EVE: The Second Genesis Collectible Card Game
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| EVE: The Second Genesis | |
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| Publisher | CCP Games / White Wolf, Inc. |
| Players | 2 or more |
| Setup time | < 3 minutes |
| Playing time | ~ 30 minutes1 |
| Random chance | Some |
| Skills required | Card playing |
| 1 Games may take much longer or shorter depending on a deck's play style and the number of players. | |
EVE: The Second Genesis is a collectible card game set in the universe created for the online game EVE Online. Each player represents the CEO of a corporation, aligned with a particular race, and through exploration, mining, and military strength, their goal is to defeat their opponent CEOs.
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[edit] Play summary
Each player begins play with a starbase, located in their home region. Initially, this home region is the only source of ISK, which is the money in the EVE universe. By playing cards from their hand, each card usually costing a certain amount of ISK, the player can do the following:
- build up their home region, strengthening their starbase or increasing it's ISK generation capacity
- build ships
- explore outer regions
- cause events to occur using "news" cards
The player can also deploy their ships to defend outer regions, thus gaining ISK or other benefits from the region. Of course, a player can also deploy their ships into their opponent's home region, in an attempt to destroy their starbase. Victory is normally decided when only one starbase remains, or if a player runs out of cards in their draw deck.
[edit] Core Set
The Core Set consists of 240 different cards and four Starter Kits. The Starter Kits are split into two different packs each containing two starter decks. The Day of Darkness Starter Kit consists of the Minmatar and Amarr. The Great War Starter Kit consists of the Caldari and Gallente. Each Starter Kit contains a total of 110 cards.
[edit] Expansions
[edit] The Exiled
In 2007, CCP announced the first expansion, called The Exiled. In addition to expanding the current card types, The Exiled adds characters which can act as agents at a starbase, or as pilots for ships. Originally to be available in July, 2007, The Exiled was delayed due to a printing error and is currently expected to launch at Gen Con 2007.
