Ty. Do you know if it is possible to play it on a private server?

No! Some years back there was an attempt, but it was quickly squashed.. as it should be.

As for steam EVE, best not to. Has too many account limitations. I think one was not being able to transfer characters, unless that's changed...

Thanks. Do not agree with the part about 'as it should be' though, but anyway.

No, it's bad business. CCP isn't some huge AAA developer that can just absorb the revenue loss, just a little loss would hurt development enough to be noticed. Go take that player server attitude to WoW player servers ------------------->
(or player servers for dead games, those are ok imo - apart from their often toxic communities)

Guess I have just missed my time in this game.

EVE on a private server would be horrible. You would have people that were friends with the GM/Admin getting all sorts of stuff for free. like free SP, or free T2 BPOs. I can only imagine what else would be wrong. horrible bugs that would plague the game... I am glad there is not private servers.

Private server doesn't mean it is a solo server. I can play with friends or with people who want the same stuff from the game as myself.
Besides those 2 reasons I mentioned, I would also like to have 'a fresh start'. Meaning clean world with just BP and rookie ships. Atm I am always having a feeling about eve, like i joined when the party is already over. Even in the economy part anywhere you go, everything is already claimed, divided, owned by someone. Market is overflooded. Guess I have just missed my time in this game.

Not really, it's just harder for newer players to compete. The industry changes are helping to address that and put all players on a more equal footing.

The main reason we don't want to an EVE private server is that anyone close to the GM/admin can have full sway on the game. Like say I have a private server and I got RL ganked by my wife because she got ganked in her Mackinaw for afk mining and demanded I give her some QA shield extenders. If I gave her the said modules it won't be fair for the other players.

Also if you want something in eve and someone is already sitting on it you better get off your station undock and shoot them to get it. That's how I get my LP in FW. Evict the other guy from the plex.

Well, yes I agree to some extent and I know what you mean. But it is just a general feeling, do not really know how to explain that. When you come to play game that is still is Beta for example, the whole world is still new and everyone is on the same level. Something like that, not sure if I can make myself clear on this, it is just a general 'feel' in the game

Grab/join some peeps and go claim a wormhole (wormhole space). Sounds more like what you are looking for.

As for being on the same level, this isn't a level progression game. Some months of training and you can be going head to head in the same ships with a 10yr vet pretty much equally matched... at least in needed SP for the ship. Being around longer just means you can fly a larger variety of ships mostly.

So in other words you don't want to exert effort to compete with other players who made the effort to be better in the same game as you are?

When did I say that? I said that i like to start games at the same level with other players, not come into the game when everyone has already played for 5 years, have numerous skills, etc. But most of all it is the market, everything you can think of had already been invented and mass produced. Just not very interesting to play to be honest.

When did I say that? I said that i like to start games at the same level with other players, not come into the game when everyone has already played for 5 years, have numerous skills, etc. But most of all it is the market, everything you can think of had already been invented and mass produced. Just not very interesting to play to be honest.

I guess i have already answered that in my previous post, but why do you always assume it would be bad? I personally would never give anyone any advantages including myself if I owned a private one. Just because the game loses all interest with cheating. Well, for me at least. And there are many people who feel the same way. Those who want most advantages to themselves are usually kids 13-15 years old. At least it is what i see in the other games i am playing.

OK you don't _get_ EVE do you?

A private server of EVE would be terrible as the stories that EVE is about wouldn't exist. The economy wouldn't existence (the bit you like - building stuff).

Your other arguments just don't stand up to scrutiny because you don't actually know what makes EVE tick.

Well eve is really the same as every other game around. And i am not saying that everyone have to move en masse to a private server. The official server will continue as it is with little change I guess, so do not know how it concerns the story you mentioned. And yes, economy would exist as long as there are at least several players there.

Well it's a moot subject anyway. Someone tried and they were shut down. CCP won't allow it and as basically an indie dev company (a large one anyway) they shouldn't allow it, and they don't.