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General Discussion => General Non-RP EVE Discussion => Topic started by: Dex_Kivuli on 28 Jul 2010, 18:57
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I just sent a work email that opened with "Saisa" (Caldari for hello). Fortunately, it was just to a mate... but still, pretty dumb.
Goddamn playing Starcraft II until the early hours!! It stops my head-box from working properly!
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I can't tell you how many times I've told the cute maintenance girl at work "fly safe". At this point, she probably thinks I'm a pilot.
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I'm not addicted, so har dee har har.
I want Starcraft 2 though.
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I want Starcraft 2 though.
[derail] It's soooo very worth it. Although, it's just Starcraft 1 with better graphics. But why fix it if it ain't broke [/derail]
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Lets see, the fact that I'm emotionally distraught and utterly bored and useless right now due to not being able to play eve.
saying isk instead of dollars (I do this a lot)
saying entering warp/in warp to describe how far away I am to people on the phone.
Randomly dropping eveisms like, because of falcon.
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When I got my wisdom teeth pulled a few weeks back they put a mask over my face and stuck needles in me to knock me out. My last thought was "so this is what it would feel like to be a capsuleer."
X_x
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It's soooo very worth it. Although, it's just Starcraft 1 with better graphics. But why fix it if it ain't broke
Because it was completely broken and horribly unbalanced and not only did Blizzard never bother to fix it the first time around they decided to go "Eh! *shrug*" and make it worse during the expansion?
There's a reason everyone always played Zerg competitively.
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It's soooo very worth it. Although, it's just Starcraft 1 with better graphics. But why fix it if it ain't broke
Because it was completely broken and horribly unbalanced and not only did Blizzard never bother to fix it the first time around they decided to go "Eh! *shrug*" and make it worse during the expansion?
There's a reason everyone always played Zerg competitively.
...uh...what? What?
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Lillith, you take that back. YOU TAKE THAT BACK.
Starcraft is my game, you just entered the wrong room. What you said, and how you defended APB, makes me get hulk rage.
Oh, right, EVE. I once became distrustful of my friend when he lent me money, thinking he would attack me later and take my cargo.
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Your first instinct after a serious car crash is to start running away as you climb out of the wreckage thinking "Shit, I'm so gonna get podded."
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Because it was completely broken and horribly unbalanced and not only did Blizzard never bother to fix it the first time around they decided to go "Eh! *shrug*" and make it worse during the expansion?
There's a reason everyone always played Zerg competitively.
/me nerd rages
Starcraft is balanced enough, that's why it's stayed popular for as long as it has. And I just checked the top 20 rankings in South Korea: 8 Terran; 6 Protoss; and 6 Zerg.
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A shop is advertising a 50 % off all prices sale and your first thoughts are "damn scammers spamming local".
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My brother drives a Yaris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Vitz).
My dad and I play EVE.
My dad was driving with me in the car one day. We were discussing pirating.
The subject of the car's name came up.
We now refer to it as the Yarrrris and it is now the family internet spaceship car.
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We now refer to it as the Yarrrris and it is now the family internet spaceship car.
I love that! It's awesome!
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This was pre-training queue.
I woke up in the middle of the night for no reason at all, logged in into eve and noticed a two week skill had finished 15 minutes earlier.
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Think I'm more addicted to the people than to EVE itself
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Singing along to 'I kissed a girl' while driving, and only when your colleague looks at you funny you realize you've been singing "I robbed a goon and I liked it". I've also told my colleague to 'fly safe' and while I was on a plane I briefly entertained the notion that if the pilot had a coronary or something, the autopilot would crash us 15 km from the airport.
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Because it was completely broken and horribly unbalanced and not only did Blizzard never bother to fix it the first time around they decided to go "Eh! *shrug*" and make it worse during the expansion?
There's a reason everyone always played Zerg competitively.
/me nerd rages
Starcraft is balanced enough, that's why it's stayed popular for as long as it has. And I just checked the top 20 rankings in South Korea: 8 Terran; 6 Protoss; and 6 Zerg.
South Koreans don't count. They are robots.
As for everyone else: I spent a great deal of time working as a proctor for the CPL and WCL or whatever the fuck it was. In doing so I got to watch a great deal of matches, and got a much different fundamental understanding of how things inter-related in the game.
The game was not "balanced enough". The game was not "balanced". It was horribly lopsided, and the expansion made it worse. The Zerg were much faster, they were capable of much larger swarms of units, so the fact that their units was weaker wasn't relevant, as their units were 2/3 as strong as the Terrans and 1/2 as strong as the Protoss, but they took 1/3 the time to acquire, giving them a strength-in-numbers advantage of fairly epic proportions. Also their research took less time and their units were considerably less resource intensive.
This game was not "balanced enough" it wasn't even balanced a little bit.
Zerg were the primary victors. No one used anyone but the Zerg unless they had already mastered the game. This is why South Koreans don't count in this. They had mastered the game to a level where they were practically computers running the AI.
Furthermore, the game comes down to one fundamental concept "He who clicks most wins."
The proctoring software used gives a breakdown after every game of various statistics, one of the more interesting ones being number of mouseclicks. The player with 1.5-2x the mouseclicks of the opponent won the game 100% of the time.
"Skill"? Pshaw. Faster LMB finger.
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The proctoring software used gives a breakdown after every game of various statistics, one of the more interesting ones being number of mouseclicks. The player with 1.5-2x the mouseclicks of the opponent won the game 100% of the time.
"Skill"? Pshaw. Faster LMB finger.
I don't know about the balance issue (you kinda insinuated yourself that it's balanced once you've mastered the game) because I'm not an expert on the game, but what you said about mouseclicks is the reason I generally don't like the whole RTS genre.
At a lower difficulty level, the games are way too easy and there really isn't any gameplay involved - you just go through the motions. However, once you crank up the difficulty it seems I lose out due to a lacking quickness in mouse operation. So much for "strategy" in RTS.
But the games seem to interest plenty of folks in multiplayer matches and I'm not going to say there's no skill involved there. I just find difficult getting into these games because the basic gameplay challenges don't seem very satisfying to myself.
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I don't know about the balance issue (you kinda insinuated yourself that it's balanced once you've mastered the game)
It's not balanced if you have to spend years of gametime in order to find ways that you can overcome the advantages of other races by exploiting things. That's not balance, that's user ingenuity.
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Addendum:
that's why it's stayed popular for as long as it has
I hate this phrase. I hate this phrase with all of its illogical and falacious implications.
Quality has absolutely fuck all to do with popularity. If it did then Britney Spears would never have become popular, and the most popular movies of all time would be things like Citizen Kane and not Titanic. (Edit: And Psychunauts would have been the most popular game ever and not completely lost to oblivion)
Using popularity as a metric for quality level of any sort, whether it be "game balance" "aesthetics" or "artistic nature" is made entirely of fail.
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So, um, yeah, EVE not Starcraft. Reminds me of You may play too much EVE if... (http://k162space.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/you-may-play-too-much-eve-if/)
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When on the rifle range doing training with my Army unit, I actually caught myself saying 'point' before shooting sometimes.
Thankfully, my squadmates thought I was just keeping score or something.
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When on the rifle range doing training with my Army unit, I actually caught myself saying 'point' before shooting sometimes.
Thankfully, my squadmates thought I was just keeping score or something.
Hahaha. If only you could keep them from dropping that way.
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When these horrible children that shout slurs at random passing strangers ran by me yelling things, I grabbed on of them by the back of the shirt to yell at them and my first thought was "pointed and webbed"
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This was pre-training queue.
I woke up in the middle of the night for no reason at all, logged in into eve and noticed a two week skill had finished 15 minutes earlier.
I've routinely done this with ME jobs.
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I've found myself saying "Aye" in real life conversation instead of yes. Ive had to tell people its a relic of being in the Navy and saying "aye aye".
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When I joined EVE, I got laughed at for saying "aye aye" and such instead of "roger."
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You guys really do play too much. Like, really. I am at a loss for words.
/me leaves the thread before he gets modraped
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/me leaves the thread before he gets modraped
No one had point?!
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Not only do I accidentally say "ISK" instead of dollars, the second thought that always goes through my head is "Wait, why do I only have 35 ISK in my wallet? I had over 200m yesterday..."
Also, I've caught myself wondering a couple of times thinking I should just dock my car somewhere for a cap-up instead of going to the gas station.
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... when, in your eyes. UK no longer stands for United Kingdom.
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When you're driving down the street, pass a sign about "Khan's tractors" and wonder when Minmatar shipyards were relocated to Indiana.
When you see "Hardin's auto parts" garage and wonder how many slave workers are employed there.
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I think of my Jeep Cherokee as my Harbinger and my Maxima as my slicer.
When I'm tired I frequently think im 'out of cap'. lols.
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EVE stays out of my IRL! I have a life to keep together
*twitchs and fidgets uncomfortably*
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Not tied directly to Eve, but MMORPGs in general, I fixed myself a hotdog once, went to the refrigerator to get some ketchup(yeah yeah mustard blah blah) and there wasn't any, and I said "frown" instead of just doing it.
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I used to work with the asset protection guy in the store I work at. One day we ahd a shoplifter that Id been following make a run for it past the security guard and I actually yelled get a point on him.
Another time me and a friend were heading to the beach really late one night and decided to take a short cut which ended up being through the seedier part of the town we were in and while thinking out loud I called a group of guys hanging out at a redlight a gatecamp.
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So I think the only time it's ever happened to me is when I called a buddy of mine and asked him if he could loan me some isk... he was like, "what?"
I don't know you guys wake up in time to update your skills. I can't tell you how many times I've logged in and thought, "Fuuuuuuuck, I forgot to add to it and it's been sitting idle for 9 hours. Son of a bitch."
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So I think the only time it's ever happened to me is when I called a buddy of mine and asked him if he could loan me some isk... he was like, "what?"
I don't know you guys wake up in time to update your skills. I can't tell you how many times I've logged in and thought, "Fuuuuuuuck, I forgot to add to it and it's been sitting idle for 9 hours. Son of a bitch."
In Soviet Russia, EVE lives you
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Was just describing EVE to a classmate. Caught myself almost saying 'ISK' instead of 'money' when talking about the game's free market system.
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"...you still check the forums months since the last time you logged in..."