my particular class could wormhole a whole team from one area to another
Jonathan: My name is Jonathan. Most people refer to me as Ardua or Ardy nowadays. I occasionally weblog over on Echoes of Nonsense & was originally inspired to do so by one Justin Olivetti & WAAAGH! Fancy that!
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So how did you first listen to about Earth & Beyond? Did you play any MMOs before it? What attracted you to it?
I like wargames, & I am a sci-fi geek. No seven ways about either of them. Naturally, I adored the Command & Conquer series, & I revealed about Earth & Beyond through the Westwood site. At the beginning, if memory serves, there were teaser images, but finally they launched a beta board. I had a name for my ship right away as it was the name I used on the beta boards in response to the Westwood/E&B tagline of “How far will you go?” Well… imagination’s finish. Cheesy, I do know.
Earth & Beyond was my first MMO in any way, shape or form. Spaceships? Online game? Always online? I was so hooked on the idea. I could not wait. It was reinforced by the fact that this was (for me & for the time) a large installation. So Westwood won my loyalty when they sent me a beta disc in the post. It appeared so foolish, but… living in Ireland all my life, & then being sent, personally, a duplicate of the game to help check, sent by the games company itself? I was in love. Also, I was on a modem still at that stage as the country didn’t have broadband.
What did you enjoy doing the most in the game: combat, trading or exploration?
How was Earth & Beyond different than other MMOs of its day? How did it stack up against EVE Online & Star Wars Galaxies’ Jump to Lightspeed?
Personally, I adored exploring. I decided to play a Jenquai Explorer, a Sha’ha’dem. The explorer class of an explorer race? Sign me right up. Of coursework, space was limited, but even so, I loved my ship, & I loved what I could do with it. Finally, because my particular class could wormhole a whole team from one area to another, I got in to the trade scene & found it enjoyable. Although I wasn’t immense on combat & was originally sold on exploration, even that turned out to be nice fun.
If I had to select one thing that I personally think E&B did better, it was likely the community feeling I had there compared to EVE, which was new to me & felt overwhelming & hazardous. EVE didn’t click for me then, but I did come around to it much later on.
How did it stack up? In some ways, I am not definite it did. EVE is still going strong now. Star Wars Galaxies had its own issues. Jump To Lightspeed never registered on my radar as something to be concerned about, but EVE definitely was. In fact, if I keep in mind correctly (& I am definite I will be corrected if I am wrong), the first Titan in EVE was built by a group ultimately founded by Celestial Horizon, a group of Earth & Beyond players who went to EVE.
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