JoeyN Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 I saw this linked on digg.com. Its a article about a clan on the MMO EVE which infiltrated one of the big corporations on the game over the span of a year and stole everything. Very cool article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Well, that's freaking impressive. Talk about blurring the line between game and reality! While I'm frightened of the dedication it must have taken to accomplish this, I'm also strangely satisfied to see this type of interaction happening in a game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Holy shit! Very cool to read about something as grand as that happening in a virtual world. Anyone here play/played EVE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrik Draven Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Damn, the text on those screenies is too hard for me to read. What's the gist of this, in a nutshell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted September 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 The article tells how they did the infiltration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Derrik, those pics are a little display-compressed on ImageShack. You can save them locally and view full or even zoom in for easier reading. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrik Draven Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 Thanks! I'll give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 I played EVE for about a while back in July/August. Absolutely beautiful game, but very difficult to get going. They have an excellent tutorial, but once that if finsihed you are just out there in this wide open world with no real sense of purpose or mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whooter Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 I found EVE to be very pretty, and very very dull. I can see why the most entertaining aspect of the game is scamming other players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 I actually went ahead and paid the $20 to try it for a month. After reading a lot about the game and then playing through the initial tutorial, I'm very interested. It seems like it might suit me. I'll just have to see how it actually plays after a month. Unfortunately, my video card (a 6800 GT) just went and died on me last night, so I won't be diving in just yet :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 I can see why the most entertaining aspect of the game is scamming other players. I want to add to this quote. Because the game is so open and so do whatever you want, it has created a whole class of players who do nothing but capture other players for ransom, which in turn has created another class of players that are highered killers. Kidnapp the wrong person and they can put bounty on your head so high that you won't be able fly safely through territory not controlled by your corporation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 Well that sounds scary I forgot to ask: does anyone have the pics of that artcile? The link is dead now. I can check my browser's cache when I get home, but I was hoping to show some people here at work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MastaRedSnappa Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 I want to add to this quote. Because the game is so open and so do whatever you want, it has created a whole class of players who do nothing but capture other players for ransom, which in turn has created another class of players that are highered killers. Kidnapp the wrong person and they can put bounty on your head so high that you won't be able fly safely through territory not controlled by your corporation. Now that's what I call a player-based economy! So are there no rules at all about griefing, etc. that might get a player banned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 Now that's what I call a player-based economy! So are there no rules at all about griefing, etc. that might get a player banned? Just "what goes around, comes around". The zones each have a safety rating, the higher the rating the quicker the cops(NPC) will come to help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 Now that's what I call a player-based economy! So are there no rules at all about griefing, etc. that might get a player banned? From what I understand (which is very little, considering the apparent depth of the game), ya, you can do whatever the game allows. That seems to be the whole point of EVE: player-driven everything. I don't think the game allows for any really annoying griefing, though (nothing people would want others banned over). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 I just had to revive this thread (even if nobody cares ) to say that I'm still playing the game and I'm totally loving it. It might be the first MMO I stick with a for a good while, thanks to the odd way you don't really have to play it to continue to advance. That's for the original post, Capt. I owe you one (I still wouldn't have heard of the game otherwise) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 I'm genuinely curious about what's keeping you playing Covak? I haven't tried the game since it's initial launch and I wouldn't be opposed to giving it another shot. I'm wondering how things have improved and what's compelling about the experience for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 I'm genuinely curious about what's keeping you playing Covak? I haven't tried the game since it's initial launch and I wouldn't be opposed to giving it another shot. I'm wondering how things have improved and what's compelling about the experience for you? A huge part of it is really that you can spend a lot of time not playing it, just flying arond on autopilot. So much DS gaming goodness while I'm flying around for the best deals You get sound while it's minimized, too, so you can just do other stuff on your computer. And the fact that you can really not play it all, besides logging in to pick the next skill to advance, I like. Already, thanks to F.E.A.R. and Civilization IV, I've taken little breaks from EVE, but since my character still advanced I had new abilities and things to do the next time I played. In the long run, when I take multi-month breaks for the likes of Halo 3 and Splinter Cell 4 on Live, I can already imagine what skills I'll train in EVE so that when I get back into it I'll have access to new ship types and equipment. It seems like it's easy enough to earn the cash to buy things, too, so I never feel like I'm grinding for all that new stuff. I just have to play a little and wait for the skills to come. And I enjoy the way it plays when I'm actually playing it, too. I like how there are no classes and you can just refit your ship (or switch ships) to play different roles. One character, so many posibilities. Once I got into things a little I didn't have to try very hard to set all kinds of short/medium/long term goals for myself. I find the combat interesting, too. Machine guns, artilery cannons, energy weapons, shields/armor/structure, ammuniton types, electronic warfare, etc, all speaks to me a lot more than the melee/ranged weapons and spells and armor/resistances in fantasy games. And I love the harsh PvP, even though I haven't experienced it much myself, yet. I caught the tail end of a brief corp war. The fighting was already over, and we were just running the stragglers out of the system and making sure they understood: steal our ore and we'll hunt you all down and kill you. They ended up paying us a decent amount and promising to stay away from us in the future. It was too cool That PvP is such a big part of the game and that corporations (and alliances) can wage wars on each other, wars that have can have a real impact, motivates me to reach all those long-term goals, so that I can slip into various roles as needed to do what I want and make my own little mark on the universe. And it's one universe for all players. Another great feature. The game is beautiful, too, which doesn't hurt. Eesh, I'm just a rambling fanboy now... I guess you could say I just kinda like everything about the game at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMonkey Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 haha, another EVE online scam http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060828-7605.html Dude running an ingame bank took off with $790 billion ISK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted August 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 :lol :lol Just priceless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 Hehehehe That story makes me miss the game. I still love it to death and my character is still advancing, but it gets so little play time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave C Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 It has been estimated that the stolen 790 billion ISK could fetch as much as $170,000 in the real-world marketplace, and this type of thinking leads some to believe that the overtaxed real-world legal system may at some point get involved when an in-game economic catastrophe occurs. Ok, someone set me straight. Is this similar to people paying thousands of dollars in real money for a virtual island? If this guy were to ebay aquired assets (790 billion ISK), the bidding could get up to thousands in real dollars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 Ok, someone set me straight. Is this similar to people paying thousands of dollars in real money for a virtual island? If this guy were to ebay aquired assets (790 billion ISK), the bidding could get up to thousands in real dollars? I wouldn't expect a single crazy auction like that. 790 billion ISK is a ridiculous amount. It'd probably sell in smaller chunks of around 100 million ISK for $10 - $20 each. I'll be interested to see if the EVE population reacts in any meaningful way. If ever there was a game in which the good guys needed to organize and band together... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 Is this similar to people paying thousands of dollars in real money for a virtual island? By the way, he didn't. That was a marketing stunt by the MMO company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 Hehehehe That story makes me miss the game. I still love it to death and my character is still advancing, but it gets so little play time Heh, so that story was all it took to get people at work talking about the game again, and a couple are actually trying it now, which got me playing it more again, and now I've gone crazy and started a second account (for another $15 USD per month :eh). Good times, good times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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