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