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Review: Eve-Help

Published on 02. Jul, 2008 ... written by Sam Guss, Tags: Reviews

I stumbled across Eve Help just a couple of days ago and immediately book marked it. This site gathers guides and articles or the links to them in one convenient location. It’s definitely of use for the Eve player, whether a rookie pilot or experienced flyer.

It appears to be updated regularly and currently has 48 guides/articles or the links to them in 6 categories: PvE, PvP, Science & Industry, Trading, Ship Setups, and Miscellaneous. It also has a handy Glossary. Doesn’t appear to be as complete as others I’ve seen, but neither is it so large that it would be hopeless to learn every last abbreviation within a reasonable amount of time. For a rookie, it’s just right.

Navigation: 5 out of 5
This site uses the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) formula that I appreciate, with a menu to the left and links to articles/guides in the middle. With simple backgrounds and effects, the site looks more technical than it is, relying on dark backgrounds and cyan link colors to give it this technical “feel”.

The menu gives you only a few choices, which is basically “what do you need to know?” – is it bout PvE? Ship Setups? Trading? Each section of the site has several options for various guides and links. The Trading option for example gives you two more options, one to each: Beginner Information or Formulae with one article in each. The PvE option has four options: Ratting with 2 articles; Basic Knowledge with 4 articles; Missions with 1 article; and Misc. PvE guides with 1 article.

Information: 5 out of 5
There is a wealth of information here to both rookie and experienced players of Eve. I’ve only made it through a handful of guides and articles so far, but the site does seem to cater to the “best of the best” versus just any old guide. Now, I will be the first to admit that is based on what little exposure to the site I have so far, but every guide or article was very comprehensive and complete.

The site started out as a Word document for a player to gather links to everything about Eve and eventually grew into the website it is today. The current project of the site is to gather various ship setups from other players willing to submit their setups from EFT (Eve Fitting Tool). To this end and at time of writing, they have gathered 23 ship builds.

Style: 3 out of 5
While I like the KISS formula, there are just so many ways to spiff up a site and still keep that formula alive. While the use of color is great and gives an “old-age technical” feel to the site, it still lacks the punch to make this a stylish site. I’ve written it before, and will do so again: with Eve being such a fantastic graphically alluring game, then it’s fan sites and community sites should be as well, IMO.

Despite this though, it is still an engaging site with a lot of information and from this rookie I will say a big “THANK YOU” to the website’s administrator.

Overall: 4 out of 5
With all of the information available to you from this one location, I would place it as a must have bookmark for any Eve player’s web browser. I would further say if you were only going to allow yourself a limited number of websites dedicated to Eve to be book marked, this should be one of them.