Out of Pod Experience

Seemed to be the opposite for me... Oh nothing is happening? Another gate camp? No WH activity... Eh i'd rather play something a tad more interactive... Lemme know when we have a bonafied group event. ...

Check back in... Still nothing? Then again I'm a man of variety with little real time to wait for things to happen. Most MMO's are not conducive as you get older. Or perhaps say going out boating v. jump 20 - 40 gates in eve seems like a no brainier.

Also might help to know what sort of games you enjoy aside from EVE. (RTS, TBS, FPS, RPG's etc etc) I found the "eve only" people actually seemingly hate all other video games... or due to some sense of gaming sanctimony let them selves believe that they will hate everything else.

Recent game that is super fun... Orcs must die 2. Literally haven't been laughing manically in ages. Sure other games are enjoyable this is shear silly fun.

Man that got kinda wordy.

this and use mods to enchance the game
DO not under any circumstances buy the DLC Dawnguard, it is buggy and full of glitches and the few features that were added , well mods do a better job

Go play some DayZ... It will make you wish you were playing Eve.

Also, I didnt think I would ever find a game harder than Eve....

Some friends and I have been on a real Dead Island kick for the last month. We've been essentially playing 4 versions of the campaign (we joined whoever is farthest behind) and I've gotten Sam B 40 levels of zombie hacking goodness. 2 of us just got up to the jungle and for some reason I feel like I am playing the original predator with all the raiding of villages and freaky zombies making scary noises in the trees.

p.s. when we get bored the red propane tanks start flying at each other.

Depends what you (OP) like, but I have been having fun with indie games lately.

World of tanks is pretty adictive, fun to play and it is an MMO (altough i must admit NPC will do better as teammates than most of the player base...)

On the other way, Mechwarrior Online is growing up as an awesome game already.

May I suggest Starcraft 2 also?

PS: Honor mention to Sacrifice, one of the best non linear campaings ever. I will maybe search in the old vault to look for it and play it again.

I'm also testing other MMOs looking for a good fit -- I'm mainly focused on FPS and RPGs. I already have the RTS/TBS games I like.

EDIT: Combat Arms (retraction) -- It's broken and free is too much to pay for it.

Edit: Alliance of Valliant Arms (A.V.A) [/b] Having a good time with it.

On my to-do list is Arma 2 and Blacklight Retribution.

Rift -- I didn't care for, it felt like I was playing a single player game. No one speaks! I'm not sure what level I was 11 or 13? I don't remember any clan opportunities at that level... maybe I didn't progress far enough.

Tribes Ascend -- I will have to revisit it but when I tried it, it reminded me too much of Global Agenda and the maps were too big for my taste and few people were playing.

I might get swept up with Guild Wars 2, I dunno yet.

I'm trying to garner the patience for Mount & Blade Warband (I've heard nothing but praise for it) also...something else that might be worth looking into.

There is an upcoming MMO (closed Beta I think) that sounds very Eve-esque /duck but I can't remember the name of it. Read about it at mmohut.com, I think.

P.S. End of Nations looks spiffy -- I didn't have time to test it during last weekend's Beta but believe it's close to release. Oh, and as for Anno 2070 -- I played the first installments, yet read about so many complaints about the latest game I didn't buy it even at 50% off. Maybe it's improved now.

P.S.S. The Civilization franchise is great and decently active, if you're into that genre. Like some others here, I also play vintage and Indie. E.Y.E. Cybermancy is a blast but the ending (meh). Right now, I'm also having fun with L.A. Noire.

While I've only played EVE for ~7days now, before it I played the crap out of the X series, and am currently playing X3: Albion Prelude during EVE's downtime.

I would highly recommend the game.

Ok, you space geeks sold me on X3.
Thanks.

Maybe give Guild Wars 2 a try, I've not tried it myself but it looks like a cool pvp game.