Science-Fiction Mmorpgs - Eve Online, Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Earthrise, Stargate Worlds, Entropia Universe, Ace Online, Dust 514 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Eve Online, Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Earthrise, Stargate Worlds, Entropia Universe, Ace Online, Dust 514, Next island, Face of Mankind, Rise: The Vieneo Province, Seed, Skyrates, Stellar Dawn, Doctor Who: Worlds in Time. Excerpt: Eve Online is a video game by CCP Games. It is a player-driven persistent-world MMORPG set in a science fiction space setting. Players pilot customisable ships through a galaxy comprising over 7,500 star systems. Most star systems are connected to one or more other star systems by means of stargates. The star systems can contain several phenomena including moons, planets, stations, wormholes, asteroid belts and complexes. Players of Eve Online are able to participate in a number of in-game professions and activities, including mining, piracy, manufacturing, trading, exploration and combat (both player versus environment and player versus player). The range of activities available to the player is facilitated by a character advancement system based upon training skills in real time, even while not logged into the game. Eve Online was first released in North America and Europe in May 2003. It was published from May to December 2003 by Simon & Schuster Interactive, after which CCP purchased the rights back and began to self-publish via a digital distribution scheme. On January 22, 2008 it was announced that Eve Online would be distributed via Steam. On March 10, 2009 the game was again made available in boxed form in stores, released by Atari. The current version of Eve Online is dubbed Incarna, which was released on June 21, 2011. Rifter-class frigates after a successful attack against an Armageddon-class battleshipSet more than 21,000 years in the future, the background story of Eve Online explains that humanity, having used up most of Earth's resources through centuries of explos...