| I lost 9 months of my life playing Eve......eventually I had to give it up as it was affecting my marriage, and I wasn't being a great father to my children.
It's true that it could take days or weeks to build up a skill that enabled you to use a new piece of equipment, or to earn enough money to buy a more powerful ship. The choice of activities was so great - you could mine asteroids for rare materials, try smuggling banned goods through a star system, become a pirate and raid other ships carrying valuable materials, go to war with a corporation against another corporation. Or you could just accept missions that the game gave you in order to earn cash and status, all going towards buying and upgrading a more powerful and dangerous ship.
I left the game in possession of a powerful battlecruiser, but I had my sights set on the Raven battleship, and maybe in 2 or 3 months I could have got my hands on one. It's the time you put into it that makes it so intense, get into a battle with someone, make a mistake and you can lose months. Of course you can insure your ship, butnot the modules you customise it with, and from what I remember some of your skills take a hit as well.
Because of this a lot of people take it very seriously, which can be a good or bad thing depending on how you see it. I'd defiitely recommend giving it a go, but be warned - it exerts a pull like no other game I ever played, and like an alchoholic I dare not take another sip.  |