Linux and EVEO Guide
How to run EVE Online under Linux
Installing EVE Online on Linux
There are a few options.
Free:
Wine
Wine-Doors
Paying:
Cedega
CodeWeaver Games
Do note that after installing EVE under Linux it can happen that you see a black screen for a while, be patient. The log on window will appear eventually.
Wine:
To install Wine either use your distributions package management software or download the source and compile/install it manually. Information on how to download and install Wine for a few distributions can be found here
To install EVE using Wine follow these steps.
1. Download the Windows client from our homepage
2. Right click on the EVE client installer and select "open with Wine Windows Program Loader"
3. This starts the EVE client installation process.
4. Follow the instructions here to get EVE to run fully.
5. When completed simply run the EVE online Client using the Shortcut created on your desktop.
Wine-Doors:
Wine-Doors is a frontend application for Wine and includes easy installation for a number of additional programs and games with easy installation procedures. Wine-Doors binaries and sources can be found here
To install EVE using Wine-Doors follow these steps:
1. Download the Windows client from our homepage
2. Start Wine-Doors
3. Find EVE Online in the list of available applications and press the install option behind it, then press Apply.
4. Navigate to where you saved the EVE installer and press Open.
5. This starts the EVE client installation process.
6. Install all Windows Fonts available
6. When completed simply go to Applications --> Wine --> Programs --> EVE and select EVE Online to start.
Cedega
1. Install the Cedega application
2. Download the Windows client from our homepage
3. Start the Cedega Gaming Service application
4. Press Install
5. Under GDDB Profile drop down box select EVE online and browse to the EVE client installer file under Program.
6. Press Continue and the EVE client installation is started.
7. When the client installation is completed use the Cedega Gaming server Application to launch EVE.
CodeWeaver Games
1. Install the Codeweavers games application
2. Start the CodeWeaver Games application and select EVE Online from the options list and press next.
3. The installation process takes care of all requirements so there's not much else you need to do at this point but wait for it to complete apart from pressing Yes and Ok from time to time.
4. When the installation is complete un tick "Run EVE-Online" and press finish.
5. The application finalizes the installation process, when completed press Finish.
6. Start the EVE client by double clicking on the EVE icon on your desktop.
In some cases you might need to download a patch, the EVE client does this automatically for you as well as patching the client itself,
Pro Guide for EvE
What is EVE Online?
A few things make EVE special amongst other MMORPGs...
- EVE is a single "shard" virtual world. What that means is that everyone who joins EVE becomes a part of the same world and the same community. The industry standard for MMORPGs is to run the game on multiple smaller servers, so called shards, so that each player only has the opportunity of interaction with a few thousand other players even if the number of subscribers can be in the millions. In EVE you have the opportunity to affect more than 250.000 other players in one way or another as all our players are a part of the same persistent universe, hosted on the world‘s most powerful gaming server yet.
- In EVE you are free to choose your own destiny. You start out as a character from one of four races that inhabit the EVE universe but apart from slightly different starting skills you are free to take your character in any direction you want. You are not restricted by predefined character classes or professions. You can trade to make a living, conduct mining operations, market your fighting skills as a mercenary, camp the spacelanes for profit as a pirate, conduct espionage and infiltration, focus on research and manufacturing, or perform increasingly profitable missions for NPC (non player controlled, run by the EVE system) agents. What you choose to do day by day is up to you. You can play alone, form a corporation (equivalent of clan or guild) with a close group of friends or seek entrance to any of the large player run corporations and alliances already established. The EVE Unviverse and its 5000 unique solar systems are yours to explore and conquer.
- In EVE you don‘t level up like in most games. You purchase skills which then train in real time until finished. The skills train even while you are offline. Skills give you a myriad of different abilities. Some allow you to fly specific types of ships or use a particular weapon while others focus more on general things. Each skill has five levels which all give the same percentage bonus to whatever field of your gameplay they affect. Each level however takes increasingly longer to train so that players are always faced with the choice of specializing in one field, or spend the skill training time equally on many different fields.
About this site
About this site
It started out first as a short fast guide site for people who asked me stuff ingame.
They didnt realy like the loooong novel like so called guides , most guides over EvE Online tend to be a story diary or a completly rubish BS or the soo popular stuff now days 'graphical over stuffed novels.
People mostly just want the hard facts not a freaking novel for example back in the days creating a character was like to be able to make a good character you the game req you to played the game from beta to understand how to make a char for eve.
So I made a fast guide how to create a character :) and then how to mine and then how to do combat and the rest is history;)
My self has been playing eve from beta time and been playing EvE Online from that date and still playing.
Ps english isnt my native language ;) my native lang is constructed so it feels like writing backwards when I write in english so gramma and soo may diff in Qua sorry for that 'not'
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