[SonnyTark]

Never played EVE, but in X2 The Threat, the internal scripting system was exposed to the player in the game ui to allow scripting anything in the game you want. I ended up writing elaborate trading and defense procedures to manage my 100+ fleet of traders, factories, sector patrols and escort ships. Fun times.

[cridenour]

Similarly, when I found out about custom scripts in X3, the game got a whole lot more interesting - I created a carrier who searched the universe for abandoned ships, claimed them, repaired them and sold them.

A shame X4 moved to a terrible XML based scripting language. Still can do all those things, but a lot less approachable.