# Roleplaying? **URL:** \ **Category:** New Citizens Q&A\ **Created:** [February 27, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824 "2019-02-27T10:27:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fleet\_Com](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fleet_com/32/165603_2.png) [@Fleet\_Com](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fleet_Com)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/1 "2019-02-27T10:27:59Z")
I’ve poked around in game a little bit and was unable to find a satisfactory answer. Is there any kind of sizable Role-playing community in the game? ---
**Author:** ![Dravick\_Afterthought](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dravick_afterthought/32/282017_2.png) [@Dravick\_Afterthought](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dravick_Afterthought)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/2 "2019-02-27T12:27:17Z")
You’re an immortal capsuleer - the whole game is one big RP… ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Steak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ms_steak/32/168834_2.png) [@Ms\_Steak](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ms_Steak)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/3 "2019-02-27T12:39:51Z")
> [@Fleet\_Com](#): > > Is there any kind of sizable Role-playing community in the game? come to jita - there are plenty of players role-playing scammers in the local chat there. There are players role-playing miners in the asteroid betls and players role-playing space pirates in low-security space. Edit: I have heard that in the old glorious days of EvE there were even players role-playing courtesans, providing their “service” via voice/video chat for ISK. Eve is a sandbox game and each and every your action will have an effect on your future interactions. But if you are looking to cringy “role-play” like the one in Arma3:life mod and similar… things, then EvE is not a place for that. ---
**Author:** ![Boldly\_Gone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/boldly_gone/32/274259_2.png) [@Boldly\_Gone](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Boldly_Gone)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/4 "2019-02-27T12:43:41Z")
I’d say CODE is kinda roleplaying, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Steak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ms_steak/32/168834_2.png) [@Ms\_Steak](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ms_Steak)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/5 "2019-02-27T12:47:49Z")
> [@Boldly\_Gone](#): > > I’d say CODE is kinda roleplaying, too. So are RvB and Providence bloc. ---
**Author:** ![Elena\_Laskova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elena_laskova/32/11436_2.png) [@Elena\_Laskova](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Elena_Laskova)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/6 "2019-02-27T12:49:02Z")
Fleet Com I saw the same question asked around 5 years ago, and at that time the answer was something like: _“Yes there is a smallish but active role-playing community”_ and some contact information was provided. It might still be there, but perhaps less obvious these days. I’d suggest you keep looking for a while, but perhaps expand your search to include: [https://forums.eveonline.com/c/pvp-gameplay-center](https://forums.eveonline.com/c/pvp-gameplay-center) [https://forums.eveonline.com/c/pve-gameplay-center](https://forums.eveonline.com/c/pve-gameplay-center) [https://forums.eveonline.com/c/communications/general](https://forums.eveonline.com/c/communications/general) Note that none of them are perfect for your purposes, and the first two link to short lists of forums. OTOH you only need one “hit” to make the search worthwhile. BTW “Roleplay Scamming” and CODE are acquired tastes for anyone, including a role-player. Both are on my personal list of “bad things about EVE”. ---
**Author:** ![Fleet\_Com](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fleet_com/32/165603_2.png) [@Fleet\_Com](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fleet_Com)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/7 "2019-02-27T12:49:38Z")
Just playing the game isn’t Roleplaying, and you know exactly what I was asking. Are you Roleplaying as your character typing on the forums right now? Not entirely sure what ARMA has to do with my question? ---
**Author:** ![Piotr\_Leusten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/piotr_leusten/32/169358_2.png) [@Piotr\_Leusten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Piotr_Leusten)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/8 "2019-02-27T12:51:12Z")
> [@So you want to get into roleplay?](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/so-you-want-to-get-into-roleplay/135688): > > Here are some points I made up on the fly elsewhere for people wanting to get into EVE RP but not knowing how to start. These are not hard and fast rules, more like things that have worked for other people. (EDIT: This has been edited a lot since the first post based on feedback. Further suggestions welcome! You can find me eg [on the RIP Discord](https://discord.gg/fUJRaAf).) So how does one get into RP? If you already have RPing friends, ask them how to get involved with whatever they are up to. If you do not, find some… ---
**Author:** ![Fleet\_Com](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fleet_com/32/165603_2.png) [@Fleet\_Com](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fleet_Com)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/9 "2019-02-27T12:51:29Z")
I had no idea there was such a negative view of Roleplaying, in an MMO. I am honestly surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Fleet\_Com](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fleet_com/32/165603_2.png) [@Fleet\_Com](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fleet_Com)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/10 "2019-02-27T12:52:15Z")
What is CODE? ---
**Author:** ![Piotr\_Leusten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/piotr_leusten/32/169358_2.png) [@Piotr\_Leusten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Piotr_Leusten)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/11 "2019-02-27T12:52:54Z")
> [@Fleet\_Com](#): > > I had no idea there was such a negative view of Roleplaying, in an MMO. I am honestly surprised. Don’t confuse forum trolls with real people. ---
**Author:** ![Fleet\_Com](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fleet_com/32/165603_2.png) [@Fleet\_Com](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fleet_Com)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/12 "2019-02-27T12:53:23Z")
So nice of them to troll the New Citizens Q&A. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Steak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ms_steak/32/168834_2.png) [@Ms\_Steak](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ms_Steak)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/13 "2019-02-27T12:54:18Z")
> [@Fleet\_Com](#): > > Just playing the game isn’t Roleplaying thats exactly what it is. Going out of your way to create a different and often exaggerated “persona” for your character is an unneeded fluff imo. You just play EvE in however way you want and that will be roleplaying the way it was intended. ---
**Author:** ![Elena\_Laskova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elena_laskova/32/11436_2.png) [@Elena\_Laskova](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Elena_Laskova)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/14 "2019-02-27T12:55:19Z")
> [@Fleet\_Com](#): > > What is CODE? (Link now correct) > **[The Code](http://www.minerbumping.com/p/the-code.html)** > > The Code in Chinese The Code in Czech The Code in French The Code in German The Code in Indonesian The Code in Italian The Code in Rus... Note: It sounds ok of course, but they have a history of applying their extortion system to rookies via the “Rookie Help” channel, hence my reference to them earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Fleet\_Com](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fleet_com/32/165603_2.png) [@Fleet\_Com](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fleet_Com)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/15 "2019-02-27T12:57:07Z")
Didn’t you go out of your way to create an unneeded, exaggerated persona so you could play the game with your character? Why all the fluff if you don’t believe in it? ---
**Author:** ![Boldly\_Gone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/boldly_gone/32/274259_2.png) [@Boldly\_Gone](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Boldly_Gone)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/16 "2019-02-27T14:52:13Z")
Ah, there is an Ally in Nullsec that keeps to the lore: [Curatores Veritatis Alliance](https://www.cva-eve.org/) I’m not sure how much they stick to the lore, but it may be worth a chat. ---
**Author:** ![Elsebeth\_Rhiannon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elsebeth_rhiannon/32/418836_2.png) [@Elsebeth\_Rhiannon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Elsebeth_Rhiannon)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/17 "2019-02-27T15:56:57Z")
Thanks for linking [this](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/so-you-want-to-get-into-roleplay/135688)! I agree with the above posters that EVE is a game that is very conducive to roleplaying in the sense that you will kind of have to struggle _not_ to, given how much of what happens in the game can be directly interpretable as what a character in that game world would be doing all day long (something that is not the case in many fantasy mmogs). That said, there is more for those of us who want to emphasize that part of the game and “the RP community” (more like a group of interacting communities) is currently going through some kind of a revival. The linked post also has ways to find other roleplayers. ---
**Author:** ![Xuxe\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xuxe_xu/32/464660_2.png) [@Xuxe\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xuxe_Xu)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/18 "2019-03-01T01:00:39Z")
[https://forums.eveonline.com/c/fiction-portal/igs](https://forums.eveonline.com/c/fiction-portal/igs) ---
**Author:** ![Owain\_abArawn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/owain_abarawn/32/303119_2.png) [@Owain\_abArawn](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Owain_abArawn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/19 "2019-03-01T20:55:16Z")
There are some who role play, but the game does not make role playing easy. I’d like to be able to manually fly my ships, but even setting WASD to pitch and yaw does not give the correct feel since there is no roll control. Further, to get a better feel for manual control, the view point should be able to be locked along the flight path slightly above the cockpit, but I should be able to turn my “head” (sensor array) under with say a right mouse click, but upon releasing the right mouse button the view point would return to the flight path vector. That is just one example of many of how the interface fights players who want to roll play. ---
**Author:** ![Xuxe\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xuxe_xu/32/464660_2.png) [@Xuxe\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xuxe_Xu)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824/20 "2019-03-01T22:30:20Z")
We are the “captains” of the ships not really just the pilots. I for one don’t like the whole “they’re spaceships, but they dogfight like WW2 fighters” thing anyway. I am of the mind that everyone playing this game is roleplaying whether they like to admit it or not. [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/roleplaying/142824.md?page=2)