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Anyone here play Eve Online?

I am an alliance rep for BRUCE alliance, currently based out of Syndicate. Gallente main, specialised in science/industry/mining, interceptors and covert-ops.

for people who dont:

www.eve-online.com

Its a PvP and industry based MMO where you hold territory and have massive fleet battles in space over it. Theres a very steep learning curve, and it can be a little boring at times, but the community is great and the rewards are huge. A lot of people who are disillusioned with WoW and its general pointlessness migrate to it.
 
a mate of mine has lost the best part of his life to eve, does look very cool, but worried it would suck me in to much.
 
yeah i am with the merc corp dogs of war. i believe we are allies. i am also a director of dogs of war so if we have any problems perhaps myself you your can fix them.

*i think we have a truce atm) although rumour has it we will have incomings this weekend)

oh and all that crap in the forums about what we did with regard to taking over the allience,,,, its all bullshit. we asked and asked them and all our pvp ops consisted of mainly us.

it was the best thing to do.
 
I think that if I actually had any spare time online, I'd probably go for Eve - firstly because it's amazingly pretty, and secondly because of the way it's set up. You're not led by the nose through a bunch of pointless quests, your friends and enemies are other players. People make their own goals, set their own challenges, make alliances and groups in a natural way rather than having artificial divisions set up. It seems much more player-created than, say, WoW.

From the first dialup text MUDs I've always felt that this was a better way of running things. I never cared about stupid rat-killing stuff run by NPCs, I wanted to get into the politics and struggles and deal with real people, only it usually takes months of grinding before you're high enough level for that. Probably why I ended up with MUSHes and, more recently, Second Life.
 
Goons have done some of the most interesting stuff in MMOGs recently. In Second Life there were some that caused a lot of fucking irritation, but there was also a lot of innovative, or at least funny, stuff.

Unfortunately they've pretty much all got bored, gone native or got actual jobs, and there are a lot of bloody b/tards there now. Who are twats to be quite frank.
 
Neva said:
Jealousy is an ugly thing :(
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nah .. having been chased 8 jumps by goons a few nights ago and then getting popped 1 jumps form home i just hate them :P


that said i have also popped three of ya's since.

and we just made 450mil by ransoming a pos.

"dogs of war" it is teh rulaz!
 
Ah cool, I'm not the only one then, and one of them a neighbour :eek:

Rikbikboo - I didnt read anything about you taking over. Your corp assumed control of HAVOK? As for the relationship between our alliances, I think we have you neutral, but I may be wrong about that. We are currently "not red dont shoot" in old OSS space anyway.
Expect to see a lot of MDK about at the moment though as they appear to have a contract out on us (no doubt funded by OSS remanants). YOUWHAT may be attempting to move in to the area too - I helped pop a POS of theirs the other day in 6CZ. It had no modules anchored and had no strontium in it, so it unexpectely went boom. 30 seconds after the tower popped a YOUWHAT carrier logged back in there 10Km off our capitals:D Talk about bad timing!
 
povmcdov said:
30 seconds after the tower popped a YOUWHAT carrier logged back in there 10Km off our capitals:D Talk about bad timing!
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Does this mean that player-controlled assets do not exist in the world while the player is not loged in? I'd always assumed that they just got docked at your nearest friendly station or whatever...
 
I play Gallente but haven't for long and still getting my head around it and doing skills. Only about 1.4mill SP at the moment. Still in n00b space and not ventured anywhere harsher than 0.8 :)
 
I've got two weeks off work and I'm about to give it a go.

I'm all signed up for the 14-day trial and am currently working my way through the guide before creating my online character.
:cool:

In the old Elite game I reached DANGEROUS ranking.
 
If you log out while in space your ship warps a few million Kms away and then vanishes, unless you have engaged in combat. If you have had a weapon activated on you this starts a 15 minute timer. If you log out then your ship will warp off, but stay in space until the timer runs out, giving your enemy a chance to probe you down and kill you. The reason this guy logged at the POS is if he had logged in the station there he could have been camped in station unable to undock. We once kept 2 carriers trapped in a station for over 2 weeks!
Things like player owned structures (POSs) or anchored secure containers remain permanantly in space unless destroyed. Outposts, which are player built stations you can dock in can be captured but never destroyed.

The goons can be pretty funny, but they can also be totally evil. Their ex-leader stole a lot of in-game currency (ISK) from the corp to sell it on Ebay. The goons revenge was a bit OTT. He had told someone he was a swinger in real life, so someone posed as a potential partner for him and his wife on a personals website, obtained naked photos of both of them and posted them all over the interweb. Lets just say they werent lookers...
They are also rightly reviled over an incident where they took the piss out of a prominant player who had died in real life. They tend to be very disruptive on the forums too, up to and including denial of service attacks. Having said that they have brought a lot of new players into the game and provide an oppertunity for fairly new players to be part of something really big.

There is a 14 day free trial period for new players BTW.
 
sigh bruce have given us until friday to move out :( something about our if its not blue then shoot it policy. so annoying i now have to get my crap carrier jumped to empire after only rercently having it all jumped up lol. oh well
 
I fear Eve, as I just know the scifi setting, open ended game play and lack of apparent meaningless grind (is this right?) makes it the ideal MMORPG for me. It would destroy my free time, and probably put great strain on my relationship.
 
crispy you can play for as little or as long as you like. certain skills take up to 45days to train so you could just set a long skill training and come back when it was finished,

there is still the issue of needing to make money. so you could mine asteroids for ore and refine it to sell. or you could spend an hour or so a day running missions.

i now fly a caldari navy raven battleship. its the culmination of playing for a year or more. i can run level 4 missions and make easily 100million a day (standard raven is 90-110 million) expect to pay the same again fitting it with guns and the like.

of course then there is the carriers and dreadnoughts. these things sell for 1.5billion (if i train i can fly one in about 45 days) but i would only be able to get inside it not be able to arm it to the teeth.

i have just recently gotten myself a stealth bomber. great for playing in low security space where anyone is fair game.

it would be very easy for you to spend an hour a day playing and training skills and still have a reasonable character after a few months.
 
Don't.....tempt me!
There's a mac client coming out soon as well isn't there?
>_<
Must Resist
 
Rikbikboo said:
crispy you can play for as little or as long as you like.
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Don't you have to make it back to a space port before you log off, otherwise your ship will just be drifting in space and others can attack it?
 
Step away from the EVE web page. . . .


Switch the PC off with a pointy stick and back out of the room slowly.


I was warned that it would suck me in and it did. I even used to pine ofr it when they rebooted the servers at 11am for an hour.

Then I realsied that it was an hour a day when I could do absolutley everything I hadn't done in the the other 23.

Enjoy and see you in 2009
 
Sorry rikbikboo, I knew that was coming but couldnt say...

The upshot was that your diplomats seemed unwilling to listen and/or compromise. I am a good mate of our chief diplomat and read the transcripts as did all our reps and your diplos really did seem difficult to deal with.
I am Vertex Eisenstein in game. Feel free to convo me or join "DPS public" as can any new players for advice and what not.

And yes, its massively addictive and those without some self control may need a straightjacket to stay away...
 
Crispy said:
Right, I am so not going to play this game.
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When the Mac client comes out, why don't we meet up for a free trial n00b session Crispy.....go'aaan - you know you want to.....


:)
 
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