Looking for game suggestions. Also, Europa Universalis 3

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@JohnT

I was thinking Eve Online might fill both of these, but my God, it looks vast and complicated as shit. And I don’t want to spend a year, more, grinding. Ugh.

My major platforms are GOG and Steam, if that matters.

Elite Dangerous via Steam. You don’t have to PvP (open mode) if you don’t want to, you can permanently instance yourself (solo mode) or join like-minded PvE commanders (private group mode). I’m in the largest PvE private group; we got so big that the game had to split us into five (IIRC) regional subgroups.

Nine-year-old, nearly 800-post thread here:

Elite Dangerous

Anybody else get Elite Dangerous (“Version 1.0.0.0” - boy, that certainly boasts confidence in the product) yet? Apparently, there’s some sort of “group play” / “play with friends” ability, but I’m not quite sure what that means. Does the group have its own separate “area”? Is it part of the “main community universe” (assuming this even exists), but you have the ability to communicate with each other?