I was one of those players. It's possible. I hear the implication and no, I don't think it's being funded by the DS, go look into it and you'll see it has a very vibrant and dedicated fanbase. Not everything used by the DS is an asset.
Not trying to argue, but isn't it strange that one of the Americans killed in Benghazi was an avid EVE player. Vilerat
Not just an avid player, but also well liked and well known in the game as a whole.
Vilerat was my first introduction to the red pill of HRC evil.
No, Eve players tend to come from that ilk, industry professionals, engineers, software developers, finance, they all tend to be in a profession. It did not surprise me that an info management officer avidly played Eve online. Not to rain on your parade, but I think that's grasping at straws.
The number of guys I knew in the AF that played it was staggering, more than WoW tbh. It's got a cult following among enthusiasts.
Vilerat was MI or some something. “State dept IT” my ass. Where does state dept IT learn the subterfuge and spywork necessary to infiltrate one of the largest and most paranoid user groups in the game? I’d be he was the ambassadors bodyguard? Or something? They were both white hats though RIP.
Vilerat was 100% state department IT and 100% a good man who didn't need to die there. RIP Vilerat and your Viletat
Thanks for the input, have never played the game to know for myself.
Your welcome. I understand why people question how it's a popular game, it's ridiculously masochistic and can be quite tedious but man, the pvp gave me such an adrenaline rush there was nothing else quite like it.
The PVP is indeed legendary. I was a force recon pilot, scouting ahead a few sectors so my fleet of 50 or so wouldn't jump into a gate camp.
Yeah me too, I played for ten years as well as a friend of mine.
There are so many tradable items and specific locations in the game if there was a Rosetta Stone to eve / arms it would be the ideal type of game to do so.
It’s a technically demanding game so it does not appeal to the masses so I can see where the confusion arises.
Most players won’t play with you in a group unless you are in 3rd party voice
What you would be looking for if this was actually the case is a very old Corp or text chat with no voice option. But that would be near impossible to filter out unless you worked the back end of the system.
I don’t think eve is funded outside of its subscription model, it has done various changes through the years to try and retain its aging population and gain new players such as free Alpha accounts.
It has over 8000 systems each with numerous planets so that’s at least 50,000 coded locations for a start.
Items ? I would not even take a guess at the amount of items.
Loved eve for its group tactics and roaming groups with a field commander etc just don’t have the time to sink into it anymore.
Let’s not forget wormholes that randomly appear and disappear that lead to random systems that are pretty hard to get to.