Corporations and more!

     Over the past weeks as Multiforge has expanded its horizons, I have been thinking about corporations and EVE in general - what makes this game so great? Moreover, what makes the pilots (and corporations composed of said pilots, so awesome? I believe I have answers for both. The first question is easily answered and has probably been answered hundreds of times - the gameplay in EVE Online is, to say the least, superb. The gigantic sandbox universe combined with the extensive skill system allows for individual players to chose their own paths, you aren't set to the guidelines of other games; you could fit a Titan, a group of the largest ships in the game, with a mining laser and mine an asteroid belt or you could take a mining ship, deck it out for combat and go hunting. The game has virtually limitless possibilities all contained within one universe, composed of the same playerbase. Now, for the second question. This is significantly tougher to answer as it is completely based on opinion. The reasons why I, personally, think that the EVE playerbase is so amazing is because there are, again, an infinite amount of niches that someone could fit in to. If you wanted to play the game at a murderously fast rate, you could delve into the combat aspects of the game and spend your entire EVE career in 0.0, or you could want to play the game a bit safer and mine or dive into the industrial side of EVE. This grouping of players into different environments in game not only applies to the actual aspects of the game itself, but it applies to the social side; if someone were to enjoy working solo, they could create their own small corporation and have alternate accounts running, while another person could easily fit into a small corp and love the hell out of it (Im talking to you, Multiforge!), and all the while, there could be someone who enjoys fitting into a massive group of players like Goonswarm. This is what makes EVE great, the gameplay is wonderful, but the players and corporations who inhabit New Eden and give it life are the ones who make the game the masterpiece it is.