I’ll tell you Elite is way less investing then EVE. And it’s universe is expansive, though there’s a whole lot of nothing to be doing in that expansiveness.

Everyone disconnects for daily downtime, but it only takes about 15 minutes. If you log in immediately once the servers are back online, you show up right where you left off. 

I love these! (I saved this one to read over breakfast.) But you said it took a week, but there’s a daily downtime. Does everything pop back into place when players log in after that? Like the universe was just frozen for a while? 

Eve is extremely political (in the Eve world) that is what makes the game. Spies, betrayals, and trying to take over the Russian occupied north sectors lol

I find these EVE articles fascinating, but my perception of EVE is it’s the preferred game of twitter trolls. AND I LOVE IT.

I could not have said better. I was a wormholer...wormholeer? Dweller of the non-local chat?... For 3 and some years. Part of a small corp, notorious for using high-end t3 cruisers to do horrible things to fleets three times our size.

Eve is an interesting beast of a game. Since your stuff can actually be lost (when your ship explodes its gone, it doesnt respawn) there’s inherit value to your stuff. Which pushes that risk and reward ratio all the way up. If youre like me when i used to play, you dont have much, but what you have is special cause…

The biggest thing that used to bother me when I played were the highsec suicide gankers taking down lowly little miners.  You wasted how much isk to take down a retriever with a few anti npc rat drones.  For what?  lols?  Great you set me back a week and burned 10x the isk to do it. Go you.  I never bothered even…

Eve is super slow paced and hard to get into at first. I played the 2 weeks trial or whatver it was back before it became F2P. I did some mining. and shot down an ai pirate ship. But it took an hour or two just to get from the base to the rock i was mining. ANd then back again. I literally went for lunch while my ship…

Elite is very different. especially in VR.

EVE is a PvP game at its heart. There are PvE mechanics, missions, and some
“end game” level PvE content, but they’re all there mostly to support the PvP aspect. There is no top level raid, or any Mythic + type competition, the only widely recognized accolades in the community are PvP related. That’s why you see more…

Because those are the interesting stories and learning about how much planning and politicking goes on to pull off this stuff makes it easy to get immersed in reading about it.

That’s sort of like saying that Mario players seem bigoted toward Goombas. The game is designed around these sort of conflicts; sure, there’s a lot of cooperation that goes into building these sorts of things, but a large part of them being impressive is *because* of their potential vulnerability. Without the threat…

The publisher likes to call it the largest collective science fiction story ever told. 

Awesome. EVE Online offers a very unique possibility to create a new “folk” work. I guess today it would be considered crowd sourced mythology. Absolutely fantastic.

There’s Andrew Groen and his Empires of EVE books! He mostly covers the Nullsec Empires.

In my experience, EVE is absolutely not ‘openly hostile’ to new players. It’s a harsh, unforgiving universe for all its players, regardless whether they’re newbies or veterans. This is not the same thing. For new players that are willing to learn from their mistakes, I’ve found that EVE players are extremely friendly…

There’s an outlook that settles in after you’ve played for a while. Your ship stops being a vehicle or a gun in your head, and starts becoming something more akin to ammunition. Especially in wormholes, it’s assumed that the moment you undock something and put it at risk, it’s forfeit. If you managed to bring it home…

I think it is a testament to your abilities as a writer to take such a complicated event like this one, with lots of moving pieces, confusing terminology, and inscrutably dense game mechanics for those not well-versed in the game itself, and create a thoroughly engaging and approachable narrative.  Thank you, and…

Am I the only one that has a little bit of “Ender’s game” feeling? Like the annuls of EVE’s history will play out when we are a galaxy wide civilization?