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[ForgotPants]

Sooo, have you guys heard of EVE Online? I'm sure you have People call it many things from Spreadsheets Online to the most boring game ever. But one thing that stands apart from every other game is that in EVE, you make the content.
 
 
You can watch an EVE trailer here if you haven't seen the game -
 

 
Aaand some wall of text below,
 
EVE is probably a very different game at its core than you’ve ever encountered. EVE is much larger than most games and MMOs having been around for 11 years and over 20-something previous expansions. Despite its age, EVE is still winning awards and was recently one of the first 14 video games to be inducted into the Museum of Modern Art’s collection.
 
It is a “sandbox” style game where you make your own goals in the context of half a million other players making theirs in the same shared universe where, when your ship blows up, it won’t be coming back. If you are just starting off, I have 4 pieces of advice.
 
1-Figure out what type of gamer you are and apply your goals to EVE.
Do you like games where you amass lots of things? Try trading. Do you like to shoot people in the face? Start training towards PvP. Do you like to find new worlds? Hop in a wormhole. Do you like Real Time Strategy games? Check out Planetary Interaction and approach your decisions (even in combat) as if you are playing a RTS game.
 
2-Go through the tutorial.
GO THROUGH THE TUTORIAL. And pay attention. It’ll show you different game systems and help you with the UI. Fill up that Skill Queue.
 
3-Find someone to fly with.
It’s not called an MMO for nothing—the game is designed around multiplayer. There are plenty of starter corps looking for new pilots, which you can find by asking in help channels or using the Corporation Finder or searching EVE Forums.
 
If you have an experienced friend or coworker who plays EVE, even better—go fly with them. The real strength of EVE comes in the relationships you build when faced with a harsh death penalty and a single-shard world. Trust me.
 
4-If you feel lost, use Google or ask other players.
This seems counterintuitive, but it’s basically the same as if you had a question “IRL” and Googled for the answer. There’s more collective information out there on EVE than we could fit into a client or our website. If you want to learn about a specific system, there are great resources in YouTube tutorials and player-made wikis, especially those of EVE University.
 
That should get you started. In closing, the EVE Reddit community is vibrant and awesome, so check it out and ask questions there with ELI5 tags and stuff.
 
 
And finally, if you'd like to try it then here's a link to a 30-day trial account instead of the regular 14 days - CLICK HERE FOR INVITE
 
P.S - By accepting my invite you get extra trial time and if you do choose to subscribe at the end of the trial, I'll get rewards which I'll give you 75% of which should be about 800 million ISK (ingame currency)

[DarkFox]

We've had a few topics in the past about EVE. I play and maybe a couple others, but otherwise no one has shown much interest.

[TheDoom]

I played it twice both time due to busy RL was not able to play much and quit after the trial period.I have many friends from the other game I used to play in EVE who keep bugging me to join,maybe sometime in future I will give it a try again

[ForgotPants]

We've had a few topics in the past about EVE. I play and maybe a couple others, but otherwise no one has shown much interest.

 

Oh is it? Poke me if you see me online. I'm Clearion and Athena Machina

 

 

I played it twice both time due to busy RL was not able to play much and quit after the trial period.I have many friends from the other game I used to play in EVE who keep bugging me to join,maybe sometime in future I will give it a try again

 

Well, you should give it a go again and you should use my buddy code

[SeaBeeGipson]

Sooo, have you guys heard of EVE Online? I'm sure you have People call it many things from Spreadsheets Online to the most boring game ever. But one thing that stands apart from every other game is that in EVE, you make the content.

 

 

You can watch an EVE trailer here if you haven't seen the game -

 

 

Aaand some wall of text below,

 

EVE is probably a very different game at its core than you’ve ever encountered. EVE is much larger than most games and MMOs having been around for 11 years and over 20-something previous expansions. Despite its age, EVE is still winning awards and was recently one of the first 14 video games to be inducted into the Museum of Modern Art’s collection.

 

It is a “sandbox” style game where you make your own goals in the context of half a million other players making theirs in the same shared universe where, when your ship blows up, it won’t be coming back. If you are just starting off, I have 4 pieces of advice.

 

1-Figure out what type of gamer you are and apply your goals to EVE.

Do you like games where you amass lots of things? Try trading. Do you like to shoot people in the face? Start training towards PvP. Do you like to find new worlds? Hop in a wormhole. Do you like Real Time Strategy games? Check out Planetary Interaction and approach your decisions (even in combat) as if you are playing a RTS game.

 

2-Go through the tutorial.

GO THROUGH THE TUTORIAL. And pay attention. It’ll show you different game systems and help you with the UI. Fill up that Skill Queue.

 

3-Find someone to fly with.

It’s not called an MMO for nothing—the game is designed around multiplayer. There are plenty of starter corps looking for new pilots, which you can find by asking in help channels or using the Corporation Finder or searching EVE Forums.

 

If you have an experienced friend or coworker who plays EVE, even better—go fly with them. The real strength of EVE comes in the relationships you build when faced with a harsh death penalty and a single-shard world. Trust me.

 

4-If you feel lost, use Google or ask other players.

This seems counterintuitive, but it’s basically the same as if you had a question “IRL” and Googled for the answer. There’s more collective information out there on EVE than we could fit into a client or our website. If you want to learn about a specific system, there are great resources in YouTube tutorials and player-made wikis, especially those of EVE University.

 

That should get you started. In closing, the EVE Reddit community is vibrant and awesome, so check it out and ask questions there with ELI5 tags and stuff.

 

 

And finally, if you'd like to try it then here's a link to a 30-day trial account instead of the regular 14 days - CLICK HERE FOR INVITE

 

P.S - By accepting my invite you get extra trial time and if you do choose to subscribe at the end of the trial, I'll get rewards which I'll give you 75% of which should be about 800 million ISK (ingame currency)

keep clicking the link but nothing happens, mind messaging me the URL?

[Mazuurek]

Used to play it but got bored mining 24/7 after a month.

[Fox Fire]

It definitely sounds pretty cool but I don't have anything to run it on and it sounds expensive.

[ForgotPants]

It definitely sounds pretty cool but I don't have anything to run it on and it sounds expensive.

 

It's a $15 a month sub but if you're one of those players that gets hooked to the game and can make money with one of the bazillion ways to make it, you can pay for a sub using ingame money. Currently it costs about 1.1 billion ISK per month.

[Fox Fire]

I imagine they don't have it for Linux? And what are the RAM requirements?

[ForgotPants]

I imagine they don't have it for Linux? And what are the RAM requirements?

 

Nah, they dropped linux support some years back. RAM depends on game settings. I sometimes play from work on my shitty Dell Vostro laptop that has 4 gigs of RAM and intel HD 4000 graphics...I wouldn't play from it primarily but I could in a pinch.

[Shahenshah]

how big of time investment is this?

[Kaziocore]

how big of time investment is this?

i think it's like cybernations where there are also things outside the game

it can be like a second job if you're active

[DarkFox]

I imagine they don't have it for Linux? And what are the RAM requirements?

 

Yes it runs for Linux, but it can be a bit tricky. Here are the system requirements

how big of time investment is this?

 

as little or as much as you desire.

[Dandy]

Game is completely player driven, everything and everything in game is made and sold by players. I've wanted to get into this for some time since I do love me an MMO. However, the amount of time you need to sink into getting anywhere good with this game is astronomical. Though, that said, you can actually make real money off the game if you play it right. Some of the corporations are so large that there are people who's actual paying job is just to manage parts of corporations and things that happen in it. It's like if the Councilors of IRON got paid to do their jobs, but instead of taking care of 300 people, it would be more like 300,000 people. 

[Dandy]

 

Take a watch, remember, these are all players, no NPC's at all. Hundreds of thousands people. Hundreds of thousands.

[ForgotPants]

how big of time investment is this?

 
The initial learning curve can be high but with friends around it becomes easier. There are tons of new player friendly corporations that will take you in on day 1 and throw you in a battle on day 2. Trial by fire basically and you will learn faster.
 

Game is completely player driven, everything and everything in game is made and sold by players. I've wanted to get into this for some time since I do love me an MMO. However, the amount of time you need to sink into getting anywhere good with this game is astronomical. Though, that said, you can actually make real money off the game if you play it right. Some of the corporations are so large that there are people who's actual paying job is just to manage parts of corporations and things that happen in it. It's like if the Councilors of IRON got paid to do their jobs, but instead of taking care of 300 people, it would be more like 300,000 people.

 
No time like the present to join! 30-day Trial if you want

[DarkFox]

That is awesome. I didn't realize there was a news program for EVE now. By the way the imperium is putting up almost no resistance to the opposing coalition. Ever since Circle-Of-Two left they haven't been able to form any semblance of a defense.

[Dandy]

Not on my computer, right now visiting family, so I am on a...computer only meant for the internet.

The Imperium sounds like BONES, been cruising in easy mode, thought they could get away with whatever they want because they were big, and now are fighting a superior force. Sounds like my kinda game.

[ForgotPants]

That is awesome. I didn't realize there was a news program for EVE now. By the way the imperium is putting up almost no resistance to the opposing coalition. Ever since Circle-Of-Two left they haven't been able to form any semblance of a defense.

But according to their internal memos, they are winning the war! Mittler is really delusional

[Dandy]

Team Money Badger.