EVE Online: The adventure begins
Well, I started playing EVE about 3 weeks ago. Finally, a MMOG that's fun. Well, for me anyway. It's extremely slow-moving, but there's something about it that's awesome. I played World of Warcraft for about six months, but it didn't grab me like this. I liked it, and thought it was a well designed game. But EVE has sucked me in because its social structures seem to be more complete.
One nice thing is that it doesn't require LOADS of playtime to make progress. When you train a skill, it just costs some money to get the skill, then realtime to learn it. For example, it took me 2 days to learn Science IV. But you don't have to be logged on for your character to learn. You can choose Science IV, and log off for two days, come back, and it's learned. Several other activities work the same way, such as research, manufacturing and selling. You can earn more money by playing more often, but the skills are fundamentally limited by how long you've had your account. This means that if I play about 10 hours a week, I can have the same skills as someone who plays 40 hours a week.
I'm in it to mine, manufacture, and run a corporation. Blacksteel Mining and Manufacturing has 8 members now. Whenever they complete missions or get bounties, the corp gets a percentage. Eventually, BM2 will rent office space so we have a central place to put assets for members to access. We will have a set of communal blueprints our members can use to manufacture things wit. When our income is high enough, we'll be able to build our own space station, and stake our claim out in low-security space.
Currently, I pilot a small mining frigate. A fighter pilot from the corp will escort me to a medium-security asteroid belt (where better ore is found), and I gather minerals while they stop pirates from bothering me. I then go get a cargo ship to haul the ore back, I manufacture ammunition to sell to other players, then I give a cut to the fighter pilot and the corp fund.
Lots of fun organizing this. Well, I figure I will write more about EVE in the future, is it is incredibly deep. Just last week there was a financial scandal where a player ran a fake IPO for his corp and absconded with 25 billion credits. If I have any regular readers out there, don't worry: I still play other games, and will continue to post reviews.
One nice thing is that it doesn't require LOADS of playtime to make progress. When you train a skill, it just costs some money to get the skill, then realtime to learn it. For example, it took me 2 days to learn Science IV. But you don't have to be logged on for your character to learn. You can choose Science IV, and log off for two days, come back, and it's learned. Several other activities work the same way, such as research, manufacturing and selling. You can earn more money by playing more often, but the skills are fundamentally limited by how long you've had your account. This means that if I play about 10 hours a week, I can have the same skills as someone who plays 40 hours a week.
I'm in it to mine, manufacture, and run a corporation. Blacksteel Mining and Manufacturing has 8 members now. Whenever they complete missions or get bounties, the corp gets a percentage. Eventually, BM2 will rent office space so we have a central place to put assets for members to access. We will have a set of communal blueprints our members can use to manufacture things wit. When our income is high enough, we'll be able to build our own space station, and stake our claim out in low-security space.
Currently, I pilot a small mining frigate. A fighter pilot from the corp will escort me to a medium-security asteroid belt (where better ore is found), and I gather minerals while they stop pirates from bothering me. I then go get a cargo ship to haul the ore back, I manufacture ammunition to sell to other players, then I give a cut to the fighter pilot and the corp fund.
Lots of fun organizing this. Well, I figure I will write more about EVE in the future, is it is incredibly deep. Just last week there was a financial scandal where a player ran a fake IPO for his corp and absconded with 25 billion credits. If I have any regular readers out there, don't worry: I still play other games, and will continue to post reviews.
posted by Almo at 10:29 AM
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