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Honestly for me it was the emergent meta gaming that made it for me. Sitting on a gate at 4AM with someone (tolon) playing guitar over TeamSpeak and getting drunk af and despite having sixth form the next day. Sneaking into another halls at uni to cover a BoB guy’s door with bees I’d cut out and printed (we became friends over this!)
The most fun I ever had in the game was alliance roams. 15 to 20 of us on voice chat, coordinating engagements. Also fun: - Running training exercises for new players. We'd train them how to fly in formation, how to align ships, how to scan. The final training exercise for the corp was a "Snipe Hunt" where I was the snipe. They had to catch me, but if they managed, they were allowed to blow up my ship. - Hauling for…
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#201Yep sat in my mate’s living room with several of us pretending to be completely random people that didn’t know each other and building trust that way and then rinsing a corp once we worked them enough was just an incredible moment. Also buying carrier jumps to 0.0 and blowing them to smithereens. Thing is the way evil and decent players were allowed to interact made for deeper and more exciting and I’d argue a more realistic and genuine interaction than other games that would ban people for being unsporting as the devs had some idea of what gameplay they wanted people to follow. With Eve it’s fucking anarchic and wonderful.