Product Description: It is player-driven persistent-world massively multiplayer online game set in a science fiction space setting. Players pilot customizable ships through a universe comprising over five thousand star systems. Most star systems are connected to one or more other star systems by means of jump gates. The star systems can contain several entities including but not limited to: moons, planets, stations, wormholes, asteroid belts and other space complexes. Players are able to participate in any number of in-game professions and activities, including mining, manufacturing, trade and combat (both player versus environment and player versus player). The range of activities available to the player is facilitated by a character advancement system based upon training skills in real time, even while not logged in to the game. Players start the game by either selecting a previously-created character or by creating a new one. Each Eve Online account allows for up to three characters to be made. When players create a new character they start by choosing one of the four playable races of Amarr, Gallente, Minmatar and Caldari. Each race is further divided into three bloodlines that give characters different pre-defined abilities. After further refini
EvE-Online is tuff Universe ^ I play that game since 2005 and i still do like it. Its Sci&Fi, its complex, its open, it has a lot of different things to do and CCP lets you do what you want. If you search a "i have won" goal in a Game, then you maybe wrong with eve. EvE-Online get updates around every 6 Month with new content, new possibilities, new graphics. After the old Mankind, EvE ist simply the best Sci&Fi MMORPG out in space.
The darker side of EvE... ^ I've been playing eve off and on for three years. I thought I'd give somewhat of a more in-depth view on the other side of eve since most people who have reviewed it here seem to be new people and don't have much experience with people or the game in general. Oh and this is a little long, but it deals with a lot of things I think people should be aware of. So if you're thinking about buying eve, please read this.
First of all, let me stress that this game really is not for everyone. Also forget the "rating" this isn't really a game for kids and you'll see why if you read on.
Now, if you could have me sum up eve in just a few words here's what I would say. Eve is unforgiving. It's harsh, it's cruel and it's full of people that will stab you in the back, steal everything you have and literally leave you with nothing left if they can. I kid you not, you can literally lose EVERYTHING you have if you're not careful.
There's many ways this could happen. In eve most new players have no idea what they're getting into. This game practically encourages pirating, killing other players, stealing, cheating, lying, everything of the sort to get YOUR way. It, for the most part, is not a friendly game.
There's a lot to explain so let me start off with this... You have a spaceship right? Lets say someone comes by and just blows your ship up. What happens? Well in most games if you die you respawn. Maybe you're a ghost and have to find your corpse, maybe you just poof... come back to life. In eve if your ship is blown up, that's it. It's gone. It's space rubble. When your ship does blow up, you eject into a "capsule" it's your little escape pod. You can use that to fly to a station, get in a new ship. But your capsule can (And eventually WILL) be blown up. Then you really will be dead, you have clones so if you do die you start up as a new clone, in a station, but I'll talk more about that later because there's a few important things about that.
Also, you can buy insurance for ships so when your spaceship does blow up you at least get some money (called ISK in game) back. But you're not just losing your ship, you're losing everything that was in and on that ship too. All your turrets, your ammo, rigs (made to enhance certain aspects of the ship. Usually VERY expensive and will either cost more than the ship or just a heck of a lot), etc. and everything you had on it can easily total more than the whole ship you purchased or will almost always definitely be more than you get from insurance.
So if you die, you're losing money, a lot of money usually. When you get up to flying battleships you'll usually be losing 200 - 300~ million isk if it gets blown up. So if you're not careful and if you die a lot you can easily end up running out of money.
I know because this happened to me once when I first started playing eve. This one guy kept killing me over and over and over again. That's all he would do and I literally lost everything I had. I had no ships, I had no money. So do not be under the false illusion that you're safe or ok. The only way you're safe in eve is if you're in a station. That's it. If you're out in space then anything can happen.
Now... You might say that it's really unfair and whatever, and it is. I've seen a lot of new players come in, have fun and all of a sudden one guy comes and ruins the entire game for them and they never play it again. That's how eve is.
You might say but "what about security?"! Well, let me tell you this. It doesn't matter. Security levels dictate how much a given system has in security. Think, space police. Now do not be under the illusion that concord (the space police) is there for your protection. What they are there for is consequence. Security goes from 1.0 to 0.0. 1.0 having the highest security, 0.0 having none. If you're in a high security system (Just called hi-sec) and someone comes along and start attacking you concord isn't meant to come in and protect you, they're mainly there to be like.. Ok, he attacked you, he's going to get blown up. Simply because it takes concord sometime to get to you and by the time they get to you, you're probably already going to be dead.
Most people, I don't want to say exploit this, but they use it to their advantage. For instace, it's not very hard to go and pick on new players or people who are mining and what a lot of people do is buy cheap ships that they don't care if it blows up and try to kill you. If they kill you, great, if they don't kill you and get blown up.. That's fine too, it didn't cost much AND they get insurance when their ship blows up. And depending on the ship (Different ships have different insurances) if you blow them up they might actually get MORE money than they put into it in the first place so you're just helping them by protecting yourself. This happens a lot, and I mean that whole heart-idly. There's events like "Hulkmageddon" you can google it, look up youtube videos of it, people go around purposely killing people that are mining. They just get in some cheap ship and kill mining ships (Which have little to no defenses).
Also, if you're not careful and you're going to a certain area.. You might go into low sec, or null sec (0.0), and you'll just simply die. People love it when a newbie comes into low or null sec because it's just a free kill. So you need to make sure you know where you going, the route you're taking and although hi sec isn't safe, it's safer.
Also a quick note, I mentioned earlier that when you're in your capsule you can get killed (Called getting "podded" in the game). Your clone has a certain amount of skill points it can hold. If lets say, you've been playing for a while and you have 5 million skill points but you never upgraded your clone and it only holds 1 million skill points, if you die... You're going to lose 4 million skill points. So you always need to make sure that the clone you're going into has enough skill points to hold everything when you die otherwise you can conceivably end up literally starting all over again.
Oh and there are people that make their living in the game by stealing. If you have a corporation, trust no one. People have literally lost everything because they trusted some person. I even knew of this one person who went into a corp, became a director (Think like a vice president or something close to that), got a vote to remove the owner of the corp, became the owner, kicked everyone out of the corp, stole everything, and took over the corp. Believe me, this isn't rare either. You can look on youtube and see people who steal things ALL the time from other people and then LAUGH about it. But that's eve.
Also, many players trick new players into stealing from them. If you're in space and you see a cargo container... DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FROM IT. If you take something from it, you're stealing from that player and that player can kill you WITHOUT any interference from concord. Once again he can kill you without punishment, he can kill you without taking any penalty. People will trick new players in many ways. Naming cargo containers in space with YOUR name to make you think it's your cargo container in hopes you take it so they can kill you.
Just stay away from that, at least until you're comfortable with the game and know what you're doing.
So I hope that might give you a better idea of some of the things in eve that many people seem to leave out.
Now, there's a lot you can do in eve, you can start a corporation (ie. guild), you can have your own station, you can mine from moons and get tons of resources and make ridiculous amounts of money. You can fly huge ships and partake in amazingly epic battles with hundreds of ships...
But this all takes time.
Eve isn't like a normal game, you don't really have a "level". You can't just get to level 80 and woo now you can do everything. This game is based off of skills and skillpoints. Each skill can be leveled up 5 times. Each level of a skill takes a certain amount of time. Training a skill to level 1 might take you 15 minutes, level 2 might take you an hour, level 3 might take you 8 hours, level 4 might take you a whole day, level 5 might take you a week. Literally.
Skills in eve keep training even when you're not playing, so if you log off your skill keeps training. There are skills in eve that can literally take weeks and months. If you want to fly a titan (biggest ship in the game) for a new player it would take them about an entire year to get all the skills just to learn how to fly it. Now you have to purchase these skills which would be probably around 5 billion isk. Then you have to buy (Or build) the ship, and fittings.
Eve is a game that takes time and it's definitely not for everyone.
If you're thinking about buying this game, there is a free trial. I can give you a 21 day trial or you can get a 14 day trial from the eve online website. I would highly recommended you do the trial, see how it is and what you think before you buy it.
Also speaking about money.. Eve does require a monthly fee. It's $15. However, you can buy game time with ISK. Each "plex" is around 250million isk and adds 30 days of game time. So if you have lots of isk you can buy plex's and not have to pay for eve's monthly fee. So theoretically, after a while you can eventually never have to pay for eve again. Also, on the flip side.. if you need ISK you can sell plex's. Which are $15 and sell for, as I mentioned earlier around 250million isk.
Also to note, when you start eve and have a subscription it doesn't just end when the subscription ends. If you do NOT cancel the subscription it will renew EVEN IF YOU DON'T TELL IT TO. Once again, it WILL automatically RENEW at the end of the subscription if you do NOT cancel it.
Keep that in mind.
Also, eve has free expansions. Whenever CCP comes out with something new for eve, it's free. You don't need to buy some expansion, it's free. Dominion was just released last year which was a major overhaul of practically everything in the game and how it looks. They updated all the visuals and it looks fantastic. Later this year they should be introducing walking in stations, and planetary flying. Eve is always growing, it might be slow, but each time they add something it's always amazing and they put a lot of work into the game and it really shows.
Anyways, I know this was long and I apologize, but there's so much to eve I can't even scratch the surface. I hope this helps, thank you for reading.
Brilliant, but not for everyone. ^ If you are a fan of MMORPG and sci fi, then EVE is a sure bet to be enjoyable. The graphics are interesting, the mechanics complicated enough to stay interesting even a while into the game, and the PVP amazing. The biggest part of the world, however, is the single-shard idea, where the entire game is played on a single world, not in separate realms. This leads to actual, dynamic changes in the world that impacts everyone in the game. With the new patches this has become even more important, with player corporations (guilds, for the layman) being able to actually *take over* entire parts of the world. That's right, kids, forget topping the arena charts. How would you like to own your own slice of the universe?
Plus, the game mechanics are very interesting. There are a million ways to play well, but it's not so complicated that a person reasonably versed in math can't pick up easily. And that's where the game's biggest caveat comes in. Let me say this: EVE Online may be the single most difficult game to pick up and play on the net. The entire game is based around laissez faire economics. Become rich from pirating? Fine. Insider trading? Sure, why not? There are no real laws. While this gives the player wonderful freedom, it also makes it horribly (or wonderfully, in my opinion) unforgiving, even to new pilots. CCP has put in many more tutorials, but the game will always have a learning curve like a sheer cliff.
But I'll repeat this: anyone that can do math should be able to get good at EVE. I STRONGLY advise everyone to at least give it a shot, you won't regret it.
Love the game but has real account security issues ^ I've been playing this game for over a year now and I really do enjoy it. It's difficult but if you want to play something that doesn't railroad you into quests and levels then this is a great game.
That said, I have to point out some real issues to anyone thinking of getting involved. The forums are, according to CCP, a major source of hacking into your account. What I was told today is that email, forums, 3rd party sites and basically all other use of your computer may result in your account being hacked via key loggers and such. These hackers are very active and very abundant.
The weakest link in the game is your character and it's clone. Should a hacker access your account he can (and probably will) destroy your clone back up and kill off your character leaving you to start all over again. After robbing you, naturally. There is no means to defend yourself against this.
CCP does not see this as their problem. They MIGHT return some lost money (called Isk) but that isn't a certainty. As for your character...basically it's an "oh well" from their view point.
So buyer beware. It's a fun game but you might easily be wiped out by a gold farmer through no fault of your own and you're just out of luck. Pretty poor service for something that you pay amonthly fee for.
WARNING: DO NOT BUY IF YOU HAVE AN EXISTING ACCOUNT! ^ WARNING: DO NOT BUY IF YOU HAVE AN EXISTING ACCOUNT. To get the "Special Edition" items such as the ship, you need to create a new account. NOWHERE on the box is this mentioned nor on the item's description here. I had to find out the hard way, only getting a response from EVE support "this is how marketing planned it, sorry". I think the game is good, but shafting existing players like this really irritates me.
You will get this message when you try to activate the code: "CONFIRMATION REQUIRED You have just entered a code from the Atari Retail Box. If you proceed, it will add 60 days of game time to the current account, but you will not receive the bonus items. IMPORTANT If you would like to redeem the bonus items as well as the 60 days of game time, click CANCEL and then create a NEW ACCOUNT using this code. If you still would like to apply just the game time to the current account, then click OK."
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