Defection to EVE Online
May 9th, 2007 by Bobosan
I no longer play Vanguard. In fact, I’m a Vanguard-hater now! Death to Sigil! Really…sometimes it’s fun to hate the little guy, even if you were so enthuiastic about his game. But I’m not anymore. In fact, I’m playing a very different game now.
I’v switched back to EVE Online. I played it before, but only for a few weeks during a 14 day trial Dustin hooked me up with back in the day. But, I’m paying for it now. And I’m happy with it at the moment—it serves its purpose as a time sink well.
Skills in EVE train in real time. For example one of my skills will take two days to train, and another will take 17 days. Seventeen days! That’s a friggin’ long time! But if I wait for that 17 days, I’ll be a bad ass mother fucker!
I originally was going to be a miner. But mining is boring! Industrial ships are boring, and make me want to stab my eyes out with a dull sharpie. But kids, the real fun is in the big huge battleships. Yes, big huge battleships to kill people with! And I’ll have the hugest god damn ship, just give me time.
Instead of mining, I’m going to be a pirate. I’m going to kill those idiots who wander too far off the beaten path, or ransom them instead of killing them. Anyhow, it should be fun. One of the most appealing thing about EVE, not only just its size, but it’s the ammount of social interation in the game. And it’s almost totally player driven. Armchair captains have carved empires out in space. They fight anyone who enters their space, and pod kill them so they lose skills.
Anyhow, piracy does sound kind of entertaining at the moment. Now when I ‘arrrgh’ I can really mean it 