So now I'm four and a half days into the world of EVE and loving every minute of it. As a consequence all other projects have been put on hold (I knew this would happen) and stand idle and waiting until the sirens cry diminishes its potency and I return to the equilibirum of my average day... but that may take a while though. EVE is, without a doubt the best computer game I have ever played.
I won't labour the point and post endlessly about what I am getting up to in this expansive virtual reality, but I will post some of the images I sreencap along the way because I think they are pretty.
Currently I am employed by the Black Dhalia Corp, (who are a group of mostly European players as it turns out) who have founded a corporation to pool resources and fight missions and so on. This is standard operating procedure for the game and there are tens of thousands of corporations to choose between.
I won't labour the point and post endlessly about what I am getting up to in this expansive virtual reality, but I will post some of the images I sreencap along the way because I think they are pretty.
Currently I am employed by the Black Dhalia Corp, (who are a group of mostly European players as it turns out) who have founded a corporation to pool resources and fight missions and so on. This is standard operating procedure for the game and there are tens of thousands of corporations to choose between.
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BDC is a small operation at this stage. Populated by 'noobs' like me, struggling to mine resources and win lucrative contracts from either the authorities, or other, larger and richer corporations.
The way the whole thing works is like a role playing game that runs in real time with players choosing how to interact. At this point I have not fought another player, only 'rats'. I have seen some other players marked as 'pirates' and some had a considerable bounty, but in my tiny ships I have yet to be a worthy opponent to any one. Even the rats are dangerous to me. (Rats are computer generated enemies scattered in 'safe' regions for new comers to cut their teeth on.
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The idea is as time goes by, players graduate out into the uncharted and dangerous regions of space where older players wage corp war against each other. Thats several weeks if not months away from where I am now and it remains to be seen if the game can hold my interest for that long (I suspect it might). As things stand now, I have two ships. A small miner and a small frigate, but I spend 80% of my tme in the miner since I have yet to build up the skills needd to successfully fight my frigate... learning skills in EVE is a slow and labourious business and without them you can't use any tech...
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Boy, am I fighting the urge to get into this game. The eye candy is almost too much to bear. :p
Its a real time waster... LOL
Its dangerous as well. You can lose everything in an instant if you've not insured yourself.
I was just killed by a pirate in a belt zone. Totally blown away and then 'pod killed' as I floated helplessly in my life pod. I had an insurance clone though so I'm still in the game.
It looks like another corp. One more powerful than we are, is targetting us. The same guy who killed me, killed one of my team yesterday and my last ship was also lost to this other corps.
I want revenge, but we're too weak. Far too weak.
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