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MartenReed (16/05/2008)
"Check Starcraft" Dude, where have you been the past 10 years?!
Eve-Online was mentioned in this month's PC Gamer as one of the writer's least liked game.
Plus, remember that MM is *not* a gaming orientated magazine, although it's mentioned from time to time. This means the opinions on a game are from a much smaller user base, and this means a negative opinion can oft be regarded as the norm...
Er, I've been playing Eve 
Isn't PC Gamer the one that ran the 4 page spread on the "Great War"?
Edit... Yep, PC Gamer ran a very large, 8 pages, feature covering the 'Great Galactic War of Eve-Online' May2008 edition.
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BTW: I re-read the piece and you only mention the fact you can buy gametime with ingame currency, when the biggest difference is the real-time training model, you train skills in real-time regardless of whether you are playing the game or sleeping. No grinding for experience points.
Well no, but that's other stuff I like about EVE. So you don't think I just totally hate the game (it's a bit dry for me, but fun). I thought I'd actually mentioned it in the piece, too, but I might have cut that in the editing process.
And yes, you should've checked Starcraft out by now. The fact that you've never heard of the biggest space-themed RTS is absolutely staggering. It's a great game.
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I think I must have something wrong.
I checked out 'Starcraft' and found a game that looked like Command and Conquer?
You must mean a different Starcraft surely?
As a comparison to Eve, that's like saying Asteroids is better than Elite (in the vector graphics games).
My Google-Fu must be weak.
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Rev667 (17/05/2008)
I checked out 'Starcraft' and found a game that looked like Command and Conquer?
That's the one, "space-themed RTS."
It wasn't really compared to EVE, just that EVE was a MMO version of the game.
The rest of the comments were just trying to get you to play a great game
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I'm sorry, but the only visual similarity between Command & Conquer and Starcraft is the Isometric view on the units.
The HUD, the units... They all look so different, and the HUD is now accepted as the standard style for RTS games since. It's been like it in everything from Total War upto Supreme Commander.
Starcraft, next to Dune II, stands as the single most influential RTS ever.
Your post sounded as if you were passing it off as some sort of... cheap rubbish...
Get it, and you won't regret it. It's one of the hardest games I've played, but I still love it.
And Eve-Online... Been meaning to try it, just never got around to it. I like the idea of one Server, but I can't even begin to imagine how large it is!
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MartenReed (17/05/2008)
...the HUD is now accepted as the standard style for RTS games since. It's been like it in everything from Total War upto Supreme Commander.
Sidebar FTW, especially nice when using a widescreen display.
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MartenReed (17/05/2008)
Get it, and you won't regret it. It's one of the hardest games I've played, but I still love it.
And Eve-Online... Been meaning to try it, just never got around to it. I like the idea of one Server, but I can't even begin to imagine how large it is!
I will look for Starcraft next time I'm in the store.
Eve is very very large, it runs on a cluster of blade-servers with ramsan disks, the developers release tech info about hardware upgrades and stuff.
The game runs on a cluster featuring dual-processor 64-bit AMD Opteron-based IBM BladeCenter LS20 blade servers with additional enhancements to the clusters internet backbone. The database servers don't use traditional hard drives but instead Solid State Disks (SSD) which can handle over 400,000 random I/Os per second.
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