Eve Online (possible spoilers)

[Doomtrain]

*Originally posted by Eve *
**Was that you in my apartment for the past few nights, GMRyujin? I’ll thank you to kindly clean up after you’ve been mining! **

I was mining for a decent drink (or is that pining?), but the cupboard was bare!

[Doomtrain]

*Originally posted by Avalonian *
**There is potential in a game like EVE… where games like Everquest are filled with players who are primarily focused on stat-building, EVE seems to offer more opportunity for some real in-depth role-playing. However, to meet this potential, it will need to have something more like millions of players rather than thousands, and it will require large chunks of time and effort to establish that level of role-playing consistently.
**

Yea, one of the problems I ran into was there were very few people around at any one time. Half the time I was in my “main station”, I was the only one around. Then I’d hop a couple galaxies over and there’d still be no one around. Eve kinda reminded me of Earth and Beyond, but bigger and with fewer people. EnB felt like a single-player space game with a nice IRC chatroom built in. Eve felt like a single player space game with no other ships in it. It was, well, kinda lonely. And I never noticed any roleplaying (but I seldom do in MMORPGs, irony, right?).

Also, the player economy, well, didn’t work that great. For example, there was an Improved Mining Laser that everyone on chat agreed a newbie miner should pick up. So I hopped into the station and the closest one I could find was 10 systems over. Imagine driving New York to LA when you barely know how to work the car…

But that’s just from beta.