Yep…which is why I said " If they had meant all the crap they said they’d be doing the same thing you’re doing." and kinda where I was going with the whole comment.
The point of what I wrote was pretty much what you said. I must not have communicated that very well.
No, I do not.
They quit, though. that’s completely different from being losing. They ran, that’s different from being pushed out. They did betray what they had talked big about being important to them for a very long time by doing so. Syndicate isn’t even symbolically part of the Amarr empire…
“rebuild”, eh? Ok…well…how long has it been?..cva’s been making videos/noise about their new beginning and new focus yada yada…must be a really long-game sorta 4D chess distraction before they strike back…
“retake” What, lemmee guess…soon™
Welp…it’s all history now…just a bit sad to see cva fielding Loki fleets and otherwise embracing the rust…in a way, ushra’khan did win…
I’m an old-school gamer who grew up on 80’s video games. In 2007, I was feeling nostalgic for Elite, but playing it on a C64 emulator only brought so much joy. I Googled for ‘Modern games like Elite’ and Eve was the first entry. Back then I believe you could play for a few weeks for free.
I logged in, set up my character, and then started figuring things out from there. Turns out I was originally looking for more of a twitch-style space shooter, but the depth and complexity (and oh god all the Eve uni wiki pages)… I was hooked. Plus, the offline passive skill training and obsessive skill planning was the icing on the cake for me.
Tapped out around 2008, tapped back in for about a year in 2010, then back for a good chunk in 2014-ish, out in 2018, back in a couple of months ago.
Single server where everyone competes in PvP for resources and nearly everything is made by players.
I wasn’t even looking specifically for a spaceship game, but the core of EVE gameplay seemed to be exactly what I always wanted the RuneScape wilderness to be like when I played that game long ago, where I loved running around mining valuable ores and grouping up with random people to shoot others in a full loot PvP setting, with the risk of being betrayed.
Spaceships, I love spaceships. Also, the stories that come out of this game, loads of the player stuff is super fascinating. Originally had the game recommended to me when I was working in a fast food job. Then again several years later while working in a call center. Finally decided to start playing in 2012, and now usually run multiple accounts.
I had Eve in consideration for a long time but ultimately always went to some other game because of how old the server was it seemed, and still seems, like an insurmountable task to ever be relevant in a game with other players that have a 10+ year advantage.
The most appealing aspects of the game to me when comparing to others is the depth of game mechanics and the exploration, both are something that seems lost on many newer MMO titles.
Originally? The Dominion and Butterfly Effect trailers back in 2010. I tried the game prior to that for no more than a half-hour before deciding it wasn’t for me, because I falsely led myself to believe that EVE was a space sim where you could take direct control of your ships and then realized it was basically point-and-click just to do anything. Wasn’t very appealing.
Until I saw these two trailers and realized that there was a lot of complexity behind the game. So I hopped in and got hooked, because I had my goal of getting into a T2 Wolf fitting for PvP.
Ended up playing off-and-on over the years and tried to come back for a longer stint last year. Even transferred all of my SP over from my original character over to this one so I could start fresh. Ah, but it wasn’t meant to be.
