Advice for Eve newbie?
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Agreed but I'd also throw in the advice of spending a few weeks training up skills to have fun with (e.g. skills to use weapons, fly a particular ship, use drones etc) and THEN train up the learning skills to the max and THEN continue with the other skills.
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Agreed. Read the forums a lot as you'll have lots of questions
Well you can always train up all the "fun" skills, the ones that give instant bonuses, gunnery etc up in the day to lvl 3 or so and let learning progress at night, that's what i'm doing.
Thats crazy talk. If you go into low sec just be cautious:
* Keep local open and an eye on it
* Use warp to 0km, don't use autopilot
* Use the map to check route populations
* Ask corp chat (not if your in an NPC corp) and check for intel
* Most importantly in my opinion, Make sure whatever you fly, you can afford to lose
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Stop now before you waste any more money... seriously - the initial investment far outweighs most other games. You can end up using ingame money to pay for your online time but getting to that point will take a long time.
Do you say that about every mmorpg or is this an eve specific thing? Im trying to figure out why it costs so much more than buying a new game every couple of months.
i installed eve and started the tutorial........ then i fell asleep. Then i woke up and realised my head had fallen in my lasagne whilst attempting to mine something off a rock in space. Then i got up and washed my face. Then i walked back to my computer and closed all apps to windows desktop. Then i went into add/remove programmes and uninstalled eve.... quickly. The moment it was removed from my machine i instantly became more invigorated, more motivated and ultimately less bored.
Unless you have no social life and are perhaps a virgin i would suggest staying away from Eve - it takes TOO long to get into and the learning curve is only suitable to those whom have a LOT of free time.
This is of course all in my opinion. Eve is not a 'get up and go' game. Its also hillariously boring to me. - im sure its awesome to others and i salute you for that.
Unless you have no social life and are perhaps a virgin i would suggest staying away from Eve - it takes TOO long to get into and the learning curve is only suitable to those whom have a LOT of free time.
This is of course all in my opinion. Eve is not a 'get up and go' game. Its also hillariously boring to me. - im sure its awesome to others and i salute you for that.
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No I played eve for around 3 months and then suddenly questioned what I was getting out of it vs what CCP were getting out of me and I didn't find a happy medium. When I go out and buy a different game every couple of months I get instant variation and a different experience every time. With EVE it's the same old stuff day in day out. If you want to experience the game from your own personal perspective without having to deal with corps and the internal politics that go along with it your stuffed.
Buy ship - buy weapons/drones - go mining - refine - sell refined product - buy bigger weapons - go ratting (killing NPC pirated for the non EVE people) - salvage - do missions - rince repeat... yawn...
It doesn't necessarily cost more, you just don't get the value for money that you get from buying a new game and getting the new experience from it. I think that EVE has massive potential but the stock market and commodity market within the game is broken and over saturated with manufactured items.
Odd people say it takes too long and eats up your life?
I work mon to friday away from home and play 4-6 hours over sat/sunday.. I go exploring, mining, buy/sell, more mining.. sure mining is a bit boring, but its the safe way to make isks or ore for me to make items to sell to other players. If your watching football, put your feet up and do it then, takes a good 10 mins to fill my hulk then station and back, watch football for another 12 mins.. repeat.. easy really.
Get into a good corp but make sure its one you want to be in, no point joining my corp if your into PvP, we dont get into that too much, more mine and create. So look around. Get use to doing agent missions, check forums for ship load outs, what ship is good for missles, drones, lasers, speed, armour, guns, pick on, become good in it, tweak it with new items you never heard of before, learn yet more skills...
Its the only game i know of where learning skills and getting yoru toon better happens when your not even playing, wonderful!
Its a game, have fun, but be warned, the two weeks is no where enar long enough to do everything for you to see if you like the game...
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I work mon to friday away from home and play 4-6 hours over sat/sunday.. I go exploring, mining, buy/sell, more mining.. sure mining is a bit boring, but its the safe way to make isks or ore for me to make items to sell to other players. If your watching football, put your feet up and do it then, takes a good 10 mins to fill my hulk then station and back, watch football for another 12 mins.. repeat.. easy really.
Get into a good corp but make sure its one you want to be in, no point joining my corp if your into PvP, we dont get into that too much, more mine and create. So look around. Get use to doing agent missions, check forums for ship load outs, what ship is good for missles, drones, lasers, speed, armour, guns, pick on, become good in it, tweak it with new items you never heard of before, learn yet more skills...
Its the only game i know of where learning skills and getting yoru toon better happens when your not even playing, wonderful!
Its a game, have fun, but be warned, the two weeks is no where enar long enough to do everything for you to see if you like the game...
<ColiN>
And thats where people like you go wrong, youre trying to play an MMO but single player, it doesnt work like that. Try being sociable.
For clarification, i didnt even bother looking in to games like oblivion because playing by myself in an rpg bores the hell out of me, but i dont go slagging it off saying its a bad game.
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Never said it was a bad game - I said it was a broken game. Why can't I play the game as a lone wolf? Why should I have to be in a corp to enjoy the game? I was plenty sociable and met lots of great people and had a great deal of fun recruiting or getting recruited to go on missions without being in a corp but because of the structure of the game the only way you can make any real headway was to join a corp. Just because I wanted to make my own way and not be responsible to a corp shouldn't mean that I can't exist within the game. I was easily earning around 6mil ISK from salvaging every run however it was just the same old stuff every time and that gets boring.
Mass Effect was a single player RPG and that was epic! I think you're looking at a MMORPG in the wrong way, you're looking at it like it's some MySpace or Facebook extension for your social networking fix. Some of us like to actually get immersed in the game and really enjoy the idea of creating their own path in their game life. I don't want to be responsible for anyone else or accountable to anyone else and I sure as hell don't want anyone else taking levies on my hard work and income like most corps do.