EVE General Discussion

Mid to late 90's- played a lot of the wing commander series on a freinds computer.
Late 90's to early 2000's I played a lot of X-Wing and Tie Fighter with a good measure of the Decent/Freespace series thrown in there.
2003-I got into the FPS scene with UT 2003, SW:Jedi Outcast, and picked up what would be the almost last decent space combat game for some time.....Freelancer. Did the EVE trial at the suggestion of a friend, and only played it for a few hours before quitting and uninstalling it, as I was looking for something along the lines of traditional cockpit style space combat. Bought Planetside on a whim and didn't play much else for a few years other than a couple months of SW:Galaxies.

2004-Picked up X3: Reunion and loved the depth and sandboxy feel. People kept comparing it to EVE but like a single player version.

2006-Tried out EVE again for a few days this time.....quit in frustration as I had no direction or clue what I was doing.

2007-The lack of decent space based games drove me back to EVE....this time I researched more about how to play. Rolled a trial account and started paying when it ended. Some guy from the NPC corp invited me to a private chat channel with about 15 other people ( I think it was called ANDARS PUB been a long time though). Some of us started missioning and exploring together. Our ship fits were something from an FC's worst noob nightmare but we learned fast. My main EVE buddy got recruited to a 0.0 corp and I found a highsec corp just starting. A few months later. after my first wardec and susequently my first PVP experience, my buddy gets me into the 0.0 corp. I was hooked. I now have 6 accounts. Only one is active for now until the monetary and time situation improves. But I'm here until the servers shut down or CCP really screws up.

First time trying the game was years ago, I got a free offer with my new video card. Tried it out and quit during the middle of the tutorial as it looked and played like ****. Then a few months ago, someone started a thread about Eve on my MMA message board I visited and someone else linked the story about the Guiding Hand Social Club heist. I came back to try it again and found Eve to be a much better game

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Back in 2002 (oh god it's been a decade) I was playing around in the beta of Darkspace. My clan, [el33t], was talking about a new spaceship game with 3! not just 2 dimensions going into alpha - this turned out to be Eve. Been here ever since, on and off (mostly on.)

I snuck into Eve's alpha 6 stage on a buddy's account, and got banned until beta 4. I believe I'm one of the only non-dev players to fly an Eidolon.

I followed the river of tears.

Heres my story bro:

Growing up it was the introduction of the atari that blew me away. I would have been about 9 or 10. I mean the very notion that I could change what appeared on the television belw me away. (back then there were only a few major networks so being "on tv" was huge it had a certain mystique)

After talking with my 2 year older, and much wiser, brother I was advised that someday they will not only have graphics of photographic quality but that the world we enteracted with wouldn't be governed by computer scripts but by other actual people making decisions in that world. I was skeptical it sounded amazing but my 9 year old brain thought surely that would be too techinologically difficult. I mean we could barely play in group mode with space invaders but having hundreds or thousands playing together - I didn't really believe it then.


But that didn't stop us from designing our own game so that when the technology caught up we would already have the game ready! We wrote several scripts based on decisions players would make (for the time before it was truly player driven) - like the atari game with the dragons. We also drew up a huge map of the world it would take place on. Several pieces of graphics paper taped together (of course on graphics paper because that is how all computer games are designed) with our drawings of forests and hills etc. (it wasn't a space game) It was called "z world." We would say it with a french accent.

Over the years I would only intermittantly game though. But then when it seemed clear that some mmos were actually accomplishing our childhood dream I checked them out including eve. I installed it at my brothers house looked at the races and determined that with my first child on the way and a wife in a pregnancy that wasn't particularly smooth I may want to hold off.

So I did hold off for about 4 or five years. Then my wife took a weekend trip so I figured I would download some mmos and check them out. EVE was the only one that properly downloaded and installed without a hicupp. So it was the only one I played. It was basically everything I had dreamed of as a 9 year old and more. That whole idea that you are interacting in an unscripted world, with real people making decisions, with consequences was the real crux of it. I still think its awesome for a game to have that.

I had bought a telescope about 2.5 years ago. Was doing a lot of research on outer space. I went back to the website that I got the telescope from a few days later and thanks to Googles targeted marketing I saw an advertisement for EVE. Been playing ever since.

I realised that i was a complete failure in life and had no impact on anything.

People dismissed me and girls ignored me.

I found this game and realised that i was finally home with my own kind

I like when you post, it's hilarious. Especially that one time a new player was introducing himself on the forums. Have a like.

I played WoW for 4 years. After the Ulduar expansion the game started to suck and get boring for me so I quit. During this time I had an RL friend playing Eve; I do not like trying new things but I was hella bored.

I started a trial along with a couple more RL friends. During the first month I nearly gave up because I had no idea what to do, but eventually things got themselves sorted :) I quickly figured out the most important part of the game was finding a player corp with decent people in it; id say that was the most important step.

double post.

but since I'm here - do what you can to promote EVE positively. It may be evolving away from the RPG I fell for - but it is still great in so many ways.