EVE is a massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) set in a science-fiction based, persistent world, designed and produced by game company Crowd Control Productions (CCP). Players take the role of spaceship pilots seeking fame, fortune, and adventure in a huge, complex, exciting, and sometimes hostile galaxy.
Most MMOGs on the market today, have a basic system implemented, in which you grind and quest, your way to the maximum level, see all the content and the quit the game. This isn’t the case with EVE-Online.
In EVE you create a character and choose one of the four races, which provides you with some skills, based on which profession and race you’ve chosen.
All the modules, ships, require a skill trained to a certain level, for you to use them. Skills are trained in real time, once you’ve bought a skill, you start training it. Wether your ingame, or logged off, the skill will continue to train untill it’s finished. This way, you can always learn and advance in the game, even if your not capable of playing multiple hours a day. The only downside of this, is that people that started playing the game before you, have more skills trained than you, which makes virtually impossible to catch up to. This hardly an issue, because as long as you specialize, you can be just as effective as someone with many more skills trained then you.
What is EVE really about? Well, EVE Online has some predefined content, like missions from agents, which reward you with items and money, as well as raise your standings with the corporation the agent belongs to. The more rissions you do, the more loyality points you receive with the agent in question. At a certain point, the agent will start giving you offers such as items, blueprints, and ships.
You can also mine asteroids, which give you ore, that can then be refined to obtain minerals. You can sell these minerals for money, but can also use them to manufacture items or ships to sell on the vast player-controlled market.
That’s it? Definately not, EVE is mostly focused on PVP (Player Versus Player) combat.
Each solar system in EVE has a few planets, asteroid belts, gates and usually stations. Stargates are used to travel from one system to another, and is the most common way to travel in EVE. Another way is to have a capital ship such as a carrier, dreadnought, mothership or titan, the biggest and meanest ships in EVE, that can travel through jumpportals, doing several systems in one jump. This however, requires a certain amount of fuel, and someone to open a jumpportal in the destination system.
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