alliance, which is probably why I only played it briefly

While you can try and play as a lone wolf in this game it really is about finding some people you can almost trust and having fun with them. There used to be a while ago public roams, a place called brave newbies, and stuff like Eve Academy.

I myself for a while was in something called Red vs Blue which are two corporations (Red Federation and Blue Republic)that are in a constant war with each other that anyone can join. They arrange fights with each other and then go out and fight it out. When they are not doing that they team up go on bigger roams or right off people who declare war on each other.

Lots of things out there that just have to be found. When I first started playing I just took the first random corporation invite I got. I stayed with that group for quite a while before I moved on. I made some long term friends there that I still talk to even this day despite the fact none of us play Eve much anymore.

was a little overwhelming

Eve has always had a high learning curve. Over the years they have made it more new player friendly but it is still a challenge. There is a funny chart out there that shows the games learning curve with a cliff and people being pushed off it. This is quite fitting.

The game does require a fair bit of planning. I remember I use to make yearlong skill plans and slowly work my up into the bigger ships. Sure you could rush into say a battleship but you would lack the in- skills to have decent mods on that ship. So planning has always been key.

It was the biggest alliance at the time and after that it fell apart

There has been quite a few alliance over the years that have been “bob” due to a higher ranking member being turned or trying take off with everything. A decent alliance will have good internal controls and be run more like a business tends to be how most are set up.

I have even seen alliances have accountants do their bookkeeping, hire external auditors in-game, have a 2-week mandatory vacation from playing, perform background checks on new members and a bunch of other stuff. Even then it might not be enough if a player really wants to do something bad and they simply put in the time to earn trust.

I’ve seen it all. From a friend of a number of years backstabbing his friends and stealing everything to the alliance being disbanded and robbed.

I think this game will be around for awhile to com

I sure hope so. While I don’t play much these days I do once in a while get in the mood to play for a couple of months. Sometimes it’s all just fun to watch stuff like Alliance Tournament and CCP does have an amazing fanfest as well which I still hope to one day attend the one in Iceland.

They have done a lot over the years to maintain and improve the game. I think the developers have even rewritten the entire game more than once to ensure it could be something they can keep improving and keep around for quite a while. Some of those older games became quite the mess code-wise to try and keep going making it cost to much time and money.