EVE Online

Just a note to those who are looking for a good MMORPG to try. EVE Online has been around since 2003, and I'm ashamed to admit that I wasn't impressed enough with the beta to jump in back then. Things have changed.

EVE isn't for everyone. It's got a very STEEP learning curve, and it's not a twitch-fest like most MMO's are. Instead, there are skills to learn, an extremely complex economy to wander through, and total freedom of action. It's probably a polar opposite to games like World of Warcraft, which tend to hold your hand and lead you from one quest to the next, enforcing the idea of Alliance vs. Horde by disallowing communication or trading between the two sides. In EVE, you can stick to pure research and never leave space dock, you can mine ore for a living, you can buy low and sell high by shipping goods across the galaxy, and you can fight -- mobs or other players, as a good guy or a pirate, alone or in a corporation. No handholding, and not much guidance.

Still, I like it. It lets me play at my own pace, and even though I'm 2 and a half years behind the people who started at the beginning, I don't feel hopelessly behind. Even knowing I'm a total n00b, I feel like I can accomplish something. That's a nice change.

Words...

A blog. Yippie.

Well, I'm hoping this will both give me a place to rant and plan my domination of the world, and be a way to force myself to write *something* every so often.

We'll see...