In 20, the Red Swarm Federation (composed of the Goonswarm, Tau Ceti Federation, and Red Alliances) faced off against Band of Brothers, the largest alliance in EVE at the time. Despite the constant threat of betrayal, most EVE players tend to accept and enjoy these aspects of the game. Before that, a leader of Band of Brothers, one of the most powerful alliances in EVE at the time, defected to the Goonswarm and gave up information that a CCP employee was delivering high-grade blueprints, used to construct ships, to BoB.
The first Goonswarm alliance, created by players from the SomethingAwful forums, was closed and its assets were stolen by an alliance director. In addition, there hae been numerous scandals inside alliances. EVE has been well received by critics for its sandbox gameplay, well-defined lore, and the scope of its battles, as well as the continuous gameplay and graphical updates by CCP.ĮVE receives some controversy over CCP's acceptance of in-game piracy, scamming, and griefing, activities which could get a player banned in other MMOs. In its beginning, EVE Online started out as a fairly niche game with approximately 50,000 subscribers one year after the launch, but over the course of the next decade, the game grew into one of the most devoted and widely-subscribed MMORPGs with more than 500,000 players, as of late 2013. All four races can be trained into, so a player's starting race ultimately becomes irrelevant. Finally, the Minmatar use autocannons and artillery, and have lightly armored, speedy ships. The Gallente use blasters, drones, and armored vessels. The Caldari use missiles, long-range railguns, and shields, and have an affinity for electronic jamming. The Amarr specialize in heavily armored golden warships and use lasers as their main weapons. They also have different weapons systems and ships. These four empires control most of the territory in EVE, including all of hisec and lowsec.
There are four main NPC factions in EVE: the Amarr Empire, religious zealots the Gallente Federation, a democratic republic the Caldari State, a corporatist society and the Minmatar Republic, a tribal conglomeration. However, the majority of high-profile battles and skirmishes take place within Nullsecs, or no security zones, where the law-enfrocement is completely absent. Unofficially, these alliances may form bigger groups that are known as "coalitions."ĮVE is divided into three distinct zones based on their level of security status in high security zones, provoking or attacking another player will likely result in the appearance of Concord, the law enforcement within the game, whereas in low security zones, Concord's presence is significantly less visible and thusly dominated by players and NPC pirates. Capsuleers may band together to form corporations (similar to guilds in other MMOs), which can be further amalgamated into alliances consisting of hundreds to thousands of players.
Players can control everything from fighter-like frigates to massive capital warships spanning several kilometers in length. In the game, the player assumes the role of a starship pilot or "capsuleer," an immortal god among men backed by the power of cloning technology and mighty spaceships. Unlike many other MMOs, in which there are numerous copies of the game universe intended to run at once (i.e., servers), Eve Online is functionally a single-universe game that consists of more than 5,000 star systems and 2,500 randomly accessible wormhole systems. EVE Online has also garnered notoriety for its horrifying difficulty curve, massive-scale battles involving hundreds of players and the ruthlessness of its in-game scammers and griefers, who are virtually allowed free-reign when it comes to in-game items. According to the developers, the game concept was influenced by key gameplay elements featured in its MMORPG predecessors, namely Elite, Traveller and Ultima Online, such as mining, purchasing and destroying special items, networking trade routes and combat with random hostile non-playable characters (NPCs) and other human players. HistoryĮve Online was developed by CCP Games and released in North America and Europe in May 2003. Since its release in May 2003, the game has attracted more than 400,000 subscribers and received several awards. Eve Online is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) set in the colonial space in the distant future where each player takes command of one of the four major races and a customizable fleet through a galaxy of over 7,500 star systems.
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