Eve Online: Intro

Eve Online is a Sci-Fi base MMORPG and is quite different than LOTRO and WoW. In Eve, there is only one server (or shard), so everyone plays in the same universe. There are usually 20-30 thousand people on at a time. It is quite a large universe with numerous systems, planets and starbases. I really have no idea how many since it is so huge. There are different factions spread across the galaxy, each has their own advantages.

When you create a character you are given a basic space ship. You are your ship, so you don't walk around or anything. There are some story based missions to get you familiar with how things work. After that is is up to you to do what you want. Here are some things you can do: Missions (quests), Mine minerals in asteroid belts, hunt NPC pirates, hunt player pirates (as a bounty hunter), Explore for hidden instance areas, Haul freight for players using a contract system, Build nearly anything seen in the game, trade commodities on the galactic market, join player empires and war over player run space stations, become a pirate and hunt player traders, build ships and sell them and more!

Don't worry about all the pirate talk, space systems have a security rating. So if it is a high security system your mostly safe from other players. Low security systems have more risk, but more reward. Many people play their entire time in one or the other.

In the following series of posts I will tell the story of my character there and his journey to make a lot of isk (money in Eve).