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This is what Eve is all about
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Paragon Renegade
Sebiestor Tribe
#1 - 2012-02-16 20:36:00 UTC
After my other thread made me mad, I watched Eve videos online to reaffirm my faith.

Best 5 minutes and 51 seconds of my life

This is old as hell I know, but I feel that in the end, this is what Eve Online is all about.

What do you think the game is "about" in your opinion?

The pie is a tautology
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-02-16 20:36:49 UTC
In my mind there are a lot of cheetohs involved....

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
highonpop
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2012-02-16 20:42:14 UTC
fighting over the drone lands is like fighting over a landfill

sorry

FC, what do?
Paragon Renegade
Sebiestor Tribe
#4 - 2012-02-16 20:43:34 UTC
highonpop wrote:
a landfill


Made of silver and paved with gold

The pie is a tautology
Karthwritte
Trouble Seekers Incorporated
#5 - 2012-02-16 20:45:44 UTC
Friendship, kills and cool suicides
Alara IonStorm
#6 - 2012-02-16 20:52:07 UTC
I love War in EVE. It is Asymmetric and full of dirty tricks of all sorts. It isn't fair or regulated and doesn't have a pause or reset button. It can begin and end for any reason or escalate to massive proportions.

It isn't Alliance vs Hoard Fake story-Line Wars no one ever wins. What you do matters and trust and betrayal can earn or cost you everything. Thousands of Warships out their slugging it out.

Amazing.
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#7 - 2012-02-16 20:58:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Akirei Scytale
Stuff like RAINBOWFLEET, and moments like the Battle of Mittanigrad or the Battle of DKUK (I was one of the initial 45-odd first responders who started fighting 150 odd Raiden, it seemed hopeless until the situation kept escalating and escalating on both sides, only to end with minimal losses and a field full of wrecks). I love fighting a superior force and kicking them right in the ass.
Paragon Renegade
Sebiestor Tribe
#8 - 2012-02-16 21:03:14 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Stuff lI love fighting a superior force and kicking them right in the ass.


Same, except my fighting a superior force usually ends in a horrible death for me and all my allies.

Never gets boring :D *Puts on sunglasses*

The pie is a tautology
Feligast
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-02-16 21:55:43 UTC
Karthwritte wrote:
Friendship, kills and cool suicides


Alot of this.Meeting and getting to know lots of cool people, then shooting them.

Also just the sheer variety of things to do in this game. I feel like getting a buncha friends together and finding something to shoot, I can do that. Not feeling social? Go run some missions or anomalies, or explore. Don't feel like making :effort:? Mining is pretty low maintenance. Wanderlust? Grab a covops and fly to a region you've never been to and pick on the locals. Good at spreadsheets? Build some stuff and kill them on the market. Or do them all in one night! That's why I'm still playing this game, and probably will be for a long time to come.
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-02-16 21:59:52 UTC
Paragon Renegade wrote:
highonpop wrote:
a landfill


Made of silver and paved with gold



Exactly what bots need.

Sanity is fun leaving the body.
Olleybear
A Blessed Bean
The Initiative.
#11 - 2012-02-17 02:30:30 UTC
The game is about preparing for the end of days. It gets a person into the mindset that they can only truly depend on themselves when society as a whole collapses due to hyper-inflation / solar flares / incurable H1N1 plagues.

Setting traps in game is just practice for setting traps in RL as your using social engineering and overwhelming force to take down your target.

I plan on turning the tactic that I use in game of orbiting a slow and fat ship at 18km and hitting at distance into circling a large, round man 18 feet away and hitting him with a long pole until he falls down and I can take the spoils, which will probably consist of ju-ju bees and snickers bars.

Hoarding minerals, ships, modules is just like hoarding food / guns / toilet paper in RL. You can never have enough!

It is survival and I have no fear....

Big smile

When it comes to PvP, I am like a chiwawa hanging from a grizzley bears pair of wrinklies for dear life.
rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#12 - 2012-02-17 02:54:58 UTC
Monocles and wearing cool clothes.

Signature removed for inappropriate language - CCP Eterne
Brunmunde Hildegaard
The Green Machine
That Escalated Quickly.
#13 - 2012-02-17 03:49:08 UTC
THE GAME IS ABOUT INTERNET SPACESHIPS

DUH

"Sings me a dances of wolfs, who smells fear and slays the coward. Sings me a dances of mans, who smells gold and slays his brother."
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#14 - 2012-02-17 04:11:58 UTC
No. What is important is being able to customize the appearance of our avatars with space accessories.
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2012-02-17 07:28:52 UTC
Olleybear wrote:
The game is about preparing for the end of days. It gets a person into the mindset that they can only truly depend on themselves when society as a whole collapses due to hyper-inflation / solar flares / incurable H1N1 plagues.


hah. even if H1N1 were incurable, it still only hits about as hard as a bad flu. for me it didn't even phase me enough to stop going to school.

as to eve. to have fun. be it through making people weep as you break the market, or mock the defences of the rats/players. or mining till your eyes bleed. basically doing anything you want within the programmed possibilities of the game.
Alara IonStorm
#16 - 2012-02-17 07:58:20 UTC
leviticus ander wrote:

hah. even if H1N1 were incurable, it still only hits about as hard as a bad flu. for me it didn't even phase me enough to stop going to school.

I think you have the wrong disease. I get my information from the CNN 24 Hour News Cycle and they made it quite clear that H1N1 will wipe out half the world pop, eat my children and **** my wife. They were very clear on that last one and said that I should panic about this as well as stock pile food for the waste land that will be left in a post H1N1 World.

These are News Professionals and I trust them implicitly.
Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#17 - 2012-02-17 08:17:42 UTC
Sounds about right.

Alliance A has space, alliance B wants it. Call in buddy alliance C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M. Finaly alliance A loses and gets booted.

Wonder why it's all Evac now?

The battle scenes were cool but serious, did you look at the list it took to bring them down?
Brunmunde Hildegaard
The Green Machine
That Escalated Quickly.
#18 - 2012-02-17 09:20:19 UTC
Skydell wrote:
Sounds about right.

Alliance A has space, alliance B wants it. Call in buddy alliance C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M. Finaly alliance A loses and gets booted.

Wonder why it's all Evac now?

The battle scenes were cool but serious, did you look at the list it took to bring them down?


You forgot to add the part where Alliance A's CEO ninjas the corp wallet just before everything falls apart, becoming a great youtube dramasode for us all to enjoy

"Sings me a dances of wolfs, who smells fear and slays the coward. Sings me a dances of mans, who smells gold and slays his brother."
OT Smithers
Buccaneer's Den
Dock Workers
#19 - 2012-02-17 13:07:42 UTC
Great video!
Tallian Saotome
Nuclear Arms Exchange Inc.
#20 - 2012-02-17 13:10:22 UTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBWi6KUH9mk

Inappropriate signature removed, CCP Phantom.
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