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How would you define eve-online ?
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Brutus King
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2013-02-08 10:16:56 UTC
Internet masochism.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2013-02-08 10:27:44 UTC
Sernum wrote:
How would you define eveonline to someone who hasnt played a mmo. what sets eve apart from other games in the industry. You and i both know - but how would you say this to someone who doesnt understand or has never play any mmo?
writing a research paper thanks in advance.

Well Eve-online focuses its target market on people who do not need instant gratification for achieving tasks. CCP targets the most diabolic people on the face of the planet that spend weeks, months even years plotting out ways to demolish other players and their empires. Empires can which can consist of thousands of other real human players to put this into perspective. The game targets people who are extremely adapted to inspections tedious details and living a covert life with in other player ran alliances as a spy.

its a rough draft wrote in like 2 minutes but does this sound accurate and appealing?

Sounds like one side of the coin.

'The Plan' | California Eve Players | Proposal - The Endless Battle
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2013-02-08 10:44:42 UTC
Ai Shun wrote:
DMC wrote:
Well, the usual expected response would be that Eve Online is a MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game). Specifically it's a Science Fiction Virtual Reality Simulation set in a futuristic space environment.


Wow. Inspired.

Out of all the replies in this thread, you decided to troll mine with the usual sarcasm intending to demean and belittle me.. Guess I should have expected that. Now I remember why you're set to Red standing.

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Whitehound
#24 - 2013-02-08 11:11:12 UTC
Like a bar fight without blood and pain, but almost as much excitement and adrenalin. Cool

Loss is meaningful. Therefore is the loss of meaning likewise meaningful. It is the source of all trolling.
Skaz
Skazmanian Industries
#25 - 2013-02-08 13:41:48 UTC
Galenwade wrote:
A time sink


This

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Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#26 - 2013-02-08 13:54:02 UTC
Well, it's basically an awesome forum with a spaceships game attached.

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ChromeStriker
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2013-02-08 14:02:14 UTC
I normally describe it "think of wow or any other mmo, but deeper more complex and harder, with no easy mode" lol

No Worries
Provence Tristram
Doomheim
#28 - 2013-02-08 14:13:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Provence Tristram
Lots of downtime... a lot of sitting around doing nothing. Now, granted, that's good in some respects, because unlike other MMOs, I don't have to log onto EVE to do dailies or whatever. The skill queues allow me to divorce obligation from desire. I only have to play when I want to. But, having said this, the game is 99% boredom, with occasional spurts of unbelievably white-knuckle action.
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#29 - 2013-02-08 14:43:00 UTC
Dark Souls with spaceships but without the level cap.
Kate stark
#30 - 2013-02-08 14:46:17 UTC
spaceships and spreadsheets.

Yay, this account hasn't had its signature banned. or its account, if you're reading this.
Chandaris
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#31 - 2013-02-08 14:49:21 UTC
Interneeet Spaceshiiiiiip spreadsheeeeeeeets (requires accompanying air guitar bawwwwwawawawawawawwwooooo for full effect)
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#32 - 2013-02-08 14:49:55 UTC

I give you Malcanis > "EVE Online: A game where you start out as a child in park full of pedophiles. If you're smart and ruthless, eventually you become one of the pedophiles"
Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#33 - 2013-02-08 14:53:04 UTC
Internet spaceships (optional)
Spreadsheets (optional)
Ruining someone's day (optional)
Keeping your day from being ruined (constant)

Love this damn game.

♪ They'll always be bloodclaws to me ♫
Markatta
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#34 - 2013-02-08 15:07:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Markatta
It's the optional multiplayer component of EVEMon.
Hammer Borne
Doomheim
#35 - 2013-02-08 15:09:22 UTC
A game full of asshats, trying to grief other asshats while waiting for their skill queue to finish so they can grief better.
Pewty McPew
EVE Corporation 2357451
#36 - 2013-02-08 15:32:33 UTC
Exercise in futility.
Zagdul
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#37 - 2013-02-08 15:43:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Zagdul
I have a lot of old WoW friends who ask me this and here's how I describe it to them:

"Imagine you could control Zones in Azeroth, like, if you could hold all of Silverpine Forest as a guild and any other guild, including ones in your faction could take it away from you. Now, as you level up, the zones become more rich with resources people at a higher level want which makes those zones as a whole more valuable. Now, pretend you were allied with neighboring guilds and worked to hold multiple zones"

"Put this in space, with space ships and all on a single server where you interact with every player in the entire game and that's EVE, oh and when you die, the gear that's on you, all your epics are gone and you need to go re-build your gear with the resources you harvest from the land"

That last bit scares them off every time.

Dual Pane idea: Click!

CCP Please Implement
De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#38 - 2013-02-08 15:46:05 UTC
Sernum wrote:
How would you define eveonline to someone who hasnt played a mmo. what sets eve apart from other games in the industry. You and i both know - but how would you say this to someone who doesnt understand or has never play any mmo?
writing a research paper thanks in advance.

Well Eve-online focuses its target market on people who do not need instant gratification for achieving tasks. CCP targets the most diabolic people on the face of the planet that spend weeks, months even years plotting out ways to demolish other players and their empires. Empires can which can consist of thousands of other real human players to put this into perspective. The game targets people who are extremely adapted to inspections tedious details and living a covert life with in other player ran alliances as a spy.

its a rough draft wrote in like 2 minutes but does this sound accurate and appealing?



My signature has something you might be able to use.

De'Veldrin's Corollary (to Malcanis' Law): Any idea that seeks to limit the ability of a large nullsec bloc to do something in the name of allowing more small groups into sov null will inevitably make it that much harder for small groups to enter sov null.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#39 - 2013-02-08 19:43:32 UTC
Eve is summed up by a line from 'The New Guy':

"The sex you want, you dont get. The sex you get.....you dont want"

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Takseen
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2013-02-08 20:02:01 UTC
Sernum wrote:
How would you define eveonline to someone who hasnt played a mmo. what sets eve apart from other games in the industry. You and i both know - but how would you say this to someone who doesnt understand or has never play any mmo?


World of Warcraft in space covers it quite nicely for someone who's never played an MMO.

Otherwise its a single shard space themed MMO with a focus on player driven content and conflict. Its slow paced, has no singular endgame, focuses a lot of building and maintaining your ownplayer alliances and battling others. Losses are usually more severe as players lose whatever they were carrying when they die unlike most MMOs. In some case they can take weeks or months of play to recover from. Solo play is possible but not encouraged. There are computer controlled opponents but these are not very smart or powerful, so most of the challenge comes from player vs player interactions. Players can also mine minerals and research blueprints to convert them into items. It has a market system these items can be bought and sold for various prices, even allowing players to make virtual money as a day trader.

Its fun, but its also Very Serious Business. Some players have been known to spend thousands of dollars on in-game items.
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