Eve online Fanfest 2006 Comments by Jim Rossignol

If they re-released this, as Eve online II, with all characters back to scratch it would be great fun.

The real joke here is that they are releasing stuff bit by bit when it should have all been in the game from the begining.

Please...no more MMO games!

We're all still struggling to be able to afford to play the millions and millions that are around just now!

"It was relatively easy to identify most of the Eve fans, thanks to the way they contrasted with beautiful Scandinavian women and the native Vikings."

Hehehe, MMO's twist people into all kinds of weirdness. :p

I used to love MMO's but now, they take up way too much time. I just can't be bothered. If I wanted a second job I'd expect to get paid.

Errol: And taken 10 years to develop?

KG

Independant and still growing, innovative and forward thinking - CCP are a Force For Good, to be sure.

A rare and beautiful things is our CCP, long may they live and proper n such.

As for Errol's comment. Well it would be fantastic if every MMO could be released with a full compliment of years upon years of additions. If you can name one that has done this you can have a cookie.

Not only do they listen to the community, they add and alter aspects as it matures but they do all this without charging for the updates. **Cough WoW Cough**

Besides even if a MMO was magically created with a complete update set, the community would still ask for more.

So im afraid ill take your comment in my hand and laugh manically at it.

A pity that the only MMORPG I ever seriously played, Jumpgate, never received this kind of long-term dedication from its respective dev studio: With more graphical updates and feature additions, it could still live today. CCP need to be lauded for this alone.

eve drove me spare, the game is vastly improved on the beta i tried so long ago but after signing up for 4 months during exodus my experiences there left me with the resounding feeling that noobs have no hope in the game

in the state its in now a new player joining the game who doesnt have multiple friends to help him in game is akin to a man joining the army who is immediately parachuted naked into afghanistan and even if they do have friends and play 24/7 there are people out there so far ahead of them they'll never catch up

balance seems to be of no concern cause vocal long term players dont want it, they like their near omnipotence and ccp seem willing to cater for them, i would be very interested in the turnover of new players in eve, i doubt many who try the game stay very long

ccp need to blur the lines between safe space and 0.0, between the huge corps and the little guy they can swat without a care, between the players who play fair and those that buy gold and exploit at will without ever being held accountible for their actions

it wouldnt bother me so much if it wasnt for the fact i loved elite as a kid and wanted to experience that as a MMO, eve is the only game that comes close

I noticed the first posters comments as well, and cannot think other than they must be formed by ignorance towards the actual wealth of content ingame.

EVE is ELITE online, but so much more. EVE can be brutal, but many MMOG players today want more than patronizing american fluff I think. And shouldn't space and it's frontiers be brutal to some extent?

I have been playing EVE online nonstop from incept date 14.02.04, and I am still amazed over the myriad of activities that take place on the single largest, unsharded server in MMOG gaming; Tranquility.

Harvard business students run business model simulations in EVE. Die-hard PvP'ers turn to EVE for the last word in balanced and fair PvP. Carebears mine in empire space and use it as a glorified chatroom, and are very happy at that..

I have been almost perfectly content with EVE, save for one thing. Over long periods of play I have always felt a degree of estrangement setting in, being confined to, and represented solely by, ones ship. But now with the CCP-White Wolf merger, player Avatars are approaching fast, and the smack talking and other socializing can continue in-station, and eventually, make planetfall...

Beautiful Scandinavian women??? You saw some? I was in Reykjavik this summer and have to admit to being tremendously disappointed on that front. And this was with a considerable number of visits to the local watering holes.

"while founder member Kjartan Emilsson revealed the success of Eve's launch into China."
The numbers say it isnt a success


"Harvard business students run business model simulations in EVE. Die-hard PvP'ers turn to EVE for the last word in balanced and fair PvP."
Yeah, thats great PR but if you had ever actually pvped or played as a producer you would realise how stupid those comments were.

Someone, outhere, somewhere, bring this to the next-generation consoles and my life would be complete! :P

Elite x_x

Beautiful Scandinavian women??? You saw some? I was in Reykjavik this summer and have to admit to being tremendously disappointed on that front. And this was with a considerable number of visits to the local watering holes.

Visit Oslo. I am still traumatised, years later. And I don't even prefer blondes.

Eve is NOT Elite online. You can't even fly the ship directly, it's all just point and click. Elite was as much about twitch skills as it was about space-trading.

I have to say, I started EVE about 3 months back, and I'm really loving it.

It really *is* Elite, but online. Although there might not be any direct ship control, it doesnt detract from the thing at all - did you ever see someone flying a Star Destroyer with a joystick?

And, for anyone starting out and looking lost, look up Eve University - we are a corporation whos sole purpose is to help new players get the hang of the finer points, and teach pilots how to fly their ship effectively.

With events all the time, and loads of experienced people to answer the questions, it really is the place to be when you are starting out - im certain El Muerko would be still playing EVE now if he had found us.

@Ave

I get so tired at the ease of which certain posters diss others comments on Eurogamer.

I have PvP'ed quite a bit in EVE everything from alliance battles with 10-30 BS'es to small skirmishes with frigs and cruisers, what-have-you. It is not what I primarily seek in EVE as I am not able to play enough to replace the costs that usually stack up (I am not a pirate). I have lost everything from frigates to BS'es, and taken down a few myself as well.

But losses and smacks in the gob by other, and more skilled pilots has not led me to become a crybaby and fault EVEs PvP model. It is certainly not faultless - there is no perfect system - but it is widely recognized as one of the fairest in MMOGdom.

IF you know what you are doing.

Business schools doing simulations in EVE has nothing to with stupid or not stupid. It's a fact. I'll let them vouch for the usefulness of those ventures.

And Scandinavian women are a notch above British girls when it comes to pure physique I find, but this is highly subjective. And then, Icelandic women are just a notch nicer again.

But this is just graphics.

"Colonisation of planets"
I'll reactivate my subscription (for the 4th time) when this feature will be online.

All space games should allow planet landing, colonizing, building ground defenses and armies etc.

8/10

Used to love Eve - beautiful looking game - gonna have to re-visit over the xmas break

SleepyMagpie - "But this is just graphics"

LOL!!