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The Eve Online Community Has Joined The Search For Exoplanets

Eve Online is Sci-Fi MMO mostly known for its very, very dedicated community of players. If any MMO were going to help in the search for exoplanets, it would be Eve. It also is not the first time Eve has helped out with scientific discoveries. The Eve community has pitched in with the Massively Multiplayer Online Science platform to provide classifications of human cells for the Human Protein Atlas. Those classifications came from an Eve Online mini-game, and it's rather likely the exoplanets search will be similar in process.

The DNA classification mini-game was approached in a way that folded nicely into the lore of Eve, which is rather easy to do for Eve. Much of the game is incredibly realistic, down to its economy, and so classifying DNA for a mysterious Drifter organization folded into the background easily. It's worth noting that, according to Wired, the DNA classification mini game was played for over 16 million minutes.

Fitting an exoplanetary search into Eve will be even easier for the devs to work around, and it will likely be just as successful.

You can find out more about the MMOS here. More about Eve's help in the search for exoplanets will be announced at the Eve Fanfest in April in a presentation by Michel Mayor, the Swiss astrophysicist whose team discovered the first exoplanet.

For more on the exoplanetary discovery, we've got a handy video below. Or you can read up on it here. Other highlights of Eve's community include players attempts to crash the in-game economy and the expensive real-world consequences of a clan war.

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