EVE: Okay, so you've been podded... NOW what do you do?
Why, you do a Pod-cast, of course! One Tired Eve Pilot… limping from battle… sensors on the blink… never sees the asteroid wot got ‘im… dispatches from the clone bank… Good luck :)
EVE Online
EVE: I guess I shouldn't have named it after my cat...
It was a difficult mission – stop a military transport, take everyone on it prisoner and bring them back to base for some fun – and I think I did fairly well. Defeated the two scouts guarding the acceleration array (ie, zone line) to the instance, no problem, I was cooking with antimatter. Inside the deadspace instance, were a couple of ships… okay, I can take them on… and then many more… so much that I had to rabbit it back to base for some quick repairs. When I returned… two minutes until the transport arrived… I couldn’t defeat all its guards by then. I decided to lead them a chase and circle back around. ...
Games that at least try: EVE Online
The thing that frustrates me most about Fantasy MMORPGs is their lack of imagination. Not imagination like in creating the mystical world of Elflandia populated by mystic Elfians who are under siege by the vicious Orcanauts or however they manage to fit elves and orcs into any fantasy game world (Does it have elves? CHECK. Orcs? CHECK. We’re GOOD TO GO!) I do wish that MMO devs would look beyond Tolkein for inspiration. Why not the world of “The Worm Ouroborous”? Or of “Ill Met in Lankhmar”? Or “The Dying Earth”?(*) ...