Used to, maybe put 6 months into it, on and off. Got sick of the travel time thing and the fact i could set auto pilot, go watch tv for half an hour and come back to wait another 15 minutes before i hit my waypoint.

It gets boring fast unless you join a decent corp and head out into null sec for PVP.

I played pretty heavily for about 3-4 years. Mostly industrial stuff and mining, but had a couple of PVP characters I'd do low sec hunting runs in.

The reason I left was it was starting to become a job I didn't get paid for. I was a CEO of a corp, and logging on meant dealing with payouts on mining operations, setting up manufacturing queues etc etc. Also, dealing with whingers (for whatever reason), dealing with new guys that didn't know what they were doing (didn't mind that so much), and of course inter-corp politics and war decs.

I still think it's an excellent game, just evidenced by the fact that I could do all those things in a virtual universe... but it got to the point were it stopped being a game, and started being a job. I was spending 90% of my time docked, looking at markets and spreadsheets :)

Ickus is right, you really need to find a good corp early on, whether it's for null sec pew pew or high sec mining, a corp makes it all the better.

I would play Eve again but it would have to be free, I can not justifiy paying money so I can sit there and mine roids for the next 4 years while my skills finish. I did enjoy it but I wish there was more to it besides Asteroids or PvP.

It bored the hell out of me when I played it, guess it just wasn't my thing. Also I wanted to control my ship directly instead of just clicking and telling it where to go.

Eve is like WOW. You don't really control things. You just 3rd person point and move around. There are some twitch space MMO's, Black whatever I think is one. Can't remember it's name. But you fly cockpit style. Ping is a factor. Eve is a community driven game. If you need fun given to you, then it's not for you. That's the whole point of a sandpit game, you create the environment you play in.

I can not justifiy paying money so I can sit there and mine roids for the next 4 years while my skills finish.

Just buy trained characters off the character bazaar.

I was like Mantra, put about 4 years into it and it started becoming a job rather than a game (I was a Director of a high profile corp and a 'senior' member of an alliance). I knew it crossed a line when I was at work and being harassed to get on TS to sort out diplomacy issues between alliances..

Great game, would love to play it again for sure but this time I'd go full pirate and harass the shit out of people!

Yes.

TicMan and others that have played at a high level... if you ever get time could you please write a few stories of some moments in the game that you witnessed? And some stories about some stories that you've heard but can't exactly confirm.

I find that stuff so fascinating. A friend told me a story of 3 of the most powerful alliances in the game. One of them had 3 of the largest ships in the game and a swarm of heavy armorment ships. He was part of this faction and it took about 3 and a half years to build with a group of some of the most dedicated EVE players starting it. A bunch of them didnt actually have to work IRL for some reason and ran the alliance fulltime? One of the highest level people 'jumped to another alliance' and took one of the large ships with him and sent the other ships into a trap where they were all destroyed almost instantly by the faction he went to. Apparently that's completely legal in the game and is actually encouraged (to add game diversity). Suffice to say there was only two major factions for a while after that.

Edit: The traitor jerry rigged the two remaining largest ships or self detonated them or something, thats why the all died instantly. He used the other large ship to turn on those that were left while the ships from the faction he traitored to were behind them or something when they came out of warp. Not sure how it all works so cant explain it with the correct 'terms'.

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If you want to read about eve, just read things like EveNews24. Generally most stuff eventually gets reported on there.

Actually the coolest story was the guy who ran that bank for awhile... It ended up being one big ponzi scheme which was going for years.. he ended up walking off with 100,000 USD worth of isk

yeah i believe its all what you make of it

just door? lol

SBU's used to be all we ever killed in angel space

Ah HED-GP .. spent many many nights camping it or running through it on the way in to G-ME2K. One problem I have restarting now is that *ALL* my stuff is spread across Stain space and we all know what people think of players in NPC corps flying through their systems.

looks like an interesting game will have to check it out