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"Is there a good alternative? No."

Check out Astrox Imperium. It's been described as "Eve Offline". It's made by just one developer, but it's really impressive for that.

I've never played Eve myself, so I can't personally say how they compare, but I enjoyed the hell out of AI.

(PS: I have no association with AI. I'm just a very satisfied fan.)

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Unfortunately, there's no comparison. AI doesn't come close to the breath of Eve. It's cool. It's a good game especially for a solo-dev (very impressive!) but Eve Online has so many avenues to gameplay.

The terror of someone else showing up in a system you thought was empty while you're carrying something super valuable.

Eye on local, yes, especially in WH space... man oh man, anxiety through the roof.

Don’t keep your eye on local in WH space, that won’t work! Eyes on DSCAN, I quit Eve almost a year ago, and the key I used for DSCAN still doesn’t work, I’ve pressed it so many times.

And there's Curse even for that.

shhhhh, the learning curve gods curse you for teaching fresh meat what not to do instead of teaching them with pew pew. The cruel harsh world of nullsec.

I've read the entire ISK 3.0 before creating my first character. One sentence wouldn't help new players because of data overload and shaky hands anyway.

I know I was practically useless in my stealth bomber, but I had great fun futzing around deep in enemy space scaring their miners and leading response teams on wild goose chases.

This is the beauty of Eve. Suck rocks for ore while watching movies. Solo/team hunting pvp. Venture capitalist. Space Trucker. Honest Questor or other PVE solo/team player. Absolute troll who creates a roleplay justification to being the worst of bastards to newbies (but just inside the rules). So many playstyles.

I liked the stealth game as well. Work your way in a stealthy ship deep into Nullsec and do your thing - whether that thing is a bunny rabbit of a frigate designed to find and steal cookies and outwit the fox, or a stealth bomber that hides near the cookie jar to squash the unsuspecting. And both of these have to find a way to get back to civilization with the lootz.

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