EVE Online

After I quit Everquest 2, I started looking for other online games. I found a larger number of such MMORPGs on http://www.mmorpg-planet.de/. Some that sounded interesting were unfortunately not finished at that time.

To bridge this time I decided to play Eve Online. Eve Online is not set in the fantasy realm like most games I’ve played, but it is a pure science fiction world.

In most online games, your character has a level, which you can increase through missions or battles. This is not the case with Eve Online. There you have many different skills, which you can only increase by learning. The higher the skill is, the longer you have to learn to get a bit further. All skills can be combined with each other. This way you can individualize your character very well. Of course, there are some skills that are preferred. These include the skill of learning. If you increase this skill, you can learn other skills faster. Who would like to wait more than a month for the next level of their skills 😉 The advantage of learning over time is that people who play less have similar chances to develop. In the learning-by-doing method, power players have a distinct advantage.

At the beginning of the game you only have a small spaceship with which you have to earn your first money. This can be earned through missions, ore mining, industrial products and battles. The missions I encountered in the first day were all courier missions and not particularly exciting. You look for the place (solar system) you want to go to on the star map, set this as your destination and then switch on the autopilot. You can then comfortably do other things on the side that have nothing to do with the game.

It is also nice that you can build your own ship. You buy a certain ship and can then equip it according to your wishes. For example, different weapons are available. You can also build a laser for ore mining into the same ship. For the beginning, I have put together a ship for ore mining and a ship for missions or battles. I change them according to my needs. Unused ships stay in the hanger until the next mission. This way you can also commit yourself to several professions.

There is also a lot to say about the Eve Online community. There are a lot of people who don’t like the game World of Warcraft at all. Normally that’s not a problem, but they have to rub it in everyone’s face. I personally don’t like that. Above all, they always act as if all the children in WoW and in Eve Online are only adults. But anyone who behaves like that can’t really have outgrown the childish age yet either.