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Comment by bsamuels | Hacker News Reader

When it comes to recommending people to EVE, the following rule of thumb has been effective: If you enjoyed playing Dwarf Fortress, you'll like EVE Online.

@That one other guy: When most people want to fly a titan, they don't bother training a character and just buy a titan pilot on the sanctioned character trading forum, so training time is rarely an issue for experienced pilots.

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Eve has prettier graphics than Dwarf Fortress, though, :p

True! And Dwarf Fortress has more action, less waiting around. Eve Online is often like the real military: wait for 2 hours for 80 other people to show up, then travel for 2 hours, then wait, and then the operation gets cancelled, and travel back home for 2 hours. And you trained for 6 weeks before the event to make it all possible. Never happens like that in Dwarf Fortress!

Eve's client is lightweight enough to run two or even three instances simultaneously.

So back when I played regularly I would do that (i.e. fleet manoeuvers i.e. nothing much) on my main character whilst running missions/ratting/managing production or sales with my "carebear" alternate character, or alternatively running around neighboring systems in a cloaked covert ops ship, scouting on behalf of that same fleet. All with Excel and other crucial management tools open on another screen, of course.

If you let it be so, playing Eve is not unlike running a small business and is perfectly engrossing.

Hah. Running a business is what I do all day. Doing it at night too is what keeps me out of Eve I think.

Do they have to be on separate accounts? (i.e. would you be paying 3 monthly subs?)

Yes

This is why it's important to have an interesting corp. Big corps and alliances make this fun because you have entertaining things going on in Teamspeak/Vent/Mumble/Jabber/IRC.

Yes, but what about those of us that enjoy playing NetHack?

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