Gamers help! I'm looking for the impossible

[Kaylyn]

Try Haven and Hearth. When you create a character you get dumped in the middle of the wilderness somewhere and have to survive. You chop down trees to build shelter and whatever else you might need, and have to go hunt for meat or gather fruit to eat. I think there is a small amount of PvP, if you trespass on someone else's land they can defend their property. I only played it once with my husband, but it was an interesting diversion at the time.

[Parrothead]

Spore, maybe? It's make a critter, build a civilization, explore the universe (info here)

[Mytical]

You might also want to consider some management games (things like Zoo Tycoon, etc) who has no enemies whatsoever (besides yourself that is ). Maybe Spore...

[Moirae]

I don't see why anyone would play Eve if they weren't interested in PvP. Thats the whole point of that game.

You'd be better of playing EQ2. At least its PvE centered.

[thehuckster]

EVE doesn't count, EVE is a spread sheet with sound effects. -.-

...and the running joke is so many players actually voluntarily turn the sound off!

Yeah, minus PvP Eve gets boring, but there are plenty of people who choose to stay in high-sec and just mine and mission. The community generally makes fun of those guys, though. Carebear is a term oft-used to describe them.

If they finally complete Incarna to the point you can actually socially interact, rent bar/retail space, and explore the gigantic stations, there might be more non-violent aspects to the game. I'm sure, at least in high-sec space, you'll not be able to shoot other players. Of course, at that point, assuming you rent space, you're basically doing retail, only this time it's with trolls on the Internet in space. You can imagine how annoying that might get.

Most non-violent MMORPGs are generally designed for kids. I think there's a Lego RPG, for instance. Then you've got the social networking types of games like Farmville and Habbo.

[Xarlaxas]

http://www.atitd.com/

A Tale in the Desert is a game I had a blast with in it's second iteration back when I was in High School.

You play a person in a recreation of Ancient Egypt, wander around, building stuff, crafting, hanging out, that kind of thing. My friends and I built a small village together and had a massive flax-growing operation for a while.

I guess it fits more into the Sims/Second Life category than the Empire-building one, sadly, but it is combat-free and it has an interesting legal system where you collect signatures to your petitions and create laws through voting.

Though that had some disastrous consequences back when I played. . . .

[Moirae]

http://mystonline.com/en/

Try that. Its the game myst played online. No fighting in myst.

[Gravekeeper]

Greenday. It's called Civilization 5, archipelago map, right up until you get sextants and cartography.

^ This. And you're only safe until Optics. ;p You'll probably end up without Iron or Aluminum later in the game though. More fun to go with Panagea. If you don't want some dick to come along and blow it up, just make sure you pick the other world leaders instead of letting it go random.

Then never pick America, Egypt, Germany or France. Also, never trust England or Spain. >.>

India's fine. Gandhi's always got your back.

It's a very pretty spreadsheet, and your lasers go 'pew pew pew'!

Its a pretty empty shell of a game to be honest when you really look at it. Whenever you hear about something happening from EVE in the news ( Like blowing up $25,000 worth of PLEX or whatever ) its always something pvp related. Which is only because it has such a no bullshit approach to pvp. There is no magical respawning. If your ship gets blown up, thats it, you've lost that ship and everything in it. Insurance will cover some of it, but never all of it and especially not your precious weapons and modules.

Because its in permanent hardcore mode though it doesn't exactly encourage you to explore and try out new things. Since you could essentially lose all your progress in one mistake.

[Rapscallion]

EVE doesn't count, EVE is a spread sheet with sound effects. -.-

It's a very pretty spreadsheet, and your lasers go 'pew pew pew'!

Also, you get to kill ships. Lots of ships. Then you loot their hulls.

Or mine. Mining is safe. Apart from the pirates coming around that you have to fend off (read: kill).

Planetary Interaction is reasonably safe, except for forthcoming expansions where it may become unsafe (Dust 514).

Hmm, not necessarily the game required. Yes, I do play it a bit. 24 days and I can fly a Tengu. Nom nom nom.

Rapscallion

[Salted Grump]

Greenday. It's called Civilization 5, archipelago map, right up until you get sextants and cartography.

[Greenday]

I wish I knew of a game like this. I'd love it. I'm sick of being able to build up my area then someone comes and destroys the hell out of it. I just want a game where I can keep building and getting better without being molested by some dbag thinking he's awesome for beating up on other people in a game.

[Kara]

EVE doesn't count, EVE is a spread sheet with sound effects. -.-

<3 this so much

I can really only think of one, and I've never played it but I'd not recommend it. A coworker has been trying to talk me into playing Second Life for awhile, and eerily enough, ever since I came out he's upped his efforts. I have heard tales of this abomination of programming though, and always politely decline after he spends a couple of hours talking about how awesome the game is. And every now and then he reminds me the server he owns is primarily for BDSM, "but anything goes, really."

I was talking to another coworker about this a couple of weeks ago and she said, "Do you know what Second life IS?" I said, "Yeah, it's pretty much 4Chan: The Game." She said she looked it up because he neglected to mention certain aspects of the game. She mentioned how boring it sounded because you don't kill anything unless you really want to, and then she got into some other aspects of it and closed the browser in terror.

[Gravekeeper]

Hard one. There's certainly nothing at a big name game company type level like that. EVE doesn't count, EVE is a spread sheet with sound effects. -.-

I just play Rift for lack of anything else right now. I wish there was something else. But I guess I'm just killing time till Guild Wars 2 or something.

[fma_fanatic]

Have you taken a look at MMORPG.com? They have an extensive list of MMOs along with reviews from not only the people on the website, but players themselves.

I used to play WoW, but suspended my account due to financial reasons as well as just got tired of doing the same thing day after day (or so it seemed).

[draggar]

If you're on Facebook look for CivWorld - it's by Sid Meier and based on his civilization games. Yes, there is a little PVP (or CivVCiv) action but not much.

If you decide to join, try o get into "Faraday's Game" and join the Indian Commonwealth - that's civ I'm in.