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Solje Mobar
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2016-12-11 18:50:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Solje Mobar
I just finished this COSMOS epic mission arc , in an attempt to improve my standings with Caldari and Amarr. And after completing a long story arch, with a side subplot in between and do what I was asked in time. I get this little gem from the COSMOS agent:

https://i.imgur.com/WNpQmxB.png


Such a fine sophisticated piece of writing. I almost expected it to finish with "....lol".

This is the equivalent of "GG EZ" but with agents.

Please.... hire some actual writers for content thank you.
Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2016-12-12 10:34:56 UTC
You make it sound like carebears actually read what their mission agent say that isn't the mission name.

Post with your NPC alt main and not your main main alt!
Cutter Isaacson
DEDSEC SAN FRANCISCO
#3 - 2016-12-12 10:45:54 UTC
It should say "Ta-ta" and not "Ta-da". Unless the mission agent is a magician and has just pulled a rabbit from a pod.

"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination." Elim Garak.
Soel Reit
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2016-12-12 10:47:24 UTC
still reading missions dialogues in 2k16 LUL
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#5 - 2016-12-12 11:12:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
I wonder how much effort it would take to write actual conversation trees.

Agent: I am here to give you mission...
Reply:
1. Good! Give me mission! Now!
2. I would like you to provide me some information...
3. Excuse me. I was thinking you are an exotic dancer. You look gorgeous! *flirt*
4. Are you crazy? We had that conversation like 1000 times before.

ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ ᴀ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ʜᴇʟᴘs ᴛᴏ ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴀ sᴛᴏʀʏ 📕

ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴀɴɢʀʏ ᴄᴏɴᴄᴏʀᴅ ɢᴜʏ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʜɪᴍ

ᴏsᴘʀᴇʏ 🚀

≡⋁≡ ♥
Cristl
#6 - 2016-12-12 15:31:25 UTC
A COSMOS dialogue?!.

Are you some sort of MMO archaeologist?
Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2016-12-12 15:40:01 UTC
Never read those texts, just the name, (optional) open eve-survival, proceed with mission.

I'm my own NPC alt.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#8 - 2016-12-12 17:50:18 UTC
*thinks of dialogue like in fallout classics 1 and 2"

I would make endless conversation options with a lot of lore in it.

*loregasm*

ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ ᴀ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ʜᴇʟᴘs ᴛᴏ ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴀ sᴛᴏʀʏ 📕

ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴀɴɢʀʏ ᴄᴏɴᴄᴏʀᴅ ɢᴜʏ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʜɪᴍ

ᴏsᴘʀᴇʏ 🚀

≡⋁≡ ♥
Solje Mobar
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2016-12-15 00:19:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Solje Mobar
Cristl wrote:
A COSMOS dialogue?!.

Are you some sort of MMO archaeologist?



I am someone who was -4.98 standings with amarr, and I have been meaning to do these missions to recover empire faction standings for ages.

Ages = 2006
Clandestiny
Doomheim
#10 - 2016-12-15 00:35:32 UTC
Cutter Isaacson wrote:
It should say "Ta-ta" and not "Ta-da". Unless the mission agent is a magician and has just pulled a 🐇 from a pod.

😸

❤╫╟╖A╥╖K❤╙╢OU❤

🎯→🚀
Memphis Baas
#11 - 2016-12-15 02:55:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Memphis Baas
Actually, the Ta-Da is short for "Here's your reward for this mission, all the stuff listed on the right side is now blinking your wallet and taking up space in your station hangar."
Sasha Nemtsov
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2016-12-15 08:09:29 UTC
Hi nit-picker (just joking)!

You get a fanfare instead of a casual hand-wave - and you're complaining? The absence of an exclamation mark at the end is, no doubt, an Icelandic convention. Can't have you getting above yourself...

As to your point, there is some variety in text communications, which betrays the understandable likelihood that the pens of several hands are responsible for what we finally see. From the snarky 14 year old to the weary septuagenarian; it's all there, in a bewildering display of diversity.

The particular example you displayed was probably written by the the same person who directed the performance of the now-defunct Aura.

Sook eet oop! (As my friends from parts of the North of England might say)

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Miranda Shoota
Leviathan Investment Group
#13 - 2016-12-15 08:31:07 UTC
COSMOS missions are perhaps the oldest and most untouched kind of PvE there exists in Eve.

Be happy they are working at all :P
broBudha Psy
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2017-01-06 21:37:43 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
*thinks of dialogue like in fallout classics 1 and 2"

I would make endless conversation options with a lot of lore in it.

*loregasm*



only bethseda can pull that one....would be great if ccp and bethseda had a love child
Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#15 - 2017-01-06 21:48:15 UTC
Compelling.

(I read the dialogues too) Smile

@lunettelulu7