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Giving something EVE vs Hospital boredom <3

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C4w3
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2015-09-13 13:22:17 UTC  |  Edited by: C4w3
EVE-Online vs Boredom

Hello my name is Jonas aka C4w3 have been playing Eve since it began and have enjoyed every day of it.

I’m suffering from diabetes and chronic kidney failure which forces me to attend the hospital on a weekly basis. About a year ago the some of the young kids that spend extended periods at the hospital saw me playing Eve on my laptop and were intrigued by it.

So as time went on I introduced a few of them to EVE, just getting most of them the hang of it and didn't think much of it.

And since my hospital schedule doesn’t sync up with them every time I found it awesome to see that one of the computers had an updated version of eve. After investigate the matter I found out that the kids I had introduced to Eve had now started to play with other kids while I was gone.
I posted a flyer saying “join in on the fun and beat the boredom hospitals takes on young and old” and we now have around 15-20 active kids playing EVE at the age between 14-20 in all branches including pvp, pve, mining, trade etc. I'm now starting to gather them all in one spot for some fun during the otherwise boring and painful weeks at the hospital, and this is where I could use some help from this amazing community.

With the help of some amazing and generous capsuleers, my wife and I have been putting together gift packages which include 1 PLEX, 1 set of +3 implants and 100m ISK. With generous donations from Ziraili Onzo, we have also started a corp called “Care for kids” and an alliance. Maybe we will be able to carve out a small area of New Eden for them to call their home at some point.

Our goal: To provide a break and to drift away in our pixelspace game instead of feeling sad and being in pain.

What we need help with: Donations, ships, mods, and in general everything that makes their eve life a bit better due to limited gametime.


Donations and help ingame should be to M1sty.

Special mentions: RKK for supporting the idea, Eep and IWANTISK, 1ronbank for beeing 1ron <3, EVE-Bet for generous donations, Niraia EVE Online Hold'Em, JEFFRAIDER and Grendell last but not least Mom Bellicose.

Care pack high res image for promo: http://imgur.com/3BtnDFAe

Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/3lx8v7/care_for_kids_an_eve_online_saga/


We are atm needing more donations to expand, atm we are located at 4 main wards in 3 diffrent citys and i hope to deliver to the rehab long term ward, were they have 8 stationary laptops new care packs so we can install eve on all of them :D

Donations should be pointed towards M1sty.

A new idea:

Care packs

We have made it simple for people to donate care packs.

Starter Care Pack

1 x plex 1 x Full set of +3 Implants 100m ISK 1 x Container of Skills, Ships, Modules.

Progress Starter Pack

1 x plex 1 x Ship (Mining, pve, pvp and exploration), progress skills 1 month and older.

Thanks so much for your donations.



Love Jonas AKA C4w3.
Erica Dusette
Division 13
#2 - 2015-09-13 13:35:26 UTC
Good stuff. Smile


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Talus Veran
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-09-13 14:18:12 UTC
This is so awesome. Keep up the good work!

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Azda Ja
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2015-09-13 14:24:49 UTC
Erica Dusette wrote:
Good stuff. Smile



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Brain Gehirn
Macabre Votum
Northern Coalition.
#5 - 2015-09-13 14:56:21 UTC
You are an amazing human being C4
C4w3
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2015-09-13 16:02:27 UTC
Azda Ja wrote:
Erica Dusette wrote:
Good stuff. Smile



Understatement Blink.

o7


I want to thank you for your kind mail and ill try to get updates weekly with some pictures.

<3 bless
William Weatherwax
Three-Headed Monkeys
#7 - 2015-09-13 17:10:44 UTC
During which time are you guys mainly active and what kind of activities are you mainly interested in?
Mynxee
Signal Cartel
EvE-Scout Enclave
#8 - 2015-09-13 17:36:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Mynxee
Good for you, OP! This is a great endeavor!

Are the kids usually all playing at the same time, or different times? How possible would it be to organize an event like a sightseeing expedition and Treasure Hunt that includes most / all of you? Or would it be better to organize something that more easily accommodated varying play times?

Also, do you guys use comms? Could your group connect to our Mumble server?

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C4w3
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2015-09-13 17:42:23 UTC
Mynxee wrote:
Good for you, OP! This is a great endeavor!

Are the kids usually all playing at the same time, or different times? How possible would it be to organize an event like a sightseeing expedition and Treasure Hunt that includes most / all of you? Or would it be better to organize something that more easily accommodated varying play times?

Also, do you guys use comms? Could your group connect to our Mumble server?


Most play when they feel well / free time, i attend every 2 weeks im kinda sick the first two days, but your ideas are awsome, coms havent really been used since we all sit in the "computer" area but would most likely doable.

Ill keep you updated.

<3
Mynxee
Signal Cartel
EvE-Scout Enclave
#10 - 2015-09-13 18:38:36 UTC
C4w3 wrote:
Mynxee wrote:
Good for you, OP! This is a great endeavor!

Are the kids usually all playing at the same time, or different times? How possible would it be to organize an event like a sightseeing expedition and Treasure Hunt that includes most / all of you? Or would it be better to organize something that more easily accommodated varying play times?

Also, do you guys use comms? Could your group connect to our Mumble server?


Most play when they feel well / free time, i attend every 2 weeks im kinda sick the first two days, but your ideas are awsome, coms havent really been used since we all sit in the "computer" area but would most likely doable.

Ill keep you updated.

<3


Sounds good...I have also begun dropping spacecaches (anchored cans with trinkets and sometimes awesome goodies in them) all over New Eden as prep for promoting this as a fun in-game "pastime". I've started a blog which is woefully undeveloped as yet but there's some info here. I'm sure I could rally a bunch of Signaleers to anchor a ton of such cans especially for your group and give you details so you could rally them to go out and find them as and when they were feeling up to that.

Lost in space, looking for sigs...

Blog: Cloaky Wanderer
CdoubleOK Cook
Feign-Disorder
#11 - 2015-09-13 18:43:01 UTC
The perfect distraction for the situation. You have my respect, donations are being gathered.
C4w3
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2015-09-13 18:45:54 UTC  |  Edited by: C4w3
CdoubleOK Cook wrote:
The perfect distraction for the situation. You have my respect, donations are being gathered.


You are so right and it seems when we also can do something that connects us we feel empowerd and the kids enjoy taunting me when i do stupid stuff.

<3 bless
William Weatherwax
Three-Headed Monkeys
#13 - 2015-09-13 19:26:43 UTC
C4w3 wrote:
Mynxee wrote:
Good for you, OP! This is a great endeavor!

Are the kids usually all playing at the same time, or different times? How possible would it be to organize an event like a sightseeing expedition and Treasure Hunt that includes most / all of you? Or would it be better to organize something that more easily accommodated varying play times?

Also, do you guys use comms? Could your group connect to our Mumble server?


Most play when they feel well / free time, i attend every 2 weeks im kinda sick the first two days, but your ideas are awsome, coms havent really been used since we all sit in the "computer" area but would most likely doable.

Ill keep you updated.

<3



To follow up on what the boss said: We are running PvE fleets on a semi-regular basis. On of these is called Vulfpeck and is aimed at running C5 combat sites in cheap T1 dessies. We are pretty successful with it and I am sure we could get a team together who'd be happy to show your group how to do it. It's not the most isk efficient thing you can do but it's fun to know that you are doing something in a 10-15mil ship where others need a 800+ mil ship to do the same.
C4w3
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2015-09-13 19:34:43 UTC
William Weatherwax wrote:
C4w3 wrote:
Mynxee wrote:
Good for you, OP! This is a great endeavor!

Are the kids usually all playing at the same time, or different times? How possible would it be to organize an event like a sightseeing expedition and Treasure Hunt that includes most / all of you? Or would it be better to organize something that more easily accommodated varying play times?

Also, do you guys use comms? Could your group connect to our Mumble server?


Most play when they feel well / free time, i attend every 2 weeks im kinda sick the first two days, but your ideas are awsome, coms havent really been used since we all sit in the "computer" area but would most likely doable.

Ill keep you updated.

<3



To follow up on what the boss said: We are running PvE fleets on a semi-regular basis. On of these is called Vulfpeck and is aimed at running C5 combat sites in cheap T1 dessies. We are pretty successful with it and I am sure we could get a team together who'd be happy to show your group how to do it. It's not the most isk efficient thing you can do but it's fun to know that you are doing something in a 10-15mil ship where others need a 800+ mil ship to do the same.


Thanks i will pass this on and we will probably try you out next week great ideas ty <3 bless
C4w3
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2015-09-13 19:45:43 UTC
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Thank you Mom Bellicose and in EVE your never forgotten <3 blessings
Kimpaz
The Stooges
#16 - 2015-09-13 21:57:16 UTC
I wanted to spam hearts but then came to my senses and started making this post instead.
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Mentally Assured Destruction
#17 - 2015-09-14 04:16:09 UTC
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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#18 - 2015-09-14 06:10:37 UTC
This is actually pretty cool!

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C4w3
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2015-09-14 07:19:16 UTC
Hello

Small update

After this post the number of people asking and comming up with ideas etc is truly amazing and thats why EVE is EVE, i will do a weekly update with short storys from me and my "gang".

Again Thanks.
Sun Dude
Doomheim
#20 - 2015-09-14 07:37:54 UTC
The most amazing use of this game to date. Great stuff
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