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How do you explain EVE to friends

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Gunrunner1775
Empire Hooligans
#1 - 2014-11-11 08:05:03 UTC
like the subject says.....

for me, some of my friends play those "other" mmo games (i used to)
they ask me about eve...
this is what i say...

EVE is the most dime dropping - back stabbing - buddy ****** - cut throat - PVP you will ever see... its awsome...

then i go along the lines of .... imagine that dungeon your in with your buddies and you die,.. now imagine that all the gear you are wearing is now GONE cause you died and your left nekkid at your bind point... the look of total shock and horror is priceless

trust no one
paranoia rules all
fly only what you can afford to loose
you will loose...many times
Josef Djugashvilis
#2 - 2014-11-11 08:07:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Josef Djugashvilis
I have tried many, many times.

My friends just tell me to be my age (59) and stop playing a kids game...

More fool them.

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Sadario
Know-Nothings
Negative Feedback
#3 - 2014-11-11 09:00:53 UTC
Disclaimer: I did not come up with the following quote, and I have no idea who did.

"EVE Online is a social experiment to see if people will pay to have a second job, as long as their cubicle is a spaceship."
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2014-11-11 09:05:25 UTC
EVE Online, a rappidly improving game.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2014-11-11 09:44:10 UTC
I don't. EVE is high on the list of things not worth trying to make people understand

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Dave Stark
#6 - 2014-11-11 09:52:15 UTC
I simply don't bother.
Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2014-11-11 10:03:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Eugene Kerner
Gunrunner1775 wrote:
like the subject says.....

for me, some of my friends play those "other" mmo games (i used to)
they ask me about eve...
this is what i say...

EVE is the most dime dropping - back stabbing - buddy ****** - cut throat - PVP you will ever see... its awsome...

then i go along the lines of .... imagine that dungeon your in with your buddies and you die,.. now imagine that all the gear you are wearing is now GONE cause you died and your left nekkid at your bind point... the look of total shock and horror is priceless

trust no one
paranoia rules all
fly only what you can afford to loose
you will loose...many times

you offer him/her a coffee and when he/she takes up the cup to drink you slap him/her in the face with full power. Then you ask if he/she wants sugar and maybe a cookie and repeat the process. Easy.

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Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#8 - 2014-11-11 10:06:01 UTC
I start by explaining one aspect of the game, then realizing that there's something else I probably should have explained first, then backtrack and keep explaining what I was originally explaining, then realize I was focusing too much on one topic and move to a different one, then realize I needed to explain something else first, then give up and tell them to go read the Wikipedia article.

I just can't summarize this game as much as I try to.
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-11-11 10:23:06 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
I don't. EVE is high on the list of things not worth trying to make people understand


This pretty much.

Because invariably 'can i get out of my ship and go on the planets' pops up in the first 2 minutes. Every, single, time.

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Nami Kumamato
Perkone
Caldari State
#10 - 2014-11-11 11:05:31 UTC
Gunrunner1775 wrote:
like the subject says.....

for me, some of my friends play those "other" mmo games (i used to)
they ask me about eve...
this is what i say...

EVE is the most dime dropping - back stabbing - buddy ****** - cut throat - PVP you will ever see... its awsome...

then i go along the lines of .... imagine that dungeon your in with your buddies and you die,.. now imagine that all the gear you are wearing is now GONE cause you died and your left nekkid at your bind point... the look of total shock and horror is priceless

trust no one
paranoia rules all
fly only what you can afford to loose
you will loose...many times


And that's why we don't get new players!
Just tell them they have quasi-infinite mining veins, full access to "epix", and the forests are always teaming with boars!
Oh not to mention the skills train themselves!

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Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#11 - 2014-11-11 11:06:55 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
EVE Online, a rappidly improving game.


It's almost out of beta.
Square PI
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2014-11-11 11:09:26 UTC
Easy.
Tell them if they like it hard and frustrating, prefer to get spanked and hit they have two choices. One is eve and the second is ....
But EVE is the cheaper way.


Somehow EVE is mainly for masochists
Gully Alex Foyle
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2014-11-11 11:14:00 UTC
On the odd (about 1%) chance they're actually interested, I can go on for hours about anything, from suicide ganking to fleet PVP, the potential $ value of losses and the incredibly deep 'economy simulation'.

But otherwise I've learned not to bother.

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Princess Honneamise
#14 - 2014-11-11 11:21:02 UTC
i just tell to my friends :

"You will not be able to survive the tutorial "

and then i link them the famous "learning curve" pic :

http://i.imgur.com/jj16ThL.jpg

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Hicksimus
Torgue
#15 - 2014-11-11 11:27:31 UTC
I don't tell anybody that I play EvE but my coworkers know I game and they were able to determine that I'm an EvE player from my general disposition and inability to correctly handle the party fund.

Recruitment Officer: What type of a pilot are you? Me: I've been described as a Ray Charles with Parkinsons and a drinking problem.
Prince Kobol
#16 - 2014-11-11 11:51:08 UTC
I dont have to. All of them have already tried Eve and didn't like it
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#17 - 2014-11-11 12:03:15 UTC
Gunrunner1775 wrote:
friends

^^what is this?

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Jvpiter
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#18 - 2014-11-11 12:04:04 UTC

I've tried explaining EVE to my friends before, but their idea of a game is on Facebook or their phone and lasts about 5 minutes tops.


Unfortunately, now that I've mentioned it to them, EVE Online has become the reason why I'm hopelessly single.

Could they be right?

Call me Joe.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#19 - 2014-11-11 12:07:19 UTC
Jvpiter wrote:

I've tried explaining EVE to my friends before, but their idea of a game is on Facebook or their phone and lasts about 5 minutes tops.


Unfortunately, now that I've mentioned it to them, EVE Online has become the reason why I'm hopelessly single.

Could they be right?

Eve can be your mistress, and a harsh unforgiving one at that.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Infrequent
HotSpot.
#20 - 2014-11-11 12:17:08 UTC
Eugene Kerner wrote:
Gunrunner1775 wrote:
like the subject says.....

for me, some of my friends play those "other" mmo games (i used to)
they ask me about eve...
this is what i say...

EVE is the most dime dropping - back stabbing - buddy ****** - cut throat - PVP you will ever see... its awsome...

then i go along the lines of .... imagine that dungeon your in with your buddies and you die,.. now imagine that all the gear you are wearing is now GONE cause you died and your left nekkid at your bind point... the look of total shock and horror is priceless

trust no one
paranoia rules all
fly only what you can afford to loose
you will loose...many times

you offer him/her a coffee and when he/she takes up the cup to drink you slap him/her in the face with full power. Then you ask if he/she wants sugar and maybe a cookie and repeat the process. Easy.


This, I really want to do this.
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