I have 2 accounts on Eve atm. The first couple of months of experience were great. Spent a couple months in 0.0 space and went broke with all the loss of ships. I still login to change my skills, but dont really play for real anymore.


Its lacking content. Developers of the game basically state that its a 'pvp' game. and thats their response for the lack of content. But its all good, i'm glad you like the game. If you need any startup cash, put Frumph on your friends list and I can float you a million isk or so.

Yes, I played. It is absolutely gorgeous and fun for just a short time. It gets tedious quickly.

Playing it at the moment. 3 accts and lots of friends.
It has plenty of content, with a market almost completely player driven.
It is by far the best mmorpg I have played.

0.0 is not for the faint of heart, or those who don't have an easy way to get iskies. Detorid is my home in 0.0, while a constellation in Domain is my empire home (low sec constellation).

Here is probably the best bit of advice for anyone in a system below .5 security, "Don't use it if you can't afford to lose it." You can have just as much fun in a frigate as a battleship.

Aggiekev,

Worst I have been in so far is a .4. I fly a Frigate at the moment and am trying to convert it to a stealth missle ship. This looks like it will take some time but my goal is to do covert ops type stuff and perhpas find a good corp should they need my services.

I played this game for about 6 months. I was very impressed at first at the sheer scale of the game, and the amount of people in one server. I believe they just broke the 8 or 9k barrier whilst I was playing. Anyone know the maximum number of people they've ever had playing at once? I bet it's miles more than when I played it.

Although I enjoyed Eve, I soon got bored through the overall lack of content and the time it takes to get anything done. Once you have your battleship, there doesn't seem to much more to work towards.

I didn't get past the tutorial.

I believe the max number of people logged on exceeded about 20K...if you can believe that. I played for about 6 months, a great game, but the lack of content and tedious "Agent" missions turned me off to the game. Getting ganked at a Warp gate can ruin your day, especially after buying some new items where you have to go through low secruity space to get back to your HQ

One notorious ganker was a guy named Ginger Magician if I remember correctly. I understand in a PvP game anything goes, but this guy would snipe in a Battleship from miles away...and would scramble your warp drive so you were a sitting duck.

Lesson learned: Never negiotiate with space pirates, you'll always get ganked in the end by the four of them that are cloaked. Freakin space pirates...

And now I'm happy playing GalCiv II, far, far, away from Ginger Magician.

I played Eve for around 10 months ("Breuer" in the remote chance anyone recognizes the name). While I really liked it at first, as others said it got annoying after a while. I think I would have liked it better as a single player game because:
* this would have allowed some of the more tedius elements (MINING!) to be automated
* I wouldn't need to be playing the game constantly to stay competetive in the market and things like that (or find that my station had been popped while I was sleeping or something)
* the combat probably would have been more enjoyable (for me). All the fights I took part in were either hugely lopsided and over almost immediately or involved huge fleets on different ends of a stargate just waiting for hours and hours for someone to make a move and start the fight. Then when the combat finally did happen the there'd be such a large delay that the fight would pretty much be over by the time the new star system finished loading. And this was running the game on a T1 line.
* no monthly fees

Personally I'd love a game like Eve where you could run a mining or trading business or something like that that didn't have Eve's requirement of being almost a second job. I guess X3 allows something like that, but I've heard quite a few bad things about that game as well.