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EVE-Online RP Discussion and Resources => EVE OOC Summit => Topic started by: Saede Riordan on 25 Aug 2010, 13:20
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Lets have a fun little game, shall we?
It goes like this: If you could take your main character and all their assets back to eve day 1, and were not going to get banned by CCP, for server hax, what would you do? what would you accomplish?
What sides would you choose? What direction would you take your RP? knowing you're going to be one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful player in the game.
Where would your loyalties lie? would you take the same path you took before?
What would you do?
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If I could take my character, the skillpoints he has now, all his assets (perhaps worth 2-3 billion in all, at max) and turn it all back to day one, I'd start a hard-line pro-Fed corporation, and exploit the knowledge I have now to fund it and run it as well as I can to try an make a cornerstone in this section of the 'political scale of RP'. I would NOT allow it to defect from it's cause or be turned into something else entierly. I'm tired of seeing that happening tbh. I'd likely end up allied with Saxon's new and improved ILF (Because I'm betting he would make one given the option) and any other Federation groups. I'd make a weapons and ships program for the FDU when it came about. I would likely run an alliance or major FDU force to hold all Federal space, perhaps invade and throttle the life from any Caldari systems.
And I'd hope a similar Caldari group would do the same. ENDLESS WAR HELL YEAH!
In this, I'd hope that an actual war would spawn from it, one where pilots dare to engage one another even on unfavorable or slightly 'even' ods, not just run from slightly unfavorable fights and blob up until none can face you. If that would not work, I'd dec any and all SP corps and their Caldari friends in turn. All the Imperials too.
This all ofc assumes I got the option of the re-wind and that I'd have the RL time to see this through. Something I'm not sure I'd have.
In the meantime however I'll just keep cheering for groups like EL-G and MXD and hoping that a spine will grow back to the participants of FW. There seem to be a cronic lack of that recently.
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I'm of like mind with Bloodbird, except Amarrian. I'd love to be one of the 'big names' in the Amarr bloc with my character, something that could only really happen with time given Saint's personality. I remember when I first joined PIE and heard all the big names of the Amarr bloc, like old PIE CEOs and the CEOs of the other big loyalist corporations. It was almost mythical, and then I remember actually working with Takumi (PIE founder) and realizing it's just another average human, lol.
But that's how I'd shape up Saint. To be a mythical name whispered by the newbies and respected by the vets.
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Opens his mouth, then closes it, frowning.
Wait, it's not kosher to talk about them, is it?
Ponders for a moment.
I suppose I'd probably form the Amarr-loyalist Providence Bloc early (Obviously a different form of it), and do my damnedest to ensure that the whole 'cut tail and run' thing doesn't happen all those years down the line. Probably fail, of course, but I'd give it a go.
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Probably use it to form a Caldari ultra-nationalist corporation doing what Cry Havoc does with capitals but only to the Gallente.
Take contracts on the side, and generally just throw supercapital weight around, perhaps participating in FW. There's a couple of people whose faces I'd like to stave in as well.
e/
Oh and change my character name plus bloodline. Sofia is a personality, not a face. I've felt for the past 3 years that the Deteis bloodline would have been suited so much better to the way that I express her.
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*coughs something about the Kimotoro Directive*
Oh. Possibly execute my vision for what I want to do in the game.
And that remains sekrit.
:yar:
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Probably quit, since pretty much none of the things I do in-game were supported on day one.
(inb4 can i haz ur stuff?)
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Forming a fairly hardline Matari-centric corporation before it went out of fashion. And no, Republic corps don't count if they just hide in Matari space. Basically Ushra'khan, I think, and attempting to mold and shape Matari RP to be more tribal and... brutal. Not the sissy pansy-ass apologist RP that permeates all Matari centric RP these days. And quite the focus on utterly destroying traitors.
(Sometimes it seems like the majority of Matari characters are Empire loyalists, urgh.)
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I'd grief Istvaan.
:twisted:
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Probably quit, since pretty much none of the things I do in-game were supported on day one.
(inb4 can i haz ur stuff?)
no, your stuff comes back with you and works
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I'd go to the Sathol'syn event of Doriam and pod Jamyl.
Addendum:
Grief the shit out of a few people so that they would leave EVE.
Somehow make sure that Herko would have been hired instead of TonyG.
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Really enjoyed my early days in Eve. Wouldn't change anything, I think was the most productive time for me.
Mizhara , in the early days of Eve there was much more hardline Matari corps. Stormriders, Paratwa etc. Shame it went out of fashion. I remember times in Paratwa when we fired on one of our own for having a RP romance with a Caldari from Omerta Syndicate. She was branded a Caldari whore from that moment and left our group soon after. Unfortunately the hard line can become difficult to manage. :twisted:
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I'd do things mostly the same. Fed loyalist and no spineless, ADHD waivering to pirate factions :P
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I'd go to the Sathol'syn event of Doriam and pod Jamyl.
It wouldn't have made any difference, as Jamyl's pod did go squelch anyway.
What would I do?
Probably grief the hell out of M0o and M3G4.
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From Day One? And able to do anything we want?
Shit.
I would have founded Goonswarm and made RP a requirement.
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I'll do the same i'm doing now with my new char 8)
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It wouldn't have made any difference, as Jamyl's pod did go squelch anyway.
I am quite aware of the fact.
It's just that I would have wanted that feather in my cap.
Because I doubt that there will ever be a chance to do something like that in the rest of the time that EVE is online.
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Question: Does this scenario presuppose that in-game major storyline events - i.e., the Succession trials, defection of the Defiants, the Creliere project, etc - would begin as they actually did, albeit not neccesarily end the same way?
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Question: Does this scenario presuppose that in-game major storyline events - i.e., the Succession trials, defection of the Defiants, the Creliere project, etc - would begin as they actually did, albeit not neccesarily end the same way?
yes.
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ohh, ok i guess my interpretation was rather simple, if all the storylines are rebooted and the universe had the same properties as today, i would get involved in the following:
Federation election, make sure Eman Autrech won, or do my best to for his campaign
Stop the theft of the Solteur and the Nyx by the Serpentis
Get involved in the RISE plot
Get involved in the investigation of the Medusa Virus
Get involved in the investigation of Reschard V destruction
Attempt to take an Opus Luxury Yatch in Elarel on the public event of Quafe Ultra, fight the UDI
Attempt to create Fed-Syndicate "mutually benefitial" relations.
Start a Campaign with the Senate for a high-sec connection between Solitude and Everyshore or Verge Vendor
Invite corps who exclusively live in the Gallente regions to form an industry/trade guild to supply selected systems in each region, creating healthy market hubs across the Federation.
IF and only IF, pro-fed alliances existed and were strong enough, attempt colonization of Cloud Ring and create a providence-like extension on behalf of the Federation. Althought if along with pro-fed alliances Pro-state ones existed, go for pure-blind and create a shared border bolstering permanent conflict and RP in 0.0.
All of those would be nice, but realistically i could only be involved in a few.
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I'd likely end up allied with Saxon's new and improved ILF (Because I'm betting he would make one given the option).
Hmmm.... Perhaps I have grown too predictable. But, yeah, I'd be doing the same thing, I'd just be further along the path.
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Federation election, make sure Eman Autrech won, or do my best to for his campaign
:>
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Being what I might call a "latecomer" I don't know too much about the early years of eve. Hell I was surprised when I'd found out how old it actually was, predating wow. But if I did go back to mystical day one, well, I imagine a lot more people would be dead right about now, and maybe even ragequit.
Eventually I would run out of my alien future technology, and have only wealth to rely on (which I don't even have that much anymore) so I'd probally end up falling in with whoever. I certainly don't have the personality (or desire) to create some sort of super empire or to be some sort of pirate god. I'd also abuse yon future knowledge in gambling on the ally tournies, earning massive wealth, provided my actions did not alter the timelines and fuck everything up.
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Mmmmm...
I have to say, it's a really tough choice between two different paths;
One would be to do much as I am now, a moderate-loyalist Amarrian advocating peace with the other nations. This path would be by far the easier path to pursue, because (as in the current time) the ability to attract a wider group of followers would allow me to much more easily maintain a powerbase with which to influence events in EVE.
The second path, which is far more difficult but also - in my opinion - the far more interesting path would be to set up something akin to an Amarrian seperatist state, who would advocate the most conservative and harsh viewpoints under the Amarrian faith, but also declare themselves seperate from the Empire (probably on the basis of the Empire already being "to soft" for even recognizing the other nations or somesuch).
While much, much harder for a number of reasons - I'd make more than a few enemies, and have a considerably harder time recruiting people to assist me, I personally think I would find the challenge quite interesting. I'd need to find a delicate balance between carrot ( "listen... I've got this thing called a carrier that lets me move ships around real easily... do YOU want something moved?" ) and stick ( "Do X or we'll drop a squad of Armageddons on your head" in an age where single battleships were rare), between using the assets I bring with me (a very much exhaustible supply) and using my advance knowledge of certain in-game events, gameplay changes, and expansions to bring continued wealth to my faction.
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Get a copy of every T2 BPO I could lay my greedy hands on when the time comes.
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I would have...
1. Participated in PVP a lot sooner.
2. Invested in implants earlier on.
3. Left PIE sooner. This is by no means a slur on PIE, I think it is a wonderful corporation, but I was never really a good fit for the corp.
4. Avoided a few people IC so I wouldn't have to deal with their OCC later on.
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Hmm! Kind of interesting question and I really wouldn't do much differently, but for these few things..
1) I think knowing how to make money in the game from the get go might make me have a lot more ISK. One thing I would do is get in on those research agents from the very beginning, something which I unfortunately nearly totally missed. A major T2 BPO from the lottery would've been nice, but lacking that even just accumulating and converting research points into datacores early would've changed things for me monetarily.
2) I would be a bit more coherent about Intaki separatism from the beginning and giving the Syndicate a bigger role initially (ie. I'd be in the place where I ended up in with it from the start).
3) I'd consider trying to change history in regards to the Mercenary Coalition and it's ignoble end instead of kind of abandoning a sinking ship. Would've probably joined up with them earlier as well.
And actually.. this would negate number 2 quite likely, but I doubt I'd go with an Intaki/Gallente-bloc character. Not sure about that, but the chargen decision would definitely be difficult for sure.
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I would have helped found m0o
Also yeah get in on the t2 bpo's are get a friend in CCP to seed me some
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