Aside from this one can get killed in high security under special circumstances (e.g. This is called suicide ganking and the aim is to target ships with content more valuable than the ships lost to Concord. The attackers will be destroyed relatively fast by Concord (this is refered to as Concordokken by players), however more of them in a group are able most of the times to take out even bigger ships such as freighters before being destroyed. hisec) players are protected from an NPC Faction called Concord. Eve is split into 3 types of security zones. This is why, for the most part, attacking other players is usually never just for fun or random but entails a potential gain from their loss. Unlike some of the other mmo's, in Eve each time you are attacked and loose you will loose ISK in form of goods, ships, implants, player owned structures or market income. The most important trait of the PvP aspect is that loosing means loss. What most if not all forms of PvP have in common in Eve is that the planning stage carries more importance than the actual 'combat' allthough both of these allow lower skilled players (in terms of ingame skill levels not personal skill) to gain the upper hand over the veterans (that is if they dont die painfully allong the steep learning curve). can flipping), scamming, resource hoarding, griefing, smack talk, timezone exploits (e.g. It includes competition for mineral aquisition a.k.a mining, sell or buy order prices, teritorial or otherwise resource oriented wargames, espionage, treason, theft (e.g. This is only partially true as the PvP aspect in Eve does not involve solely blowing somebody else up. Alot of players tend to believe Eve is a game all about ship combat. Eve has such a complicated economy that CCP has hired an economist to analize the ingame market traffic. The entire market minus the skill books is player driven, everything you buy somebody else built, stole or looted. Note that PI is an almost entirely passive income system that requires you to mess around with it at most once per day. At the moment any character by making use of the new Planetary Interaction alone and a FAIR AMOUNT of math homework can raise the 370 mil ISK to buy a PLEX each month. The monthly fee can be avoided by use of PLEX (in game item buyable with ISK that extends your subscription with 30 days). Bottom line is playing solo is possible but hard to acomplish solely because interacting with other players is hard to avoid. courier or auction), grouping in fleets, corporations or alliances and many more. It is very common to multibox together with other players and player interaction offers a great deal of options such as setting personal standings with any player, corporation or alliance in the game (so you remember who is your friend and who is your enemy), contracts of various types (e.g. Since in Eve you can train all skills and are able to explore all professions of the game with a single character, multiboxing is a matter of convenience (able to do more things at once and a faster way to aquire the necessary skills).

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