All things EVE

[Alkiera]

I have to say, this is close to the epitome of the casual's game.  I can log on, start training a skill, and log off, do something else, spend time with spouse, work around the house, whatever.  Have a long trip for an agent?  Set autopilot, and go out to wash the car.  Come in halfway thru washing car, say hi to agent, set destination, autopilot, go back to finish the car.

I'm typically pretty busy at work, I don't have time to sit and focus on a game for even 5-10 minutes.  But I can VNC to my home machine long enough to log in, pick the next skill to train, and log out.  Especially as a newer character, that's pretty useful, to help broaden my skill base.

I still want CCP to write Fantasy EVE...  or license the engine to someone who will.

Alkiera

[addryc]

Heh - autopilot can get you in trouble though Alkiera - make sure and watch your route to destination - any red systems and you could be in trouble from pirates - I learnt that to my cost!

[Hoax]

Evegeek link in another thread led me to this:

http://eve-central.com/home/

The trade route finder is a very very cool idea, almost feels like cheating somehow, but free isk is free isk   

[Yegolev]

Grey area, I suppose, since I could just jump to the nearby regions, dump a text file and figure this out myself.  I won't be doing any long-haul work anyway.  I will probably be using this a bit... it's still an ass-pain for me to haul in quantity.

[Furiously]

Looks like there is no data for the Kor-Azor area in the past long time.

[Viin]

Did you try using that tool to upload info? Of course, there could be no *good* trade routes. Though you might try the other way (say, Domain to Kor-Azor) too.

[Furiously]

Did you try using that tool to upload info?

Hello - that would be work....

[Viin]

Oh I know, but *someone* needs to try it and see if there's anything good!

[Yegolev]

You can do half the work, get prices in two systems from the tool and compare to a manual dump from Kor-Azor.  Yeah, I know, it's work, but I am in Claulenne for the time being.

[Soln]

Ok I'd like to learn more. 

Where can I find out about how people are setting up bases, which I presume are the equivalent of player cities?

Is there any info on 0.0, which I presume is a "wild zone", anyone can build a starbase there?

Just like to learn a bit about how certain corps are claiming areas of space and maybe the player-content-creation game.

Pretty impressed with Eve the more I learn.

[hal]

I am a stinking noob. Having said that, all of 0.0 is claimed by someone. Thats not to say a corp with strength couldn't but the easy way is to allay with existing forces. There are members on this board way more knowageable than I but that seems the short answer. Eve has been out for years now. Its the land of player made content and to the extent I can see it its cool and aggravating and all like that.

[5150]

0.0 appears to be largely empty

While all of it may have been 'claimed' by one alliance or the other theres a big difference between it being 'claimed' and 'settled'

Looking at the political map that was linked to [in this thread I hope] most of the claimed space boundaries are where the choke points are (i.e. systems with only 2 gate, one in one out) which make it much easier for the 'owners' to exert control over the space contained behind it.

Theres nothing stopping you [besides cost and time] getting your own station, wandering out to some distant 0.0 sector (usually in the very early morning when less people are on) and popping it down - the problem is that you'd need to be able to defend it from destruction by the 'owners' of the region you just built it in (which is where the plan goes horribly wrong)

Unfortunately it does seem to be the case that, if you want a slice of 0.0 action, you need to sell your soul to one of the existing alliances with some control out here (or alternatively join some new alliance which is gaining enough momentum to be able to establish itself in 0.0 soon - lots of PvP in that route before you get to play space station manager)

I've been looking at the options of joining a '0.0 alliance' for my corp - unfortunately some of them have rediculous (for my corp) membership criteria (ISS for example want 25mil joining fee, plus 25mil per month (more if you have more than 10 members) plus your own station within 2 weeks of joining (they dont appear to offer any help getting that up))

[Murgos]

Isn't there a new sector coming soon?  Like sometime this month?

[Alkiera]

Isn't there a new sector coming soon?  Like sometime this month?

There are new servers coming up, to better run the existing stuff, from what I understood.  It's to help fix some of the server-side lag and other similar issues they've been experiencing since they started growing lately.

At least, that's what I got out of the text they've had up on the launcher lately.

Alkiera

[Hoax]

From whore'ing it up on the eve-online forums how I understand it is there are several parts of 0.0 where you could get in and try to exist.  But those are the areas where several smaller alliances are all duking it out.  The large alliances exist because they are in a way a necessity.  Complete chaos ensues if no one faction can actually lock down the area, I think that is the situation in Curse atm for example.

[Raging Turtle]

Sorry about last vasishing last night.  Internet connection died for some reason. 

[WayAbvPar]

I had mine die for just long enough to make me log in again.