I've always been really curious about EvE RP, since it seems like the game actually encourages a level of roleplaying to a certain extent (I've heard stories about people doing actual espionage within major corporations, that kind of thing), even if you don't have a fictional persona and a backstory. This is the first time I've heard someone mention an RP community within the game in passing, though, and it's made me interested enough to look it up.

www.eve-chatsubo.com is a discussion forum for the RP community. EvE is fairly unique among MMO's in that RP was very strong early on and the developers are constantly updating the NPC stories and integrating player interactions into them. It is common for even the massive 1337 kiddie alliance leaders to do IC press releases.

The "problem" with most EvE RP is that "gentleman's agreements" and the like don't work too well for conflict based RP (these are common in most other RP PvP I have seen). But EvE RP corporations and ALLIANCES have been fairly large movers and shakers*. Since they introduced faction warfare a few years back there is a decent sized community that is just about cross-faction PvP (not all of them are real RPers, but they will put on a persona and interact with RPers).

* I was in Jericho Fraction, who RP post-humanist, kind of Randian, freedom fighters who struggle against the games inherant encouragement to "own" and "control" space. They have hundreds of pilots and can field a fair number of super-capitals.

Thanks a ton for the link! :D

Chatsubo, huh? Love the Gibson reference. Appropriate.