EVE Online

[NefariousLS1]

Anyone else here play?

YouTube - EVE Online: The Butterfly Effect (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08hmqyejCYU) YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUDazGQW4gY)

YouTube - EVE Online: Apocrypha Expansion Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNyfI4dv1dg) YouTube - EVE Online: Empress Jamyl I Coronation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvdQZXgDVg)

[NefariousLS1]

Noone at all on here going to addmit it lol

[vx_clubby]

Never seen it before, Googled it adn watched a few youtube videos, looks good but not really my scene.

[Xenon]

Played it for awhile, but couldnt stomach the $15 a month for the privilege. I did like it though, particularly the amount of scope that you have for building an empire in any one of a number of disciplines.

Damn, I want to play again now :/

[smaky]

hahaha! Been playing since 2005. Got 2 accounts actually. One for blowing people up with and the other for industrial (money making) activities.

The promotional material is largely bs.

I don't wanna turn anyone off, but EVE-o is not for the weak of bowel or light of heart. Personally I find it to be a... hmmm... perversely good experience.

Let me give you a little example. A guy pilots his freighter costing 1 billion ISK (game money) into an insecure region of space. On board the freighter is pretty much everything this guy owns, valued at let's say 3 billion ISK.

Now 4 billion ISK is nothing to sneeze at in EVE-Online. It takes a fair bit of effort to acquire that much money. Maybe 1 month solid 8hrs per day of doing quests (these are called missions in EVE).

30 seconds after jumping into the insecure star-system the freighter and all it's contents are blown up by a group of human players who style themselves as pirates. They bring their own transport ships in, scoop the loot and make a tasty profit.

The guy who lost all his stuff has lost it permanently. He can't reload a saved game and he can't pay a few gold coins (as in WoW) to have his stuff returned. It's gone; belongs to other people now.

It's a harsh game sometimes. But pretty fun if you're the one doing the shooting ;)

But there's more!

The other day my alliance (formal in-game arrangement of a large group of players) laid a nasty little trap for a guy who liked to throw his very expensive ship (100 billion ISK - not a typo) around in a reckless manner.

20 minutes after carefully moving our fleet into position so as create the perception that we didn't have many ships around, we sent a forward group into bait the guy. 5 minutes later he swallowed the bait whole. And 15 rather frantic minutes after than we'd blown up a Titan class ship and a number of smaller craft who came to his assistance. Quite a satisfying day!

When I was a newer player I got blown up a fair bit, but now that I'm with a quality alliance and have more skill-points, playing the game is very enjoyable. Takes a fair while to build all that up though.

Someone once said EVE is a slow burning experience, so if you're up for frenetic speed-freak FPS style action, EVE probably isn't for you.

Peace!

[MrBerlina]

I've been playing for years - although lately I've been having a bit of a break. A break means not playing 2-4 hours a day, but rather a few hours here and there - while of course maintaining a skill queue!

I've got a couple of accounts and have had fun on fronts - from trying to dominate the markets to running a 0.0 corp; from production and research through to mission running and PvP.

There is always something to keep you interested.

A word of warning though! ::: I'm yet to find a greater time sink! You can sit down and have a little play and stand up again 8 hours later, reluctantly, because you're fleet is still involved in some long running event that will take another couple of hours!

Takes a big time commitment and sucks you in! But no greater game out there in my opinion.

[vx_clubby]

Sounds rather harsh to me, I dont think Id react to well losing 8 months of work and investments in 15 minutes to never recover it(Especially if you pay a monthly fee). Might end up with a PC through the window which would cost me more lol.
I better stay away on that note!

[smaky]

It's not quite that bad. The examples I gave are both reasonably extreme, though dumb freighter pilots in lawless space is more common. In the examples I gave the people who lost their assets only did so because they did something really dumb. If you're not dumb then you're probably going to be fine! ;)

Most useful combat ships cost very little ISK. Losing them is not a big deal once you're settled into EVE. Some of the more exotic ships cost a hell of a lot more but don't really offer a massive benefit over the cheaper ships so it's quite possible to tool around in the cheap and effective ships and not feel out of place.

[CSP]

lawless space? lol it's called zero zero! :D

[smaky]

One of my characters has been a part of ENH and then Cry Havoc for quite a while now; I'm reasonably familiar with the various types of space ;) There's:

empire space (policed by non-player forces and therefore safe - if you're not carrying > 10mil in your T1 hauler),

low-sec (not safe, lawless, whatever),

and 0.0, variously refered to as null-sec, zero-zero, zero-point-zero, etc.

But people who don't play EVE don't know these things so if you start sprouting off about zomgleet zero-zero space they're gunna say "doubleyou-tee-eff". Actually they're probably thinking it already ;)

Play EVE. It's fun. And we need more Aussies. If you've got gonads and end up giving it a go, talk to "rogerano" in-game.

[CSP]

there are also ways to set yourself up so playing doesn't cost you REAL money. I have two players that I fund the monthly subscription with by using ISK (the Eve currency) to buy game time cards on a monthly basis.

as long as you have a decent in game ISK income stream, you can play for free! :D