Jackson
10-31-2013, 01:48 AM
Anyone here play EVE online? I'm getting back into it slowly, haven't played in a while. Think i might focus on this rather than any other game.
I'd say it's probably the single best game i've ever played, even though i've played Runescape and World of Warcraft for longer periods of time (I first played EVE in 2007 briefly, then again in 2009, and then again between 2011-2012 and now i'm starting up again). It's basically a sandbox game with traditional elements, with a fully functioning economy (the staff actually employ economists to monitor it), as well as advanced politics and military elements. Of course most of the really exciting sandboxy stuff takes place in the most dangerous areas of space (null sec, which i haven't spent any real time in yet), but events there affect events everywhere else. It has quite a steep learning curve but once you 'get it' it's very fun and rewarding, although best enjoyed in player corporations. There have been a number of player organised, funded, supported wars for example, between factions involving thousands of people on either side, and many star systems of territory. In fact it was fairly recently that the largest battle ever fought in a virtual world (or certainly eve) took place in a two-month long war between two of the most powerful player factions in the EVE Universe, with some 4000 pilots involved, and over 2000 ships destroyed. And of course the economy is affected greatly by the cycle of war, but also by the very big elements of market trading and resource gathering. There is also plenty of political espionage, diplomacy between player factions, controversies, skulduggery, black ops. There have even been cases of player corporations being infiltrated by spies or assets and then being dismantled internally by another faction. Instead of being part of a predetermined npc faction and following a predetermined npc storyline, instead you can be part of a faction owned, administered, supplied, funded, operated, defended by many individual people.
If you are clever and know your economics and know the markets you can become rich just sitting in the same space station, or due to it's sandbox nature you can trick, scam and betray the trust of pretty much anyone else for your own advantage. You can also gather resources through mining. Here's an overview of the most recent war:
http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-beginnings/
http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-battle/
http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-breaking-deadlock/
http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-july-offensive/
And a general introduction to the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QmbEaq2GOM
I'd say it's probably the single best game i've ever played, even though i've played Runescape and World of Warcraft for longer periods of time (I first played EVE in 2007 briefly, then again in 2009, and then again between 2011-2012 and now i'm starting up again). It's basically a sandbox game with traditional elements, with a fully functioning economy (the staff actually employ economists to monitor it), as well as advanced politics and military elements. Of course most of the really exciting sandboxy stuff takes place in the most dangerous areas of space (null sec, which i haven't spent any real time in yet), but events there affect events everywhere else. It has quite a steep learning curve but once you 'get it' it's very fun and rewarding, although best enjoyed in player corporations. There have been a number of player organised, funded, supported wars for example, between factions involving thousands of people on either side, and many star systems of territory. In fact it was fairly recently that the largest battle ever fought in a virtual world (or certainly eve) took place in a two-month long war between two of the most powerful player factions in the EVE Universe, with some 4000 pilots involved, and over 2000 ships destroyed. And of course the economy is affected greatly by the cycle of war, but also by the very big elements of market trading and resource gathering. There is also plenty of political espionage, diplomacy between player factions, controversies, skulduggery, black ops. There have even been cases of player corporations being infiltrated by spies or assets and then being dismantled internally by another faction. Instead of being part of a predetermined npc faction and following a predetermined npc storyline, instead you can be part of a faction owned, administered, supplied, funded, operated, defended by many individual people.
If you are clever and know your economics and know the markets you can become rich just sitting in the same space station, or due to it's sandbox nature you can trick, scam and betray the trust of pretty much anyone else for your own advantage. You can also gather resources through mining. Here's an overview of the most recent war:
http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-beginnings/
http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-battle/
http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-breaking-deadlock/
http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-july-offensive/
And a general introduction to the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QmbEaq2GOM