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EvE Online Esperanto chat

od jdawdy, 21 stycznia 2015

Wpisy: 9

Język: English

jdawdy (Pokaż profil) 21 stycznia 2015, 20:25:51

EvE Online is a multi-award winning Massive Multiplayer Online Game set 23,000 years in the future, across a universe of over 7,000 star systems. There are approximately a quarter million players, with about 25,000 online on an average day.

There is an in-game chat channel "Esperanto" for Esperanto speakers. Currently, we have 6 active players from the US, Brazil, and Japan.

EvE is very oriented towards communication and co-operation, so chat and comms with other players are one of the central aspects of the game. The in-game chat channel for Esperanto provides an opportunity for players to practice their Esperanto while enjoying the game, and also allows communication between players who might not have a common language (EvE has a huge Russian community, for example, many of whom do not speak English). I am hoping to set up a Mumble voice server for those who wish to practice speaking in the game.

I suspect that there are many more Esperantists in New Eden (the EvE Universe) but they have not found the chat channel. If you are interested in trying the game and helping us expand the pool of Esperanto players, here is a link to a free trial: https://secure.eveonline.com/trial/?invc=c09cb3eb-...
I am happy to assist new players- message in-game to "Mirbek Ongrard" or "Gulnara Amren".

To get a feel for the game, here is a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqoxRcP5kbo

nornen (Pokaż profil) 21 stycznia 2015, 20:43:12

That's awesome. Are those Esperanto players in the same Corp?

Your post made wonder how you say EP-S Gaussian I Excavation Pulse in Esperanto.

Some time ago I joined a random group in some MMO (I think it was SWTOR) and we were waiting on one player and suddenly another player asked in chat: "Cur abes?" to which the other replied: "Propero!". Those guys were chatting in Latin. You find the weirdest things online.

jdawdy (Pokaż profil) 21 stycznia 2015, 22:59:43

It's certainly possible if we get enough players.

EP-S Gaŭsa Bagra Pulslasero I?

"Varpu pordegon"!

deltasalmon (Pokaż profil) 22 stycznia 2015, 01:43:38

Ah this is awesome. I wished I played Eve Online.

There was a thread a few years ago about WoW http://en.lernu.net/komunikado/forumo/temo.php?t=4...

It seems that the guild died out and no one is playing (at least they weren't when I checked on that server) but if anyone is interested I have a character on the server Onyxia (Account name: deltasalmon) and started a new guild Ordeno de la Verda Stelo.

Sorry to hijack the thread. I should give Eve Online a try and if I do you'll hear from me (hopefully in esperanto).

jdawdy (Pokaż profil) 22 stycznia 2015, 03:17:36

No problem with threadjacking- anything that gets more people speaking Esperanto is good.

But please do give EvE a try. It suffers from a very steep learning curve, because it doesn't work the way most people expect, coming from traditional games (which the developers- a company in Iceland- are very aware of and working on). But try the 14 day free trial, run through the tutorial missions for a few days, then join Brave Newbies. You'll know by the end of the trial whether it's your cup of tea or not.

Bemused (Pokaż profil) 22 stycznia 2015, 04:10:05

Encouraging people to use Esperanto and at the same time getting free play time for yourself for every new subscriber you recruit to the game.
Nicely done ridulo.gif

I started reading about the game and as you say it seems to be quite complex. Downside, plenty of floundering around trying to understand the game. Upside, it won't become quickly boring like more easily mastered games.

Questions:
-Data wise, how does playing this game compare to eg watching utube videos?
I have a very expensive connection, reading text is no problem but watching utube videos (voice and video), burns through the data allowance.
-Does it matter which civilisation/race a person joins if they wish to join your alliance/clan/league?

jdawdy (Pokaż profil) 22 stycznia 2015, 09:14:34

I use the free play time to give back to anyone who subscribes- I don't need it, and it helps new players out. They just need to contact me in game and let me know they used my referral link.

Eve is very low-bandwidth. I actually can play it on a satellite internet connection while I am at work (a ship offshore). I'm not sure how much overall the usage would cost (i.e. playing for 4-5 hours, even with low bandwidth usage, might burn through as much data as a 20 minute youtube video. I really have no idea though).

No, the race/faction construction means virtually nothing as far as game mechanics are concerned. You get a slight boost in skills (less than a days worth of training time),for that particular races' ships, but thats it. It means a bit for those who roleplay, but few people roleplay the game "in character". And as far as I know, there are no corps or alliances which only allow a particular race to join. Mostly it provides some fun background- my main character is Minmatar, which have the reputation of flying ships that are rattling, duct-tape and bailing wire contraptions. The semi-official motto of the Minmatar pilots: "Trust in the Rust". ridulo.gif

kaŝperanto (Pokaż profil) 22 stycznia 2015, 18:15:22

Hmm, I once thought about trying Eve, but knowing no one I decided it was best to spend my time elsewhere. Might give it another go.

nornen (Pokaż profil) 22 stycznia 2015, 20:09:27

Transmission rate for playing EVE is generally below 1 KB / sec. This might change in highly packed scenarios like 1000 vessel fleet engagements.
So let's take a worst case average of 1 KB / sec. That's 60 KB / min or 3.6 MB / h. That's like listening to one song in mp3 every hour. Or like looking at one porn pic every hour. MMOs are on the cheap side of the internet.

YMMV.

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