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EVE Online - General Discussion

09:01 / 22.10.07

Opening this thread on EVE and bringing threads over from the what are you playing thread.

09:02 / 22.10.07

Originally posted on 17.10.07

I find myself hooked on EVE Online. It's been out for years and I’ve never tried it before, but it feels like such a breath of fresh air compared to your average fantasy mmo. I suppose being a sci-fi nut helps too.

I know people who find EVE incredibly boring and others who love it, so I thought I’d pitch in here and see if any of you have played it and have an opinion?

09:03 / 22.10.07

Originally posted on 17.10.07 by Happy Quadrangle

We had a good chat about EVE over in the sandbox games thread a while back - I played it for a two weeks solid when I was recovering from an operation, and loved it, but I found the persistent universe thing a bit much once I returned to real life - it just took too much investment of time to get anywhere.

09:04 / 22.10.07

Originally posted on 17.10.07

EVE can be a bit time intensive if you let it, like all mmos, but at least you still learn (level) while you're not online. So you can, like i am this week, learn a 5day skill and not have the need to log on at all.
Transport around the systems i can see would be a pain, if you wanted to go from one side to the other. At the moment i'm just missioning in a 8 jump area so i've not really had any tedious travel.

Although i hear the 0.0 space fight for turf is where its at.
I did find an iteresting map of the current turf war if you're interested.

09:05 / 22.10.07

Originally posted on 18.10.07 by invisible_al

It's like Crack really . I played it for a while and it's incredibly immersive if you in one of the corporations fighting in the 'Great War' that's currently going on. I used to hang out with the Penny Arcade corporation MerchI.

There's a lot of fun to be had all getting on teamspeak and going on a raid that is actually against real people. Also the whole PvP aspect and the jockeying for position between groups plus the propaganda wars can really suck you in. Even the logistics side of thing becomes interesting if you can see where the stuff you made helped this advance or that attack on something.

But the whole rolling 23 hours a day thing it has going for it can be rather dangerous if you're not careful. I ended up deciding that for me that I could play EvE, Have a Job, Have a Life but I could only do two of those well. But if you hooked up with a bunch of people and did stuff once a week I could see it as being fun and sustainable.

But it's a marvellous game and really the only true PvP MMO out there right now.

09:06 / 22.10.07

Originally posted on 18.10.07 by Happy Quadrangle

For me, I found the massive proliferation of different things you could do fascinating. You could haul bulk cargo, build yourself a mining operation, smuggle things, pirate (although that's a pretty brutal trade to get into) or do courier work. And the game's designers have done a fantastic job of allowing both system-driven trading (which as far as I could tell is all real-time, i.e. there's only so much of mineral X in the galaxy, so if you ship it all to Sector Y, the price everywhere else goes up) and player-based stuff, where groups of people can get together and effectively take over star systems and entire spiral arms.

I pootled around for a couple of days, got taken out by 'rats', the NPC bad guys, eventually worked up to a semi-decent ship and then got involved with a player-group. They were a brilliant bunch, always chatting away on Teamspeak, and they'd jump in and help me with low-level system-driven missions to help earn money for the group to buy more ships, which they gave to newbies - pretty awesome bunch of people. When I went back to work and gave it up, I donated all of my stuff to them. Good times.

I've gone Mac now, so when the port comes out for Mac I may have a look again - is there any free to play option these days (a la Second Life) or is it all still paid accounts?

09:07 / 22.10.07

Originally posted on 18.10.07 by invisible_al

You have the standard 2 week free trial plus if you're earning enough in game money you can buy time cards using in-game money. But you need to be earning a lot of in-game cash to do that, a serious amount.

09:10 / 22.10.07

Happy Quadrangle > I'm playing on a Mac also, but i'm using bootcamp and windows XP. The MacBook Pro doesn't seem to have any issues with it, we'll see if thats still true after the graphics update over xmas. But i would get a Mac version when they bring one out, though i think the Linux one will be one first, i'll try and digg out the news post.

09:14 / 22.10.07

One thing I’d be interested in is finding a good 0.0 space corp. Running missions, especially now I’m almost at level 4's, is fun but I’d like to get involved in the Great War, in some part anyway.

Anyone have any experience in the war or know any good 0.0 corps recruiting 3mil sp chars?

It's that or learning how to corner the market in specific trade items.

17:43 / 23.10.07

For anyone looking to play EVE on the Mac or Linux, the next expansion will include this functionality.

Exert taken from Here;

Linux and Mac support:
Supporting EVE on alternative platforms is a project run by CCP with TransGaming Technologies. People using Linux with any of the three officially supported distributions (Ubuntu, Linspire, SUSE) and Macintosh users with Intel processors running OSX 10.3 or 10.4, will be able to run EVE-Online on their machines. This is will all be possible through Cedega, a software product that allows Windows games to run on the Linux operating system completely transparently and seamlessly and on Mac through TransGaming's Cider portability engine.

Happy Dave Has Left

18:39 / 23.10.07

Wooo! That's what my heart wanted to hear, but my wallet and brain didn't! Sweet.

13:58 / 25.10.07

While I think of it, Eve inspires some of the best fan made videos of any game out there I think. Check out some of Stahlgren's work on his Goonfleet Recruitment videos.

His October and February videos are what ended up tempting me into Eve in the first place.

Happy Dave Has Left

16:27 / 25.10.07

Dang, that's making me want to install a windows partition on my mac, just to play it.

Must. Resist.

07:42 / 26.10.07

I have actually got bootcamp installed as far too many things i play are on XP. Once EVE is out on the Mac, i fear i may be doomed.

09:36 / 10.12.07

If you've been in a cave and havn't heard already EVE Trinity, the latest expansion, is out. http://www.eve-online/trinity

It is so very shinny.

Only downside for Mac/Linux people is that the new shinny graphics haven't been ported yet.

20:32 / 15.03.08

I finally started the 14-day trial, and I'm very impressed. EVE Online is everything I've been looking for in a MMO - lots of players, built-in guilds (Corporations), low or no grind, "casual" gameplay, PVP everywhere, a good storyline, and a Linux client, for when I finally make the switch. It's all here. I think I'll end up subscribing at the end of the trial. EVE is amazing.