http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/31/11334014/eve-online-war

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The host of the game CCP named the conflict "word war bee"  because it is everyone else against goons'n'freinds and the goons are using a bee as mascot. They even made matching character background pictures for the players matching the side they are fighting on. I think Eve is the best PVP game out there.

Dullknife wrote on Apr 8^th, 2016 at 2:32pm:

Here

It's a cash game, though.  Pretty tough P2Win environment.  If online casinos are involved, then you aren't going to get anywhere without paying serious cash.  And I don't find it fun to be an ant that gets stepped on repeatedly.

...aaaaand not a single fuck was given: kill yourselves, faggots.

There's still a certain amount of amusement to be gained though. You can take out a mining ship in high security space with a small group of destroyers (3 or 4 max), which takes about a week to train into. Even later down the line, you can fuck up someones day by being in completely the wrong place at the right time.

Cloaked strategic cruisers are great fun too, especially when you drop one onto a small roam and decloak because you bounced off their tackler. Never seen someone move 10 systems away so fast 

Subbed for 6 month because I keep having a lot of fun with the game. It’s true that you can basically buy anything in EVE including the biggest ships and maxxed out toons. But we are talking about thousands of $ here and not much players pay that much. Most players don’t care how big their ship is and simply group up to shot at others.

I joined a mining “PUG” fleet, got bored with them, lured them to a PVE isle surrounded by PVP areas and went AFK. It’s relatively save to cross those PVP system when you check for kills in the last 3 hours before you warp through. But I told a group famous for ganking miners (CODE.) where the fleet was mining  and everyone got killed on the way back home. My noobship couldn’t even pick up all the ore that was floating in space. While the gankers appreciated the hint were to set the trap they shot me for giggles regardless. This is EVE, I like it.

If you use a buddy invite link you get 21 instead of 14 days trail and up to 30 days extra when you sub. Don’t use the standard trial accounts, those screw you over two times compared to an buddy invite and you can’t get invited retroactive. Buddy link from my account:
http://secure.eveonline.com/trial/?invc=15f00cd9-9dd4-47e4-902f-41830ff1e06e&act...


Most of the really funny things follow the money vs. friends pattern:
- Player A is bad at finding friends and/or has bad judgement and has therefore to solo the game. Everything takes forever to accomplish if you are on your own, everything not totally boring (like high sec mining) is “group up or die”. If player A has some spare cash he can buy ingame currency, advanced characters and big ships totally legit and does so.

- Player B, C and D are halfway competed and set a trap for the kind of players like A is.

- Gang kills solo big ship and enjoys the salt. Tears are real when the money involved was real too. Even scamming, robbing or killing stuff just for giggles and because you can is encouraged.

EVE  goes FTP too.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/08/31/eve-online-going-free-to-play-after-13-ye...

If they keep it like that all you need will be 5+ freinds and you can harvest tears with little effort and zero risk/money involved. Imagine if you start soloing a higher level dungeon there was the risk that a bunch of freeloaders wait for you with a "mass kobolds attack" - style ambush. And if you can't fight them off you loose all the gear on you. Sounds good? Only low level dungeon would be save bacause kobolds can't attack you there.

somenewnoob wrote on Sep 7^th, 2016 at 4:37pm:


Thanks, I don't think I will but I found some ISK-fountains anyway. EVE is all about the Meta-Game.. I like.

string table error, tableDID wrote on Oct 28^th, 2016 at 3:20am:


Right?  Crazy how different some dev teams' approaches are.

And yet, there are still plenty of whiners.

I just want to grab them and shake them and show them what it could be like.

Eve takes up roughly 86% of my free time these days.  Freakin' love it.  I joined a player corp on my first day, and it disintegrated in a flash of surreal paranoia a couple of weeks later, so I've been stumbling my way through on my own, each lesson in mechanics more expensive than the last.