MMORPG.com EVE Online Correspondent Thomas Winkle interviews an EVE Online player who, despite popular opinion, has been ale to play and enjoy EVE for over three years without having joined a corporation.

For my first EVE Online article, I decided it would be best to get the perspective of an unusual player who has played EVE Online for quite a long time. His name is Jeregh, and he has quite a bit of experience with the game, and unlike most players, has never joined an alliance. For those out of the EVE Online space, an Alliance can be thought of as a guild that oversees other guilds. Here's what I've gathered from him.

Read Flying Solo - Playing Without a Corp.

The link would appear to be messed up. And you have a typo. Sounds like a cool article.

Yes bad link.

 Erf, bad link but interesting news :S

We have now flicked the activate feature switch! =)

Sorry about that!

Dear John Wood.

This article is more typical sub-standard fare from MMORPG.com

So...is it "Jeregh" as it's listed in the header and footer, or "Jergeth" as listed in the back and forth interview?

Proofreading, Jon.
You really should make your people do it.

Originally posted by jonaylward

Dear John Wood.

This article is more typical sub-standard fare from MMORPG.com

So...is it "Jeregh" as it's listed in the header and footer, or "Jergeth" as listed in the back and forth interview?

Proofreading, Jon.
You really should make your people do it.

There is a certain irony to your intro and conclusion... but yes, we'll get that fixed.

AHAHAHA...

There is, isn't there.

Old habits die hard, I suppose.

John is his name.
Jon is mine.

Originally posted by jonaylward

AHAHAHA...

There is, isn't there.

Old habits die hard, I suppose.

John is his name.
Jon is mine.

Actually, he's "Jon" too.

Anyway, jokes aside, thanks for pointing it out. We do our best, but sometimes things like this slip through.

I played solo for about a year...it's tough especially when your like me and tend to PO entire corps.....and that can make finding a corp tough........Imagine my shiney new Corps surprise when the had half of Goon Swarm camped out  in their sec wanting my head.

Yeah they pretty much gave me up.

Nice simple Q&A, nothing substantial but a fun read. I've only been playing for a month and have already dug myself a comfortable routine (some may say a rut =P.) But this would be a good read for anyone questioning if they should pick up EVE or not.

I loned wolfed it for a while myself. Being a Lone Wolf does give you some advantages as you dont have to deal with petty squabbles or war dec, but its boring.

Yeah, nice simple Q&A, though I would have prefered just a little more indepth, only a nudge.

I haven't played in about a year but when I did (for about 2 years), I was only in a corp for a few months before going back to solo. There are plenty of people who choose to belong to NPC corps for various reasons. My main reason was I got tired of the near-constant war decs going on (and I tried two diff corps).

As a soloer, you'll never control 0.0 space (and may have trouble even flying around in it) but it's not that bad if you don't care about the massive PvP that goes on in 0.0.

Hey guys, sorry for the typo's. I had my format in a different way than the editors wanted; so when they changed it, they added his name before each question, when before, I only had his initial. That's where the typo came from. I hope you guys enjoyed the article, and enjoy my future articles. If you have any suggestions about what you want to read about, just let me know! You can pm me here, or message me in game at TenchiHakubi.

Eve Online a cool game. Though I played it for a couple years, I am not currently at this time. You Q & A was ok but people are right  that its  weak. For people that might scann all this and want to check out the game give a little more here. The game as stated is on one server. It is a space and corporation (money = isk)  driven game. there are a few ways to get isk minning alone or with a corpration,agent missions, joining a corporation then doing what they require of u for the help, Manufacturing goods for sale on market(here to might be better as part of corp). and pirating.Though on one server the game has serveral, serveral star systems for u to explore .They have a secruty rating (1.0 to 0.0) The lower u find yourself the more risk u take , 0.4 below player charactors can attack u , but not just limited here , if they do it right they can gank ya in higher space. They'll just take more concord risk (in game  Police)

   There no lvls in Eve, which is anther reason to watch where u are. The ablity to do things is determine by skills and the lvl u trian them to or are at. There are skills for everthing and larger ships require certian skills and lvls to open them up for play. The good thing here is they trian in real time, not have be activity. This means after u buy the skill and activate it it'll say a time to lvl (say an hour, u could log of and log on hour later - bing skill at that lvl. )

  The game all money. Skill books, ships, modes, weapons and later stuff to make stuff cost money (yeah don't get blowen up if low on cash or no insurance paid on ship the free noob ship takes a long while to get good isk back.) The game has several ways to make money as stated above.

   Pvp can be donea few ways as well. You can be a pirate. Take someones stuff and they can attack u. If u jion a corp, a corp can declare war on one anther. This could be just to fight or as part of a scem to make the corp spend more resources(thous weaken its market) or take the area awayfrom them for ur corp operations. Though I have not tooken part in them there is the game run " Fraction Wars". You can aslo be a bounty hunter.

 The graghics are cool and there are  several types of ships. Some are specialized for like  war, minning, cargo, or some specialized support. There 4 different Empires with a story and different look to them. Well I hope if anyone sees this and hasn't look at Eve but found the Q &A  interesting gives u that final nudge to look the game up. The game got more info as well- not writting a manual.

I don't want to sound too hars...but what's difficult/interesting/unique about being carebear in NPC corp?

My char is almost 4 years old and still in SWA. I love doing missions in my fully faction fitted Command ship :)

People always ask me "Wtf dude?

Originally posted by Gdemami

I don't want to sound too hars...but what's difficult/interesting/unique about being carebear in NPC corp?

For a guy that played Eve for a while you sure as hell have a hardtime dealing with the way other people decide to play a Open ended game.

Do you pay his 15 buck or 300million isk a month to keep his account active?

So many people play eve now, im sorry but 0.0 blob warfare and low sec roaming gangs/piracy arent the only way people enjoy Eve.

It's not like the guy is anti-social he has buddies that he groups with, so what he likes empire and does missions and some indy stuff.

Whatever floats his boat, In eve you could be who you want, when you want, doing what you want.

If you don;t like it tough, I personally feel it was a good write up.

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Originally posted by JGMIII
For a guy that played Eve for a while you sure as hell have a hardtime dealing with the way other people decide to play a Open ended game.
Do you pay his 15 buck or 300million isk a month to keep his account active?
So many people play eve now, im sorry but 0.0 blob warfare and low sec roaming gangs/piracy arent the only way people enjoy Eve.
It's not like the guy is anti-social he has buddies that he groups with, so what he likes empire and does missions and some indy stuff.
Whatever floats his boat, In eve you could be who you want, when you want, doing what you want.
If you don;t like it tough, I personally feel it was a good write up.
 

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That's not what I am talking about. I asked, why to make and article about something so dull, boring and uninteresting, something how majority of EVE spent their ingame time and present it as unique experience?

Being with no corp can still be interesting, you can do lots of things as a freelancer and you can describe the issues you have to deal with, you can write what deals you have made with those who are in corp to supplemet missing features, etc. There is a ton to write what can you do as a lone wolf but this...?