What is EVE Online?

A description of EVE Online

EVE Online is a space simulation MMORPG developed by CCP Games set in a science fiction persistent universe. Players pilot spaceships across a galaxy and can travel to 7000 star systems swarming with other player controlled ships, stations, and eventually pirates. Characters advance by training all sorts of skills: science, combat, trade, social, planetary and more. The skill training advances in real time, even while not logged in EVE Online.

What's different from other MMORPG?

Let's see...

1. There are no multiple servers: every pilot plays on a single "shard"
2. There are no classes: you can train whatever skill you like anytime
3. You can die. A lot. You can lose your ship, items and some of your skill training if you don't have a clone
4. It's far more complex and deep than the typical hack and slash fantasy MMORPG

What can you do in EVE Online?

There's a number of in-game activies, here are some of them:

• mine rock asteroids, ice asteroids, gas clouds
• haul and trade items
• explore space to find hidden locations
• research and manufacture ships, ship parts, ammunitions, commodities, stations, etc.
• fight in small skirmishes or full scale player versus player battles
• fight in player versus environment combat
• run PvE missions for agents
• join a corporation and do all of the above with friends
• become a pirate, kill other ships, steal their cargo (and it's not harassment!)
• build planetary structures
• spend the whole time taking ships screenshots...

What do I need to play?

Go to the official EVE Online website and download the free trial.
See for yourself: do you like it? Set up a subscripion plan and play.