EVE General Discussion

I like EVE because it's player driven and CCP (mostly) listens to what we want. Because of how player driven it is you feel like you are actually part of the game rather than someone playing it.

All of the stories outside of Empire are the ones we shaped ourselves, everything little thing you do is going to effect someone in some way. If I blow someone up I may have caused them to receive a major set back, or I just pissed them off for a few minutes. In theory I could crash an entire market by tweaking some numbers around too.

I guess what a lot of people like about EVE is that it gives you power.

This is true.

Because of the community.

And bc it's the only worthy follow-up of the Elite series.

/c

It's a very deep Space Sci-Fi Sandbox.

This I have gathered from my 2 years of surfing other games and saying "Gee, I wish this game had this like Eve does"

I love the openness of Eve. Endgame here is not about being somewhere specific once you hit a max level. And while many try to claim that endgame is some place like 0.0, the truth is that endgame is what you make it. My endgame has changed several times in the last week because I decide to log in and try something new.

I love the lack of grind. Now granted I originally took the break because I missioned until my eye's bled, but what I mean is that we don't have raids like the other games where you must be X build and you must be equipped with X set up, and be prepared to punch those memorized keystrokes for the next 45 minutes on your umpteenth raid this month as you work to earn points for that epic piece of armor.

I like how new ships do not cancel out the effectiveness of old ships. Despite everyone always making claims that x ship is broken, I actually find the overall line up to be quite in line with each other. It's not like that chest piece you got from the Dragon raid that is now moot because of the new chest piece that levels in the latest expansion thus forcing you to have to grind for that. To this day many of us fly T1 ships on a regular basis and wouldn't trade them for anything else.

I like the lack of levels/classes. This is so nice on so many levels. 1) You don't need to grind to make it just one more level for the night before you throw up your dinner and pass out from exhaustion. 2) You are never pinned to any particular role. 3) This makes your possibilities unlimited. Instead of saying 'this will be my spec at 50' you continue on and on and on always learning something new.

I enjoy that the game is virtually player ran. There have been so many games that I played where I would think it would be so much better if they allowed players to drop bases down that could be attacked and to let the players run the economy more than just a handful of power players farming blues. Honestly, how often do you really hear about power plays by mega guilds in other games?

I enjoyed many other games but in the end I found that so many of them were generally missing some little item, and that little item could usually be found in eve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaxmRAMWW6I

(not quite /thread. Would be if they could sing a little better)

single server mmorpg. IS the reason i love eve online. When I 1st starting playing 6000 online at a time was a big deal, and only 40,000 people had accounts. now we have 400,000 and I still don't have to tell my friends to move to my server, we don't have fight fights over space that has 100 other corps of it with 100 other corps fighting over it.

I haven't played eve in a looooong time, but it is still the only mmo I've ever felt like was really worth my time, effort, and support.

Stupid reach for beyond the stars goals set by the company

even if they don't always reach those goals... It's still awesome because most won't even attempt something risky.

All these reasons and more. Like that feeling you get with a well-executed destruction of the enemy fleet.

Long and the short of it is: It takes work, it has meaning, and everybody's tied in together.

I do not love EVE - I live EVE.

It taught you. Amidoinitrite?