# What brought you to EvE? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011 "2018-01-19T04:03:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ira\_Kitteh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ira_kitteh/32/54082_2.png) [@Ira\_Kitteh](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ira_Kitteh)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/81 "2018-02-16T11:45:42Z")
I wanned a spacey game, tryd dat SW ting, quit in haf hower, playd STO for a yeer, den foun eve reely bord ov eve atm, waiden to pack factio stns, [yawnsies] ./ ---
**Author:** ![LouHodo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/louhodo/32/109593_2.png) [@LouHodo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/LouHodo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/82 "2018-02-16T15:01:41Z")
I was beta testing Space Above and Beyond… yeah I got the t-shirt from the broken server stress test. And I was hunting for my next beta test. I saw a game in development called Eve Online. I checked it out. Looked like what I wanted. I applied didn’t get in, but didn’t mind because it was a VERY busy period in my life. Ended up playing for a bit at launch, lost the character info, never bothered to get it back. Came back in 07 when they had a free trial popup. Tried it, didnt like a lot of things at the time. Gave it a break for a while and only came back for the free trials each year till they released the Alpha clones. Finally played a few months in a row, and now I am back. It finally is what I am looking for in a space game. Yeah I would like to actually be able to walk around in a station and do things out side the ship but meh… I have other games for that. ---
**Author:** ![Azra\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/azra_aihaken/32/61952_2.png) [@Azra\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Azra_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/83 "2018-03-25T07:26:48Z")
Greeting’s pilots of EVE!!I have played couple space game’s in past ,and ended up in [this game](https://youtu.be/yrQLR57YywM) for years,played couple mod’s,like WTS World CCN,NightstalkerUniverse,Void,Hamburg,Discovery etc.Somehow i always missed EVE,and since my game is more/ less dead i come here to try it.First impression’s,well…character creation is absolutely amusing(not figured out yet why is there,cus i see only avatars in game) ,ships and space beautiful.I don’t rly like controls,for me is very complicated,i have lost Merlin in tutorial because i got confused with them,now am afraid to fly out from station to not loose miner.Currently watching and reading tutorials,and idk yet do i stay or go! 🌌 Sry for my English,good game and fly safe all!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Brewlar\_Kuvakei](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/brewlar_kuvakei/32/422694_2.png) [@Brewlar\_Kuvakei](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Brewlar_Kuvakei)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/84 "2018-03-25T08:53:47Z")
Watched a friend at school play it so I subbed too. I stayed for the harsh non consensual small gang & solo PVP, harsh player story driven universe & non grindy play style. I left because the game nerfed PVP over the years in all forms paticularaly in high sec where it was once easy to hunt bling whale ratters & miners, CCP enforced the grind and closed alternative & creative wealth generation where ever discovered. ---
**Author:** ![Spacing\_Cowboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/spacing_cowboy/32/317007_2.png) [@Spacing\_Cowboy](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Spacing_Cowboy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/85 "2018-03-25T09:34:30Z")
The box art, a long time ago. ( think it was the first “box” in the shop ) Wanted a game like Elite ( but, never owned a pc/amiga that could do Elite … at that time… ) Remember kids, this was pre internet and affordable pc’s… Well, At that time my pc could not handle it… when i noticed the box-art of EVE in the shop. A deployment later, and at that time, high end game pc extra… The box was gone out of the shop 🙂 Found out with a lot of searching the “name of that space game” … and installed… Well, still here… Oh forgot, at that time i was playing Navyfield 2 ( ye, that one ) , and in that game a “corp member” was playing EVE… So when flying a ibis… he showed me a “awsome” T2 cruiser… and set that as my goal 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/86 "2018-03-25T10:09:31Z")
-Space sim. -Persistent world. -One shard. -Permanent loss. -Be whatever you want to be. ---
**Author:** ![Alincer\_Trossereides](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alincer_trossereides/32/14449_2.png) [@Alincer\_Trossereides](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Alincer_Trossereides)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/87 "2018-04-04T03:19:16Z")
Been looking for a good 4X, multiplayer, persistent world game for years. EVE is the closest I’ve been able to find. I tried it twice with the free trials but wasn’t convinced, then the Alpha clones became a thing and so here I am, still not sure about it but making progress on my goals slowly, (mostly market trading) while I play strategy games like Civ and EU4. ---
**Author:** ![DarthStar\_Four](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/darthstar_four/32/89510_2.png) [@DarthStar\_Four](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DarthStar_Four)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/88 "2018-04-04T03:49:19Z")
Daddy needed “me time”. ---
**Author:** ![Aszreal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aszreal/32/135593_2.png) [@Aszreal](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aszreal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/89 "2018-04-05T22:20:20Z")
Space station walking brought me to EVE… wait, ah crap ---
**Author:** ![Gwenaelle\_de\_Ardevon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gwenaelle_de_ardevon/32/283957_2.png) [@Gwenaelle\_de\_Ardevon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gwenaelle_de_Ardevon)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/90 "2018-04-05T22:27:40Z")
Fools in Space brought me to EVE… ---
**Author:** ![Ivan\_Bloodguard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ivan_bloodguard/32/49954_2.png) [@Ivan\_Bloodguard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ivan_Bloodguard)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/91 "2018-04-06T13:25:52Z")
I’d played Escape Velocity several times, which was basically a dinosaur version of Eve. I’d been away for a while and decided to play EV again, when I went to check out some info on the net, I found out about Eve. Followed blogs and forums for almost a year longer before I finally jumped in. ---
**Author:** ![Gadget\_Helmsdottir](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gadget_helmsdottir/32/374037_2.png) [@Gadget\_Helmsdottir](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gadget_Helmsdottir)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/92 "2018-04-06T13:41:32Z")
> [@Ivan\_Bloodguard](#): > > Escape Velocity I never got around to trying this one, but TradeWars was a game that stuck with me from my HS days, and I didn’t even have a computer at the time. Two of my friends, one’s now a programmer and the other a financial consultant, would spend hours talking about it and would step away from our table-top RPG’s to check on something in the game, so I was always interested in what they were doing. I still remember the game play, though (I did get to try it out), and that style of play morphed into Traveller campaigns. This combined with really old-school, Star Fleet Battles, sowed the kernels of what I enjoy about multiplayer games. –Old School Gadget ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Lopez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mr_lopez/32/484486_2.png) [@Mr\_Lopez](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mr_Lopez)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/93 "2018-04-06T13:42:36Z")
I bought into the your decisions matter part of Eve. But alts mean your decisions don’t… ---
**Author:** ![Sindara\_T\_Soni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sindara_t_soni/32/242945_2.png) [@Sindara\_T\_Soni](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sindara_T_Soni)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/94 "2018-04-06T13:59:31Z")
An odd combination of events brought me _back_ to EVE (I played once before a long time ago in a galaxy far far away but not for very long). I had been having a phase of playing games on my XBOX One (For Honor and Witcher 3 most recently) instead of my aging dinosaur of a PC (bought in 2008 and still rocking an Intel Core 2 Duo in 2017). The friends part of XBOX Live kept showing me that one of my friends was playing EVE. I wasn’t aware at that point that you could see what PC games your friends are playing (I thought it was limited to XBOX games). So I Googled EVE for XBOX, thinking somehow it had been ported to console (I know, I know, but I last played EVE a decade ago and had no idea what might have changed to make that possible). Of course it turned out to be only available for PC, as always. While Googling I encountered several ‘play free’ adverts and mentally tucked that info away but at the time didn’t give it a lot more thought. Then the dinosaur died (well the hard drive did). I’d promised myself the next time something in that PC died, I wouldn’t just replace the part like all the other times, I’d get a new PC. So new PC … needed to justify the cost of that and actually play something on it, remembered the friend and the ‘free’ and decided to give EVE a second chance. All those years ago I didn’t make it much further than flying a Catalyst as protection for a friend while they mined (CODE didn’t even exist back then, not sure what I was protecting them against). Quite funny when you think how the average encounter between a Catalyst and a mining ship ends these days. Still, I had vague memories that EVE was pretty and might be a good use for my fancy new PC and so here I am, 8 months and counting. ---
**Author:** ![Danks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/danks/32/413393_2.png) [@Danks](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Danks)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/95 "2018-04-06T14:13:22Z")
I can’t remember exactly but back in 2001 or 2002 I found a article online somewhere about Eve. It told about CCP and what they wanted Eve to be. I remember I actually printed out the article at work and read it on the subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn. I thought what they were attempting sounded amazing and followed the game over the next couple years. It wasn’t until 2004 until I actually started to play on a regular basis. Though I don’t really play anymore, Eve will always hold a special place in my heart :)💖 ---
**Author:** ![Gascogne\_Reingau](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gascogne_reingau/32/63187_2.png) [@Gascogne\_Reingau](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gascogne_Reingau)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/96 "2018-04-06T20:48:04Z")
I always been a fan of sci-fi ever sense I watched Robotech when I was around 7. Then I played games like my number one favorite freelancer and later on wing commander and so on. One day in 2007 I had my super expensive gaming laptop and was at my friends place and we had a lan me and him. He asked me if I ever heard about eve which I did not, so I looked the game up then decided to try it and ever sense then I been playing eve on and off. And this is what I feel about eve now ![7NX4d1x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/5/4561d9c453bc56b2f1083bc833f4e44fee82bc66.gif) I hate it but still love it. ---
**Author:** ![syllaska\_isken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/syllaska_isken/32/52378_2.png) [@syllaska\_isken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/syllaska_isken)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/97 "2018-04-30T18:22:20Z")
@Gadget_Helmsdottir Traveller, the slick red and black booklet covers. Starfleet battles, Lyran catamaran hulls ftw. Forgotton Memories that shed lightyears back for my predisposition towards EVE. Story forthcoming. ---
**Author:** ![Crash\_888](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/crash_888/32/357008_2.png) [@Crash\_888](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Crash_888)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/98 "2018-04-30T19:48:03Z")
PCGAMER article in 2003, back when you actually bought the magazine for the demo disk that came with it. ---
**Author:** ![Gadget\_Helmsdottir](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gadget_helmsdottir/32/374037_2.png) [@Gadget\_Helmsdottir](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gadget_Helmsdottir)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/99 "2018-04-30T21:30:31Z")
LDR!! Cat revolutionaries… With Gatling phasers. Win-win-win 😄 Oh, and I had a soft spot for the fictional simulated ( in a fictional space simulation) FRAX. Some times we played with miniatures, and I could put my Space Yamamoto and Macross figures on the board. –Nostalgic Gadget ---
**Author:** ![Krall\_J\_Rnlav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/krall_j_rnlav/32/374091_2.png) [@Krall\_J\_Rnlav](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Krall_J_Rnlav)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-brought-you-to-eve/52011/100 "2018-05-01T05:38:05Z")
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