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EVE Online

A player-driven economy and political simulation where optimal doctrine-building and reading human opponents decide outcomes.

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Here's the argument for where this game sits - disagree freely.
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EXECUTION2 /10READS7 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10

the cheat-test profile

The four axes - the argument

Each axis is rated on its own - how far one cheat would trivialize the game here. They don't trade off; low on all four means the game is an experience, not a contest.

  1. Execution

    cheat: Aimbot - perfect inputs

    2/10

    Clicking modules demands little physical precision

  2. Reads

    cheat: Out-predict an adaptive opponent

    7/10

    Player corporations and fleet FC decisions involve deep human prediction

  3. Variance

    cheat: See what's hidden / map the RNG

    4/10

    Market prices and intel gaps are meaningful hidden information

  4. Optimization

    cheat: A perfect solver / coach

    9/10

    Industry chains, fleet doctrines, and trade routes are deeply solvable systems

How to read this

Each axis is named by the cheat that would break the game along it. Execution is the hands. Reads is out-thinking an adaptive opponent. Variance is hidden information & RNG. Optimization is the solvable systems layer. A game's region is the top one or two axes.

These four aren't one rating split four ways - they're independent 0-10 questions. A 9 on one axis takes nothing from the others, and a game low on all four isn't missing data: it's telling you there's no skill here to cheat.

The basis is how the majority actually plays this game - not a niche mode or a personal run. For a game with very different modes (a story campaign versus ranked multiplayer), that's the version most people mean.

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Game details

Released
2003
Developer
CCP
Platforms
Linux, PC, Mac
Modes
Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
IGDB critics
79/100
IGDB users
78/100
Role-playing (RPG)SimulatorStrategyActionScience fictionSandboxOpen world