What Is Eve Online?

Eve Online is an MMO where you fly spaceships, it's been running since 2003 and has over 300,000 players who all play in the same universe - fighting, building, mining, trading, scamming and building empires. As a player there's no real limitations on how you play the game, there's no 'classes' that dictate your abilities, every ship in the game is available to a pilot who dedicates the training time to get the skills and the in game resources, usually in the form of cold hard cash, to acquiring the ship.

As of right now, your ships are your only avatar to the world, you can't get out and walk around just yet, even though this feature has been promised soon(tm).

However that's one of the few things you can't do. Eve is a big universe and it's full of things to waste your time on.

Eve Rookie -

So having played Eve Online for a couple of years I found my kids had got interested in flying internet spaceships, and I foolishly created an 'alt' account, partly so they could play, and partly because I was going to need a second account for some of my future plans. Now with a new account I got dropped back into the rookie channels and very quickly I realised that while it's nice to have 2 years of in game skills, it's equally refreshing to have 2 years of in game experience and share it with the rookies who're learning the game. And so, with that In mind I'm hoping to start writing about all the fun stuff you can do in Eve, and why you shouldn't be intimidated by the naysayers who say it's too hard, or that you can't compete because of the skill training system leaving you perpetually playing catchup. If I can teach a 4 year old kid to fly a ship then you can do it too.