EVE Online

[Grallon]

I tried this thing twice - both times I lost control of my first ship minutes after launch so I promptly shut down the thing and didn't look back.



G.

[Grey Fox]

I've played it quite often.

It's easier & less time consuming to just read Tenton hammer articles on the subject instead.

[CountDeMoney]

I gotta admit, I've always found the premise of EVE interesting, but I just can't justify getting into a paid-sub MMO with that kind of time sink.

This is one game where there's absolutely no dishonor in carebearism.

[CountDeMoney]

The battle began when someone forgot to check the auto-renew box on their sovereignty payment, causing a region of space to slip out from one faction's control and another to try to claim it.

Think he got kicked out of the corp?

[crazy canuck]

That sounds really interesting.

But how much time must one devote to the game to make it to that stage?  One day someone is going to identify how much economic productivity was lost to games like this 

[DontSayBanana]

This is one game where there's absolutely no dishonor in carebearism.

I actually had to look up carebear, and that's one of the things that's kept me from the game- I'd need a freaking dictionary to keep up with the jargon.

Anyway, according to the EVE definition, I'm not quite a care bear- I'm not gonna bitch and whine if I find myself in a PvP situation, I'll just avoid getting into one in the first place.  I'd probably run missions; while mining looks like a decent way to make money, EVE seems like it's that special kind of lawless where I'd always have to be worried about pirates, no matter what.

[Berkut]

High sec mining is about 99.5% safe as long as you are not an idiot. I've never once lost a mining ship in high sec.

[Alcibiades]

This is one game where there's absolutely no dishonor in carebearism.

I actually had to look up carebear, and that's one of the things that's kept me from the game- I'd need a freaking dictionary to keep up with the jargon.

Anyway, according to the EVE definition, I'm not quite a care bear- I'm not gonna bitch and whine if I find myself in a PvP situation, I'll just avoid getting into one in the first place.  I'd probably run missions; while mining looks like a decent way to make money, EVE seems like it's that special kind of lawless where I'd always have to be worried about pirates, no matter what.

That's what a carebear is

[Syt]

Actually, you can make quite a bit of money never leaving a station once you've settled into a trading hub, just trading for margins on the goods exchange and, once you have enough cash, pay others to do the manual labor.

[katmai]

Actually, you can make quite a bit of money never leaving a station once you've settled into a trading hub, just trading for margins on the goods exchange and, once you have enough cash, pay others to do the manual labor.

how Ed Anger of you.

[Grey Fox]

Spreadsheet online, eh.

[Berkut]

I joined a new corp.

They are the high sec arm of a WH corp that lives in a C5 WH.

They are HS based, but do a lot of low sec roaming, high sec carebear stuff, and what is most interesting is that a bunch of them are very into exploration, both WH and sites.

The WH corp has a nice T3 cruiser program where you can buy a T3 at below build cost, so I've been trying out the Legion. Pretty nice.

Anyway, if anyone is interested, drop me a PM.

[Barrister]

I joined a new corp.

They are the high sec arm of a WH corp that lives in a C5 WH.

They are HS based, but do a lot of low sec roaming, high sec carebear stuff, and what is most interesting is that a bunch of them are very into exploration, both WH and sites.

The WH corp has a nice T3 cruiser program where you can buy a T3 at below build cost, so I've been trying out the Legion. Pretty nice.

Anyway, if anyone is interested, drop me a PM.

Berkut - your post does not have enough acronyms.  Please fix ASAP.  I could almost, but not quite, understand what you were saying.

[Berkut]

LOL

Let's see...

WH - Wormhole
C5 - WH classification
HS - High Sec, referring to the security status of the area of space. HS = Carebear land...mostly.
T3 - Tier 3. Ships are divided (basically) into three tiers, with each higher tier being of higher technology level and generally taking more skills to fily effectively. The only Tier 3 ships are the T3 Cruisers, also called Strategic Cruisers. Suffice it to say that they are pretty cool in the context of the game.

I think that covers all my acronyms.

[CountDeMoney]

Only took you how many years to go into a wormhole, Berkut?