The Beginning

Well I have decided I want to play Eve Online. A MMO Game. If you do not know what Eve Online is go to their site. www.eve-online.com.

But before I decide to join, I am going to research it. Because Eve is unlike almost every game out there in its size and scope. So I want to start understanding more than the brief basics.

And because I want to retain what I learn, I am also going to document it, because that will help me retain my knowledge. (and maybe help other newbs too)

So for those who are not familiar with Eve here are a few things.

• Eve is a single universe. No shards.
  
• Eve is Huge!
• Eve has a very large learning curve
• You can be learning new skills while not even logged in.
• At least one developer of the game has been caught cheating in Eve.
• Eve has its own economy
• Eve has its own slang/language for the parts of Eve.
• If you want it safe, Eve is not the place. Nope. People here will kill you because they can. Accept it.
  
• People will scam you of your money. Trust only yourself.
• Scandals on Wall Street? They have them here too.

So here we go.

I am a few weeks behind on my decision so going to backtrack some here.

I looked into signing up on Eve a few years ago. Really started to follow what was going on as I an a space nut. So about that time, it comes to light that a developer for CCP (people who make EVE ONLINE) was caught giving free stuff to people in his corporation. Stuff that could make them a bunch of money. Well CCP owned up on it and did not fire the cheater. Which blows. And then they Ban the dude who reported it because they caused CCP grief. I watched that for awhile and decided I would spend my money elsewhere because I cannot trust the people making the game then some day I would be screwed over.

So now a few years later, I start seeing some more Eve stuff crossing my event horizion. I think it might be interesting to see whats going on. So I start watching again. Eve released a new expansion which I cannot pronounce (Apocrypha) which has some nice changes and also makes the game more newb friendly.

So I think about signing up. I will probably be able to pay for it as I am making some financial changes that should provide me some more spending cash for whatever. Maybe $14.99 a month isn't thaaat bad.

I almost quit right here becuase just last week the whole Bob/KenZoku/BoBR name change fiasco happened and I had flashbacks to the good ole days of not trusting CCP. But they decided to go back and undo the BoBR change (althought the excuse seemed lame to me!). So I sat back for a week and thought it over. Eventually, I decided that I need my Elite/Sci Fi needs met and Eve is possibly the only way to scratch that itch.

So I have deiced to try it out. I have not signed up yet and have not researched much, but will document what I can to help me and others out. (unless I get lazy and quit this blog)

So wish me good luck!