# What Kind of Game is This? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 4, 2024, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148 "2024-12-04T08:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/popeye_the_sailormann/32/442934_2.png) [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/PopEye_The_Sailormann)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/1 "2024-12-04T08:48:13Z")
Hey! What kind of sci-fi game is this?? So I’m supposed to be a clone in a pod in a ship that has this A.I Aura but I can’t fly the damn thing worth of nothing?? I can’t use a mining lazer worth of nothing?? I don’t have any knowledge in any damn thing worth of nothing?? I’m supposed to be a part of this great big powerful empire but they want money from me every time I turn around?? I cannot buy or sell beyond my region because I have no skills worth of nothing?? The space I fly in is supposed to be controlled by this big powerful empire but I have to use probes to find stuff?? o.O I’m part of this big powerful empire but I have to buy ships?? Do pilots in the Air Force have to buy their own F-35? I think not!! WTF is this game?? ![1000003428](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/5/5/2/552a5e9da49fba17d2fc6d6717fcacc21d838baa.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Aisha\_Katalen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aisha_katalen/32/387724_2.png) [@Aisha\_Katalen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aisha_Katalen)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/2 "2024-12-04T09:10:58Z")
![Bait](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/9/d/8/9d876e7c746d562ded0c43c358631e4119a6e249.png) ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_Saki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alice_saki/32/486142_2.png) [@Alice\_Saki](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Alice_Saki)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/3 "2024-12-04T09:57:08Z")
![wwb104_redeermoncovcyno](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/7/5/a/75ab8a954ab612633dbb350d531ca4e80eb40c4f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yhwh_is_lord/32/444382_2.png) [@YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/YHWH_Is_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/4 "2024-12-04T10:15:19Z")
> [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > WTF is this game?? It’s a game where you were a normal person on a planet, who barely knew how to cook. You suddenly find yourself dead and your consciousness is transferred into a blank clone. It has to learn everything to be useful to an empire that employs it as free agent. … Make the rest of it up yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Wadiest\_Yong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wadiest_yong/32/426921_2.png) [@Wadiest\_Yong](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wadiest_Yong)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/5 "2024-12-04T10:36:40Z")
It’s kinda hard to explain ![200w (22)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/6/7/c/67c5a096e3e295eb5ee11dab986c5a7e5c8435a6.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/princess_rose_ivory/32/433985_2.png) [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Princess_Rose_Ivory)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/6 "2024-12-04T10:51:45Z")
If you are serious @PopEye_The_Sailormann … well there is one place you can go to find the answers. Youtube has a ton of tutorials on the hows and whys of Eve Online. Back in the summer of 2023, a good friend asked me to join him on this game. He and I use to play Star Trek online together ( a much worse flight sim ). After I made my account he dropped in to show me how to play. I don’t question things like AI or reasons for the game mechanics, as I tell everyone playing online games, you need to find the fun in playing or stop playing. Games overall are meant to be a challenge, in Star Trek my ship blew up and it respawns, which isn’t very real either. The game uses a MacGuffin device ( cloning ) to explain your return to the game. Otherwise you are a free agent to do as you wish, buy a ship or don’t buy a ship. There are missions to provide free ships for you at the various schools where you learn to play. Next I suspect, should you reply, you will complain about making ISK as a free alpha player. Well I made well over a billion ISK in my first 3 months as an alpha player. Now I generate about 1 billion per month playing a few hours per week as an alpha. This game has a steep learning curve than most games but once you get started you can do a lot or very little work. I did some “space trucking” hauling contracts from point A to B. I did mining in pirate space, I still do. I built a station and it got destroyed, so I built another for no reason. I can sit in dock without a ship and just trade commodities in the market. As for the game lore, I think it is suppose to be over 10,000 years in the future. Earth is now a myth. We don’t reside on planets anymore. There are 4 playable factions, but many other factions come into play as well. You are a target on day one and nowhere is safe. Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/7 "2024-12-04T11:04:19Z")
Q: What Kind of Game is This? A: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/9/d/9dba09442ddba1799cdc9b397985f465838d8215.jpeg "Permaband - HTFU") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgvM7av1o1Q) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ogun\_Ferraille](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ogun_ferraille/32/467938_2.png) [@Ogun\_Ferraille](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ogun_Ferraille)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/8 "2024-12-04T11:12:41Z")
fortunately he has not yet realised that moons do not orbit planets and planets do not orbit stars 🥶 ---
**Author:** ![YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yhwh_is_lord/32/444382_2.png) [@YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/YHWH_Is_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/9 "2024-12-04T12:20:25Z")
> [@Ogun\_Ferraille](#): > > fortunately he has not yet realised that moons do not orbit planets and planets do not orbit stars 🤣 … ---
**Author:** ![PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/popeye_the_sailormann/32/442934_2.png) [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/PopEye_The_Sailormann)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/10 "2024-12-04T12:57:04Z")
> [@YHWH\_Is\_Lord](#): > > It has to learn everything to be useful to an empire that employs it as free agent Why would an empire employ me if I can barely pilot a frigate and can’t even walk?? > [@Wadiest\_Yong](#): > > It’s kinda hard to explain That usually means it’s too stupid to even get into. > [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](#): > > Youtube I tried to watch a video about EVE but didn’t understand anything after 20mins of humm, aah, well it’s like this… I don’t have the time for tongue tied Youtubers. > [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](#): > > Next I suspect, should you reply, you will complain about making ISK as a free alpha player No I understand how to make isk. Most of the rest doesn’t make sense. > [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](#): > > You are a target on day one and nowhere is safe So not only I don’t have skills to pilot the ship and use its weaponry but I have a target on my back too? o.O > [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > Game So it’s a Hard Rock Heavy Metal game, is it? But the music in the game is elevator music! > [@Ogun\_Ferraille](#): > > moons do not orbit planets and planets do not orbit stars So there is no orbital mechanics in this space game?? WTF Do the space bodies even rotate on themselves? ---
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/11 "2024-12-04T13:21:08Z")
> [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > Why would an empire employ me if I can barely pilot a frigate and can’t even walk?? EVE is a MMORPG, not a mobile gacha game. Pretty much any MMORPG starts you off with the game equivalent of a rusty dagger and a dirty robe. Some shooter style games depend less on ‘character progress’ but you still need to learn how the game works. In no MMORPG that I’ve played, do you ever start the game and jump straight into end-game play. You can do anything you need to within an hour or two of starting EVE - mining, missioning, trading, whatever. It sounds like you don’t have the patience or the ‘desire to educate yourself’, in order to get rolling in EVE. Either move on to a game that requires less than an hour of start-up time (probably a shooter or a mobile game), or spend more time learning and less time bitching. EVE isn’t the best of games, but it’s an interesting and somewhat complex one. It just doesn’t cater to those with short attention spans. ---
**Author:** ![Glenduil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/glenduil/32/501812_2.png) [@Glenduil](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Glenduil)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/12 "2024-12-04T13:52:39Z")
Thousands of years ago, humans left Earth through a wormhole that appeared out of nowhere. Humans at this point had the ability to build spaceships. Life was good and humans flourished. Then the wormhole collapsed cutting off all links to Earth, supplies, and technology. Many humans died. It almost ended humanity and without industry to build new ships, they had to abandon technology and try to survive on any planet they could find that supported life. Humans struggled until they could reinvent space travel. They formed giant empires and clashed with each other in colossal wars. They invented cloning technology and this served as a way to achieve immortality. Now sits a very uneasy truce. This is the world you’re in. You chose to become a capsuleer and use clones to explore the galaxy and carve out a piece of it for yourself. Eve Origins [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/6/0/60a18ebb1897839ff4b48d1054df224632b60fb9.jpeg "EVE Universe: Origins") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPCiqBLPM8) This is Eve [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/9/3/93a5ac48550f7ca61e3a74c22a7df69578f0b395.jpeg "This is EVE - Uncensored") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0) ---
**Author:** ![Smarter\_ThanU](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smarter_thanu/32/436079_2.png) [@Smarter\_ThanU](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smarter_ThanU)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/13 "2024-12-04T14:03:03Z")
I started 21 years ago and there wasn’t a tutorial to speak of. Eve is so easy to learn now, you must be really “special”. Did you expect a free Titan and the skills to fly it the first time you logged in? 50/50 this is a troll thread. ---
**Author:** ![Conference\_Elitest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/conference_elitest/32/441863_2.png) [@Conference\_Elitest](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Conference_Elitest)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/14 "2024-12-04T15:58:39Z")
> [@Smarter\_ThanU](#): > > Did you expect a free Titan and the skills to fly it the first time you logged in? Yes please, send the Titan and Boosters to Conference Elitest Thank you for your patronage! ---
**Author:** ![YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yhwh_is_lord/32/444382_2.png) [@YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/YHWH_Is_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/15 "2024-12-04T16:16:15Z")
> [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > Why would an empire employ me if I can barely pilot a frigate and can’t even walk?? I don’t know, they’re desperate? ---
**Author:** ![Smarter\_ThanU](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smarter_thanu/32/436079_2.png) [@Smarter\_ThanU](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smarter_ThanU)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/16 "2024-12-04T16:17:13Z")
DEI baby! ---
**Author:** ![YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yhwh_is_lord/32/444382_2.png) [@YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/YHWH_Is_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/17 "2024-12-04T16:19:09Z")
@Smarter_ThanU You think? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Smarter\_ThanU](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smarter_thanu/32/436079_2.png) [@Smarter\_ThanU](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smarter_ThanU)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/18 "2024-12-04T16:39:00Z")
What else could it be? Oh wait. Is he an Alpha or Omega? It would makes sense if he paid them… ---
**Author:** ![YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yhwh_is_lord/32/444382_2.png) [@YHWH\_Is\_Lord](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/YHWH_Is_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/19 "2024-12-04T16:41:54Z")
> [@Smarter\_ThanU](#): > > Oh wait. Is he an Alpha or Omega? I would bet he’s Alpha because he must be new. > [@Smarter\_ThanU](#): > > It would makes sense if he paid them… Nothing makes sense anymore. For all we know CCP paid _him_! ---
**Author:** ![Hatch\_Nasty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/hatch_nasty/32/512820_2.png) [@Hatch\_Nasty](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Hatch_Nasty)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148/20 "2024-12-04T17:08:42Z")
> [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > So I’m supposed to be a clone in a pod in a ship that has this A.I Aura but I can’t fly the damn thing worth of nothing?? You’re new. You just became a capsuleer. In the parlance of other games, you’re level 1. Why this concept is hard to understand, I’m not sure. > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > I can’t use a mining lazer worth of nothing?? > I don’t have any knowledge in any damn thing worth of nothing?? Again, you’re level 1. You need to train up. > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > I’m supposed to be a part of this great big powerful empire but they want money from me every time I turn around?? You aren’t “part” of any powerful empire. You’re not enlisted. You’re not commissioned. You are a free agent, a capsuleer, engaging in whatever sort of business you choose. You were born within the boundaries a specific empire (your starting race), you became a capsuleer, and where you go from there is entirely up to you. > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > I cannot buy or sell beyond my region because I have no skills worth of nothing?? Again, you’re level 1. > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > The space I fly in is supposed to be controlled by this big powerful empire but I have to use probes to find stuff?? o.O Yes… it’s called exploring. I don’t even know why you’d think every single thing in space would already be discovered? Does the government of your country have a map of every cave that exists within your national borders? If so, impressive. > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > I’m part of this big powerful empire but I have to buy ships?? Do pilots in the Air Force have to buy their own F-35? I think not!! Again, you missed something somewhere because you aren’t part of anything. You’re a privateer. A free trader. A mercenary. An explorer. A pirate. An industrialist. > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > Why would an empire employ me if I can barely pilot a frigate and can’t even walk?? An empire doesn’t employ you. They contract you to do a mission. And they don’t need you to walk, they need you to fly a ship. Right now, that’s level 1 missions. When you get better and can fly better ships, you take on higher level missions. Again, this is video game 101. Have you not played a game before? Are you from the past? > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > That usually means it’s too stupid to even get into. That’s kind of how I felt about this thread, actually. > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > I don’t have the time for tongue tied Youtubers. Yeah… So EVE has a learning curve, and if you want to play it, it’ll take some investment in time. A non-Youtube resource you may find helpful is the [EVE University wiki](https://wiki.eveuniversity.org). > [@PopEye\_The\_Sailormann](#): > > But the music in the game is elevator music! More techo/synthwave actually. [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-this/470148.md?page=2)