EVE Online

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Just wondering if anyone else here plays a mmorpg called EVE Online.

I used to, but caint afford it now.

I keep telling my friend that... he never gets it.

Look up Naemr if you can, he's a good player.

If I could afford it/get a paypal account I would.. No.

I play ogame though, in vac mode and Sins of a Solar Empire, also relayed to SPACE FLEET BATTLES

My buddy Rand does. He's addicted to that damn game.

I played it for 3 months. Starting out, and working your way up to battleships and level 4 missions is fun. However, once you get to level 4 missions, the game just lacks skill. Whether or not you win a fight depends entirely on what ship your in, and what gear you have. There is no player skill involved in winning or losing. Also the PvP is rather 1 sided. It is easy to avoid a fight, so if you think your going to lose, you just run away. Likewise, if you can win the fight, your opponent will just run away. So, you can easily go for hours doing nothing but avoiding bigger ships, and having smaller ships avoid you, without any action.

That being said, if you can get a friend to play the game with you, you can start out together, and work your way up to battleships and get about 3-4 months of enjoyment from the game. The early missions actually involve a fair bit of skill, and teaming up to finish them is rather fun.

I thought about playing it but there was two things that kept me from doing so:

1. My PC just isn't capable of playing mid to high-end mmo's. And I can't bring myself to buy an AGP video card. Because stupid me bought a good motherboard with an AGP slot right as the PCI Express format officially became the industry standard in video card interfaces. So at this point I am going to wait until my current computer dies before I upgrade to whatever's hot in the world of high-end PC gaming.

2. After YEARS and YEARS of playing mmorpg's, I'm just spent. To make a long story short - spending my life in front of a computer monitor for hours on end, day after day made me realize I had squandered what time I have been given on this Earth. I had been having a lot of arguments with some elistist motherf***ers on Final Fantasy XI when I had to ask myself this: After spending thousands of hours in a virtual world, what have I really achieved in the REAL? Boasting about my aswesome +1 Uber Cool armor and my Sword of Certain Death with +4 Earth Imbue seriously WILL NOT get me a date or impress the person accepting my job application.

So, no. I have given up MMORPG's. But right before I gave them up I was seriously thinking about trying the game.