| Simply imagine you are piloting your space ship | | | | biggest sale of your life. |
| through space, on a search for fortune and fame. | | | | Eve Online is one of the several MMORPGs that can |
| Perhaps you are in the process of working a trade | | | | be found on the internet. An MMORPG stands for a |
| route, transporting ore from a central mining area to | | | | Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. A |
| a heavily industrialized planet in order to sell it at a | | | | MMORPG like Eve Online is unlike a number of |
| huge fortune. Just as you are flying through the star | | | | computer games in that in a regular computer game, |
| system, your sensors pick up on something...it's the | | | | where you are the sole human player; as for all the |
| pirates after you, and you sire off a few shots to | | | | other characters you relate with are simply |
| keep them away. | | | | computerized "bots." |
| One of them shouts out at you, "You must hand | | | | On the other hand in MMORPGs you're interacting |
| over your cargo or die." Though you consider | | | | with other people who populate the world of the |
| negotiating with them, but realize it's of no use. | | | | game. There are NPCs (Non Player Characters), who |
| However you fire off a missle salvo at the pirate | | | | are just a part of the game, however for the most |
| closest to you, and he crumbles into dust. As you | | | | part you're interacting with other people. For instance, |
| make a run back to planet, another two pirates open | | | | the pirates in the Eve Online form the other people, |
| fire thus weakening your shields. Miraculously you | | | | at times on other parts of the world, linked through |
| duck into its protection just as your shields breaks | | | | the Eve Online Server. If you receive messages, |
| up, barely escaping death and heading towards the | | | | these are sent out by someone on the other end. |