Out of Pod Experience

Received a message this weekend that a fellow player died I'm flown with many times and talked on comms ... I was shocked and didn't feel like continue PvP this evening ... I read a couple of RIP threads on Reddit but this was different...

EvE is not different than life, ofc, we are all humans.

I should put something in my will. The will's executor has to log in as me and post a "Leaving EVE" post in GD. "Been fun, but I found an awesome new game. It has a kind steep learning curve though, and looks hard to win. Besides that, due to some recent changes, I really don't enjoy playing EVE anymore. And also, because of RL demands, I just can't log on very often anymore. Well, actually TBH, I don't really have an RL anymore." etc. etc.

Then, attorney has to come over to OOPE and study on the Can i Haz rules, and distribute the stuff equitably. It would be a hard job. "9 unfit Rifters for you. 1 pair of space boots for you. 21 Kruul's DNA to you, the other 12 and an Atron to you." Actually, it could be tied up in space litigation for years. Years upon years! ha ha ha! ha ha ha ha...!

Edit: No disrespect to our fallen mates intended. Happy Halloween, all ye.

That's brilliant! Maybe the same application could send out tweets as well.

I got so close to flying my Leviathan, but then I died. REST IN PEPPERONI ROBERT SAWYER

On a side note, don't compare EVE players to US demographs - not all of us are Americans.

I LOLed.


Ha, true! And if people troll more and behave worse on the internet because they're anonymous, and immune to many repercussions... how badly are they going troll if they're already deceased? No consequences at all!

(Wait, can you gather bad karma after death, if your pre-programmed robot is still actively trolling people? Hmm.... might be a question for the dalai lama or the Pope.)

P.S. WB Gray! Where you been?

Depended on who made the bot.

Mine would be active within a limited space and only draw upon these forums for ways to speak.

It's 20 deaths a week, or in excess of 1,000 per year.

I have lost a fair few people online (I tend to befriend older players and I am approaching a decade of gaming) and even had an attempted suicide and a murder in real life. (Although, if you live in South Africa, that isn't all that uncommon)
Online:
1) Died from lack of sleep and food at her keyboard as she was playing too much; left behind a husband and children. (Woke me up to this danger)
2) Paraplegic died of a heart attack, leaving behind a wife, some grand kids and had already lost the parents of some of those kids.
3) Cancer case, only found out about her when she progressively got erratic, turned out that was due to medication in the last stages of dying.
4) Car accident.
5) Some possible bogus cases so they could see their own funeral.
6) People disappearing suddenly.

Real life:
1) Failing biology, father diagnosed with Cancer, wants to be a paramedic and girlfriend leaves him, shot himself in the head with a .22 hand gun and lives, temporary speech impairment and paralysis down his left side. Bullet still in his head, too deep to be removed.
2) Friend worked for real estate agency in JHB; went to collect rent, was stabbed and thrown out of the 10th floor of a building.
3) Hair dresser / family friend of 10+ years was killed by her husband who was drunk driving, took them both out.

Honourable mention: Working as a medical call handler, had a woman call up to say she was in the bath holding a toaster, she had tried pills and been resusitated before. So, she was calling to make sure someone else other than her family would find her body. (Other suicide calls sounded more like cries for help.)

People die. To mourn is to mourn your own loss. They feel nothing once they cease to exist.