EVE

I got started again on Eve this week. I played for a couple of weeks a few years ago, so certain aspects such as the interface and story plot still seem familiar. However, I don’t remember there being quite as many different classes of ships. Did the Titans always exist in the past? These ships are so large that they may as well be considered floating fortresses. I am very curious how they are manned. Is each Titan owned by a single person, or is the ship owned by a group of people, say an alliance? This brings me to the class’s discussion with Ryan Dancy. I still can’t believe that we got to talk to the Chief Marketing Officer of Eve Online. I had always known that Eve hads hundreds of corporations and that a group of corporations form an alliance. I was not aware of the similarities that Eve’s political, social, and economic sectors share with their counterparts in the real world. If 50,000 people play on a server at a time, it certainly would be a prime environment for political analysts and economists to study. If you think about it from a scientific perspective, it’s really a very long ongoing experiment with a large population in a controlled environment. I guess my thoughts never stray very far from biochemistry.

I chose the Galente race because I played it in the past and I liked using drones. The Galente are also democratic…what can I say…I’m an American. My friends Brian and George were nice enough to lend me some money to start things off. They were trying to talk me into starting a mining corporation with them. I don’t know if I’ll stay with the game long enough though.