EVE General Discussion

This is a OOC question to some of the RPers out there.

Are there RP pilots who fly outside your race? IE: Amarr/Amarr flying Minmatar vessels, or Caldari/Civire flying Gallente vessels, etc

Dont take any offense with this question, Im not attempting to insult or dictate a play-style at all, I am honestly just wondering.


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I like the sound of this, thanks for the food-for-thought

Why would a nation limit itself to only using ships and weapons it made itself? It may prefer to use its own, but there is no reason why they won't be able to use someone elses.

This has mostly been said, but...

Well, I have no idea why so many people associate the requirement to fly only your own race's ships with RP so much. Must be from some of the earliest times in EVE. Ever since I started playing, the only group to actively restrict themselves with their ship choice was PIE Inc. (awesome people), Amarr loyalists.

You have two basic factors that influence ship choice towards "own race", though.

First, most Minmatar RPers (to pick one example) will start Minmatar characters, which start out with Minmatar-focused skill sets, so they are more likely to fly Minmatar ships. Which means that Minmatar RP groups will have a statistical preference for Minmatar ships.

Second, RPers who are loyal to their faction will take some pride in flying their faction's ships. This is not necessary and by all means not universal, but it exists. For example, my character flies only Minmatar ships (and mining barges :-)) purely for that reason. I have also put in some effort to design Electus Matari fleet doctrines in a way that favors Minmatar designs (we flew Tempests before it was cool!) - and I have up until recently avoided armor fleets since I try to avoid basing fleet concepts on Amarr designs (Oneiros boost ftw). This is a personal choice for me and my character, though. (It also creates good RP opportunities when commenting on other people's ship choices ;-))

So there is definitely a tendency for RPers to fly more of "their race's" ships. But it's a tendency, and definitely not a requirement.

One very nice comment I've heard once was "when people tell me we can't use Amarrian technology, I ask them, what about the Khumaak?"

(For those not too well-versed in RP lore: The Khumaak was an Amarrian scepter that a Minmatar slave used to kill his master, resulting in the genocide on the Starkmanir tribe; the Khumaak is nowadays used as an important Minmatar symbol for freedom.)

not really a RPer myself, but to me it was always the idea of getting hold of the enemy's weapons and turn them against him.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you once played a dwarf who refused to learn common and speak to the other members of the party, all in the name of "good" role-playing.

Of course you can justify flying another race's ships. How many Americans drive Japanese, German, Korean or other nationalities' cars?

Entirely up to the character you wish to create and how they'd feel on the subject.

As a Khanid-Loyalist I've flown only Amarr/Caldari ships for the last 5 years, and have done just fine thanks ;0

Unleashing my inner RP player right now, but I've already covered why he will be trained as he is

Flying Gallente - He is Intaki after all
Flying Caldari - Born in Placid on the Blackrise border, there is a certain merging of technology pre Heth's era on the colonies he has no second thoughts of using a Caldari built tool.
Flying Minmatar - Working alongside allies, led to him admiring Minmatar ships and so their use.

Not Flying Amarr - Working along side the Minmatar and can not stand for slavery or the constant preaching and religious iconography plastered over Amarr ships.

lol, no no, I always had to learn Common, as my favored class was usually Bard, and a bard speaking only one language can lead to a fairly empty coin-purse, mainly I was just wondering, as in RP there are certain etiquettes, customs, and traditions, and I just wanted to make sure i wouldn't completely lose the chance of being able to get into a corporation if, being Gallente, I trained Caldari, Minmatar or Amarr ships

The entire state is a bunch of Gallente breakaways.