behind the fear

Because >>I is too hard
Khan Wrenth
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2015-09-03 14:21:17 UTC
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.

Let's discuss overhauling the way we get intel in EvE.
Alessienne Ellecon
Doomheim
#9 - 2015-09-03 15:05:01 UTC
Persephone Alleile wrote:
I used to be a PVP pilot like you but then I took a Republic Fleet Phased Plasma round to the knee.


Now say it with a metal bucket on your head.

"CONCORD are the space cops. If you attack someone in a high-security solar system, CONCORD will commit police brutality." - Encyclopedia Dramatica

If EVE is a PvP game, then Anti-Ganking is emergent gameplay.
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#10 - 2015-09-03 16:26:23 UTC
"More from the players, less from the NPC's" is in fact one of CCP's goals.

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Maldiro Selkurk
Radiation Sickness
#11 - 2015-09-03 16:29:26 UTC
We all play the game like NPCs but were only half as smart.
Shocked

Yawn,  I'm right as usual. The predictability kinda gets boring really.
Nalia White
Tencus
#12 - 2015-09-03 16:37:49 UTC
Alessienne Ellecon wrote:
Persephone Alleile wrote:
I used to be a PVP pilot like you but then I took a Republic Fleet Phased Plasma round to the knee.


Now say it with a metal bucket on your head.


and a nordic accent

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#13 - 2015-09-03 16:38:21 UTC
I have actually had people shoot me while suspect thinking I was an NPC.
Not new players either, granted I was in their mission pocket shooting their stuff and all
but you would think a character older than I would have figured out the difference

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Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#14 - 2015-09-03 16:38:36 UTC
Ship spinning takes a lot of effort.

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#15 - 2015-09-03 17:16:51 UTC
I am the Watcher. I like to Watch.

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Salvos Rhoska
#16 - 2015-09-03 17:25:28 UTC
How do I know you aren't an NPC?

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Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#17 - 2015-09-03 18:07:21 UTC
I'm just a gigolo.

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Yarda Black
The Black Redemption
#18 - 2015-09-03 18:11:14 UTC
The non-official term for NPC's that behave like this is "alt"
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#19 - 2015-09-03 18:22:53 UTC
Yarda Black wrote:
The non-official term for NPC's that behave like this is "alt"

that's the other question, how many of those are alts? my jita character is an alt. Plus you can set an order and leave it on its own for up to 90days

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Esrevid Nekkeg
Justified and Ancient
#20 - 2015-09-03 18:45:42 UTC
Alessienne Ellecon wrote:
Are you behaving like an NPC?
No. Are you?

Here I used to have a sig of our old Camper in space. Now it is disregarded as being the wrong format. Looking out the window I see one thing: Nothing wrong with the format of our Camper! Silly CCP......
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