The most fun I ever had in the game was alliance roams. 15 to 20 of us on voice chat, coordinating engagements.

Also fun:

- Running training exercises for new players. We'd train them how to fly in formation, how to align ships, how to scan. The final training exercise for the corp was a "Snipe Hunt" where I was the snipe. They had to catch me, but if they managed, they were allowed to blow up my ship.

- Hauling for a mining gang. Fifteen people in mining barges and me in a large transport moving rocks back to our Player-Owned Station. Posting nonsense and memes in chat, while having the craziest discussions. Every once in a while, we'd get jumped by raiders and call in the cavalry.

At least three of the corps I was part of got flipped and shredded from the inside. Players worked to earn trust, become officers in the corp, gain security clearances, only to steal everything. They had fun, I guess.

But the time investment became way too heavy to keep playing once I became a father.

Yep sat in my mate’s living room with several of us pretending to be completely random people that didn’t know each other and building trust that way and then rinsing a corp once we worked them enough was just an incredible moment. Also buying carrier jumps to 0.0 and blowing them to smithereens. Thing is the way evil and decent players were allowed to interact made for deeper and more exciting and I’d argue a more realistic and genuine interaction than other games that would ban people for being unsporting as the devs had some idea of what gameplay they wanted people to follow. With Eve it’s fucking anarchic and wonderful.

i indeed flew with dbrb and had many gate drinking nights. but i realized the game was irrelevant at some point