Originally posted by Gdemami

 

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Originally posted by JGMIII
For a guy that played Eve for a while you sure as hell have a hardtime dealing with the way other people decide to play a Open ended game.
Do you pay his 15 buck or 300million isk a month to keep his account active?
So many people play eve now, im sorry but 0.0 blob warfare and low sec roaming gangs/piracy arent the only way people enjoy Eve.
It's not like the guy is anti-social he has buddies that he groups with, so what he likes empire and does missions and some indy stuff.
Whatever floats his boat, In eve you could be who you want, when you want, doing what you want.
If you don;t like it tough, I personally feel it was a good write up.
 

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That's not what I am talking about. I asked, why to make and article about something so dull, boring and uninteresting, something how majority of EVE spent their ingame time and present it as unique experience?

Being with no corp can still be interesting, you can do lots of things as a freelancer and you can describe the issues you have to deal with, you can write what deals you have made with those who are in corp to supplemet missing features, etc. There is a ton to write what can you do as a lone wolf but this...?

I found it interesting for two reasons.

One the guy basically tells everyone why Eve is awesome, something that the haters and trolls on the forum have been asking for a while but us fanbois usually just flame them for asking it. 

Second, The article highlights a guy that the majority of the forum community here would consider a worthless carebear.

Its like the ultimate Bait thread. Its baiting the haters to come and say how shitty Eve is and the Eve elite also so we could say the guy has never really played EvE LOL!

While I wont personally attack the guy for his choice of play I would freaking kill myself in game for what he does all day.

For mmorpg.com to put this artical up proves that they know Jack about there forum community.

Its basically being posted for reaction, so i find it interesting :)

I think the article was a follow-up to all the previous Eve coverage of "how wonderful joining a corporation is",  "how to create an alliance",  and the other "corporations are guilds and will make the game easier for you" stuff.

Agreed that the interview didn't relay the challenge of keeping intrigued with a game that mostly sucks up to corporations/alliances. 

The Lone Wolf style of play is an extraordinary challenge of crafting a tapestry of experience and focus which you and only you control. Yeah, sometimes you get the equivalent of "writer's block", but it always passes as you get deeper into the personal Eve universe you've created. 

For instance, embedding your main and an alt into low-sec space for exploration and runnning complexes, all the while keeping an eye on local (a communication channel everyone has that indicates who else is in the system you're in). Can you pull it off or will the big, bad, piwate players find you and destroy your ship?  The logistics alone are daunting, including making runs late at night or just after downtime, to avoid detection. Logging off in space and logging in a few days later, thus defeating the players who just set up a gate camp, confounding them (at least for a bit). And no one has your back, ever.......

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Originally posted by JGMIII
I found it interesting for two reasons.
One the guy basically tells everyone why Eve is awesome, something that the haters and trolls on the forum have been asking for a while but us fanbois usually just flame them for asking it. 
Second, The article highlights a guy that the majority of the forum community here would consider a worthless carebear.
Its like the ultimate Bait thread. Its baiting the haters to come and say how shitty Eve is and the Eve elite also so we could say the guy has never really played EvE LOL!
While I wont personally attack the guy for his choice of play I would freaking kill myself in game for what he does all day.
For mmorpg.com to put this artical up proves that they know Jack about there forum community.
 
Its basically being posted for reaction, so i find it interesting :)

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1) This is very much not awesomness of EVE. You can do the same dull PVE in EVE as in any other game, and I would say you can do it better out of EVE. There was nothing said that would specify the uniqueness of EVE.

2) He is a worthless carebear and never played EVE indeed :)

I will share with you some of my adventures I experienced as lone wolf:

1) I was roaming low sec and killing NPCs when player entered the system. I scanned the sytem in order to figure out wheter he is a threat, seemed fine and I was continuing my ratting until cynosural field popped in my overview. I warped to close planet and focus my scanner towards the cyno.
The story turned out that cap jumped in and got stuck because cyno pilot got d/c or something and his alt was trapped far away. I offered him my help to get his carrier into 0.0 base.

2) The other day, I was hanging around high sec to check some of my orders when I was convoed by a guy who was in wardec. I ended up being hired for scouting and helped him to get some kills.

3) Or the other day, I was in low sec exploring new region and end up being hunted by pirats. We had some fun while I managed to escape couple of time and we started to chat, my attention dropped after a while and to my surprise they warped in and popped me. I ended up reimburtsed and setting up a trap for other pirate group roaming around.

This can happen to you at your lonely journies. To me, those 3 stories describes what 'Playing Without a Corp' means. A freedom and adventures.
EVE is very rich in player interactions as well as complexity, therefore you can meet very different people and nomad life style as I had, offered me very unique and funny situations.

You don't have to be in corp to experience something great - in fact, being in a corp, you are sort of restricted from such events.

This is what EVE is about, no dumb PVE...

Note: Yeah, I don't get the point of the article nor what you find interesting about it :-/

Originally posted by Gdemami

 

Note: Yeah, I don't get the point of the article nor what you find interesting about it :-/

Honestly its a positive Eve article that could turn certain people on to eve.

That alone as a eve fanboi has me atleast a bit interested LOL!!!!!

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Originally posted by JGMIII

Honestly its a positive Eve article that could turn certain people on to eve.

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Maybe not, who knows but all changes in last year are supporting this scheme.

You can group and do quest in pretty every MMO out there, can you tell me 3 stories similar to mines that you could experience in other game as well?

Originally posted by Gdemami

 

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Originally posted by JGMIII

Honestly its a positive Eve article that could turn certain people on to eve.

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What's positive about having more bears in the game? The result are stupid changes like the latest overview change.
While attracting more and more bears, the encounters I described above will become more and more rare since those new players are not attracted by the freedom, complexity and player interaction but fluff and PVE. And the game will logicaly evolve to support the game majority, and logicaly, because you can't please everyone, at the expense of features that made EVE so awesome.

 

Maybe not, who knows but all changes in last year are supporting this scheme.

You can group and do quest in pretty every MMO out there, can you tell me 3 stories similar to mines that you could experience in other game as well?

I've seen a ton of carebears converted to the darkside.

It's not the carebear shit that will hook them and make them interested its the Idea of Freedom that they could be whatever they want.  When I read that guys article all I see is a dude that basically does what he wants and that's appealing to certain people.