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I have been playing Elite & Dangerous for a bit and was wondering what other folks have experienced and think as I went to it after dealing with the Bull waste of Eve Online. I feel it has a better player base from what I can see and was wondering if others agreed?

UPDATE: Well I did try out Elite Dangerous and it is in my honest opinion a pretty awesome game, it gives me the feel of Eve-Online without the feeling of being just someones personal play thing. Truly the game gives you the option of playing with friends or directly online with everyone or just...

My advice is to remember that you and your players are there to have fun, and when things get too serious fun tends to stop and feelings can get hurt. Never trust your players to go where they think they will or should always have a few fall back points to your adventure and your life will be...

I as an American would play a game that we are the bad guys as the important thing is that the game is for fun, whether I am fighting gangs of German soldiers or American Soldiers or even Canadian Soldiers ( They are the best as no one has ever seen or heard a special forces like Canadian...

Thank you all for the advice and experiences you have shared here as it has helped me to realize that I was looking at what happened in a harsher light than I should have. I really try and get as much enjoyment from the games I play as I can due to the fact that I have a full time job and the...

sorry about the wall of text...

I actually graduated from a Hulk to running mining Ops in an Orca. My wife and I never AFK mine as I am not stupid enough to ever leave my ship floating in space nor would I ever allow others in my OP to do so either. I haven't been popped ever for mining though I have been popped early on for...

Actually I know of a game coming out sometime this year that is going to smoke Eve online and that is Star Citizen! I know what some people are going to say but if they do actually get it out the door and into peoples hands it will be awesome. I have heard earlier how it was going to be PVP and...

Thank you all for helping me come to a sane realization that there are a ton of better games out there that deserve my money and Eve Online can eat a bag of snail snot!

Every so often I get the desire to go back into Eve Online but I wanted to check and see if the game has improved for those folks that like to mine and do industry. The last time I was playing it was a pretty nasty place for people to try and actually mine and I got my wife's character pod...

Honestly you make a game where you allow people to be jerks, griefers, abusers, liars, cheaters, stalkers, and torturers and then act so shocked that one of those precious customers might actually think that you support the same actions outside in the real world when it deals with your game. I...

Honestly they probably didn't they just changed to a new character and trained them up while I was gone and then removed their old Character names. That would be my guess as if they were just off line the characters would still be listed in the index and they aren't anymore.

Qvar, I am sorry to hear that your character is stuck in the POS wormhole. I got stuck in one once but lucked out and finally found my way out flying a Hulk...I had epic level butt puckering the whole four hours of dodging ships and hoping the next leap is the leap to high sec or a one way...

Well I decided to go back and found that when I came into the game that the system I was currently parked in was now being invaded by pirate hordes! I had to laugh as I finally go back to get caught up in an invasion =) I was lucky and only took a few hits into armor before making it back to...

I wanted to focus on Mining when I started playing as I had the ability to mine for hours without lossing my mind. But after a bit of harassment and attempted suicide ganking (I lucked out and jumped a few seconds before they instantly popped three hulks and two Orcas.) I decided then to start...