EVE Online Details, Meaning EVE Online Article and Explanation Guide

EVE Online Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

EVE Online is a persistent world multiplayer online game set in space. It was developed by CCP Games and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive; in 2003. Players are spaceship pilots seeking fortune and adventure in an exciting — and sometimes hostile — galaxy. EVE Online is famed for its rich and deep storyline and outstanding graphics.

Table of contents

1 Background
2 Gameplay and billing
3 Expansions
4 Gameplay jargon
5 External links

Background

EVE is a world far away from mankind's original habitat, planet Earth. How far away, and where, no one knows. Humans got there through a natural wormhole, and gazing upon a sky never before seen, were completely unable to determine the whereabouts of this new world. From the system of New Eden, where the gate of EVE that once led to the old world lies, humans expanded in all directions at a great pace, exploring and colonizing.

Then, seemingly out of the blue, the EVE gate collapsed in an apocalyptic catastrophe of a scale never before witnessed by the human race, ruining the New Eden system in the process. Thousands of small colonies were left in isolation to fend for themselves. For millennia they endured on the brink of extinction and only a handful survived.

Of those surviving colonies, five were to rise up and become the major empires that hold between them the balance of power in the world of EVE today. These are: the Amarr Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State, the Minmatar Republic and the Jovian Empire, plus several small independent factions and states.

For more than a century the five empires have lived together in relative peace. They've strived hard to maintain this peace, as each of them realizes only too well the grave consequences of a massive inter-stellar war. Recent technological breakthroughs in faster-than-light travel, and the ensuing increase in space travellers, has shaken, but not broken the fragile peace – at least not yet.

Gameplay and billing

EVE Online is different from many other MMORPG games as it does not have a "level" system in which the player's character gains experience by completing tasks. Instead, the player "trains" their skills using a cybernetic learning system. This helps avoid the problem that exists in many other MMORPGs--the hardcore gamers have a huge advantage over everyone else.

EVE Online is also known for its graphics. It has the highest detail graphics of any MMORPG as of 2004. EVE currently costs 15 euros/dollars a month (the european cost is higher as VAT is included). However, the fee is reduced to 12 for players who pay every 3 months instead of monthly.

Something that sets EVE apart from other MMORPGs is that it is not split into Shards. All the players are on the same servers and therefore in the same game-world. On Saturday, September 6, 2004, EVE Online achieved a new record for the maximum number of simultaneous players logged into EVE Online, at 11284 players (it is unknown if this record is surpassed by any other MMO at the time of this writing).

Expansions

Gemini Not an expansion but should be included. When EVE-Online was released, the base was codenamed Gemini, version 1.00.0000. At the time this was written the newest version was Shiva, version 2.01.2863.
Castor The first major addition focused on refining current functions along with adding Tech Level 2. It also included player owned stations and deep scace regions controlled by player alliances.
Shiva (scheduled for release November 17th, 2004) is all about content. It will bring player owned structures (like Control Towers and Ship Docks), multi-level-scenarios, new environments (Ice fields, gas clouds), a new alliance system, new ships, better handling of conflicts and wars, new market functionality, user interface improvements, an updated in-game-webbrowser (will support HTML3.2, CSS and more EVE-specific tags), and more.
Kali No release date up yet, only the name has been confirmed. Old time EvE Player guess is it will be out late of year 2005

Note The word "Expansions" is limited in this case. CCP, the creators of eve, update around 50 times in each "expansion" to the next, therefore a lot can change in one expansion