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Eve Online

I don't play anymore. Played for about a year, and yes the learning curve is steep. Look for some reviews on the product before you buy. I had fun while I played, but in the end, I just got bored with it.

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reply to dogg_man_the
i'm on there, but i do allot of trade and stuff so i'm not on constantly.

as for learning curve, »go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/0903/···_eve.jpg that describes it pretty good.

reply to dogg_man_the
lol thats funny bonez, im a long time FFXI online player but lost interest in the game.
Ill ask some people I know that used to play if I can use their account before I commit to it.
Thanks for the feedback..

reply to dogg_man_the
been playing for 4 years or so still do but not as much

reply to dogg_man_the
I'm on there right now, part of an industrial corp supporting a PvP Alliance. Spend time mining, spend some time running missions, and spend some time doing PvP roams and home defence.

It's a fun game, in my opinion. It does have a steep learning curve, and losing a ship that might well have taken months of saving isk to buy can suck but the game draws me back everytime.

reply to dogg_man_the
I had a trial for 30 days, saw something like 50k people online. Played for about 10hrs, decided game's not for me.

reply to dogg_man_the
Been playing since November 2005, so a bit over 4 years, though I took a few breaks of 2-3 months...

I wrote a guide on mining which made me famous, then 1.5 year ago I founded my own corp and alliance. Our alliance was recently kicked out of Geminate after the Northern Coalition, a major team-up of the biggest and most powerful alliances up North (from Vale of the Silent all the way to Cloud Rings, Venal excluded), which we are a member of, was forced to fight on two fronts (Pure Blind against Triumvirate mkIII, Ev0ke and their pets, and Geminate, against Atlas, Solar, XXXXXLeGionxXxXx, all of the fucking russian block and all their pets. The war lasted two months and since Dominion, the latest expansion, the game is utterly fucked in fleet battles. Local chat would spike well above 1000 people and while it was lag free before, it turned into a mess... nodes would crash, grid wouldn't load... basically the game mechanics forced fleet battles of several hundred people, but the server no longer supports it...

Here is an influence map of the entire EVE-verse updated once a day to reflect sovereignty holders.
»dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Veri···ence.png

DOTLAN.Eve statistics, top alliances according to systems held, outposts, or membership count. Site is a bit bugged at the moment but you'll get the idea.
»evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/

My alliance (of which I am the co founder and no longer run full time. I once took a sabbatical off work and university and ended up being too bored and took on this EVE project... running a 0.0 alliance is a full time job).
»evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/Wild···ropriate.

In the end EVE is a very diverse game but it is not for the impatient or the weak. PvP penalty is fierce, the learning curve steep, and the 0.0 life ruthless and sometimes, frustrating... it's a perfect micro simulation of a capitalist world driven by corporatism, where even the economy is 95% player driven...from the building blocks needed to the final products on market.

our corp was going to join WI until just after dominion when 90% of the territory lapsed within a week.

i'm fine just sitting out in CL and messing with TLB and Slammers.

reply to TigerLord
Well if you still play and have room for a noob let me know lol.

reply to dogg_man_the
EVE is an interesting game. just remember in space of .5 and above you are semi safe(CONCORD will instagib someone who shoots you). treat anything .4 and lower like going to Camden, NJ* you had better be fast or you better be ready to start shootin because well out there like Camden at night you never know when someone might try and jack you.

*Disclaimer: in truth .4 space is still safer then Camden.
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reply to dogg_man_the
Wow after playing for a little bit I noticed the grind in this game is well long.

Anyone have a toon to donate to me lol.

reply to dogg_man_the
I was an alliance leader whose alliance held total ownership over 4 regions. Ownership of the valuable moons in 2 low sec regions. Unofficial ownership of 1 npc region. The other npc region we more or less had our pvpers and pets "securing" but it was basically meant to be left as a roamers paradise.

Then I started playing this other mmog called In Real Life. I quit. The other leader of the alliance took full control and then power tripped. The alliance self immolated quickly afterwards.

even more ironically. I in conjunction with a handful of other people are the ones who designed the plan to destroy wildly inappropriate; or at least bust them out of their sov. the plan was to have multiple waves of affiliated but unaffiliated between waves. soon as dominion happened. the 1st wave would jump in there. Wouldnt get far. 2nd wave would come in and spank wi on a 2nd side but not be with the first wave. So when the 1st is weak, wi and 2nd are spanking them. then when our force moves in. everyone is weak except us.

Problem was.. they got bored and all went at once. at the same time i set g carrier 5 training and practically never logged in. add on top of that.. a fair number of totally neutrals also showed up. which could have been easily managed if the plan was followed. On top of that.. our main spy was having too much fun trolling directors being quite offensive and funny. Got himself kicked. We ofcoarse and obviously were successful. Though not for ourselves. I wasnt around at all. The rest of the leadershipbasically left and the whole corp died and alliance died soon after.

Oh well. im not sure when ill get back into the game. really dont think ill ever run anything again. dont have the time.

reply to dogg_man_the
No matter what was planned, it eventually boils down to number games. Solar Fleet had tried on two occasions to kick us out of Geminate and failed.

The second time around though, when Atlas napped half the east and came with all their pets, we were severely outnumbered. If local ramped up to 1200, 700-800 would easily be the Atlas nap train. The only one available to help was Razor, as every other NC entities were needed in PB to help Mostly Harmless against TRI and their nap train.

Geminate is a terrible region though, so the loss was small. You morons however let BoB/Ken/IT regain control of Querious AND Fountain, and considering even Pandemic Legion had to fold and leave, you guys were major idiots to let that happen.

It won't take long before they come after everyone else, and you'll be sorry for your shortsightedness. I'm sure IT will try to take Tribute Fortress again, but just like the MAX campaign where they got spanked so hard they decided to redeploy down south to deal with Goons (lol), they'll fail again, unless of course, the morons down south like AAA and Atlas nap them for the sake of it.

goon has been seriously neutered after the whole alliance basically fell apart, so it's basically a smash and grab down there.

and i'm not exactly in a "sov holding" alliance, more of a band of raiders around cloud ring, mostly just picking on big newbie alliances, tough love in 00 sec :P hell we had to TELL them how to warp towards a cyno so we could bait them.

reply to dogg_man_the
lol i just got a stealth bomber, no clue why as i dont do 0.0 but hey i can fly it so why not add it to my collection!

that said i am tempted to get about 30km behind some snipers at a .4 gate, sit cloaked and wait for em to gank someone and then Bombs Away! while they are distracted. its a hound, at least till i get my Caldari Frigate to 5
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reply to BonezX
well damn! that would have been a riot. i dare not risk EC-P8R though lol.(unless that system has cooled down a bit, for a short time that place was always hot)
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reply to TigerLord

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No matter what was planned, it eventually boils down to number games. Solar Fleet had tried on two occasions to kick us out of Geminate and failed.

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The only one available to help was Razor, as every other NC entities were needed in PB to help Mostly Harmless against TRI and their nap train.

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Geminate is a terrible region though, so the loss was small.

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You morons however let BoB/Ken/IT regain control of Querious AND Fountain, and considering even Pandemic Legion had to fold and leave, you guys were major idiots to let that happen.

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It won't take long before they come after everyone else, and you'll be sorry for your shortsightedness.

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I'm sure IT will try to take Tribute Fortress again,

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