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09-19-2005, 05:49 AM
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Eve Online

The greatest game.

EVER.

Watch this trailer; http://myeve.eve-online.com/download...wnload&vid=143

Visit this site; http://www.eve-online.com/
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09-19-2005, 07:21 AM
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Meh, WoW's better >.>

Anyway, is this just one of those games where you pilot a space-ship and can't really control your ''character'', if not, I'd find it more interesting
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Was there not a topic about this already? Or was this the more general MMO one?

Anyway it can stay..
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Meh, WoW's better >.>

Anyway, is this just one of those games where you pilot a space-ship and can't really control your ''character'', if not, I'd find it more interesting
HAHAHA!

That was HUGELY amusing. The way you made the assertion that Fantasy MMORPG number 1354360582-7 is better than Eve Online, and THEN asked what it was like. Nice to know that people judge first, ask questions later.

Did you even watch the video? If not, watch it.

To answer your question; Eve-Online allows you MORE control of your character than any other game I've played, and that includes WoW. There is no endgame, there are no levels, and you don't have to use a skill for it to train.

Eve-Online is about the persuit of whatever you want to persue. You can read the website for more details about what the game offers, but to give you a general idea about the things you can do;

-Choose from over 50 different ships of varying size, cost, rarity, origin, and role, from stealthed covert ops ships, fast frigates, and awesome faction cruisers, to big battlehardened battleships and mighty dreadnaughts.
-Strategically outfit your vessel in billions of different combinations of items, to give you that edge you need on the battlefield or to boost the speed of that cargo ship.
-Literally hundreds of items, ranging from weapons, armour, electronic warfare, and weapon upgrades, to afterburners, micro warp drives, sensor equipment and coprocessors.
-No attribute is ever cast-in-stone. Skills effect everything from the elemental resistances of the shields to the damage of your guns and how much ore you mine per minute.
-Skills train at all times, regardless of whether you're logged off or in the heat of battle. Your character has attributes (intelligence, charisma, willpower, etc.) that detirmine how long a skill takes to train, and these attributes can be increased from 1 to any number with the use of learning skills and implants.
-Faction ships and items mean that the player can potentially fly all ships in game. From awesomely evil looking pirate ships such as the Ashimmu and Machariel, to the rather more standard looking but stunningly powerful Navy Issue vessels.
-Variety of gameplay; you choose what you want to do, and the universe is pretty much yours for the taking if you're smart enough to work out how to take it. Research, Manufacturing, Mining, Corporation Management, Agent Missions, Deadspace Complexes (PVE), PVP, PVM (ratting/npc killing), and even spying on the enemy in a cloaked stealth ship.
-No more stupid clans. Players found and control ingame "corporations" instead, and can declare war against other corporations. Corporations can join or form alliances with other corporations, and these alliances can then go on to conquer whole regions of space (usually consisting of around a hundred or so solar systems).
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HAHAHA!

That was HUGELY amusing. The way you made the assertion that Fantasy MMORPG number 1354360582-7 is better than Eve Online, and THEN asked what it was like. Nice to know that people judge first, ask questions later.
Sorry for making a light-hearted joke, *sigh*
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Seriously, I recommend all of you get into this. If you havn't already seen the trailer, see it now. Also, if you want a 14 day free trial, me or Dino can hook you up with one.
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Seriously, I recommend all of you get into this. If you havn't already seen the trailer, see it now. Also, if you want a 14 day free trial, me or Dino can hook you up with one.
Yep, let us know what your email address is and we'll get you a free trial through the buddy program.
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Would you gain anything out of me doing the free trial? Because unless it benifits someone else i can't be arsed...
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Would you gain anything out of me doing the free trial? Because unless it benifits someone else i can't be arsed...
I'd gain a warm fuzzy feeling.
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And I gain... ummm... nothing...
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We need to post some explosinos I think. I'll go kill something in a bit and take a few screenies.
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As will I.
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I got this game in America. Gonna install it later. More info when I make a bloody character.
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I'm gonna download Fraps and go out pirate hunting, so you can all see a bit of action. It will require a bit of downloading though, so it may not be for you 56k-ers..
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56k + eve does not mix anyway, even if eve likes to claim to be 56k friendly, it's not.
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I managed to get two 30 sec shots of me fighting pirates but for some reason it majorly fucked up my framerate (unfortunately, I only caught one of the explosions. Also, it was a small one ). All I have to do now is find somewhere that will let me host 84 megs of video.
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Lol, I don't think such a place exists. Let's just link to the goddamn eve video section. It will save a lot of time and wheezing due to running up steep steps in a fat man costume. (or something)

http://myeve.eve-online.com/download/videos/?type=5

Travel hither, and may ye viddy yonder moving pictures!
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Why didn't we think of that before? Hehe.

The newest video on the site is way better than me or Dino could throw up. Not to mention has some great music.
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Personally I don't like to show people those videos, because I prefer to show them what the game is ACTUALLY like. Those trailers are nothing but glorified salesmanship, and respresent nothing of the game other than the graphics that were taken from the game. That's not to say they aren't amazing, they're just not eve.

Unless you've found a way to make your frigate do backflips through complexes while using that complicated and confusing observer mode and somehow layer screenshake and motion blur effects onto the game. If you can do all that while listening to Junkie XL in the background then the trailers ARE eve. LOL.
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Dino, Congrats.
You showed me we now have one thing in common: We both love MMORPGs.
So far I have only seen 1:09 of the trailer, and I am already speechless.
I must buy this game.
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Eh guys, bit of a problem. I tried to make an account, but the only credit card options are VISA, Mastercard and American Express. I have none of those. Is there a way to work around this?
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Eh guys, bit of a problem. I tried to make an account, but the only credit card options are VISA, Mastercard and American Express. I have none of those. Is there a way to work around this?
Yes, buy a retail version.
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Eh guys, bit of a problem. I tried to make an account, but the only credit card options are VISA, Mastercard and American Express. I have none of those. Is there a way to work around this?
Steal your parent's card.

OR, use AFOS's option. Whichever works better for you.
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Yeah, buying retail usually works out better with me...
Except with half life, Should have gotten the Gold Pack V_V.
And Earth and beyond, When my stepdad finally agreed to let me use his credit card, I installed and found out that they took the servers offline a week before.
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Steal your parent's card.

OR, use AFOS's option. Whichever works better for you.
Well my parents are paying anyway, but they don't have a VISA.

And sorry if this makes me sound like a total dipshit, but what the Hell is retail version?
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The retail version is the one you find in a shop.

But you still need to subscribe... so actually I guess AFOS's suggestion wouldn't work, because you still need a card for your sub.

And your parents don't have a visa?! Fucking hell. Tell them to grow the hell up.
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You can buy this game in a store?! I thought one had to download it. Now I'm considering this even more.

Some questions: Can you have more than one ship? If so, can you have multiple ships at one time? If so, can you control multiple ships at one time?

This game looks to be one of the pimping-est games I've ever seen.
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The retail version is the one you find in a shop.

But you still need to subscribe... so actually I guess AFOS's suggestion wouldn't work, because you still need a card for your sub.

And your parents don't have a visa?! Fucking hell. Tell them to grow the hell up.
I have bought it in store, in America.

And our Visa just expired, no idea if they're getting a new one.
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You can buy this game in a store?! I thought one had to download it. Now I'm considering this even more.

Some questions: Can you have more than one ship? If so, can you have multiple ships at one time? If so, can you control multiple ships at one time?

This game looks to be one of the pimping-est games I've ever seen.
You can buy the game in store, AND you can download it. Downloading it has an advantage over buying it, in that you get the latest version so you don't need to patch anything, AND it's free.

You CAN have more than one ship. I currently have every single tech level 1 non-faction ship in the game, as well as a few faction ships, and some tech level 2 vessels. You can have all your ships in one station or have them spread out all over space. However you cannot fly more than one ship at once - you're not superman you know! You're a pilot who lives in a little pod, which is able to do the job of an entire starship crew - which is sometimes as many as 5000 people! So be thankful you don't have to hire anyone!

Just a little aside; Many people compare the starships of the Eve universe to the space craft of our world, which is the wrong way to look at it. In Eve, space flight was reinvented, so things are done very differently, but I do believe it makes it a more interesting experience.
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Although you can buy EVE in the shops, it can be quite hard to find. It took me ages to find my copy.

Also, if you're wondering what Dino means about space flight being reinvented, here's a bit of the back story that may explain it a bit more.

EVE takes place in a cluster of stars far from mankind’s original habitat, planet Earth. How far away, and whether or not that cradle of civilization still exists, is a mystery. Humans arrived through a natural wormhole and, gazing up upon an alien sky they had never seen, were completely unable to determine where this new world was located. From the New Eden solar system, where the gate of EVE once led to the old world, humans expanded in all directions at a furious pace, exploring and colonizing rapidly.

Then, unexpectedly and seemingly unprovoked, the EVE gate collapsed in an apocalyptic catastrophe of a scale never before witnessed by the human race, ruining the New Eden system in the process. Thousands of small colonies were left in complete isolation to fend for themselves, cut off from the old world. For millennia they endured, clinging to the brink of extinction, and only a handful managed to survive.

Of those that lasted, five were to rise up and become the major empires that, between them, hold the balance of power in the world of EVE. Today, they are known as the Amarr Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State, the Minmatar Republic, and the Jovian Empire. Additionally, the world is full of several small, independent factions and states.

For more than a century, the five empires have lived together in relative peace. They’ve continually strived to maintain this peace, as each faction realizes only too well the grave consequences of a massive inter-stellar war. Recent technological breakthroughs in FTL (Faster Than Light) travel, and the ensuing increase in space travelers, have shaken, but not broken, the fragile peace... at least not yet.


So in other words, because the colonies were cut off from earth all those millenia ago, they pretty much had to reinvent civlisation all over again.

Also, to give you an idea of how long ago they were cut off from Earth. The current year in EVE-Online is 23,343 AD. That is, of course going by Earth years.
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