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[Tears of Destiny]

Alright, this is me throwing my hat in

EVE Online
http://www.eveonline.com/

What you can do in EVE
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If any of this sounds interesting, I'd love to actually talk to you on TS or something or send a detailed message of any questions, there is quite a lot to do and it is a lot more then just a "spreadsheet game" like a lot of naysayers claim it is. If you have someone to help you ease into it, there is a lot to discover, and combat is actually pretty complicated especially with manual control in 1 VS 1s.

[Tot.]

What is EVE Online (wall of text)

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EVE is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMORPG) that takes place approximately 20.000 years after our times in a galaxy on the far end of the universe. When you join EVE you assume the role of a freshly graduated "capsuleer“, a relatively small group of elite spaceship pilots capable of controlling powerful spaceships on their own from within their capsules. Capsuleers are often referred to as "immortals" due to the fact that the highly advanced capsules, which connect them to their ships, are capable of instantly downloading their consciousness to a clone of themselves in the case of physical destruction.
A few things make EVE special amongst other MMORPGs

    EVE is a single "shard" virtual world. What that means is that everyone who joins EVE becomes a part of the same world and the same community. The industry standard for MMORPGs is to run the game on multiple smaller servers – so-called shards – so that each player only has the opportunity of interaction with a few thousand other players even if the number of subscribers can be in the millions. In EVE you have the opportunity to affect more than 300,000 other players in one way or another as all our players are a part of the same persistent universe, hosted on the world‘s most powerful gaming server.
     

    In EVE you are free to choose your own destiny. You start out as a character from one of four races that inhabit the EVE universe but apart from slightly different starting skills you are free to take your character in any direction you want. You are not restricted by predefined character classes or professions. You can trade to make a living, conduct mining operations, market your fighting skills as a mercenary, camp the spacelanes for profit as a pirate, conduct espionage and infiltration, focus on research and manufacturing, or perform increasingly profitable missions for NPC (non-player character) agents. What you choose to do day-by-day is up to you. You can play alone, form a corporation (the equivalent of a clan or guild) with a close group of friends, or join any of the many player-run corporations and alliances that are already established. The EVE Universe and its 5,000 unique solar systems are yours to explore and conquer.
     

    In EVE you don‘t level up using the typical experience point model seen in most MMOs. Rather, you purchase skills which then train in real time until finished. The skills will even train while you are offline. Skills give you a myriad of different abilities. Some allow you to fly specific types of ships or use a particular weapon while others focus more on general things. Each skill has five levels, increasing the bonus to whatever field of your gameplay they affect at each level. Each level however takes increasingly longer to train so that players are always faced with the choice of specializing in one field, or spending the skill-training time equally on many different fields.
     

How do I make money in EVE?

    There is an infinite number of ways to ways to make ISK (Interstellar Kredits, the in-game currency) in EVE. Some of them evolve around performing various tasks arising from the game environment. For example, you can always make money by mining asteroids for materials to use or just sell on the open market. You can also run all kinds of missions for NPC agents. You can hunt NPC pirates in some parts of space or you can explore unknown parts of space for hidden artefacts and resources.
     

    Most importantly, you have the option of using your own creativity, your social skills and your business skills to make money from your interactions with all the other people playing EVE. Around 95% of every item or ship in EVE is made by the players from scratch and sold through EVE‘s central market system. You can start your own corporation to build items that are in demand and sell them to other people. You can also buy things when the price is low and sell them when the price is high or exploit other people‘s lack of time or patience by moving things around for them. In essence, you are free to invent any service valuable to other players and market it for your own profit. Wherever you see an opportunity there is probably ISK to be made.
     

EVE sounds complex – how will I learn all I need to know?

    Most importantly you should keep in mind that you don‘t have to learn everything at once and that, depending on how you want to play the game, there will be some things you won‘t need to learn. EVE is a very intricate, deep world with a lot of content and most only experience part of what‘s out there.
     

    For the essentials of what you need to know we offer in-game tutorials, an online Wiki and bustling forums where players can discuss all things EVE related or get answers to questions. We also run an in-game help channel and a special "rookie help channel" for our new players. The Rookie help channel is manned at all times by volunteers who are there to answer any question you might have.
     

    Despite all our efforts to help players learn, most still gain the majority of their knowledge from other players which is the natural way of things in an MMORPG. To learn from others, a good idea would be to join a player run corporation relatively soon after you start to play. Player-run corporations are usually welcoming towards new players, and the number of corporations actively seeking new recruits usually outnumbers the number of players looking for a place in a corporation. Once you are in a corporation the more experienced players will typically help you get started. Note however that this is general advice and that we cannot guarantee any standard of behaviour towards you.

There's a 21 day trial to try it out.


edit. Fucking ToD ninja, I was looking for that video too long.

[sexthriller]

Try DayZ or wait for the standalone(which will probably be in 6 months). I figure you can fork out the $20 dollars or so for it, it is a blast if you get into the right server with friends. I would recommend the billy mays servers or laughing man. Despite my random republican snire comments at you, i'd be willing to play with you and your buddys.

You could also try red orchestra 2 which is something like $10-20 doll hairs. Not quite in your criteria but is a very solid and different fps, also a lot of fun and addicting. I get a similar feeling of "i worked to get that kill and it was awsome" nearly everytime you take someone out.

Both can be bought on steam or cheaper if you look around a bit.

[Casimir]

Call of duty block ops, gief loomz now plox

[Relit]

I would recommend Eve, as others have. Its a real hit or miss game though. The years I spent in the game were only fun because I had a very active group of friends and we got involved in the nullsec political drama.

The game does have a lot going for it on the PvP side of things. The combat system does make the PvE a little repetitive (ratting or missions). The missions can be very challenging though.

[Siberian_Wolf]

Wurm Online
http://wurmonline.com/

This game is an open world, sandbox MMO.

What can I do in Wurm?

- Explore huge, diverse landmasses extending over 512sq km in total!
- Modify the terrain; dig, raise, flatten and sculpt the land around you!
- Make your home on either the PvP or PvE server.
- Craft and use thousands of unique items.
- Wage war on other kingdoms, and lead yours to victory.
- Discover and fight over religious artifacts on the PvP server.
- Capture and breed animals from the environment.
- Train 133 Skills, 10 Player Characteristics, and 3 Religion Characteristics.
- Follow one of four unique deities and religions.
- Hunt creatures such as the unique red dragon, forest giant, kyklops, troll king and others!
- Become a priest or champion of your religion and learn powerful spells and enchantments.
- Choose one of five meditation paths and take advantage of special meditation abilities.
- Earn as many of our 200+ skill and achievement titles as you have time for!
- Mount various creatures, from horses and carts to unicorns, bears and even dragons!
- Construct, crew or even captain six different ship types with other players, from small rowing boats to - impressive caravels.
- Build a variety of structures, from guard towers to stone houses to fences and statues.
- Found your own settlement wherever you desire; own land, build a farm, a castle, or perhaps an entire village!
- Pave roads to connect settlements and plant signs to improve local infrastructure.
- Live off the land by creating fields to farm a variety of crops including potatoes, garlic, cotton, wheat, strawberries, pumpkins and more!
- Cook food using a huge range of ingredients.

These are just SOME things this game offers.

EDIT: If you message me before you start, I can surely help you start out. Better items/ advice/ etc. This game is hard on noobs, but a mentor helps. Let me know if you need help.

[Knute]

I've never played it but I think all the HG guys moved on to a game called Mortal Online, it's a open world PVP, PVE sandbox MMORPG game that's free to play.  The wiki says it's sort of like Ultima Online. 

[Varadin]

MMo-rpg best one that will beat WoW is , Elder Scrolls Online

[Tanken]

Alright, this is me throwing my hat in

EVE Online
http://www.eveonline.com/

What you can do in EVE
Click here for the image
http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/eve-wtd.jpg

(click to show/hide)

visitors can't see pics , please register or login

If any of this sounds interesting, I'd love to actually talk to you on TS or something or send a detailed message of any questions, there is quite a lot to do and it is a lot more then just a "spreadsheet game" like a lot of naysayers claim it is. If you have someone to help you ease into it, there is a lot to discover, and combat is actually pretty complicated especially with manual control in 1 VS 1s.

I looked into EVE Online a while back, it was somewhat enjoyable, I played it for about a month or two but it never really stuck. Perhaps I've just been too spoiled by games I've become obsessed with OR perhaps it's just that I've diluted my perception of what MMOs should be because I've been involved in cRPG for so long haha

[Little Lord Lollipop]

Mario Kart 64

[Daniisme]

Game Dev Tycoon, an awesome indie game that allows you to create your own gaming company and create your like of games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e723-HBCBY

http://www.greenheartgames.com/

Support em!

Meh ignore this, you want MMO and I don't deal with MMO's.

[Wrangham]

DDO (Dungeons & Dragons Online) is a good MMO, although they have completely ruined the endgame type stuff with moneygrubbing patches in the past year. But it has some unique character customization and combat mechanics, and it does a good job capturing the adventurous DnD setting, especially with a group. There's enough free content to play several hours.

World of Tanks is a well made shooter-type online game. It's fun as long as you don't get sucked into grinding the higher level competitive stuff where you need to do 500 games against players with completely upgraded tanks etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6bzej-2F9BQ

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

star citizen

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/

Welcome mother fucker!

I can't wait to float out of my air lock and blow the doors of some poor merchants ship and then rape and kill everyone inside MUHAHAHAHA I AM EVIL!

WHOS WITH ME!

*Assumes by default he can count on all c-rpg players to join in the loot|rape|murder*

[Penguin]

Personally I find that every single "free to play" game is actually just "pay to win" (play the base game for free while you watch others spend real life money to get what would take you months of grinding). One game I was fascinated when it came out was SWG.  I won't bore you with long descriptions about exploring far reaches of the galaxy, customizing just about everything for your character, the ability to follow your own path (trader,smuggler,jedi,musician,bounty hunter, etc.) Anyways after Sony killed the combat system and abandoned the game, someone started a project to rebuild it from the ground up. It's great with a party of friends so check it out if you can.

You have to buy a cheap physical copy of SWG from ebay or wherever and get started

http://www.swgemu.com/forums/index.php

[FleetFox]

Seriously have a go at Mortal Online http://www.mortalonline.com/, its an awesome fantasy/medieval massive sandbox MMORPG. I mean its really nice graphically to explore and you can make your own house/villages to then tax people and make laws, no PvP zones so you can attack or be attacked anywhere anytime (similar to DayZ). I mean what's not to like? Did I mention its completely free? Great game, nuff said.

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=wJKixGImlbk&feature=related[/youtube]

Give me a shout if you need any more info or vids, the site is pretty self explanatory though have fun