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It's a big game based around economy basically, the whole extent of the gameplay is making money so that you can buy stuff to make more money until you have such a huge amount of money that you can possibly buy a ship that is uber and then go fight with it only to likely lose it at some point and start all over again. On top of that, the "leveling" system is based on skills, everything requires certain skills to use, but every skill requires skill training, which happens in real time, and even when you are offline. Nothing you do in game (except buying a few items that up it just a bit) will get you skills any faster than being offline, so essentially, it is impossible to ever catch up to the older players, you will always be at the same level as people who started at the same time you did, though maybe they didn't train the right skills as well, but even if they didn't they are still just the people under you and represent a very small chunk. The top players will always be the top players; not to mention their utter monopoly of any good area of space so really it is a game that is best for people who don't playing just to make money for the most part and waiting months and months just to get something that is even remotely flyable / playable.

Literally if you were to make an account right now there would be nothing worthwhile for you to do other than sit around and let skills train for the next few months. Talent at playing the game has little to do with how good you end up, you can read guides for ship setups and battle just consists of clicking your weapons to "on" mode and letting them pewpewpew. I'll catch a lot of flak for this, but all this stuff is pretty accurate to the game, I did play it for a while and did have a lot of stuff, but found that I was bored 5 hours for every 20 minutes I was actually entertained.

I don't always agree with Yahtzee but his review is actually spot on:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/208-Eve-Online

ya that pretty much sums it up but having a good corp makes the game alot funner. the first couple months are hard because you spend most of it waiting for new skills to train. i have been training my fighter for 5 months now and i finally feel like i am getting somewhere

It's pretty fun.

Eve is a tough luck game where when your ship gets blown up, it's gone for good, and when you get scammed, GM's won't do anything. At the same time, it allows you to just about do anything. What I like most about the game is the extremely realistic market, which functions very similarly to real life, complete with IPO's, transportation logistics, stocks, production, marketing. The complexity of the system and how it changes (for instance a surge in mineral prices due to capital ship losses in pvp) ensures that you will never get bored (that and the cutthroat competition)

It is life.

I feel similarily. I played Eve for several months and will probably keep a char or two going to stick around long enough for T3 and stuff...but I've gone back to playing Pirates of the Buring Sea www.potbs.com a truly awesome game and a lot of ex-Eve players play. Its similar in a lot of way but a little faster-paced, smaller (at the moment) and fresher. Fleet vs. Fleet "Port Battles" are incredibly fun and the basis for RvR (ports have economic resources) and PvP on the open sea is rad. If anyone wants to check it out, I'm pretty well established and can help with a head-start. The game just had its 1-year anniversary so its a great time for new players to start. The game is fully patched and tweaked and is really a blast. Anyone who'd like a 14 day can check the game out at www.potbs.com - PM me if you have any problems getting a trial. Make sure to join the blackbeard server (best most balanced one ATM) and play on the Spanish team if you'd like to join me!