Anyone tried this?

It's the best spreadsheet simulator I've ever seen.  


Just be prepared for grinding.

Yeah, I played for a while. It takes a lot of time that I don't have, so I don't a much. My advice if you do hop in, don't fly a ship you can't afford to lose. I only have a few billion in liquid assets and a few billion more in ships. Thats not a lot of money.

I've tried to avoid online gaming because I knew I'd get sucked into this and waste my time.  

I'm currently in a situation with plenty of free time and no serious responsibilities.  I think YT saw my various searches so started putting this game in my advertising feed.  It looks like a fun game that I could passively play.

Any recommendations on empires or corporations?

May want to look into Eve Echoes. It hasn't been out that long.

It's basically Eve mobile.

You can run it (like most do) on a sim (like Nox) on your pc.

Tried it out a decade ago.  Accounting in Space !

You want a second job that doesn’t pay you a cent? Go ahead and play! There is nothing passive about EVE.

Check out Brave.  My buddy still plays in it regularly.  They used to be the corporation for newbies to do pvp, probably still are.

Ever heard of Sean Smith from the Benghazi attack?  He was known as Vilerat in Eve.

https://www.somethingawful.com/news/sean-smith-vilerat/

Played along side him back when I was in null many years ago.  Never knew he was that guy until a bit after it.   Was kinda erie listening to a podcast where people were recalling him and what he did in game, including the last night he was on comms where he said "shit, gunfire" or something to that effect.

This. I haven't played in years but I seriously doubt they could have fixed the meta in that game.

If someone were going to get into the game regardless of my advice for them not to, I'd hope they would at least follow my advice about sticking to small corps where you know the majority of people in real life, or you at least form strong internet friendships with them, and stick to low sec piracy or high sec warfare. The most fun I ever had in eve was in a small corp like that. I could log in, do my thing, help a buddy out, etc. and then go do whatever else. Null sec corps/alliances, galaxy wide wars, etc. and it became a second job just to show up and stick around for stuff. Even if those corps/alliances were paying for your ships and such, you still also needed to play for a income source to keep advancing yourself so it was actually more like having two jobs. Even after I setup an alt account to run high sec manufacturing with high sec POS and basically had a license to print money it still took quite a bit of micromanagement to keep things running.

edit: FWIW, there are some books titled "Empires of EVE" that is basically the history of game. It would kind of give you an idea of how...intricate...the meta gameplay can be in null. This video is long, but it's a good listen and gives you a taste of the books. And for me...it's kinda cool to see a book written about shit I participated in for a video game...

I pretty much live in a wormhole and do planetary manufacturing there. It can be a VERY boring game. My corp is pretty much dead these days. My main is Sara Malius.

Had a buddy who played it for a long time.  The "spreadsheet simulator" and "second job" are pretty apt descriptions.

But it's also kind of fascinating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB

I’ve played this for about 15 years. Great game that is dying more every day