EVE online
- Thread starter Alphane
- Start date
Played this for a few weeks, after a while I caught myself in a basic frigate mining an asteroid.
I felt tiny, irrelevant and soul destroyed. The amount of time investment I would need to put in to "make it" stretched for miles in my minds eye.
Uninstalled, never looked back. Never again. F2P though and maybe
I felt tiny, irrelevant and soul destroyed. The amount of time investment I would need to put in to "make it" stretched for miles in my minds eye.
Uninstalled, never looked back. Never again. F2P though and maybe
Played this for a few weeks, after a while I caught myself in a basic frigate mining an asteroid.
I felt tiny, irrelevant and soul destroyed. The amount of time investment I would need to put in to "make it" stretched for miles in my minds eye.
Uninstalled, never looked back. Never again. F2P though and maybe
Thats what I hated about the game when I first started out, you felt completely detached from the game as a whole and had a hard time seeing where you stood in the bigger picture.
Its a game where I would just feel completely at odds enjoying if I wasn't at least making some impact on the universe at some level.
Merely "cutting it" in a starter corp wouldn't be enough for me.
Its a sandbox and the point is to make your own fun...but also I need some sort of fulfillment by actually being good at the game.
Guess its my competetive streak coming through, thats a surprise didn't know I had one.
Merely "cutting it" in a starter corp wouldn't be enough for me.
Its a sandbox and the point is to make your own fun...but also I need some sort of fulfillment by actually being good at the game.
Guess its my competetive streak coming through, thats a surprise didn't know I had one.
Last edited:
That's the good thing about EvE in my view. It's completely open and you carve your own life out of it. You aren't told how great you are and given handjobs every 5 minutes whilst being spoon fed and protected from danger like other MMOs and there's a real sense of loss when you die.
You could be flying along and anything can happen. You can join corporations or even start your own and harass miners! I used to play and loved the thrill of the hunt. Then again it was years ago and maybe everyone is now high levelled giving the new guys no chance.
You could be flying along and anything can happen. You can join corporations or even start your own and harass miners! I used to play and loved the thrill of the hunt. Then again it was years ago and maybe everyone is now high levelled giving the new guys no chance.
After my first week of playing I was running as lead scout for PVP roams for a corp, and i'm now currently halfway through a program with a corp that trains you to purely survive in 0.0 (Nulsec, or no secruity), with the option of either staying on to get small-scall fight experience or moving on via a placement program to corporations who take part in Alliance warfare, the huge battles for controls of areas of space.
This is all on a three week old character. It's definitely possible to get to a point where you feel like an important, if small, part of the picture. There is nothing quite like the rush of a fleet battle; the risk of losing your ship plays a huge role in how exciting it is and something that you just don't get from shooters or anything else where dying merely means waiting to respawn.
I've 2 accounts, one from 2004 and the other from 2006 i think, but they've been inactive on and off for the last 3-4 years. Might log in and play for a couple of months but I couldn't justify the cost of 2 accounts and it started to become more like a job than a game.
got one character in a wormhole but the corp is crap at communication and sitting there for 2 hours waiting for a large enough group sucks ass.
I've a few PvP characters but wasn't making enough to justify the losses etc.
Best fun I had was a high sec pirate corp flying frigs, then they had dreams of greatness, went low sec and it destroyed the corp
I've not been able to find a decent corp since, and just when you think you have they get swallowed up by some usless null sec alliance that can't communicate for toffee and are generally laughable.
got one character in a wormhole but the corp is crap at communication and sitting there for 2 hours waiting for a large enough group sucks ass.
I've a few PvP characters but wasn't making enough to justify the losses etc.
Best fun I had was a high sec pirate corp flying frigs, then they had dreams of greatness, went low sec and it destroyed the corp
I've not been able to find a decent corp since, and just when you think you have they get swallowed up by some usless null sec alliance that can't communicate for toffee and are generally laughable.
Last edited:
Soldato
- Joined
- 19 Feb 2007
- Posts
- 15,324
- Location
- Northampton
good advice for a newcomer, watch out for people that are being nice, its not natural in EVE or so i got told by a few friends of mine 
It depends, yes most people being nice are going to either scam you or kill you.
However, it's not always the case. When pirating I will do that, however if they are new I usually blow them then give them the ISK to replace it so they learn the lesson. Experienced players are fair game
However, with my main accounts I am more than happy to create gangs with players for missions or using my Hulk/mining bonuses to help people out.
However, it's not always the case. When pirating I will do that, however if they are new I usually blow them then give them the ISK to replace it so they learn the lesson. Experienced players are fair game
However, with my main accounts I am more than happy to create gangs with players for missions or using my Hulk/mining bonuses to help people out.
good advice for a newcomer, watch out for people that are being nice, its not natural in EVE or so i got told by a few friends of mine
Yes in some way this is true, but EVE gives itself a lot of bad PR with it's forums IMO.
The immpression you'd get from the forum is it's a moslty PVP game full of asshats, in reality 80% of player population is in high sec ( mainly PVE ) and your pretty unlickley to run into a scammer , unless you meet a goon or visit jita 4-4 ( if you do believe nothing thats said in local
)/edit To clarify a Goon is a member of the largest (?) nullsec alliance whose stated purpose in life is to grief everyone else.
Last edited:
I so want to like Eve, but OMG I subbed a few times & never got into it. It is a massive bore to be in, point, click & wait, if the control system was action based, then things would be great. I think it is funny saying skill matters in a point & click game. If you had to aim to hit, that would be something.
If it was action based it wouldn't work at all, they'd have to cut back on the sheer scale of things.
At the end of the day you are effectively the captain on the bridge, not the one with the joystick or anything
As to skills, its a different set of skills. It's more down to awareness and knowing the enemy rather than reactions and aim and so on
At the end of the day you are effectively the captain on the bridge, not the one with the joystick or anything
As to skills, its a different set of skills. It's more down to awareness and knowing the enemy rather than reactions and aim and so on
If it was action based it wouldn't work at all, they'd have to cut back on the sheer scale of things.
At the end of the day you are effectively the captain on the bridge, not the one with the joystick or anything
As to skills, its a different set of skills. It's more down to awareness and knowing the enemy rather than reactions and aim and so on
Well ok, joypad/stick action, is fun might be to much. The point & click just seems like ZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Last edited:
Should be starting my character with Eve later this week if i can take you up on that ?
(busy moving house atm so prolly end of week)I have a 60 day trial atm. Also i had a look at the career guide pdf wow lol theres a load of careers you can get into in the game. Hard to choose what to specialize in. Can you reset skill points if you dont like what you are doing )e.g. spec in mining)