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Reviving the Soul of New Eden's Relic'd Past --- Mothership
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Chandaris
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#41 - 2012-08-17 18:10:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Chandaris
Stylistically EvE borrowed a lot from Homeworld, but if any game was the grandaddy of EVE Online, it was Tradewars 2002.

Early versions of EVE were pretty much tit for tat a 3d version of tradewars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TradeWars_2002

Go ahead and give it a whirl on my tradewars server by connecting with your favorite telnet client to megazone.ath.cx :)

Edit: I'll also add Elite to that list as EVE borrowed heavily from Elite's gameplay.
James 315
Experimental Fun Times Corp RELOADED
CODE.
#42 - 2012-08-17 18:17:59 UTC
Has CCP ever said what they borrowed from for their inspiration? Smile

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Chandaris
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#43 - 2012-08-17 18:20:51 UTC
Considering that would open them up to IP infringement lawsuits, obviously not, they will claim they dreamt it up all themselves until the grave.
Sturmwolke
#44 - 2012-08-17 18:43:41 UTC
Chandaris wrote:
.. if any game was the grandaddy of EVE Online, it was Tradewars 2002.


Both Elite and the original Tradewars can conceptually be tied back to Traveller (space role-playing game circa late 70s).
So you could say, in a sense, EVE is a direct descendant of Traveller (its great ancestor).
Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#45 - 2012-08-17 18:45:01 UTC
Personally the OP capitalizing both Home and World and constantly using it as two words bugs the living hell out of me.

+1 If you were a HW fan before joining EVE and that one of the first thing you did was load gamma crystals on all of your Amarr ships :P

Still, while the HW universe has quite the rich backstory and lots of basis for factions (like the Kiith clans and the Taiidan and the Vaygr and Turanic Raiders and Kadeshi) I'd simply prefer a HW3 than any sort of silly campaign to infuse it with EVE.

I wanna know what silly thing they unleashed when they reactivated the hyperspace gate network with Sajuuk D:

The Drake is a Lie
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#46 - 2012-08-17 20:42:56 UTC
Also, another game more Eve-like than Homeworld is Escape Velocity Nova, and most likely its predecessors as well. Open world, trading, missions, pirates...that was a fun game.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
dethleffs
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#47 - 2012-08-19 23:41:17 UTC
DrysonBennington wrote:
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eve forerunner is elite. case closed.

on another note: go play homeworld instead of eve.


Go back to the ghetto and keep your mouth to yourself.

Did anyone one show up on your doorstep insulting you? Or can you merely only play a game and not develop one.

Simple minded podder.


I of course shouldn't give the OP more attention than he deserves by bumping his thread, but I just want to say:

wow.
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