Eve Online, space war or economic whore?

Sergeant Joined : 06 Jan 2008 Posts : 623

Hee, hee, hee. At the very least I am intrigued the epic environment of the game. Other than the required shooting option the game has complicated and realistic markets. Throw a skill based system using time to train other than just killing or selling stuff and this game has potential. Strongly thinking about trying out the 14 day free trial.

We might have already lost Rob to it, sort-a. He is leaving for college this summer.

Besides I do love spacy stuff and this game has multiple star systems.

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http://www.eve-online.com/

Been reading up on it with google searches. Saw some good, bad, ugly, and pretty-pretty things. If anyone else has any thoughts, opinions, or just info I would very much like to read them.

Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:15 pm

I played it for a while, I enjoyed it... little too slow for my tastes.

Good game though.
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Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:24 am

The game is pretty cool especially when you have a guild to work with. I've played it in the past and know people who currently do. I would recommend checking it out at least for the trial period.

Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:57 am

a guild is absolutely essential, you can get picked up pretty easily once you build up a bit though.

but again, guilding is essential in this game. It's pretty unforgiving for the longer!
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Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:46 pm

A friend of mine is playing this game whenever he is not at work, so I hear about this game waaaaay too much.
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Sergeant Joined : 06 Jan 2008 Posts : 623

My 14 day trial is now a 13 day as the update takes place. Bwwaarrrg.

Matt I can totally see what you mean about the game pace being slow. In those structured games it is easy to make contact fast and do things up.

The learning curve is killer too. They have a great system for multiple paths for the same interface/action. It just doesn't help when they use a termonology to explain that I have no what it is.

But the game is so cool. Training skills over set levels, sweet. The RPGs with experience points over levels was always a niffy idea. Never suspected how nicely it would come together in a video game. Although it probably wouldn't have hurt them to award extra skill points for the use of skills in game instead of relying completely on training.

Less than six hours in the game and already have a clan/guild/corp invite. Still vetting them first.

Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:07 pm

my only problem with a game like that is that is costs, I refuse to play any game that you have to pay a monthly fee to play(or in general a one time fee unless I know that game is very very good) yes that includes normal video games for those who are wondering Razz

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Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:36 pm

Yeah bob is correct, the learning curve is pretty killer. Forgot to mention that part.
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Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:02 pm

Hey bob, what server is it that you play on?
also, gameplay sppeds up quick once you get going
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Sergeant Joined : 06 Jan 2008 Posts : 623

The play servor, not the test. It's called Trinity... maybe?

Glad to see you stop by Rob while they are doing that 24 hour update. Currently in Caldari space (Lonecreek or Lonetrek cluster) near the School of Applied Knowledge, the pilot's first name is Ewing.

The corp invite was for Grindhouse Ore if the name rings any bells.

Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:43 am

ill look into it....caldari scum
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Sergeant Joined : 06 Jan 2008 Posts : 623

It might help to know your in game name bro' tongue

My full one is: Ewing Peregrinus

Subject: Re: Eve Online, space war or economic whore? Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:06 am

grastonius
in universal mining U - M on the tranquility server
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