I need to find a good group of carebear miners to put my alt in. Preferably with some 0.0 space. It'd also be nice to know some okgamer toons for eve-online.
Any eve fans out there?
If not, let me give you a little description. Eve is a GIGANTIC MMO that currently sports the most players connected to a single concurrent universe of any MMO ever. It's space based, heavily player based, and has one of the most realistic working economies of any game. They hired a PHD in economics not to far back to manage it all.
Here are a few things that are "special" about eve:
-The skills are trained online or off. Online your knowledge of the game and your capabilities are far more useful than the skills you've trained. After you've been to war in eve you'll look at Wow and say "Raid smaid, 25 mans are nothing by comparison".
-Eve is all PvP. There is an "empire" area where you're very unlikely to be shot at but the majority of the game takes place shooting at other pilots.
-There is no ceiling. No level caps, no way to earn everything, it's nearly impossible for most people, dare I say, even rich people to have one of everything in the game. You will never finish it. Do not start trying to finish the game or even your character. This can't be done. I've watched people try for seven years.
-Eve has a wildly passionate community. There's a radio station, tv station, independent map makers etc the list goes on.
-More people play WoW, but not nearly as many on any given server/world.
-The NPC missions and achievements are for teh suk because it's so PvP based. Making money is boring and time consuming and ships cost millions where the average mission/day mining will only get you enough for basic ships or supplies. The silver lining is evading some pirates or blowing one to smithereens, or creating a corp where you conquer some 0.0 space and start making stuff for war.
-Wars in eve are really wars. Thousands against thousands. I was once in a fleet of 250 who went out in mass to take over some low security space. By now that number is far smaller than whatever the largest fleet was/is.
-Eve is wildly addictive.
I love eve.