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...because I did a planet wide search for a Rifleman, asked all six of them if I could join their group and only one replied. "We're on most nights and hunt regularily... just hang around Clown Town if you want to join in. Just join in a for a few hunts and see if you like it...." I'm sure I've seen an anti-drug campaign where a similar roleplay was used to demonstrate how innocent it all seems at the start

Pfff... We all make mistakes

...because Lightrunner told me to join, then ran away to EVE online cackling madly

I also think I've seen an anti-drug campaign on the TV somewhere where things like that happen

LOL

Not wishing to hi-jack this thread but while someone's brought EVE up I can highly recommend you get the free trial just so you can join the Circus channel and listen to the old clowns who have reunited in EVE.

It would be unfair of me to try and recreate what was said last night but I can't wait to log in and find out how Milk got on with his upcoming function

Oh well since you ARE hi jacking the thread You will have to tell me all about EVE. All the SWG junkies that are elder went there too. But seeing as how I am a woman and all you think I am not too intelligent. Maybe you think it would be too hard to explain to me Those of you that truely know me, know I am very intelligent and will give me all the details and will asses if you think I can handle playing it. I have considered it many times but not knowing many patient people might be there to help. Never went for it.

do tell me all the details *listens*

Lightrunner wrote:

It would be unfair of me to try and recreate what was said last night but I can't wait to log in and find out how Milk got on with his upcoming function

FFS - You really got to say Hi to milk from me...been ages since I heard anything from him.

Ask him if he still got his bleeping coat or not! - Im sure I can get lost next year in sweden aswell...

Ah... well Milk is very well although he still hasn't found his coat and in fact there's a very real chance that he's since lost another one.

In fact - and this really is off topic, there is a very very real chance that he's going to loose his coat tonight at some swanky London do where he's going to tell a lot of very attractive, rich women that he's something he's not and then demurely suggest that they have their wicked way with him

Cleo - as for EVE it's probably one of the most 'gripping' games I've played for a while. I liken it to Elite gone MMORPG if that makes any sense. All of the in game play is in 'ships' you get a little character avatar but you don't walk around and interact with your environment like SWG although they are implementing stations soon which means that you will be able to walk around in station and interact with people.... but atm you can't!

You choose a character based on race, all of which have a rich background to aid roleplaying but there is no inherent restrictions imposed on you at the time of character creation.
All skills are learnt realtime, there is no grinding required to improve a skill. You simply purchase a skill and start learning it, as you increase in level in a skill it takes longer and longer to gain the next level. i.e.
Level 1 = 15min
Level 2 = 45 mins
Level 3 = 4 hours
Level 4 = 1 day 8 hours
evel 5 = 6 days 19 hours
You can learn skills that reduce the time taken to learn subsequent skills and if you're in it for the long haul then they are worth while.

In terms of what you do when you're online you can fly NPC missions, go on Corporation (guild) organised events, go mining asteroids, perform trades and hauling, do a player defined mission (hauling or bounty hunting normally) go out into less secure space and fly around looking for NPC pirates to kill. Or you can knock all that on the head and be a pirate, killing anyone doing any of the above
There is never anything to stop somone attacking someone else... but depending on the system that you're in when you do it there will be a variety of reactions from the local police force.
Security status of regions range from 0.0 (oh I'm gonna die) to 1.0 (yay nothing can hurth me)
In anything higher than 0.5 the local police will instantly attend your attacker and destroy them.... that may or may not happen before he destroys you but there will be retribution.
In 0.1 to 0.4 space you will get no help but your attacker will suffer a security rating hit... the lower their security rating the fewer systems they can occupy and once their rating goes below a certain level anyone can attack them anywhere with no reaction from any of the NPC defence systems.

To give you a fuller picture a few clowns have tried the two week trial recently and not found it quite to their taste while others have been playing for three years or longer.
If you want to give it a go then get a two week free trial (I can send you a link to it and if you accept it I think we both get something? although I'm not sure)
In the trial I would suggest you do the tutorial, it's quite detailed and teaches you a lot if you're patient. Then find where some of us are... come fly with us and either do nice things or do nasty pirate things (there are plenty of both going on - I have two accounts, one for each).
After two weeks I think you'll have a good understanding of what the game is about.

Also there is only one server IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!! No issue with 'so which shard are you on?'

Anyway... what were we talking about?