Is playing this game better than say Warhammer Online or World of Warcraft?

If you got the patience for it, yes.

...I'm starting to run out of patience for it though. My fucking sockets closed over 5 times in 2 hours.

The newest expansion is now out: Apocrypha
The expansion contains a lot of new content including wormholes, tech 3 ships and the game has become more newbie friendly (skilltraining speed is doubled up to a certain level).
It also include some new graphical goodies!

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I considered rejoining, but then also remembered that my PC was having issues with it and that my Thorax got blow'd up.

I live and die aside Zero Punctuation reviews, Yahtzee said no... so I to, said no.

O.o What the hell does he say YES to?

Portal, Fallout 3, Saints Row. Just to mention a few.

He's not wrong mostly... A lot of the games he says suck, are indeed mediocore at the very best. Halo 3 'brought down his standards' and he said something good about bioshock after. He also enjoyed little big planet.

But EVE does sound boring from what he said...

I need to start adding a [/sarcasm] at the end of my sarcastic remarks.

And it really isn't boring, I just lack the determination and insight in the world of EVE - not to mention the money IRL.

So CCP decided it was time to remake the character portraits in their newest expansion, in addition to other stuff of course, but who cares about that?
The new character creation tool is pretty sweet and is possibly one of the best, or at least one of the most promising, I've ever seen. It's still kinda in beta or something, so there's more features to come. While you do create a full body avatar (in preperation future walking-in-stations expansion), you still only see the upper body, or some of your face, on the final portrait.

Screenshot from the character customisation: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg180/Zycorax/20110126050054.jpg

Examples of final character portraits:
Hurr!
Durr!
My creepy alt vs Old portrait
My not so creepy alt vs Old portrait
Me! Well, almost...
My other alt vs Old portrait
Guess this guy's name

I've got 12 days left of my trial. I'm Carde Nall.

If more people get involved I may consider paying and continuing. Hint.

I paid for a month of it and lost interest because of how time consuming this seems to be. I may go back, eventually, but everything just seemed very slow.

I love the concept but I wouldn't be able to get into it. I don't have the time.

So much potential for organising though, and emergent gameplay. I love how the economy is dynamic and reacts in a realistic way to events in the gameworld.

That's the impression I got from it too. Apparently it has a steep learning curve, which is nice. I wish other MMOs would learn that making a game for idiots to play does not retain customers *cough*

QFT...

You don't necessarily need to invest a lot of time in the game. It all depends on what you want to be doing. The most time consuming part is probably to earn ISK, especially if you're primarily doing PvP. I think you can become a decent trade without logging in for more than like 20-30 minutes each day, but you'd obviously need a starting capital for doing that.

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So much potential for organising though, and emergent gameplay. I love how the economy is dynamic and reacts in a realistic way to events in the gameworld.

Take a peek at Uncharted Waters Online then.

Necro time! \o/
Are any of you (still) playing this? I've been pretty active in the last two years, primarily doing low-sec PvP.
I'm currently on Iceland, attending EVE Fanfest 2015. It's been pretty cool so far and I've met a few guys I know from the game. Also tried Oculus Rift for the first time, playing a 5v5 round of EVE Valkyrie. It was pretty damn cool, even though I sucked at it At least it gave me time to look around the clone bay where you respawn after getting shot down, which on itself looked amazing.

Also, this:


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