Spaceships Ahoy: EVE Online [May 06, 2003, 09:43 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Simon & Schuster Interactive sends word that EVE Online: The Second Genesis
has shipped to retail in North America, and that the game has gone live. Here's
the deal:
Simon & Schuster Interactive, the digital entertainment unit of Simon & Schuster Inc. announced today Crowd Control Productions' (CCP), highly anticipated massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) "EVE Online: The Second Genesis" has shipped to retail in North America and will be arriving at retailers over the next several days (Rated "T" by the ESRB; $49.95 estimated street with one month online time included).
This morning EVE became a living, breathing universe as the servers were turned on at 9 AM GMT. Gamers will be settling 'The New Eden' over the next few days as corporations, freelancers and many others begin their journey in this unique, open-ended universe.
Hey, so this means that if you're mining, you can't defend yourself? You'd have to hire people to watch you? That certainly sucks...not only do you have to mine your way to a better ship for 10-15 hours, you don't even get the satisfaction of a little combat while you're doing it.
And I thought grinding away killing rats and bats until I hit level 10 in EverQuest was bad. At least I had the satisfaction of swinging my Scimitar and blasting off a few spells.
When you first start out you get a civilian weapon and miner, so technically you could defend yourself. You aren't in much danger in a high security area, except from other players, but that's unlikely.
It does not take that long to get a better ship. It can happen very quickly, especially if you're working with other players. I, for one, would set you up with a better ship and equipment right off the bat if you seemed like a nice person, since both of us would stand to gain from the additional manpower - especially for combat, but for mining as well. --yrns
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