<story><title>One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>murat124</author><text>&amp;gt; The galaxy of New Eden is composed of nearly 8,000 star systems.&lt;p&gt;I loved Eve Online when I played it in the mid 2000s but its point and click mechanics as well as you&amp;#x27;d have to wait days even weeks to acquire skills in some cases made me lose interest in the game. It has its addictive qualities too where you feel you could go on playing it forever while knowing you have got to stop playing it for your own good.&lt;p&gt;Years later I got introduced to Elite Dangerous and it&amp;#x27;s been a lot more fun than Eve. Elite gives players the opportunity to fly by binary stars, fly through neutron star jet cones to overcharge fsd drives, combats close to stars, land on planets and even more simulated activities. If you have a VR the game becomes a unique experience. The game&amp;#x27;s map is based on Milky Way galaxy and the systems are procedurally generated. I remember last year the devs announced approx 112000 individual systems were discovered and this is about 0.028% of the total. Anyway, a few months ago I solo traveled to Sag A* and returned later to the bubble (where Solar system and surrounding systems are). It took me 2 weeks to complete the trip and at times it was pretty boring. On the other hand it is the only game that let me experience the stress of flying near a black hole and I am grateful to the devs for making it possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nirui</author><text>I played Freelancer &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Freelancer_(video_game)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Freelancer_(video_game)&lt;/a&gt; long ago. It had about 30 &amp;quot;star systems&amp;quot;, each one is about 100KM~200KM in-game distance in diameter. It&amp;#x27;s a fascinating game back in the day, and cost me years of free time.&lt;p&gt;When I jump from that game to EVE, it&amp;#x27;s very obvious to me that EVE is not for explore. You can do that of course, but you will be bored fairly quickly even compare to games like Freelancer.&lt;p&gt;In Freelancer, every &amp;quot;star system&amp;quot; that I jump into gives me a feeling of mysterious, until I cruise through every inch of the map, and memorized every cruise path and hidden &amp;quot;Wormhole&amp;quot;s.&lt;p&gt;In EVE, every system &lt;i&gt;feel&lt;/i&gt; like the same. Yes, they have different layout, NPC and background, but still, it feel like repeat.&lt;p&gt;I believe EVE is more of a game of politics. A game about ruling, conquer and team work. Explore? not so much.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know, maybe because the map of EVE is too big to provide saliency. In Freelancer, every map is manually made to service the background story, so each one is different in their own ways. Also, because the map is so small, you can make them vibrant easily.</text></comment>
<story><title>One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>murat124</author><text>&amp;gt; The galaxy of New Eden is composed of nearly 8,000 star systems.&lt;p&gt;I loved Eve Online when I played it in the mid 2000s but its point and click mechanics as well as you&amp;#x27;d have to wait days even weeks to acquire skills in some cases made me lose interest in the game. It has its addictive qualities too where you feel you could go on playing it forever while knowing you have got to stop playing it for your own good.&lt;p&gt;Years later I got introduced to Elite Dangerous and it&amp;#x27;s been a lot more fun than Eve. Elite gives players the opportunity to fly by binary stars, fly through neutron star jet cones to overcharge fsd drives, combats close to stars, land on planets and even more simulated activities. If you have a VR the game becomes a unique experience. The game&amp;#x27;s map is based on Milky Way galaxy and the systems are procedurally generated. I remember last year the devs announced approx 112000 individual systems were discovered and this is about 0.028% of the total. Anyway, a few months ago I solo traveled to Sag A* and returned later to the bubble (where Solar system and surrounding systems are). It took me 2 weeks to complete the trip and at times it was pretty boring. On the other hand it is the only game that let me experience the stress of flying near a black hole and I am grateful to the devs for making it possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noir_lord</author><text>If you like ED and haven’t already you should check out No Mans Sky, the devs botched the launch but as of 2019 they’ve delivered nearly everything they did promise and some stuff they didn’t, next up is VR.&lt;p&gt;It feels like a living universe, planets are varied and wild, the creatures are inventive, as are the vehicles, you can build bases, Terra from areas, plant crops etc, it’s a really relaxing game.</text></comment>