EVE General Discussion

Because you can make a difference.

Alot of MMO's advertise your actions matter, but in the end it isn't, nothing ever truly changes, especially as they're all sharded.

Eve however is different, it matters truly, and I've experienced it first hand, mostly in little things, but sometimes you matter in the big ones, and that stays with you, knowing you affected the lives of many people around the globe, knowing you were part of that.

Anyone who thinks that playing eve requires logging in isn't playing Eve

i like EVE because it's the only mmo that has managed to hold my attention for more than 2 years. my 3rd eve birthday is coming up in october and after all this time, i don't feel like i've even scratched the surface. there are so many things to do in game, that i can see myself subbing for years to come.

oh, and i like pvp...a lot.

What I like about EvE is this. I'm kind of a weasel in real life. Short, Skinny, Stupid looking, balding. You get the picture. But when I get behind the terminal, and log on, I get to be a real world, (al Bet Eve world) Bad ass. This game is priceless.

LOL. The best part is I'm not sure if he's being honest or trolling. Either way s'good.

after some nice and helpful gentlemen here repeatedly adviced me to go to Hello Kitty Online and I realized that it was free to play, I actually gave it a try (heck, I always thought this was a joke from South Park, never believed that something like this could really exist- more faith in humanity lost).
I have to admit, HKO beats Eve in two aspects:
1. much smaller client, no lags at all
2. you start in a single room- and the door is actually working and you can leave this room! (I know, sounds incredible)
proof

That being said, the distinct lack of spaceships and inability to ruin other players' days quickly drove me back to eve (tried to camp a door for several hours- but even though you start with an axe in your inventory, you can only use it to chop wood, not to gank other players-how lame)

As small kid i always dream to be Astronaut and i love SF themes, that why im here.

I have to call BS on number 2, if CCP can't make a door work than no one can. Heck even the doors to my General Lee doesn't work I have to jump through the window.

I love it because I don't feel like I'm being babysat and lead places when I'm playing.

That is I'm not "oh, if I grind here, I can get to that next zone, which means I can grind, to get to the next zone"

I like Eve because it's the only MMO I currently know of that has potential.

Never played another MMO except for some UO years back as well as some MMOs betas, but never signed up for them when they were actually released.

To me, lots of Eve's unique features are now absolute must-haves for an MMO:

- Single Shard
- No parallel instancing
- Player driven market
- Time-based skills progression
- (somewhat) meaningful loss
- The possibility of loss anywhere, anytime when undocked
- Complexity (could be more though)
- Graphical style not looking like it was taken from some cartoon series designed for squalid yobbo kids

If any of these requirements are not met, my interest in an MMO drops rapidly - if one or two are not met, I may sign up for a beta key and check it out, otherwise, I deem it not worth looking at.


Having that said, there's lots of room for improvement (a purpose for small gangs, isk faucet vs. sink rebalancing, nullsec revamp etc..etc...), but Eve's unique position is enough to keep me subscribed, especially with the devs working on the game again - we'll see - maybe I'll eventually even really play it again.