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So this game has been going for nearly twenty years? Pretty awesome.
by cpach 5y ago
So this game has been going for nearly twenty years? Pretty awesome.
- xeromal 5y agoEve is one of those guys I like to read about, but never have played. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB This is one of my favorite stories. Hope this interests you.
- cpach 5y agoA virtual battle that has its own Wikipedia article. Quite impressive :)
- xeromal 5y agoAnd cost over $300,000 USD in damaged ships.
- monkeybutton 5y agoSo do the game developers hang out, watch and pop some champaign when an event like that goes down?
- Xeronate 5y agoWe all do because the time dilation* is so bad it takes 10 minutes to have a button click register (not joking). *time dilation is a hack the devs added to make it so their servers don't crash when many people are in the same space. It essentially slows the game down relative to the number of people in a solar system.
- fnordpiglet 5y agoJust make sure your pee bottle is empty
- fnordpiglet 5y agoI suspect it’s more like their on call cursing and processors melting
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoAs someone who has played, given them money, been involved in the politics, played their FPS and been on its player council, and attended Fanfest in Iceland... To he honest, reading the stories is far better than playing the game.
- tpmx 5y ago! So why is the game not worth the effort?
- dddrh 5y agoThe running joke is that you win EO when you finally quit. As a game and meta-game it’s layers are deep and enticing, but it can be all consuming of your life if you aren’t careful. Many of the ways to play involve putting the game ahead of real life obligations.
- Aeolun 5y agoPlaying the game was great fun when I was in high school, and university (and for a few unattached years afterwards). All my current RL obligations would make playing pretty much impossible. There’s also a lot of things I like doing most in-game that I’d be better off doing in RL.