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Cromulent - Eve Uni is still worth a look. Whilst I understand it can be a bit strict and un-fun at times they will teach you the game, so if that's what you're after it can work. I'm not aware of any other corps who will help people out quite to the same level as Eve Uni.
Another approach to learning would be watching the many guide videos on youtube along with reading resources like the Eve Uni Wiki pages. Probably needs more self motivation there, but combined with joining an active corp full of people with similar interests it should work well.

GDL - still against the rules to sell accounts/characters for real life money. You can only do it in exchange for ingame currency.
 
I keep thinking about coming back for a while, I've not played in 2years and at the moment I'm not really playing anything, besides driving games... Its either this or Elite: Dangerous... and I cannot make my mind up.
 
PinkFloyd said:
Cromulent - Eve Uni is still worth a look. Whilst I understand it can be a bit strict and un-fun at times they will teach you the game, so if that's what you're after it can work. I'm not aware of any other corps who will help people out quite to the same level as Eve Uni.
Another approach to learning would be watching the many guide videos on youtube along with reading resources like the Eve Uni Wiki pages. Probably needs more self motivation there, but combined with joining an active corp full of people with similar interests it should work well.

GDL - still against the rules to sell accounts/characters for real life money. You can only do it in exchange for ingame currency.
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But it's possible to exchange real money for in-game currency via PLEX, so you can still do it, albeit indirectly.
 
That's different, that's buying a character if you are buying plex using real life money to then get a character. That's absolutely allowed, afterall CCP get money for it!

Actually selling an account isn't allowed, but it is possible in a round about way. Nothing to physically prevent you giving someone your account and them giving you cash IRL. But it's against EULA though so if CCP find out they'll ban the account.
 
It's a bit of a shame really. I'm sure they could come up with some method of allowing people to buy chars for real life money and give the seller something. ie buyer spends £100, seller receives £50, CCP keep £50... Everyone's a winner.
 
Op Success: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=466941

Eve-Bet loot pinata pos. Ejected loads of ships. I managed to get a Kronos, Phoenix and a Eos :D

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PinkFloyd said:
Cromulent - Eve Uni is still worth a look. Whilst I understand it can be a bit strict and un-fun at times they will teach you the game, so if that's what you're after it can work. I'm not aware of any other corps who will help people out quite to the same level as Eve Uni.
Another approach to learning would be watching the many guide videos on youtube along with reading resources like the Eve Uni Wiki pages. Probably needs more self motivation there, but combined with joining an active corp full of people with similar interests it should work well.
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Thanks for the reply. I'll see what I can learn on my own and then I'll re-evaluate my position when it comes to EVE Uni. If I remember correctly it takes 2 - 3 weeks to go through the joining process anyway so I'll have plenty of time to learn on my own anyway.
 
Ran a 4/10 Escalation earlier in my ****-fit Myrmidon (mainly cobbled together from bits and bobs I had sitting around) and had a Pithum C-Type Invulnerability Field drop. When you factor in the bounties, the other drops and the salvage it came to a nice 300million profit. Not bad for half an hour's work.
 
Rroff said:
My reference was towards Rise when he "nerf batted" skynet - who did seem to be making executive decisions on capital changes at that time without anyone else validating them as he missed several things due to his inexperience that had to be hastily fixed at the last minute (hence the discrepancy between the patch notes and actual implementation).

I know little about Larrikin other than he seems to have a much better broad knowledge of the game - Rise is very much a specialist in certain areas. (I don't have anything against Rise just that he seems like the last person who should have overall lead on something like that even though his input would be invaluable on the impact on smaller ships side of it).

EDIT: However my perspective in general is that CCP are too cavalier towards changes that can effect things that take significant investment in the game rather than specific to that instance.
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It kind of sounds like you're defending skynetting again...

They used rise to post and present changes because the guy was quite close with the community. They quickly realized that the person making the post gets hounded as the brains behind it when that's just not true (see: fozzie sov) and that's why they now make announcements as teams, because people can't get it into their head that the one person making a forum post isn't the one person making decisions. If anything, that person is the one whose job role is to "make the forum posts, and don't touch anything."

Capitals are getting an entire balance and role change, previous alterations to them were fixes to their absolutely ridiculous capabilities that were broken and made most other ships irrelevant. Carriers and supers were originally capable of applying cap/super levels of dps against the entire spectrum of target sizes either directly or by assigning to another person with drones that can chase a target in warp from the safety of a pos edge of infinite rep bubble of doom while moving across the galaxy in minutes with refits to any role.

There is nothing fair or balanced about that.
 
jakspyder said:
It kind of sounds like you're defending skynetting again...

They used rise to post and present changes because the guy was quite close with the community. They quickly realized that the person making the post gets hounded as the brains behind it when that's just not true (see: fozzie sov) and that's why they now make announcements as teams, because people can't get it into their head that the one person making a forum post isn't the one person making decisions. If anything, that person is the one whose job role is to "make the forum posts, and don't touch anything."

Capitals are getting an entire balance and role change, previous alterations to them were fixes to their absolutely ridiculous capabilities that were broken and made most other ships irrelevant. Carriers and supers were originally capable of applying cap/super levels of dps against the entire spectrum of target sizes either directly or by assigning to another person with drones that can chase a target in warp from the safety of a pos edge of infinite rep bubble of doom while moving across the galaxy in minutes with refits to any role.

There is nothing fair or balanced about that.
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Never said there was anything fair or balanced about it - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5570878#post5570878 I spent a lot of time debunking some of the arguments put forward by people trying to defend those fighter mechanics.

Rise may have been a figurehead but he was also largely calling the shots on it - as evidence by the screw ups due to his lack of experience with capitals resulting in hasty changes, etc. ultimately though my problem isn't with Rise but CCPI in general for their approach to handling something that involves 1000s of hours of training and investment and has the potential (irrespective of skynet) to directly affect long standing customers.
 
Left the game a few years back, was still in high sec never really ventured into low sec

Is it still a game can play casual or do you really need to be in a corp now?

Cheers
 
Nikumba said:
Left the game a few years back, was still in high sec never really ventured into low sec

Is it still a game can play casual or do you really need to be in a corp now?

Cheers
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Depends on what keeps you interested in the game - plenty of stuff you can do solo casual but it might or might not be to your tastes.

I had a few alts I buried away in Genesis doing some casual PVE stuff and occasionally playing with the inevitable gatecamp in Gonditsa when not busy with my main characters. Wasn't a bad distraction but it wouldn't have kept me playing the game long term alone.
 
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did you see the guys see the highsec dead pos loot not long ago? like a month maybe, with half a trillion isk worth of stuff. super BPOs, T2 BPOs other bits and bobs.
 
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Rroff said:
Nice haul - surprised you managed to snag so much stuff without it getting blown up (I can just imagine that tense moment with the align time of the dread heh).
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Yeh, I'm still kinda in shock about it! The Kronos got launched directly at my main and happened to be aligned to a station, so that was out easily and docked up.

Phoenix got launched near my alt (both of my chars were in inties to chase stuff) so I burned after it. When I first started chasing it was going around 7km/s - quicker than the Inty I was in. Luckily no-one else was chasing it and everyone trying to warp near it were landing miles off or having it leave them behind. I couldn't believe how many people were turning up in rookie ships or pods to try and pinch things - no hope in getting there first. Took about 10 minutes real time because of the ~10% tidi to catch it, Phoenix was still moving at 4km/s by this point and was 300km or so from the rest of the grid. It was maybe 15-20 degrees out of alignment from a station but hit warp and hoped for the best. The next ~10 minutes were nerve racking as it kept coasting (by this point the overview had bugged - no idea how fast I was moving)
Had an Ares land next to me (which I only noticed because Bei said it on the Twitch stream) - it locked me and I assumed I was screwed at this point, but he had obviously not got up to speed and I got out of what would have been his point range and got it into warp! :D

Whilst the Phoenix chase was on I undocked again and used a alliance mate's warpin to grab the Eos that they were next to but unable to fly.

All in all great fun. Obviously awesome to have the ships but it was fun watching the huge multi-way fights break out with the Twitch commentary stream being fed various intel from the different groups :) Was definitely worth hanging around for.

Nikumba said:
Left the game a few years back, was still in high sec never really ventured into low sec.
Is it still a game can play casual or do you really need to be in a corp now?
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Definitely stuff you can do, but that's not where the fun of the game lies. Much more enjoyment to be had playing with other people, even if they aren't good at the game! A group can easily be worth more than the sum of it's parts.
 
Hmm I might look at re-subbing then, see if can find some groups maybe dip my toe into some other things, can't remember what ships I have though lol
 
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