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Not related to this project, but one of my fondest memories of gaming is playing EVE and sitting on a Vent server with my fellow pilots. Reading about it just m

Not related to this project, but one of my fondest memories of gaming is playing EVE and sitting on a Vent server with my fellow pilots. Reading about it just makes me nostalgic for those days. o7

aliasxneo 4y ago
I still remember the heart-pounding moments when I was putting millions of isk on the line in some sketchy engagement I probably had no business getting in. Also, the RP on Eve was top-notch, I recall one point where I was in a dedicated vent channel "voting" on initiatives for the corporation. Good times...
- SeriousM 4y ago
  Oh man, these memories! I also has a moment where I prepared my ingame social standing to a point where I was able to steal a huge amount of isk and was able to hide my tracks with alts. Oh and I had a station container with a massive amount of corpses. Not my preys but rather the dead opossums from the road. I want my first time experience back from 2002/3 where I started with an Ibis, worked my belt to gain enough for a krestrell because of the additional hardpoints just to get eventually my tristan with an 10wd booster to crack the lightspeed record. What a nice time.. Today I have no time to play it anymore, yet I could fly almost anything and have a lot of isk on the wallet.
MrMember 4y ago
In my opinion EVE is the greatest MMO ever created. I've played and enjoyed other MMOs like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, a few others, but nothing else even comes close to the experience of playing EVE. The very real stakes of losing your ship, cargo, implants, changes the game entirely. Venturing into low/null sec can be genuinely terrifying when you don't know what's on the other side of that warp gate. And then there's the enormous breadth of gameplay options. You can be a high sec carebear and happily farm asteroids in relative safety or play the market and never even undock. You can live out your fantasy of being a space trucker and pick up contracts in your freighter. You can join a nullsec corp in player controlled space and participate in the absolutely ludicrous (in a good way) nullsec PvP. You can stalk other players in wormholes in your stealth bomber for literal days, popping out and killing them right when they finally think it's safe. The stories that are generated from its sandbox gameplay make it very unique in gaming. Unfortunately it's also an enormous time sink and I don't play it anymore. If I could play EVE 18 hours a day I probably would, but it's a very difficult game (for me anyway) to play for maybe an hour a day and feel like I made any real progress.
- awelxtr 4y ago
  Yup, being an enormous time sink it's one of my major gripes with the game. I guess it is also what makes it one of the most hardcore games in existence... Right next to OGame
  - coenhyde 4y ago
    I've never played EVE Online, but that is a not because I don't want to. It's basically the game I dreamed about as a kid. And I know if I play, I will want to win, but you can't win, you can only dominate; by investing lots and lots of time. People say I'm not missing much because it's a spreadsheet in space. Unfortunately that sounds right up my alley. I love games where I can find tiny optimizations and compound them into an unchallengeable force. But if I have the time to build a space empire, I have the time to build a new startup empire in real life, which I don't.
    - roganartu 4y ago
      > I will want to win, but you can't win, you can only dominate It is common for EVE players to refer to quitting as "winning EVE". I won EVE around 7 years ago after falling 800-hours-in-6-months deep into the optimisation black hole you describe and realising it was immensely fun but unsustainable.
    - imtringued 4y ago
      >I have the time to build a new startup empire in real life, which I don't. Real life doesn't work that way, you will first have to work 20 years under the previous emperor.
- hypertele-Xii 4y ago
  Seems to me it's mostly empty space with menus on top. To me, the essence of video games is that play takes place in an interesting space, where terrain matters and a variety of things occupy it. It would be trivial to recreate the EVE experience in literally any MMO by just having permadeath. And then most other MMOs would be better than EVE because they actually have worlds with stuff in them. Or maybe they don't and it's just a thin facade, in which case I simply recommend playing better games. Am I missing something?

Not related to this project, but one of my fondest memories of gaming is playing EVE and sitting on a Vent server with my fellow pilots. Reading about it just makes me nostalgic for those days. o7

aliasxneo 4y ago

I still remember the heart-pounding moments when I was putting millions of isk on the line in some sketchy engagement I probably had no business getting in. Also, the RP on Eve was top-notch, I recall one point where I was in a dedicated vent channel "voting" on initiatives for the corporation. Good times...

SeriousM 4y ago
Oh man, these memories! I also has a moment where I prepared my ingame social standing to a point where I was able to steal a huge amount of isk and was able to hide my tracks with alts. Oh and I had a station container with a massive amount of corpses. Not my preys but rather the dead opossums from the road. I want my first time experience back from 2002/3 where I started with an Ibis, worked my belt to gain enough for a krestrell because of the additional hardpoints just to get eventually my tristan with an 10wd booster to crack the lightspeed record. What a nice time.. Today I have no time to play it anymore, yet I could fly almost anything and have a lot of isk on the wallet.

MrMember 4y ago

In my opinion EVE is the greatest MMO ever created. I've played and enjoyed other MMOs like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, a few others, but nothing else even comes close to the experience of playing EVE. The very real stakes of losing your ship, cargo, implants, changes the game entirely. Venturing into low/null sec can be genuinely terrifying when you don't know what's on the other side of that warp gate. And then there's the enormous breadth of gameplay options. You can be a high sec carebear and happily farm asteroids in relative safety or play the market and never even undock. You can live out your fantasy of being a space trucker and pick up contracts in your freighter. You can join a nullsec corp in player controlled space and participate in the absolutely ludicrous (in a good way) nullsec PvP. You can stalk other players in wormholes in your stealth bomber for literal days, popping out and killing them right when they finally think it's safe. The stories that are generated from its sandbox gameplay make it very unique in gaming. Unfortunately it's also an enormous time sink and I don't play it anymore. If I could play EVE 18 hours a day I probably would, but it's a very difficult game (for me anyway) to play for maybe an hour a day and feel like I made any real progress.

awelxtr 4y ago
Yup, being an enormous time sink it's one of my major gripes with the game. I guess it is also what makes it one of the most hardcore games in existence... Right next to OGame
- coenhyde 4y ago
  I've never played EVE Online, but that is a not because I don't want to. It's basically the game I dreamed about as a kid. And I know if I play, I will want to win, but you can't win, you can only dominate; by investing lots and lots of time. People say I'm not missing much because it's a spreadsheet in space. Unfortunately that sounds right up my alley. I love games where I can find tiny optimizations and compound them into an unchallengeable force. But if I have the time to build a space empire, I have the time to build a new startup empire in real life, which I don't.
  - roganartu 4y ago
    > I will want to win, but you can't win, you can only dominate It is common for EVE players to refer to quitting as "winning EVE". I won EVE around 7 years ago after falling 800-hours-in-6-months deep into the optimisation black hole you describe and realising it was immensely fun but unsustainable.
  - imtringued 4y ago
    >I have the time to build a new startup empire in real life, which I don't. Real life doesn't work that way, you will first have to work 20 years under the previous emperor.
hypertele-Xii 4y ago
Seems to me it's mostly empty space with menus on top. To me, the essence of video games is that play takes place in an interesting space, where terrain matters and a variety of things occupy it. It would be trivial to recreate the EVE experience in literally any MMO by just having permadeath. And then most other MMOs would be better than EVE because they actually have worlds with stuff in them. Or maybe they don't and it's just a thin facade, in which case I simply recommend playing better games. Am I missing something?