The *Official* Eve Online Thread
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I made the mistake last night of signing up to the 14 day trial of Eve.
The learning curve is insane, I'm still trying to figure out skills and manufacturing, and I've yet to meet another human player.
Any tips? Should I just go and get myself a crack addiction instead? (At least there are govt. programs to get you off crack).
I'm trying to procrastinate right now, but the server is down every day for an hour, apparently.
The learning curve is insane, I'm still trying to figure out skills and manufacturing, and I've yet to meet another human player.
Any tips? Should I just go and get myself a crack addiction instead? (At least there are govt. programs to get you off crack).
I'm trying to procrastinate right now, but the server is down every day for an hour, apparently.
It is indeed, maintanence is done at midday every day. I am also trying to find the 'willingnes' to play more offten. I've kept my account going and kept training even though I haven't played the game seriously for quite some time now. In fact I've been playing over 4 years now that I think about it, I won't work out how much money I've given CCP in that time, especially as I ran 2 accounts for most of it.
To be perectly honest, in an empire starting area, I am surprised you can move for other players, there are a lot of people playing the game at any one time now compared to what it was like 4 years ago. An awful lot.
To be perectly honest, in an empire starting area, I am surprised you can move for other players, there are a lot of people playing the game at any one time now compared to what it was like 4 years ago. An awful lot.
Have you done the tutorials? After that, find yourself a good learning corp- OCUK always get recoomendations here. Eve is not a game you can solo. Manufacturing's not the easiest to get the hang of, and also very skills intensive, I'd say it's something that people tend to get into after a few months at the earliest.
Someone's bound to say it, so it might as well be me- you should have tried it back in the old days. I was lucky, I joined with the last-but-one version of the tutorial system, and it was still harder than most games I've played- I ended up doing it twice. Before that it was, apparently, even worse.
But nothing worth doing comes easy. I'm currently comparing WAR and Eve in my head, WAR I could play effectively 10 seconds after installing it, Eve I'm still learning after 2 years. The tradeoff is that WAR is about as deep as a bowl of soup, whereas Eve is deep enough that I still occasionally drown. No prizes for guessing which I'll still be playing in 6 months.
Someone's bound to say it, so it might as well be me- you should have tried it back in the old days. I was lucky, I joined with the last-but-one version of the tutorial system, and it was still harder than most games I've played- I ended up doing it twice. Before that it was, apparently, even worse.
But nothing worth doing comes easy. I'm currently comparing WAR and Eve in my head, WAR I could play effectively 10 seconds after installing it, Eve I'm still learning after 2 years. The tradeoff is that WAR is about as deep as a bowl of soup, whereas Eve is deep enough that I still occasionally drown. No prizes for guessing which I'll still be playing in 6 months.
Go into 0.0 space.
Some of the most memorable / fun / laughed at moments was when i was a noob in EVE and hadnt figured anything out and flew into 0.0 space with my noobship. Seeing lots of people on local and trying to chat to them with almost no replies, untill finally someone says "what the hell you talking on local for". Figuring out that this is the done thing, then still doing it.
Flying into BoB space and expecting to get podded immediately yet not meeting anyone untill deep into BoB territory. Chatting with the occasional miner toon and on one occasion saying i wanted to see a BoB cap ship, and when the guy said "wait right here" not figuring it out untill later what wa going to happen. Only much later releasing these miners in BoB space were BoB alts.
Later on going into a system with a ganking squad at a jumpoint and not being jumped (like i was expecting to), as they waited for bigger fish to fry, then later on getting podded by a lone toon who i was chatting to for like 15min, which gave him enough time to find me in system and then blow me up.
Realised later most people think if your in a noobship in 0.0 you must be a spy, was funny as i later told people what i was doing, just wanting to see the universe as i was new, but most people didnt believe me and even the ones who did, still podded me to protect their space.
However as i was quite chatty, even though most other people i met were not, i still met a lot of interesting people and made a few friends along the way - even became friends with some of the people who podded me.
Pretty much went into everyones 0.0 territory but the Goons/ RA.
It really is an interesting game, despite the fact a lot of people do not trust anyone, and especially not new toons they dont know - which took me a few days to figure out as well.
Those first 14 days gave me more stories to tell than lots of weeks after.
I still play on and off in Triumvirate.
Don't pay any attention to the news but I was told by a friend a week or so ago that skills no longer train on an inactive account. Don't know if they have changed that with the complaints but I don't think I'll resub again if it doesn't train as I don't have time to play so it is nice to set long skills.
Don't pay any attention to the news but I was told by a friend a week or so ago that skills no longer train on an inactive account. Don't know if they have changed that with the complaints but I don't think I'll resub again if it doesn't train as I don't have time to play so it is nice to set long skills.
Didn't take you long to be assimilated with the eve attitude then
It's a term of endearment
I'm still pretty noobish myself tbh, I'm just about to hit that exciting watershed when I can fly a capital ship... But I have no clue WHATSOEVER how to fly a capital ship 
It'll be like getting my first cruiser all over again.
Yeah they've killed "ghost training" which is exactly what you describe - setting a long skill to train and letting your account expire, previously the skill would carry on training until it finished (or you resubbed and changed it) - now if your account lapses your in-training skill is stopped.
Worst of all they gave some really weak excuses for removing it instead of just being honest and saying it was motivated by money.
Arrrgrhh I'm angry now..
3 hrs to go before training finishes and my account has expired.
No big deal I thought, shattered crystal and paypal here we come..
WFT How can GTC's be out of bloody stock AGAIN !!!
This is the second time Shattered crystal have the time codes listed as OOS.
What the hell's going on...
RANT over.
3 hrs to go before training finishes and my account has expired.
No big deal I thought, shattered crystal and paypal here we come..
WFT How can GTC's be out of bloody stock AGAIN !!!
This is the second time Shattered crystal have the time codes listed as OOS.
What the hell's going on...
RANT over.
I play, not done much on the char as its trainer for mararders at the mo, so lots of time to get work sorted while its training up, but as space games go, its a classic one and one i love playing. Even if i have no idea what im doing lol..
Theres still a good 27-30k+ playing each night. At least there was 2 weeks ago. I've been paying for my account for the past 6 months but never really got back into the game. I had played solidly since early 2004. Amazing game. I think if im honest, in my opinion it's downfall to me was it got too big.