EVE Online anyone?

[formerly known as hf]

I just got my trial subscription today - out of interest, anyone else here play it?

(Or are you all freaky WoW nerds?)

[Thetaris]

No, but me and a bunch of friends were planning on playing it because it sounds like Cantr... Freeroam, and you create the quests, basically.

Is it very limiting? From what I saw it's just a view from the ship the entire time, you don't get to walk around etcetera, which is the only thing stopping me from quiting WoW and playing EVE.

Please reply quick, I've wanted to know for so long!!!

[swymir]

I love WoW, but that's only because I found a group of insane people or I would have tracked someone down and killed them along time ago.

[Jos Elkink]

EVE Online seems sooooo boring ... But perhaps I just didn't try long enough. Not my kind of game, anyway ...

[Bear]

My son is playing and enjoying it. It reminds me of Elite, a twenty year old Commodore game

[formerly known as hf]

So far I've quite liked it, because, despite what other players say, it is a very 'afk' game. You can set the ship to do something, and it'll go and do it, if you get upgrades you can set it to fight if needed, to mine etc. etc.

Whatsmore, it's not that cpu-hogging or graphically spectacular, so it'll run fine windowed and minimised, which means I get get on with writing my essays or playing Cantr...

Which is what I want from a game like that, I don't want to have to be actively playing the game to get along, where every step needs a button being held down, every move needs player intervention.

If you want constant action or involvement though, I guess it gets very boriung just staring at your spaceship warping around the place... But I like it, because it means I can get on with my revision whilst playing it

EDIT: and Elite is a bloody brilliant game - the only game that has come close to being as good as elite, and with the possibility of multiplayer - is Hardwar - a game I'd recommend to anyone.

[Kev Milsom]

I wholeheartedly agree, Farmer.

For me, Elite is the greatest game ever made and I live for the day when it is updated with a new version, although that sadly seems very unlikely to happen.
I guess in some ways it reminds me of Cantr, in the sense that it gave the player unlimited freedom to move and play.

Hardwar is something I’ve had on my list of things to nose at, for some time. I may well check it out later.

[swymir]

The latest rumor is they are realsing a new Starcraft, (and I'm not talking Ghost, I can't wait for them to release that just so they can work on something good.) But, someone confirm this for me as I have no desire to do research today.

[Razorlance]

Has anyone played the Elite remake The New Kind by Christian Pinder. It was on his website for a while but got pulled by David Brabben when he announced Elite 4, (just checked his site, funny how Elite 4 is always permanately at the bottom of the development list ) Anyway NewKind is a pretty good conversion, least it seems so to me having only played the Speccy version, way back. Think I've still got the .exe for The New Kind somewhere too. Christian's supposed to be working on a new 'Elite copyright free' version called Darkness Falls. I tried googling it but only got page after page for the 2003 horror film of the same name.

[formerly known as hf]

Have a look in the 'Linux Game Tome' website, search for elite - there are loads of links to re-makes of the game (better graphics, sound etc.), and ports of the original (including legal links to downloading shareware data files so you can play the original as well as home-grown versions of the elite gameworld)

[Jos Elkink]

Hey, Kev, nice to see you around again ...

I was bored with EVE because I don't like such strategy games and much prefer a more open game like Cantr, where you can play by talking and bluffing and political manouvring, etc, which I miss in almost any other online game I know of. But the graphics of EVE are quite impressive (it's started by a lecturer in computer graphics, I believe). Entropia is still better, though ...

Although it is about the last subject I want to think about, my head keeps returning to wondering whether it would be possible to make some kind of game full of space ships etc., a la EVE, but more Cantr based in game design. Perhaps I'll work it out someday ...

[Kev Milsom]

Hiya Jos. It's good to be back

I’ve still yet to check out the EVE thingy, although I’m planning to over the weekend. The graphics did seem very impressive on the website.

If, in years to come, you did get around to working on a ‘Cantr in Space’ scenario, would you focus on a text version with minimal graphics, or perhaps more of a 3-D type game with all-singing, all-dancing effects?
Or a combo of the two?

[formerly known as hf]

I'm gonna try out project entropia today, and I downloaded neocron last night, so I'll see what that's like too...

[avi messika]

Two of my best-friends are addicted to EVE, they started a role-play corporation a few days ago. Centrum Corporation it's called.

The site isn't up yet, but I'll link it when it is.

[formerly known as hf]

Project Entropia was awful!
There's no tutorial whatsoever, and there's noone at all on any webapge, just hundreds of foprum posts about the same thing.
And anywhere with more than a few people is just somewhere where people spam the chat trying to flog things...
Also, it pretends that it's free - and it's not - there's absolutely no way you can get started without an initial injection of cash. I can accept that, but it would have been nice if they'd just been open about it.

Anyway, bleurgh... Not gonna go near that again...
Any other suggestions for an online MMORPG to try-out? EVE's started to get really dull, really quickly...
And nothing that has dwarves, or elves, or anything fantasy like that in it, that's really not what I go for...