Space-bound Gnome?

As some of you know I have recently been playing Eve. Not really playing but more like cracking out over the damn game. And I honestly have lost all interest in playing the economy game in wow. I still log on to talk to friends but that's about it. All I think about is Eve.

This isn't meant to really be a good bye of any sorts. I'll still be around the JMTC forums and I'll still be in the IRC. I just don't want to leave all of my readers just hanging because you guys are awesome and you guys are what made this blog so much fun to write.

If you have any questions or still want advice feel free to email me at carbon42202@yahoo.com or message me on the IRC / yahoo IM (silence42202) / JMTC forums.

Now I'll explain this new addiction of mine :D

First off if you want an 'easy' game to play then stick to wow, lol. People are not even remotely exaggerating when they say Eve has a suicidal learning curve. From the first time you log in til about 12 hours of play time you will be aggervated, lost, and thinking 'why the hell am I even playing this stupid game'. But if you try it out; hang with it. I promise you it does get easier (as long as you do the tutorial).

Eve is an open end mmo space game. I dislike sci-fi, I dislike star wars, and star trek. But this game is awesome. It's completely different from wow in the aspect that wow has an (attempt of an) endgame. Eve has zero end game.

Your train your character in different skills (you choose the order depending on what you want to do). The training is automatic and time based whether your on the game or not. You can queue up for 24 hours at a time. Training skills takes anywhere from 10 minutes to I think some of the longest ones are 2+ RL years? (might be mistaken. But it's a damn long time. I was told it'd take roughly 24 RL years to train every skill in the game). Different skills allow you to fly different ships, use different weaponry, use different devices, place more buy / sell orders (explain later) etc. Everything you do in the game revolves around this.

Now the economy on this game blows the living hell out of wow. Each station has its own market (auction house). You can see what other stations have in the same general area as you but outside of your regional area you wouldn't know. You can place items for sale for up to a year at a time (if I remember correctly). That is a sell order. You can hit up a popular misson hub and sell a million units of ammunition and set it for over the coarse of a year and fly to the other end of the galaxy and forget about it.

There's also a completely different feature which surprised me. You can place buy orders in a station. Like a reverse auction. To my knowledge there are zero vendors. Everything in the game is player bought and player sold (or received as a reward from a misson but even those can be bought). Nothing is 'bop' or 'boe'. You upgrade ships? You can sell it on the market or refine it down to raw materials.

That's a crash course explanation on the economy. There is so much more to it that I don't understand enough to really talk about.

For your PvPers out there, the pvp system is completely open. There are security zones. 1.0 to 0.5 security is pretty much pvp free. 0.4 to 0.1 is extreme low security and 0.0 is no mans land where player law runs the land (space?). You die? You lose your ship and any contents you had with you. Other players can loot your goods. So if you wanted to gank that trading vessel carrying millions worth of isk (currency) in trade goods your free to do so (they'd more then likely have protection with them though).

If I still have your attention so far then you'd be interested to knowing there is only 1 server. 300,000+ people in one world. A world so freaking huge I've yet to meet anyone who could tell me how long it'd take to get across the game. It took me about 30-45 minutes to go a fraction of the way to join my cousins corporation (guild).

If your interested www.eve-online.com has a 14 day free trial. Very few limitations on it compared to wow. We even have a JMTC channel set up on there for the JMTC community to still stay in touch.

If I seriously get back into wow I'll probably start blogging again but for the time being considered me retired on that game :)

Highest Amount of liquid - 93k
Current Estimated Value in mats - 75k

Was one hell of a run and I'm glad I could share my thoughts with you guys.