Out of Pod Experience

Our polutants will blot out the sun...

Woo! Let's all hope Shelby's right then.

You can never rely on the 'vision' for EVE staying the same, the developers within it, the CEO even. It's all ever-changing and evolving. But there's always one thing that never changes, and that you can count on to give direction and that is money and profit.

That's why I love microtransactions, always have in every game.

I can't wait for the aurum change. Look at all the berets, hats and new outfits out there already. People do, and will, buy this sh*t and they will buy it by the ton (hopefully). For those of us who want more avatar development then that can only ever be a good thing.

I'm doing fine,got only 4 hours of sleep and I feel fresh despite that.

Had lunch instead of breakfast.

Other than that I'm surfing the web,waiting until my friend's pc repair shop opens so I can take one of my old PCs for repair.The power button is broken.Gonna get that fixed....or buy a new case instead.

Ouch. Hope you get more sleep!! I got about the same myself I think the past two nights. My bodyclock is a mess after switching back to dayshift from nightshift (with only 1.5 days off inbetween to adjust) and it's hard to sleep early.

Good luck with your PC repairs! I got my last bits of Easter shopping done tonight. All ready for Easter now, my daughter will be with me for it this year. ♥ We get a quick Easter morning on Sunday, I'll hide some eggs down by the rivulet and we can wander down and hunt for them. Then gotta head out for a 501st easter troop with my squad. She'll be doing micro-Rey again and I'll be the usual Stormtrooper.

She's got a big radio controlled BB-8 now, it's pretty cool.

I role played once. My imagination, ah....got me in a bit of trouble. 10/10 would get in trouble again.

Was fun and a bit scary though.

You've hit on a thing that is kinda central to my own RP philosophy I think. Of course you're absolutely right, to RP and enjoy pretty much any imaginable scenrio all you need is a way to communicate. Email, forum, chat. So why aren't all the RPers in the world investing their RP in places like that, rather than environments like this and others (pretty much any mmo of course there's RPers and especially in avatar based stuff)?

Immersion!

The world you're RPing in, and the tools it brings to your RP, are what I believe bring about the levels of immersion you can't find just with pure text RP on it's own. For instance, your character argues with another pilot. You end up challenging each other to a duel. Now why bother actually undocking and having a real duel when you can just RP it?

While it might be a fun creative experience writing an RP space fight, it's not going to get your blood pumping like an actual fight in space, a step closer to reality that this world allows us to take because we can undock and really fight.

The ability to actually do it ingame exists to make your RP 'real', so you do it!

It's the difference between reading an EVE fiction novel, and a true EVE stories novel.

Pretty much the same principle applies in all RP I think, in terms of it's quality. The more use you make of the tools and world available to you the better quality your story is going to be. Anyone can call themselves an 'admiral' or 'king', but it's another thing entirely to go out and actually earn those things within the game. When my characters meet with others ingame I insist on being at the same location, I never RP things that aren't actually happening ingame (at least as close as possible). Granted a lot of RPers don't bother, because it honestly is very inconvenient in a RL sense to have to drop what you're doing ingame and maybe travel and hour to meet this character. But that effort and that act bringing you together ends up making the RP you have so much better, so much more immersive.

The more tools and features we have, the more immersed we can become in the RP.

At least that's how it works for me personally in my head lol.

Real Coffee ♥

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Non RP player in me always wanted to see this pleasure hubs from inside and space Vegas is a thing for me.