Post by Malum on Dec 12, 2007 11:16:42 GMT -5
I've heard this before, but every time I hear it again I can't help but have a little nerdgasm. One guy on the WoW forums expressed it in a way that most people will be able to understand it. Take a look:
" I'm really curious about something. I'm sure some of you have heard this story before.
Have any of you ever played EVE? It's a sci-fi MMO. It's got somewhere around 200,000 subscribers, all of whom play on one big server, with about 20,000-30,000 logged in at a time.
The game has a humongous RP base because of its nature: the entire game is run by players. There are something like 1,000 + individual solar systems in the game, which player-run alliances of corporations run and control. There isn't even an NPC-run bank. It's really, really freeform, very cool and all that. Hell, they even let you pay for your subscription using the in-game money, if you can support it. Because of that, the in-game money (ISK - Interstellar Kredits) has a rough conversion with real-world currency.
There's a corporation called the Guiding Hand Social Club, a mercenary sort of group who does whatever you want for the right price. The height of their career was when they were hired to assassinate the CEO of another corporation, Mirial of Ubiqua Seraph.
They spent months infiltrating her corporation with multiple different operatives and agents, the most important of which was a player named Aremis Xemdal - They call him a "Valentine Operative" because his job is to seduce and entice the objective into a position of vulnerability.
After months and months of preparation, they pulled off the single-most devastatingly hostile act in the history of the game. In EVE, you play as a spaceship - if your ship is destroyed, you lose it, but you eject in an escape pod. If your pod is destroyed (podding or pod-killing) you have to reactivate as a clone, and depending on when you last backed yourself up and the level of your clone and such, you can lose weeks and weeks worth of skill training, etc.
They pod-killed Mirial, raided Ubiqua Seraph's various stores, and essentially shattered the entire corporation. They stole upwards of 20,000,000,000 ISK - which, due to the rough real-world conversion, means that they pulled off an in-game heist worth approximately $165,000, and also caused the corporation upwards of 10,000,000,000 ISK in damages due to damaged and lost equipment in the ensuing battle that took place.
But you have to remember, the entire thing was done IC. Guiding Hand Social Club roleplays as mercenaries. Ubiqua Seraph was also an RP corporation, and it was all IC, even if Ubiqua didn't know what was happening. "
Is it just me, or is that the coolest story ever?
" I'm really curious about something. I'm sure some of you have heard this story before.
Have any of you ever played EVE? It's a sci-fi MMO. It's got somewhere around 200,000 subscribers, all of whom play on one big server, with about 20,000-30,000 logged in at a time.
The game has a humongous RP base because of its nature: the entire game is run by players. There are something like 1,000 + individual solar systems in the game, which player-run alliances of corporations run and control. There isn't even an NPC-run bank. It's really, really freeform, very cool and all that. Hell, they even let you pay for your subscription using the in-game money, if you can support it. Because of that, the in-game money (ISK - Interstellar Kredits) has a rough conversion with real-world currency.
There's a corporation called the Guiding Hand Social Club, a mercenary sort of group who does whatever you want for the right price. The height of their career was when they were hired to assassinate the CEO of another corporation, Mirial of Ubiqua Seraph.
They spent months infiltrating her corporation with multiple different operatives and agents, the most important of which was a player named Aremis Xemdal - They call him a "Valentine Operative" because his job is to seduce and entice the objective into a position of vulnerability.
After months and months of preparation, they pulled off the single-most devastatingly hostile act in the history of the game. In EVE, you play as a spaceship - if your ship is destroyed, you lose it, but you eject in an escape pod. If your pod is destroyed (podding or pod-killing) you have to reactivate as a clone, and depending on when you last backed yourself up and the level of your clone and such, you can lose weeks and weeks worth of skill training, etc.
They pod-killed Mirial, raided Ubiqua Seraph's various stores, and essentially shattered the entire corporation. They stole upwards of 20,000,000,000 ISK - which, due to the rough real-world conversion, means that they pulled off an in-game heist worth approximately $165,000, and also caused the corporation upwards of 10,000,000,000 ISK in damages due to damaged and lost equipment in the ensuing battle that took place.
But you have to remember, the entire thing was done IC. Guiding Hand Social Club roleplays as mercenaries. Ubiqua Seraph was also an RP corporation, and it was all IC, even if Ubiqua didn't know what was happening. "
Is it just me, or is that the coolest story ever?
