All this business about this game or that game being a WoW clone is nonsense to me (my opinion).

All WoW did was take the best features from a myriad of predecessor games and put it all into one game. They created a format that works, much  like the automobile industry did, Accelorator, brake, and clutch, gear lever, and windshield wipers. . all standard. Dont be surprised when they show up on every car. The MMO community is much the same way and i for one am kinda thankful, cuts down on EVE Online learning curves, dont get me wrong discovery is an essential ingredient  for an MMO, but when i PvP I want to have a basic idea of what things do and or work. To radical of a design can kill a game quickly.

Dont get me wrong i love innovation but alot of features in todays MMOs are becoming industry standards. for better or worse.

when a Studio does do something truly revelutionary we will all rejoice, throw our collective hands in the air and scream Halleujah :)

Originally posted by ElderRat

EVE = fear, rage, paranoia, satisfaction.

Agree 100%, before EVE gave us these, it was a little game called Shadowbane. . . the destruction of an enemy city was an awesome experience :)

SWG died, EVE did not. Full Stop.

Well i play EVE Online, for a few reasons that i beleive set it apart from other MMOs. First off we have Player Ownership, this I beleive is very important in a game, for reasons i wont get into right now.  The second reason I play EVE would be that i can kill anyone i want at anytime. . . . . some one trolling chat. . .Lock him & pop him, suicide him. . . repeatedly if you must :)

PVP IS MANDITORY!!!!!

I will conclude with the a third reason, EVE Online has a mature community (no age bias, this is based on behavior) packed full of great people from all over the world. One last thing to all the people that say EVE Online is boring. . . your doing it wrong.

Thus endth the sermon.

First complete the training missions in the beginning, at the conclusion you will be awarded a Recommendation that can turned in to your races Militia for instant access to Faction Warfare. Once in the Militia advice should be easy to find :)

Good Luck and ill cya out there.

P.S. Training skills take time, most will be at most minutes or hours in the beginning. . . but later as skills are trained to higher and higher levels the training times also get longer. . . longest i trained was 40 days. . . for Battleship Level 5 and it was completely worth it :)

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