Eve online, the flying in circles simulator
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During a bout of insomnia the other night, I decided to take a look at eve online. For, you know, research purposes. I didn’t have much fun though because, unfortunately, somewhere during the process of creating their massively multi-player online sci-fi universe, the game designers forgot to add any video game into it. As far as I can tell, the game consists of:
- Fighting; watching your ship fly in circles while shooting at another ship with your blaster ray
- Mining; watching your ship fly in circles while shooting at a massive rock with your mining ray
- Salvaging; watching your ship fly in circles while shooting at a shipwreck with your salvage ray
- Computer hacking; watching your ship fly in circles while shooting at a computer with your computer hacking ray
- Deliveries; watching your ship fly itself while… actually this one doesn’t involve ray guns
The game does have a couple of things going for it. Firstly, in the future everyone will apparently use Icelandic Króna as the galactic currency, which is cool. Secondly, it looks quite nice.
