EVE General Discussion

I actually have no clue what I would do. I tried ED and it lasted for about 2 weeks which sucked as I bought a $240 HOTAS setup just for the game. Truthfully I never thought Id be here this long as I left after a year and a half and didnt think Id be back but here I am like 8 or 9 years later. I dont think any game will ever grab me like Eve did so I doubt Ill find one.

Oh, we'd all be crazy rusty and we're all over the skill spectrum. One of my friends is a monster at macro *and* micro, and generally wins any game he's in (the dirty Cybran bastard), but the rest of us are all pretty average players. We play all the races too, except AFAIK no one mains Seraph.

We also often do odd game modes. The most popular one we ever played with strangers (even found other people using our rules randomly, it was very fun) was Shards as a 4v4, where each of the central islands was a 1v1 across, and the other 2 players on each team were either east or west. It turned into some very interesting simultaneous fighting with tons of cross-map supply lines. In one of the more memorable matches, I locked down the center of my island as UEF and started ferrying Percivals en masse to the other island, where the aforementioned Cybran player was demolishing my teammate. We managed to turn that around till his ally's navy intercepted our supply chain, at which point my ally fell and I turned the Percival production on my island opponent and killed him outright too. Every game had really interesting dynamics like that.

The only thing I don't like about Star Citizen is it has aliens, mehhhh. One of the best things about Eve is it's all humans of some kind or another.

I don't know what I would play. New games now days claiming to be MMOs just seem cheap and hollow. They look good, but as far as game play there is nothing to them. EVE is one of a kind, that's for sure. Been playing it on and off for 10+ years and there is still a lot of stuff I have never done. Personally, I would love to see a driving/racing game, something like The Crew but as deep and complex as EVE. Will probably never happen though.

I have been playing Football Manager series since late 90s and Civilisation IV for like a decade as well (and still do at times), which are some of the most addictive and life consuming games.

Also managed to clock like 200 days of playing time (that's 4800 hours) in WoW when it used to be decent, and was also big into Sims 2 with all the expansion packs and like 10 gigabytes of player created mods (including the ones I made myself).

And of course, countless hours have been sucked up by Baldur's Gate, Final Fantasy, various FPS and racing games, NBA 2K series, GTA series, etc, etc.

I am very fond of eve and have played it for many years, but computer games have been a big part of my life since I was a child (used to play on Apple II in 80s) that I have absolutely no doubt if there was no eve, I would have spent that time just playing some other games.

Russian Roulette.

Saw a documentary about Second Life and gave that a try. It looked awful, was boring and needed too much CPU.
People kept calling me a Goon because unlike everybody else's tall slim avatar i was a naked midget with insect eyes and mud landscape as a skin texture, a sunset as face texture completed the ensemble.
Saw a real Goon crapping on a table and understood.
Gave it up after 2 weeks.
Church of the SubGenius had a link to 4Chan for .gifs.
4Chan had a thread on what you fly in Eve, saw that old item .jpg of an Incursus and the guy said he was an anti-pirate, suggesting you could do what you want.
Ten days later i was hooked forever, first by the beauty, then by the freedom, then by the hardship.

TLDR i'm not even a gamer, never was, no Eve would mean no computer games.

Playing Warlords 2 through DosBox, when not EVE and SWTOR :D

Will always find some games to play.

I've loved Subnautica so far. It's pre-alpha, but for how early it is it's an amazing game so far. I am hoping it actually turns out the way I think it will in the next few years.

That being said, the only reason I play other games ATM is when I am feeling anti-social enough that I don't want to be on voicecomms when gaming. If I had to pick another MMO, it would probably be SWTOR or Wildstar until subnautica or H1Z1 are done being developed

...dug up system shock 2 again the other day. All that stuff about the Dark Engine's source code is pretty funny.