@Rich42yO - No, Star Citizen isn't an Eve type game, not really.
Star Citizen is many games in one Rich. Arena Commander will be a lot like Aces High but in space - multiplayer space dogfighting in various forms and game types. There will also be the primary game called "Squadron 42", which will be a campaign based space combat simulator like the Wing Commander games of old. The largest portion of the game will be the MMO/Freelancer type of game, and will be very similar to Freelancer although many improvements will be there from what we know so far.
It IS going to have an MMO component that includes first person running around in hangars and on planets and such, but it'll be mainly a space combat MMO game, albeit with some trading and cargo running missions and stuff to make in game $. In that way it is similar to Eve, but that's pretty much where similarity ends. The combat will be like Wing Commander type space games for the most part, with ships with multiple man-able positions/guns, scanners, and such.
The multiplayer portion will be going live in the next couple weeks they say, I'm Gman109 on the BBS and in game, so maybe give it a whirl then. IMO it's going to be fantastic fun, I'm having a blast just with this very first limited pre alpha, and the bbs there is FULL of mods and fixes made by players already. CH Products was excluded by RSI so far as having a default set up/working capabilities, and already community members wrote xml files to fix it, so I'm now using full HOTAS, where as 4 days ago it wouldn't work if you had the sticks even plugged in when launching the game. Great stuff, I think you'll like it. I'll put up some vids tomorrow and post the Youtube links here so you can have a look at it, I'm putting in voice of what's going on based on BBS info and such I've read a la Vudu15 type of thing. They are well on their way to 47 million this week, and the stretch x20 goal of 50 million is going to be hit very soon. IMO they are putting the money to good use, Chris Roberts really, REALLY cares about this product, although similar to some recent HTC bbs things, he's had to come out on the defensive attack vs some disgruntled people who weren't happy it's taking longer than they expected. For the most part this has been silenced by Roberts responses by video to critics, as well as the alpha release. They handled the heckling and criticism pretty well, Roberts actually put it out to a community vote with some issues - a very libertarian-ish and unusual action so far as video game companies goes.
