The *Official* Eve Online Thread

[b0rn2sk8]

If you are willing to put in the time sure but in my experience (admittedly quite old now) it isn’t a ‘part time’ game. That may have changed more recently though.

You don’t need a huge amount of skill points to do well as long as you focus in certain areas. It just needs a lot of time to learn and play the game.

 

[L85A2]

I've read up a bit about it and would I be corrext to say I'll soon be flying frigates to a game skill level well in a few months so I can participate in pvp? However it looks to me as if I will struggle to make isk in small ships.

 

[MonkeyBasher]

I've read up a bit about it and would I be corrext to say I'll soon be flying frigates to a game skill level well in a few months so I can participate in pvp? However it looks to me as if I will struggle to make isk in small ships.

I went back to eve a few months ago and decided not to fire up my old character. I created a new one.

You can easily support your self in 1 type of ship. Ammo and repairs etc cost money though so you will need to to PVE content. This is also player missions as well, courier and bounties but both high risk.

Do the tutorials. You will have loads of ships for free from this. Then be prepared to run combat missions for a few weeks while you are reading investigating and interacting. Learn about salvaging and equip a salvage frigate. This doubles/triples your income in missions (but is dull). At some point you can switch your training focus to frigates. Get your skills up, get kitted out and find people to play with. You will be able to compete as part of a team but not solo. By now you will have decided if the game is for your or not (and will not have spent a penny unless you wanted to).
After doing all this I was in a group for our first skirmish. Everyone on my team ran away to save there gear and I ended up in a pod. So i quit again. Aim to find better chums than I did.

I would just add that all the above only applied months ago. With the changes introduced this week (the event thingy). I think piracy and combat in certain sectors will be allot more common as people can hide easier.

As above. It is not a part time game. Even with offline training.
It quickly becomes a spreadsheet simulator and if your not carefull you find yourself watching tv or reading books while AFKing missions.

 

[L85A2]

OK cheers for the advice. I'll have a look at the free version and see how that goes.

 

[Randomface74]

The time before you can fly the ships needed to compete (and fit them properly) is measured in years - so I wouldn't bother starting eve now.

 

[Rroff]

The time before you can fly the ships needed to compete (and fit them properly) is measured in years - so I wouldn't bother starting eve now.

Depends what your goal is - you can get the skills needed for things like pub nullsec roams in a matter of weeks maybe a little longer. But if you want to say fly logistics for a proper fleet then yeah that can take months or years before you wouldn't be a liability short of lots of skill injection but then you'd lack the experience.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

It takes years if you want to fly every T2 ship from every race but if you specialise you can become competent in certain T2 ships very quickly. You can be in a T2 frigate in a few weeks or cruiser in a couple of months if you really wanted.

Knowing the game has a much bigger effect over gear IMO. In eve it’s very easy to have all the gear and no idea. There is loads of information out there for cookie cutter setups for low SP characters that are really effective. People get very complacent when they see new characters which makes thing much easier.

 

[meths]

Depends what your goal is - you can get the skills needed for things like pub nullsec roams in a matter of weeks maybe a little longer. But if you want to say fly logistics for a proper fleet then yeah that can take months or years before you wouldn't be a liability short of lots of skill injection but then you'd lack the experience.

Do you still play Rroff?

I still get a bit of nostalgia for the old wormhole days and have a look to see where old Fudwap is these days.

I can never go back though. Loaded up an old alt a while back and ran a few missions while Region trading and quickly remembered it's the people that make that game.

@L85A2 - Find a good Corp and it could be the most fun you'll ever have in front of a pc otherwise it could be the most lonely and dull experience of your gaming life.

 

[Rroff]

Do you still play Rroff?

I still get a bit of nostalgia for the old wormhole days and have a look to see where old Fudwap is these days.

I can never go back though. Loaded up an old alt a while back and ran a few missions while Region trading and quickly remembered it's the people that make that game.

@L85A2 - Find a good Corp and it could be the most fun you'll ever have in front of a pc otherwise it could be the most lonely and dull experience of your gaming life.

No - I quit 2015 got fedup of CCP making sweeping changes to ships, etc. occasionally jump in as an alpha to catch up with old acquaintances but can't justify spending my time or money on it. I do miss the old wormhole days though don't think there is any other game with that dynamic.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

I can understand why you stopped playing and how that can annoy some people. I saw it a bit differently. There is only so many new features they can add to the game (like PI) every 6 months before it just gets to difficult to maintain. The game was already massive by 2015. Sweeping changes old stuff has to happen to keep the game fresh even if it annoys players.

That said I quit because playing for a healthy number hours a night could never be enough. One you get into it then it becomes very hard to put down and it just became far too much.

That said I have never played a game with the same kind of enjoyment I had in eve. But I will never go back.

 

[Rroff]

I can understand why you stopped playing and how that can annoy some people. I saw it a bit differently. There is only so many new features they can add to the game (like PI) every 6 months before it just gets to difficult to maintain. The game was already massive by 2015. Sweeping changes old stuff has to happen to keep the game fresh even if it annoys players.

That said I quit because playing for a healthy number hours a night could never be enough. One you get into it then it becomes very hard to put down and it just became far too much.

That said I have never played a game with the same kind of enjoyment I had in eve. But I will never go back.

Often though they ignored player feedback and there were often ways to add new content or balance problem areas while still preserving the established features people enjoyed playing. Marauders for instance they could have preserved the old style ships will introducing bastion functionality under a new line of marauders.

Something that made me laugh - they only finally touched strategy cruisers not because of the balance concerns, etc. people had but their real motivation was to reduce their effectiveness to make a niche for Triglavian ships which have many of the problems people complained about with T3s.

 

[Myaniad]

48 Hour Warning - Nullsec Local Blackout

 

[Rroff]

People gonna have to learn how to run with probes out hah.

 

[spudbynight]

Its happening!!!!

 

[spudbynight]

The time before you can fly the ships needed to compete (and fit them properly) is measured in years - so I wouldn't bother starting eve now.

Wrong. Injectors are a thing. You can earn ISK to buy injectors to get into the ships you want. Lots of ways for new players to earn ISK as well.

New players just need to make sure they join a corp. Lots of ones that are good for new players to join.

 

[Rroff]

I find it amusing the tears from some on the forums who've spent like 10 years telling other people to HTFU, etc.

 

[spudbynight]

The tears from the "just adapt" crowd are so sweet.

 

[Shelster]

Have been away from the game for a very long time and over last 2 years have only been getting on to keep my skills training up.

Not sure if it wasted effort, but really do want to try and get back into the game and see what it has to offer now.

Any pointers on a good corp to join to get back in? Have just had my own corp running so as to dodge the refining taxes, but am happy to pay the taxes to a decent corp if it works out.

Attributes are 194M SP, born on 13 Jul 2003 and 2.8B ISK in wallet and about the same in assets and ships. Toon has been a Gallente miner all the way through, but quite versatile.

 

[NZXT30]

The effects of the black out are interesting. Hunters are actually dying more often as defenders are more organised and overall everyone is having more fun. The only losers are the bots so far.

 

[muttclugg]

I realised the other day that I was login in to Eve more and more with nothing to do and it actually felt like another job so in a fit of stupidity and excitement, I gave my 109m SP main and about 25bn in ISK to a guy in my corp. He was very grateful which was good to hear because I think he was a younger guy who loved the game. Feels good to be free.