“When you go to Jita, you are scammed by humans”

This is not a post about yet-another Jita scam. We are all used to that. Instead, I thought I share a great post I saw recently.

About a year ago, during my 100.000 visits celebration I have asked what keeps you attached to EVE. I’ve got multiple replies, but neither of them were like the one I’ve stumbled upon on Failheap Challenge last night:

When you go to Ogrimmar, the Zeppelin overhead is coded in. The shopkeepers are scripts, and not even smart ones.

When you go to Jita, you sell to humans, you buy from humans, you are scammed by humans. There’s a player flying that mile-long cargoship currently esclipsing the sun, and for that matter [so are] the other 17 giant fucking sci-fi transports dotted around your screen.

It looks like something out of Babylon 5 or a Star Wars ‘crowd shot’, but none of it is staged. Everyone is there for their own reasons, and you might never know what it is.

Also, in EVE, you can claim a moon. I can literally stick my flag in orbit and say “This is mine until one of you cunts takes it”.
A whole fucking moon. With work, you and your buddies can take whole systems, whole constellations, declare yourselves all to be Space Popes. Not much comes up to that elsewhere.

This is one of the best descriptions of EVE Online I’ve seen so far. Unscripted, alive. EVE is real.

It’s one of the reasons I still play the same game after so many years.