*tsk tsk* Time to brush up on your back story about how pilots fly from inside jelly-filled pods and need remote camera drones buzzing around their ships to see anything at all.

Come on man, get with the program. /sarcasm /wink /nod

On topic, I always love CCP's trailers for some reason. Just watching them pumps me up for space opera; until like Shiho, I remember the game is a lot of waiting and staring at slow moving spacecraft. Still, I may have to check it out.

My girlfriend and I signed up for the trial together out of boredom yesterday. We both had an incredible amount of fun, i'll see how I feel after the two weeks, but I'm really drawn to the complexity of this game, and it reminds me more of UO than any mmo since. I already think the graphics are pretty, if I like this update I may cancel LOTRO (which I havent played in months) and give this a spin for awhile.

Is there any GWJ Corporation or anything in the game? Or is there just nobody playing it?

Well it's definitely gotten the 'next gen' facelift. I wouldn't even say it was necessary. Im sure that took their artists a lot of time and there's some payoff for it, but not a huge amount.

I enjoyed it when I played, I really only left because I hit crunch time at work and didnt have time to play. Didn't quite get drawn back in. I probably will again in the future. It's a good game, once you get the hang of it. The fact that you can play completely without grinding, if you choose to, is fantastic. More games need to take notice of that part.

Poly, you can't really play without grinding. Maybe in a large corp you could leech off the worker bees, but of course most of those setups have time and kill reqs you need to meet.

I enjoyed Eve to a large degree. What finally got me was that I had no good way of getting actual combat experience short of burning ships in solo encounters. I had maybe 10 or so fights over a few months outside of mass operations (which I quite enjoyed), and in all but one of them I was massively, completely, outclassed. (I barely lost that one because, surprise surprise, the other guy managed his distance better than I did). I was a good miner, a good scout for group ops, good in missions, great at clearing rats and hauling in-system. But I could not see any way to avoid being penniless and leeching off my clanmates, and that was not worth the time I was putting into it.

It's a shame, really. It was a pretty calming game, intellectually interesting and even the grinding (which was massive, hours at a go) had it's interests. And yes, you can watch tv, read a book, do chores or chat during the grinds with a good degree of safety.

Oh wow, thanks! I may take you up on that offer if we decide to subscribe to the game.

I've been back in eve for about 2 months now. I'm about 20 mill from my first battle ship and working on lvl 4 agent missions. Get the social skills for agent rep bonus up to lvl 4 and grinding agents isn't nearly as bad. You'll be making decent cash in no time.

If anyone needs some starter cash as well let me know.

Half-Life 1 and Myth 2 were pretty bad too.

I'm not sure exactly how I was affected by that. I should affect XP users that have their EVE installation on C:. I have all my games installed to D:\Games and still it deleted my boot.ini.

Took me a long time to fix it, because I have a SATA Raid setup and I had to create a Nlite Windows XP SP2 installation back then with my SATA drivers and for some reason, that CD that I had, did not have the Recovery Console... I had to look for my original Windows disk and recreate the whole thing, using my wife's MacBook haha. Since I have no experience with Macs that took me a long time to finish.

My characters name is 'Hannibal Dax', drop me a line!

I'd like to see a report from CCP showing the increase of their player base since Trinity came out. I know a LOT of people that are either coming back now or trying the game for the first time due to Trinity.

Since last night, everybody on Local is just neutral to me now. Couple days ago everybody had the red sign on their icon. I don't have much to move to a different place, I should sell everything there and just get a frigate and fly to Empire or some other place.

And yeah, I'm on GWJ channel. I'll drop you guys a line next time I'm on.

This thread makes me want to pick up Continuum/Subspace again.

I have signed up again as well. looking for a different experience. I am starting from scratch and hope to play a bit over the holidays as it drags me in and out. Sins of a Solar Empire has me really jonesing for some epic space fun so this will scratch the itch.

- Spy

I am one of those older player's in Eve. Look me up if you need help or some advice about the game. I usually am on the GWJ chat channel when online, and there are some other players there as well....

Ingame Nick: Xilo