• Azal@pawb.social
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    19 hours ago

    In Eve Online, when a capsule was destroyed, a frozen corpse was left behind.

    I knew someone who would go around collecting corpses. A battle is going, he’d be out there scooping them up. He’s running a hauler, and this was the day that when your ship got destroyed, every bit of loot went out in individual units, so when a pirate would try to shake him down he’d respond with “If you blow me up, you’ll crash back to desktop.”

    That was how he played the game, gathering corpses.

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        9 hours ago

        He had so many individual pieces of loot on board, blowing up his ship would overload the players ram and crash the game.

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        16 hours ago

        The game would attempt to render the thousands of corpses all at once, which presumably would overload the game engine and cause it to crash.

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        13 hours ago

        This is EVE we’re talking about. This is honestly one of the more benign if not weird habits.

        This is the game where to join a corp you nearly needed a resume so people could make sure you weren’t a spy because months to years infiltration processes happen in this game. Or just rampant piracy.

        • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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          12 hours ago

          This is the thing i keep hearing about EVE player, they have the culture of running the game like in real life which sounds interesting, but i swear if i ever try this game i would be bored of it in 5 hours.

          Isn’t there’s also a news channel that report on what happened in EVE?