EVE Online

Let me preface that I've played Eve before +- 13 years ago. I've flown Navy Megathrons, Raven Navy Issues, tried out the planetary industrial part of the game, as well as the hacking 'minigame', scanning/probing, enjoyed drone warfare, skilled into T2 Exploration ships, massively enjoyed the exploration and thrill t…

I have over 2,000 hours in EVE Online just through Steam, and somehow I still feel like I’m learning the game. EVE is not really a “space game” in the normal sense. It is a long-term economic war simulator wearing a spaceship costume. Some nights I am running Planetary Interaction, managing alts, hauling, checking m…

There has been an ongoing joke in EVE since 2003 that “EVE is dying”. Fast forward 23 years later and it’s still not true. Not because EVE is “alive” but because it is straight up dead, figuratively speaking of course.This is where you bust out the EVE offline charts, post PDFs with quarterly earnings, and say I’m w…

The game has a big problem, and it’s the core gameplay loop. There is a bit of nuance, but essentially all you do in the game is grind for isk (the in-game currency). There are a lot of ways to do that, but the only meaningful difference between them is how much ISK per hour they bring in. It can take a soul-crushin…

This is a very complex game, but once you get past it, it is very addictive. I had played this game every day for 5 years until I got burned out. Now that its been a few years I am getting back into it again.

Most toxic community in any online game. 10+ year veterans do everything in their power to ruin the experience of new players out of no reason other than they find enjoyment in killing any growth of a game they have spent thousands of hours in. I posted on an Eve forum recently about my criticisms and experience as…