EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey yall im new and a roleplayer im coming over from both swtor and lotro im down for a challenge but im also a heavy rper im going navy as my mark but need to know if eve has roleplayers till this day

Roleplay goes here.

They're definitely about, I used to have fun trying to get them to break character.

Honestly I'm more of a "make a real narrative" than "make a narrative up" type of guy and all of my friends are too,
so my Notion of rp is not a traditional one.

Here I'm actually a well respected mercenary, I actually get paid for hunting corporations and doing violence upon them.
There are real war Lord's here, real conmen , real empires, real dissenters,
real politics and diplomatic incidents.

I personally don't get the motivation to make interesting **** up when there's interesting **** to do.

That said Eve's incredible so I don't doubt you're going to find people to share interests with.
Welcome aboard.

Everyone in this game is actually roleplaying with their character. More specifically their character's career path and status within the game.

For example my character is a Diplomatic Explorer. The Diplomatic aspect is that I have positive standings with all Empire NPC Factions and since I belong to NPC Corporation, I don't have any WarDec issues with player Corps or Alliances which basically allows the Explorer aspect of my character to travel everywhere.

Now that doesn't mean I'm safe from being attacked. I'm actually Neutral but can still be attacked by Suicide Gankers in High sec space, player Pirates in Low sec space and player Corporation / Alliance members in Null sec space.

Since I'm a solo player, my character's greatest asset as a Diplomatic Explorer is making sure I'm hard to catch with agility, speed and hiding with cloak. That also means being very attentive to local chat, who's on grid with me and watching D-scan for all possible threats. And when in High sec space, making sure to have a good defensive tank on ship to survive gank attempts since Concord will enact revenge on those who commit unprovoked attacks.

Anyway, I'm getting off track. Another aspect of RP that I do since I have a Minmatar character is to mainly fly Minmatar ships along with a few Angel and ORE ships.

That's about it and like I said before, everyone in this game does some sort of role play based on their characters career path and status in-game.



DMC

As has been mentioned there are a lot of different types of role playing in this game. Beyond the kind of RP that I am used to in other MMOs where people play a character that fits into the lore of the game, in Eve often people play a character that they have designed for themselves.

So while there are RPers like CVA that control a region of null sec for The Glory of The Amarr Empire, there are also RPers that pretend to be ruthless pirates. Or people that manage actual Empires and wage wars like a corrupt warlord. You will find a bit of everything in this game especially when it comes to RPing.

Role Playing has different meanings.

For example I only use one account, and one character on that account. That is a form of role playing because in Eve your actions carry consequences. Sure, you're allowed to do most anything- but there are consequences for doing so. Almost to a one, the use of alts in Eve is to dodge these very mechanics.
So my sec status actually matters (which drove my decision to live in null sec), war decs actually matter, my employment history matters, etc.

I consider it role playing to see what one life can do in Eve Online. No matter what, I am limited in scope- can't run a huge PI machine, can't cyno for my own capitals (I don't fly capitals at all as a result), can't dual box ratting ships, can't build too many things nor dominate a local market using alt sales orders or manufacturing jobs skills.

By the way, if you really want to RP, look into CODE. They role play the bad guy if that's your thing. But they are very active and take great pride in staying in character while angry care bears rant in Local.

I'll have to go with "no". If you have time and energy to "roleplay" in EVE, it just means you aren't spending it doing something *actually* interesting. You can either declare "I am lord fictitious, master of the land of fabricatia" or you can get out there and kick someone's ass to become something that actually resembles what less interesting people pretend to have done. There's no need to roleplay something you can actually do. Roleplaying within EVE is like being the D&D player who names his character "Steve" because he lacks the imagination to think of anything better. And on top of that, if you go around declaring yourself Emperor of the Federation, there will be people out there with ships and ammunition eager to prove otherwise.

No offense, but your post kinda demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding roleplay.

What's "interesting" for one person might not be for another, there is no right nor wrong way to play EVE.

In fact most roleplayers here do exactly what everyone else does, and most facets of their character come from actual ingame achievements or experiences too. Some are wormholers, some lowsec pvpers, others nullseccers, some are highsec industrialists. Their ingame activity doesn't really change much from what anyone else is doing, just their communication often does. If you convo me ingame you won't be talking to the player, you'll get my character and I generally respond as her. While I might be scanning, or getting ready for a gank I might be RPing a little in RP chans as well as chatting in my corp one.

There really is no difference between playstyles when it comes to RPer/Non-RPers, it's just how they fill in the blanks and give reason to what they do ingame (beyond their own motivations as a player). You RP too, the minute you login you assume some facets of your avatar and his/her limitations. It's unavoidable. Some just like taking it a step (or twenty steps) further. There are a few people who login and roleplay, never to undock - but they are very rare. Likewise there's some who claim to be great lords and admirals, but who can barely fly their Bantam - But again those are rare.

Yup ,not cheap either.
we usually run about 500mil a week(Negotiable) , structures and corpses are extra.

For that you get one of the few remaining old school Mercs that actually leave the trade hubs
and hunt whomsoever you point us twords.
(Yes it's frustrating and tedious but satisfying)

Granted a lot of it is just getting borde and finding a group to knaw on for a while
but we all do rather enjoy a contract we can take seriously.

You can think of "the contract" as our role-play,
with the added bonus of it being both reputation forming and occasionally quite profitable.

I'm pretty sure we're (at least partially) the reason that's the case.

PSA: claiming to be a Blood Thirsty Mercenary Corp in an environment where Blood Thirsty Mercenaries actually operate is somewhat ill advised