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Originally Posted by Vandelay
Cool. How did you like Eve Online? I've been thinking about trying that one.
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It's an awesome game. Definitely for the older crowd that likes to think and strategize more than just run and gun. The universe is MASSIVE. You don't walk around as a person (not yet at least), but you fly spaceships.
Also, everything you know about conventional leveling mechanics you can take and throw out the window. You level/gain skills in real-time. In other words, you train a skill, and that skill can take hours, to days, to weeks to learn. The good news is that even when you're not signed in to the game, the skills continue to train. So you can set a long one, go to work, and then come back. You can also pause a skill that's in training to train another skill, and you will still retain all of the time spent training the first skill.
The game itself has waaaaay too many features/mechanics to explain in here, but the other really cool thing is that when you start raking in the dough (in-game) you can pay for your game membership with the money from in-game. Meaning you no longer have to pay the $15/month fee.
Overall, it's a really fun game -- if you have the patience for it.
POTCO is great, to me at least, because of it's simplicity. Simple things like not having to worry about an inventory, or an exponential amount of armor/weapon upgrades, means that you can spend more time playing and less time running to the shopkeep.
-Eloricth