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For those intrigued: Eve Online has "free to play" Alpha tier, if you want a taste. There are certain limitations (ie, a skill point limit (think "levels" in other games)), but even an Alpha character can join player-run corporations and take part in the economy, join these thousand player battles, etc.

There are also newbie-friendly corporations (Brave Newbies, Brand Newbros, Karmafleet, Pandemic Horde) that are part of the major power-blocs, if you want to get into the politics.

https://www.eveonline.com/

These corporations have IT infrastructures that put most real-world businesses to shame; web sites with custom applications that tie into the game's API (swagger: https://esi.tech.ccp.is/latest/ ), authorization services, voice chat services, Slack integrations, custom ERP systems for in-game industrial management, HR systems etc.

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Thanks, this is interesting stuff.

I've been interested in Eve for years but only last week realized that it has a free tier.

However progression in the game seems a bit slow to me and tutorial a bit boring. After how many hours in can I expect some more interesting action?

You can step into the "fun" aspects of the game pretty quickly if you don't mind being cannon fodder for one of the larger corporations that will even pay for your ships.

Eve's progression is entirely based on feed-the-meter, where you skill up by scheduling your skills to be learned over time. My knowledge is out of date, but it took me hundreds of hours of paid time to get into higher tiered ships to reach what I would consider the "fun" aspects of the game. YMMV.

EVE progression is pretty unlike other MMOs. On one hand, you can't really speed it up, it just kind of plods along. On the other, even brand new players are useful. For instance, in most MMOs, a lower level character has no chance against a higher level character, once the gap is wide enough. No matter how many level 1 WoW characters you have fighting a max-level WoW player, the level 1's won't make a scratch in him. EVE is different, you very much can use quantity over quality to do damage.

You have to just log in and train skills for a couple of months. Then you can try some pvp. Otherwise you're just getting ganked by players who've been there for 3-5 years (git gud lul).

Though you can join a corp where you can provide (limited, since you can't even use more advanced tech for a month or two) use in mass pvp.

Massive waste of time.

I love the idea of EVE but I hate the names of all the top corps, it really pulls me out of the RP element

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