[RickHull]

Ship spinning is an incredibly trivial feature that corresponds to an utter lack of motivation to actually do things in Eve. Veteran players have a somewhat love/hate relationship with the game, warning new players that "Eve is a terrible game".

Generally in the Eve universe you are never safe, except when "docked" in a space station. In previous versions, you were presented with a view of your ship floating in the space hangar, and due to the "camera" mechanics of the UI, you could spin around your ship at like 300+ RPM.

An utterly pointless exercise in which millions of man-hours have been spent while simultaneously chatting on TeamSpeak or Jabber or doing market research, or whatever. But all players seem to share a tongue-in-cheek fondness for this feature.

[norova]

So, it seems like "ship spinning" is the equivalent of wandering around World of Warcraft capital cities only by way of spamming jump? Thank you for the details.

[jswinghammer]

It's worse than that since you do it out of reflex and it is less engaging than what you're describing (though I never played WoW).

[bmac]

In some ways 'ship spinning' in eve was the iphone equivalent of dragging a screen past its boundary and watching it snap back in place.

Dragging the camera (with a mouse down, move and release) would cause it to rotate around the player's ship until some artificial 'drag' decided the spin should slow to a stop. It was one of those innocent and functionally useless UI features, that is surprisingly satisfying to preform.

[Sundog]

|In some ways 'ship spinning' in eve was the iphone equivalent of dragging a screen past its boundary and watching it snap back in place.|

...I'm not the only one? Oh thank god

[evilneanderthal]

I can't believe how many hours of my life have been spent jumping around Ironforge aimlessly.