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ReconToaster misses garnett :(
03/10/09

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I just wish they would add ONE MORE "C" to their title.
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Fallible.
03/10/09

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I've never heard of them, and from what I'm told EVE is only game that rewards one for not playing. You can take that any way you please, I've personally never played it.

What I have played though, is a lot of White Wolf RPGs. I had no idea they, CCP, had one. I assume it's in development, and not yet available, because I'm fairly interested in seeing the final product.
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Grisaille: Flip it, Ninja!
03/10/09

@Fallible: Kinda-sorta.

Sure, you could NOT play and only log in to change skills (I'm assuming you know about the real-time training system), but you won't be getting any experience.

I don't mean fictional numbers; I'm talking about real experience, knowing how to handle each and every PvP scenario you come across. Yes, the skill training is different, but it's those who are apt enough to know actual, real tactics are the ones destined to become really good at the game.
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SeraphX2
03/10/09

@Grisaille - It's Morphin(e) Time, Mother Fucker!: Grisaille is right Fallible. You could have two years of training skills accrued and not know how to fly a ship. The ships has to be micro-managed in flight. It isn't like other MMO's. There are really military tactics. Think more of operating a game like Jane's 688(i) Hunter/Killer submarine sim if you ever played it.

Also, if you sit on your ass and not play, even if you have two years of skills, you won't have the money required to buy what those skills allow you to do.
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Gaff
03/10/09

@SeraphX2: Can you still sell GTCs for 65M ISK?
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Morberis
03/10/09

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Woooo

I'd like to think that the game model employed by Eve Online, that of a complex sandbox, is the new future of MMO's.

But who am I kidding, the WoW kiddies only want to walk (or as the case in WOTLK run) through re-generated content and publishers all want a piece of that pie despite the very high risks.
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Kobun
03/10/09

@Morberis: As opposed to mining, lame (my opinion) combat, or staring at spreadsheets looking to make ISK from the markets? What WoW succeeds at is a fully fleshed out world which EVE lacks, though CCP certainly tries. My problem with EVE's world is that all of its backstory and such is just window dressing with little impact on the game universe at all. I'd much rather an EVE world where the races were not simply a means to an initial ship, where people would be at permanent war across all races unless they built up the (currently pretty much worthless) social skills. Corps would not be able to admit players from other races if they had not gained a certain social skill standing with that particular race. WoW, though repetitive, succeeds in fostering its world and submersiveness due to the constant Horde vs. Alliance conflict. That's missing from CCP's game, and it makes the universe a dull place unless the player gets heavily involved in corp wars, the path to which isn't nearly as open and easy as it is in WoW.
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
03/10/09

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They owe the success of this game to Broski Enterprises.

Who else has the balls to stand up to BoB and the Goonfleeet's monopoly on fun?
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godot
03/10/09

@MikeF**kingBison:

Are you making stuff up as you go along? A week ago you posted that Broski Enterprises "couldn't organize the pants in their closets..."

Second comment here: [kotaku.com]
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
03/10/09

@godot: That was BEFORE they started to pay me to leave comments like this one popular websites!
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