EVE Online is an online game centered around internet spaceships. It is classified as an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) and is developed by CCP Inc, a software development firm based in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The game is touted as a "sandbox" in that there is no "end-game" activity. There are no hours of leveling up and gaining experience, no static story events to plod through, and from day one you can participate in (and be beneficial) in any of functions of EVE, listed below.
You can:
The list goes on and on as there is no defined function that you are required to do. You are not locked into a class; your character can do anything and be anything.
My chosen path is industry, however. The art of building components, modules, polymers, and then combining those into a finished product. This is where spreadsheet hell comes into!
The game is touted as a "sandbox" in that there is no "end-game" activity. There are no hours of leveling up and gaining experience, no static story events to plod through, and from day one you can participate in (and be beneficial) in any of functions of EVE, listed below.
You can:
- Go Mining!
- Build increasingly complex equipment and ships
- Trade endlessly (EVE player-driven economy has had several economic papers written about it)
- Scam out people out of their cash! (Completely legal as it doesn't violate the End User License Agreement)
- Take on increasingly difficult NPC (non-player character) missions.
- Become a pirate! (killing other players when they don't have a chance to fight back)
- Engage in Faction Warfare (Player versus Player combat dedicated to controlling certain areas of NPC space)
- Become a dedicated PvPer (one who trains and excels in killing other player ships, typically in a larger organized fashion)
- Go Wormhole diving...Do COSMOS missions...Do DED Complexes...
The list goes on and on as there is no defined function that you are required to do. You are not locked into a class; your character can do anything and be anything.
My chosen path is industry, however. The art of building components, modules, polymers, and then combining those into a finished product. This is where spreadsheet hell comes into!