http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23489293

We fight how many World Wars? And nothing.

They have one lousy battle and it's BBC news.


We're going to need a hardware update...it's time to get back to at least 10k players, so we can have a massive World War and get on the news.

that is cool as fluff

i'm not all that interested in paying real money to build a virtual spaceship and then have that spaceship destroyed by a bunch of bots.

You probably dont have to pay real money.

I wonder if ARROW are still in EVE. I bet they have fluff spaceships not super gucci ones.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/..._%28Player_corporation%29

that sounds like a lot of fun. I am going to try it out and see how it goes.

qz's server could blow up if there was 4k players fighting against eachother.

I have played Eve off and on for the last 6 years. It is quite fun, and if you play right, you can play for free.

There are bots in Eve, but not ones that can destroy your stuff. More like mining bots, and shipping bots.

Eve costs about $8 a month to play. The difference with Eve is that if you want to buy newer, fancier stuff, you can buy "game time" and then sell it in the game for eve credits. The way they have set up the system, you can buy and sell these "PLEX" cards in game, so that someone industrious enough could buy your game time cards, for Eve money. He gets a month of play, you get a few hundred million credits in game. You end up paying real life dollars if you choose to, and the other guy pays $0 real life dollars to play the game. Its actually a pretty good system.

What's more interesting is that when you buy these game time cards in game, they become a real item. You transport them, store them, and sell them on the eve market. So if you are travelling in your ship with one, and you get blown up, it gets blown up too. They can also be looted. One player a few years ago had 75 of these blown up on his ship, which equated to about $2500 worth of game time...You can't however spend money to level up your character, that is strictly time based.

If you are thinking of exploring Eve, just know that it isn't WoW. It is cut throat, and war heavy. There is nothing in the game that is without risk.

My first stint was with Arrow by the way. That was a long time ago

Since you say it is time based, would somebody starting today have basically no shot at catching up with somebody who has been playing for 5 years?

I wonder if they have forums where people complain that the game is too cut throat and it's chasing away new players.

LOL, of course they do, but its really only the fluffty ones that complain. Anyone who takes a little time to learn how to play, doesnt complain, and over the past few years, much like Earth Empires, they have really made it easy to start up.

Guys who have been playing for 5 years will have bigger ships, and better guns. But it is quite balanced. You can be effective as a new player very quickly, just in different ships. Plus there is so much to choose from when deciding what to do, or what to train, that it is not very hard at all to get really good at one thing and then expand from there. Guys playing for 5 years do the same thing, expect they are really good at 500 things...

Was in ARROW for 6 months to help them get started out (as I'd been playing for several years before ARROW left Earth), before I moved on. Currently playing nullsec politics. o7

jer bu ... when did the cost to play eve drop to $8/mo? at that price i ought to reactivate and just burn levels in case i decide to play it ever again...

son goku: https://forums.eveonline.com/

i have the urge to shove a crayola up my nose

Sorry, it's 11 not 8.

Good value if you ask me.

yea, better than wow.

my question still stands :p last time i played eve i could just cover the cost of a plex with a month's production (asteroids/planetary/ratting)
wonder if that's changed much

Your question was should you reactivate? Yes. Probably.

As for paying with Plex, It depends on where you were playing, and plex cost at the time.

If you are in a good alliance, with GOOD 0.0 space, ratting, and running plexes, and the market selling that goes with it, then you could pay for your month, and still keep your self fitted and fighting as necessary (assuming you played lots, a casual player could not do this every month) I personally never bought game time in game, I preferred to pay my regular monthly fee, and put all my in game money towards the ridiculously pimped out ships i would lose on a daily basis :)

I'd actually pay to see that ;)

i see what you did there.

jer if you don't mind me asking do you currently play earth and if so, where?

ya'll were one of thr best posters when I was fourteen, you and beefhawk!

Only video I have seen related to this battle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9x8eYjUQzg

fluff usually comes steaming hot from my experiences.

Poor smuck was a neutral and he ended up being among the first killed.
Heartless b@stards those EVO guys

need a really strong defense if you want to claim neutrality. otherwise, you have to pick a side to play on.

Freudian slip? :P

LOL...sure that's what it was :P

I *just* (like, remember a few days ago?) upgraded to a quad-core i7 with 32GB of RAM :) it should be able to handle a good bit more than before ;)

sure but let's not test it. :P