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I’ve noticed recently that every few days I’ll suddenly get an influx of 40 people reading my EVE Online review and posts. What’s with that? Should I keep writing about EVE? Do people enjoy reading my blogging about it? I’m considering just posting every week or so about my experience on EVE, sharing what I know and what I do. It’s become the one MMO I’m playing regularly now, anyway.

Opinions?

To follow up on that, let’s actually talk a bit about EVE. My friends and I have started up a corporation and begun specializing in different fields of industry (one of us working ammo production, a few of us mining, one of us researching heavy weaponry and one of us trying to max out different builds of frigates). Having a corporation is interesting, because you really don’t have to do anything. It’s kind of like having a World of Warcraft guild in the fact that you make one and then you never really have to do anything with it. Only it’s not.

See, in World of Warcraft your incentive is to become the coolest guild on your server (if that is indeed your goal). In EVE, however, your goal is to be a successful corporation. In WoW, you PvP and get epic drops for your guildies. In EVE, you make money. You run a business. You provide a service. To real players.

That’s just amazing to me. To think that players can actually contract you to protect them while they mine–that’s an astounding gameplay mechanic. EVE Online has been called more of a Capitalist simulator than a game–and I don’t mind. Nobody says capitalism can’t be fun. Running a business can be great fun. People do it for fun all the time.

Anyway, more about EVE later. For now, I’m just going to enjoy spring break. I really need this vacation. And soon I’m going to have to start looking for internships and jobs for the summer, and we know that won’t be fun.

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