Eve Online

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I'm sure many of you ( or at least most, some, any? ) have heard of Eve Online. Certainly not one of the "popular" MMO's such as World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies (prenerf), Everquest ( 1-2 ), but it has qualities that keep it competitive among the "top" ranks.

Eve is the largest dynamic shardless online world available, and certainly one of the most visually appealing.

Currently stuck inside your capsule, you find yourself able to go anywhere at anytime. (barring someone violencing you) After just a few clicks and stargate firing animations you may find yourself face to face with a wall of hatred and despair known in-game as a "blob" ( 20+ player ships, up to 200+ ), or blissful uninterrupted asteroid belt mining and NPC hunting.

"Professions" aren't really the point of Eve, as anyone can do anything given the time. And time is what you'll have.

Since you aren't forced to "grind" level your skills, they train morning, noon, and night automatically. Character "level" is best described as age by using the in-game numbers known as Skill Points.

For instance, a character with 5 million skill points inside eve isn't usually very old, probably 6 months or so, if allowed the best possible attributes. A player with 70 million Skill Points is most likely a 4 year player or older, almost always with fairly decent skills and experience.

Then the beauty of Eve.

Age or SP amount doesn't directly tie in with intelligence, or PvP ability. Our 6 month "Noob" may be very highly specialized and very highly trained, whereas the 4 year "Veteran" may have just either bought the character, or never had the PvP experience.

This translates into anyone having the ability, but not always the talent to take over and control parts of eve. Be it in the dangerous system of Jita, or in the far reaches of Nullsec where Concord Police forces don't have the manpower to respond to your cries for help.

Given time, you can become a market mogul, controlling certain items of worth, or a Fleet Warfare god, sending forth hundreds of minions to crush your neighboring alliance for smack-talking in local chat.

In the end, it doesn't matter, as the old adage rings true....."In space, noone can hear you scream."

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The most recent news for Eve Online reflects on the hard work of the CCP staff and our deepest desires for spaceship combat.

Tech 3 ships.

What does this mean to us? Imagine being able to fly a spaceship, and it doesn't quite meet your needs. It isn't powerful enough, or stalwart enough to provide a really immersive combat experience. Instead, it explodes when eyed by dangerous Asteroids. This would be considered the "Tech I" version of most ships, they just don't have the punch needed to take care of business.

After a long and grueling trial, up to an including trudging through near pvp-less Empire space, you find yourself finally able to pilot an elite spaceship, capable of conquering worlds and enslaving entire races. This is rightly called "Tech II". More advanced and resilient than Tech I ships, these provide a more robust space-faring existence for some.

Still, at the helm of an advanced fighting craft, capable of decimating dozens of other pilots before finally falling on the battlefield, you find something missing. It isn't fast enough, or its too unwieldy, or despite its massive potential for bloodshed, you want to step over the broken corpses in style.

Enter Tech III.

You've climbed into a craft similar to ones you've had before, only this one is different. It's not really as advanced, or powerful as the elite ships you are used to flying. In fact it's pretty useless in it's current state. So you head off to the market to customize it to fit your needs inside the scope of that hull configuration.

Need a fast warpdrive? You betchya, gotta catch them freighters. Then select and purchase the one you need, and fit it to your ever modular vessel.
Want some serious firepower? OF COURSE! Pickup an advanced gunnery subsystem to show those frigates who's boss.

In summary, Tech III ships give you the ability to modify and fine tune your playing style, without building on the extreme "advanced" training time of some Tech II ships.

Want a particular missile boat to fire lasers instead? Sure, step on over to the market and laugh like a mad overlord that we know you all do as you commit ship equipment fitting heresy. Want your ship to look like an angry, angry, mean old man while you carebear your way through an asteroid field? Sure, we got that. Want your head to spin around while vomiting pea soup at an Amarrian Reverend? Dude, whats your problem?

[Alex]

I wasn't able to play this, effectively, before because of my old computer. Now that I have a new computer, I think I will go ahead and reactivate my account.

[ghost]

People keep turning me away from eve citing it's a point and click mog. I prefer my space games to have a little space sim in them. I might have to try a 14 day trial though and see for myself. The visuals look stunning and I expect my 4870 will do the game justice.

[ghost]

So ive been fiddling with eve these last few days and I've decided... I don't really like it. Somewhere between the visible game and the provided game there is a lurking meta game though. I may not like Eve but the player created content has created the Eve meta game and that, i do like. Unfortunately Im to small to see it in game. i can only watch as the real players do real things and I play Eve.

For a yone interested in investing the kind of time it takes to get into Eve as part of the meta game, it could be a while. This is what has finally turned my head from 'Eve a game I kinda sorta dont like' to 'Eve the game I dont like but wish I had the money to play in my spare time cuase its truly awesome.'.

Look at this.