#tweetfleet #eveonline

I had zero interest in twitter before I started to play Eve. I have no interest in twitter outside of Eve. However, Eve focused twitter is a lot of fun. More fun than I expected it to be.

It is like a big complex, multi-layered chatroom. Most users post with an Eve or Eve focused name. When I started this blog and Eve and Eve focused twitter I was using Chella's name for everything. That is why my email address for Eve is chellaranier and my twitter account is @chellaranier.

I started for the eve community #tweetfleet. #tweetfleet is just a focused Eve Online twitter community I guess. #eveonline is also used and CCP has an active twitter account as do many of its developers I've linked to twitter many times because some of the information that comes from it is just interesting.

Watching the players talk and argue and the players and devs talk and argue can be rather interesting. Live events have been posted, Dust and World of Darkness news goes up. The Sony Online CEO guy has even chatted with eve players there.

I consider it a chatroom. A large chatroom full of many discussions. One can read, join in, or ignore to their hearts content. I've made some friends off of there and learned things, met some people I might never have noticed otherwise. Eve is composed of circles that cross each other and sometimes never touch. I got a bit of attention and a group of followers when @eveonline retweeted one of my tweets which was a comment over the bickering in Rens local between the traders.

It is a very interesting place. I have complete conversations with people like Nosy Gamer there vs having them online. There is a lot of Eve Shop talk talked while people are at work or just needing an Eve distraction. It's also a great way to toss something in front of a lot of people. Some people use it to self promote. The other day I asked if anyone else was noticing that jams were not appearing above their HUD as an icon and I was responded to by one of the devs who handles bug reports asking for a bug report to be submitted.

CCP has crafted a beautiful offline community there. In the conversations are news articles, Dev blog announcement, idle chatter, questions, opinions and just the normal ebb and flow of Eve. CSM chats happen, massive snarky multisided fights break out and general weirdness and random celebration happens.

Twitter has been used as a platform. Rhavas at Interstellar Privateer has gotten some good feedback from CCP. There have been races by devs to post information such as Fozzie winning the first post for the Retribution trailer. In general its fun and an interesting expansion of the community.

And then sometimes its just me suggesting to someone that hot chocolate is the answer to their bad day.

Maybe one day!

[15:32:10] Trig Vaulter > Sugar Kyle Nice bio - so carebear sweet - oh you have a 50m ISK bounty - so someday more grizzly [15:32:38 ] Sugar Kyle > /emote raises an eyebrow to Trig [15:32:40 ] Sugar Kyle > okay :) [15:32:52 ] Sugar Kyle > maybe one day I will try PvP out When I logged in one of the first things I did was answer a question in Eve Uni Public Help. It was a random question that I knew the answer of. I have 'Sugar' as a keyword so it highlights green and catches my attention. This made me chuckle. Maybe I'll have to go and see what it is like to shoot a ship one day? I could not help but smile. Basi suggested that I put my Titan killmail in my bio and assert my badassery. I figure, naw. It was a roll of the dice that landed me that kill mail. It doesn't define me as a person. Bios are interesting. The idea of a biography is a way to personalize your account. You can learn a lot about a person by what they choose to put in their bio

Taboo Questions

Let us talk contentious things. What about high sec? When will CCP pay attention to high sec and those that cannot spend their time in dangerous space? This is somewhat how the day started, sparked by a question from an anonymous poster. Speaking about high sec, in general, is one of the hardest things to do. The amount of emotion wrapped around the topic is staggering. There are people who want to stay in high sec and nothing will make them leave. There are people who want no one to stay in high sec and wish to cripple everything about it. There are people in between, but the two extremes are large and emotional in discussion. My belief is simple. If a player wishes to live in high sec, I do not believe that anything will make them leave that is not their own curiosity. I do not believe that we can beat people out of high sec or destroy it until they go to other areas of space. Sometimes, I think we forget that every player has the option to not log back in. We want them to log

Conflicted

Halycon said it quite well in a comment he left about the skill point trading proposal for skill point changes. He is conflicted in many different ways. So am I. Somedays, I don't want to be open minded. I do not want to see other points of view. I want to not like things and not feel good about them and it be okay. That is something that is denied me for now. I've stated my opinion about the first round of proposals to trade skills. I don't like them. That isn't good enough. I have to answer why. Others do not like it as well. I cannot escape over to their side and be unhappy with them. I am dragged away and challenged about my distaste. Some of the people I like most think the change is good. Other's think it has little meaning. They want to know why I don't like it. When this was proposed at the CSM summit, I swiveled my chair and asked if they realized that they were undoing the basic structure that characters and game progression worked under. They said th

AnonymousJanuary 1, 2013 at 6:42 AM
Hot chocolate is never the answer. Vanilla steamed milk is, though. :)
Druur MonakhJanuary 2, 2013 at 1:31 PM
I wouldn't say that CCP 'crafted' an offline community here, as to my knowledge #tweetfleet came first. However, CCP certainly did a good job integrating with it, as opposed to e.g. Ignoring it or using it merely as marketing channel.

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