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] ./
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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.
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Greeting’s pilots of EVE!!I have played couple space game’s in past ,and ended up in this game 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!! 
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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.
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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
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-Space sim.
-Persistent world.
-One shard.
-Permanent loss.
-Be whatever you want to be.
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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.
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Daddy needed “me time”.
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Space station walking brought me to EVE… wait, ah crap
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Fools in Space brought me to EVE…
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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.
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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
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I bought into the your decisions matter part of Eve. But alts mean your decisions don’t…
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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.
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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 :)
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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
I hate it but still love it.
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@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.
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PCGAMER article in 2003, back when you actually bought the magazine for the demo disk that came with it.
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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
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Character creation
Eve have the best useless character customiziation
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