Two things that Eve does differently is the way it handles losing. In eve losing hurts. A bad night can be so painful... it follows you. However, that makes accomplishing something so much more rewarding. In Eve you don't want to lose. It's like comparing Lazer Tag to paintball. In lazer tag you don't want to get shot cause you don't want to get shot because you don't want to lose. In paintball you don't want to get shot cause it freaking hurts. Eve is like paintball.
Second they have a single server and they allow People carve their guilds name into space and they own it. They can say who lands their and who doesn't. You have to protect it with your blood, sweat and tears.
They actually have a political map you can pull up in Eve right now, and the guilds name shows up in their sections of space. If you let a group of people make up a clan name and actually own a piece of space all one one server. That's really cool!
One last thing.. They have so many cool player made mini games its insane. Right now, you can log in and play Texas hold'em for ingame credits. With an all automated bot system. How crazy is that?
@syztem I disagree with a enough time or more importantly if need was created. The sounds could be generative. A Morse code could be developed using the "pings"
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