Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games: Eve

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Eve online is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game developed by CCP games and released in May 2003. Since then, CCP have released new content and major expansions every six months, creating one of the largest and most detailed games ever.

Eve is known as a hard game to get a start in. Advancing your character happens in real-time, even if you're not logged in, and getting good at a specific job can take a couple of days or a few months.

To get anywhere in Eve you need to work together with other players. Players can fly solo, but grouping up can make generating ISK, the main currency in Eve, much easier. Like minded players can form groups known as Corps, which work like a guilds or clans in other MMO's. Being in a larger Corp in your timezone makes finding other players to fly with much easier.

Eve is an enormous game. Players move about in one of the 230+ available ships throughout solar systems, of which there are over 5000. CCP has over 100 servers keeping track of everything that goes on and with special software and server management, can support over 60000 users. On average, there are more than 15000 players connected at any given time, all free to interact with each other in the same shared universe called New Eden.

While Eve is hard to begin with, lots of people enjoy the challenge this difficulty brings. Eve is a game where players get rewarded for using their skill and intelligence , and not for grinding away at the same task for hours. Although grinding works to, just not as well.

Because of the detailed game mechanics, you can jump in and start making ISK almost any way you want, bet here are a few of the most common things beginners do.

1. Mining

Most players start with mining if they don't alre...

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...ced to 0.75% with the right skills. Manufacturers tend to use a lot of spreadsheets and 3rd party software to keep track of their inventory and manufacturing jobs.

Summery

Eve Online is a massive game, with a very open format. There are hundreds of ways you can play, no matter what your play style is. Only one of the above listed items has any PvP because that aspect of Eve is one of the harder parts to master. The proper exploitation of the many variables in play during a fight can make all the difference to the outcome. Dont let this deter you though. PvP is what makes Eve great and all other activities make ISK for the player so they can afford the required ships and fittings to take part in PvP.

Eve Online allows tens of thousands of people all over the globe to indulge their scifi fantasies, and if that sounds like you, the whole of New Eden awaits.

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