If you are not in the hand-shake cabal of sycophants slobbering to suckle from black and red veined teat of the triangle men, it's a waste of time and effort.

If you are one of the 15-45 people making stupid amounts of isk, it's great. The system showers isk on a very small number of people in a poorly veiled attempt to gloss over how half-assed and incomplete the entire system is. I'm all about agile development, iterations, and MVPs. I get hard thinking about CI/CD pipelines. Look, in my real life job, I bleed IT Azure DevOps.

Now, we can safely add a third fact to the list: 3) They post in the Eve thread about how great Pochven is. See, for most of SA and EVE's coexistence, you could discover individuals with truly terrible poorly thought out opinions with just two facts: 1) Their SA forum name started with a D and 2) They posted in the Eve Online thread. Pochven has also led to some new social norms being discovered. Now a 'safe' high security route is 45 jumps. The trip from Jita to Amarr (two of the major market hubs in eve) used to be just 9 jumps away through high security space. This has resulted in some hilarity in the eve universe. The triangle men love triangles, so you see 27 systems are 3 x 9 and 9 is 3 x 3 so you see triangles everywhere. However, some triangle men got into a fight with some electricity men, and they disappeared their 27 systems into their own disconnected region that you get to by use of filaments and wormholes. This space used to be a mixture of high security and low security systems. Some of which can be sold for cash, other items are lucrative on the market to feed the gambling addictions of eve billionaires and trillionaires. You go in, do a thing for up to 20 minutes, and exit with a pile of loot. A relatively recent addition, abyssal space is Eve's version of an instanced dungeon. at least until the wormhole cartels start eyeing your cozy hole for rental to russian or chinese botting farms. For still others, it's a cozy little hobbit hole far removed from the hubbub and flexing of null security politics. For others, wormhole space are scary holes where bad man come from to savage peaceful krabbing encounters. For many, wormhole space is a highway that can trim a 40+ jump trip down to 3 or 4 hops. Wormhole Space Above, below and through-out the zones outlined above, wormhole space is different things to different people.Null Security Space, where vast, player-controlled empires rise and fall as they jostle for influence, resources, and renown.Now there's actual honest to god mining there. CCP has recently tried to increase the value of these regions by seeding certain types of basic minerals that are primarily found there, resulting in lowsec space actually being viable to live in for small to medium sized groups and having more things to 'do' other than bot faction warfare sites and camp gates.

Dominated by small gangs of extortionists pirates and players enrolled in NPC Faction militias all trying their best to establish pockets of hegemony and stability.

Low Security Space, where the tentative peace of the empires break down.

A 'neutral' ground for players to engage in commerce and production and for clever girls (hi globby) to extract mountains of salt from the bleating of pubbies who don't understand the basic fact that Concord punishes crime.

High Security Space, where NPC empires enforce peace and the NPC police Concord enforce the appearance of security.

That game takes place in a fully realised sci-fi universe, consisting of thousands of solar systems, interlinked by a web of interstellar jump-gates and divided into multiple zones: Friendships and rivalries in Eve do not disappear, making things like “politics” and “diplomacy” actually matter. Eve takes place on a single server (unless you live in China.) Because of this, every mistake you make and every enemy you make are there to haunt you forever. In other MMOs, servers are sharded to help balance load and otherwise scale the game.

Despite their best efforts to the contrary and their well-earned forum emote ( ), Eve continues to be one of the most compelling experiences in MMO gameplay.Įve is unique in its single-sharded world. Variously described as “Spreadsheets in space”, “A worst-in-class PvE experience”, “Sociopaths Online”, and “The game for the Nerds who are to Nerds what Nerds are to Normal People” EVE Online is a nineteen year old sci-fi sandbox MMO published by vikings from an island that smells, by all accounts, of farts and rotting fish. When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome again.

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