Whats EVE like?

I find EVE to be very casual friendly, maybe it's just the way I play, but I tend to log in for an hour or two whenever I feel like playing and run some missions or join a gang and do something. If it's boring I just go to a safe/station and just log off, though this has backfired as I'm currently stuck 20 jumps from the nearest area of alliance space and haven't played for a few days now.

Love how the skills level in real time, main reason I play, can't really be bothered sitting playing for hours just to hit that next level.
 
I played it for roughly 3 years. I was probably doing something wrong, but it began sapping the life out of me even feeling like an actual job at times, just so I could have fun in the game. Do some form of grind for 3 weeks, have a few days of fun, grind again for 3 weeks, rinse repeat.

Others still find it to be the best game though.
 
I think most folks now dont really rate it (or it's consider essentially "unfinished") but age of conan pulled a couple of my guildies away from WoW and they didn't come back so must be something to it :)

Wanted: Enhancement shammie for raiding: Bring Syphons :D ("Core" guild on Twilights Hammer) :p
 
The problem with Eve is that you need huge wads of cash to do anything really fun, since when your ship gets blown up it costs so much to replace, even when insured.

People will tell you that you can PvP quite well in a cheap frigate, but when you've spent 2 years training up recon ships and HACs, electronics and drones all the other fun stuff, why would you want to?

So you fight, you win, you sooner or later loose, and then you spend a week grinding 0.0 rats or mind numbing level 4 missions so you can afford to do it again.

There are alternatives - you can be a miner or industrialist, merchant or just play the markets, but sooner or later you'll want to shoot something :p

It is casual friendly in that you can build up skills without being online, but you need to spends lots of time in the game to have the cash to do anything with those skills.
 
Sleepery said:
The problem with Eve is that you need huge wads of cash to do anything really fun, since when your ship gets blown up it costs so much to replace, even when insured.

People will tell you that you can PvP quite well in a cheap frigate, but when you've spent 2 years training up recon ships and HACs, electronics and drones all the other fun stuff, why would you want to?

So you fight, you win, you sooner or later loose, and then you spend a week grinding 0.0 rats or mind numbing level 4 missions so you can afford to do it again.

There are alternatives - you can be a miner or industrialist, merchant or just play the markets, but sooner or later you'll want to shoot something :p

It is casual friendly in that you can build up skills without being online, but you need to spends lots of time in the game to have the cash to do anything with those skills.
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That's sort of the reason PVP is so much fun though, you're really putting stuff on the line. EVE is still the only game that gives me a genuine and physical rush of adrenalin.
 
Semiskimmed said:
been playing wow for 2years ish now and im a bit bored and mifed at the game tbh, sick of grinding crap and waiting for a fresh lvl cap to hit to redo all of it.
ive heard good things about eve, but how does it compare to wow?
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Id say the chances are if your a long time WoW player, you wont be able to get into EvE and you wont like it. I tried to do it and just found it such a poorly designed game at the start that it was near impossible to get into, maybe if they did a complete overhaul on the opening tutorial and first missions then i'd play it again.
 
Ive been playing eve on and off for about 5 years, still love it and find lots of things to do. I only play at the weekend so the fact my skills take 25+ days to learn to lvl 5's now doesnt bother me. At the mo, im mining rocks for my corp to make things to sell on the market, its a whole new game for me as before i was trained up for fighting, something like 25+ skills in gun's and missles, and about 10 in mining lol...

Still, to me, wow is like PES football game and EVE is the football manager game of football. Both are the same thing, in a way, but one is about the long game [eve] the other is short blast of fun [pes], to me at least.

Im not in a big corp any more, ive played almost ever game that has come out for the online market and for sheer enjoyment, great graphics, huge areas and open ended play, eve does it for me. The fact you can play for free too, even better.

Eve, unlike other games is what you make it, but you have to remember, there are so many paths to pick from, chose one and stick with it for if you keep changing, you wont get anywhere...

ColiN
 
Its like selling your soul. Seriously when you've spent 3 hours on a fleet op just to get annihiated by a hostile fleet youll know what I mean.
 
busman said:
Yes but he said he is a casual gamer, so is eve really the place for him?

On a 1vs1 I really cant see how a 6 month noob could rip apart a 2 year old player, unless he was in a shuttle or hasnt been playing for 1.5 years.
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In any give ship & fitting there comes a point in which you can no longer progress. A 6 month player if they pick a ship class and sticks to it will quickly catch up on a 4 year player in that ship class. Take Battleships after 6 months of training you can come close to matching a 4 year player in that ship class. All they need to do is match their training to the ship build they are going for. You don't need to waste your time training for T2 fitting because, some of the T1 fittings are just as good minus the ammo for your guns and launchers. If you got the isk you can get faction fittings.

Eve is very casual friendly right click your next skill then go out for the night.
 
King4aDay said:
That's sort of the reason PVP is so much fun though, you're really putting stuff on the line. EVE is still the only game that gives me a genuine and physical rush of adrenalin.
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Thing is tho, once that rush wears off you're still stuck with the grind to get a new ship/mods to do it again :(
 
spacedskunk said:
You point goes both ways really, I hate to stand up for Eve but I liked it that way.

PVP is actually good on Eve....HOWEVER...its the players that ruin it. Instead of playing eve for enjoyment and getting praised for good decisions...you have to work for an 'e-ego' which just annoys the crap out of me.

Eve is NOT a game. Eve is a JOB.
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Like most other MMO's, the only ones i have played that really weren't were SWG in the beginning and Planetside.
 
Orcish-Horde said:
You don't need to waste your time training for T2 fitting because, some of the T1 fittings are just as good minus the ammo for your guns and launchers. If you got the isk you can get faction fittings.

Eve is very casual friendly right click your next skill then go out for the night.
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I think you're still thinking like a full time player. You're not going to be able to afford faction fittings with just casual play. You certainly won't be rich enough to risk them in battle. And without a lot of time and risk you won't get good enough at PvP that you're not making constant losses.

As far a combat is concerned, the casual thing is a myth.

To the o/p though - it's still worth a look, there's so much you can do on the economic side of things that it's worth giving it a go.
 
EvE is a cool game. But you have to put some serious time into it to start to see any come back.

PvP in it (when i played) involved sitting at gates waiting for the enemy fleet to stumble onto you. Yes, the fighting was an intense adrenalin rush. But waiting 3-5 hours for a 5 min fight isnt really that much fun.

It was cool when 0.0 wasnt owned by anyone. No POS or alliances. Just a place for people to try to scrounge a living off mining the exotic ore or to kill some of the harder 'rats. Now to get into 0.0, you have to be part of an alliance who have stations and leaders that need their ego's stroked.

Ninja mining was good fun. The best part was getting the ore out of 0.0 and to secure space. That was a blast. You felt like a theif running with your meager amount of loot. Trying to stay out of the way. Convo'ing people to see if there are any blockades (old blockades, none of this warp bubble crap) ahead.
 
arknor said:
yea very boring imo, but the community was one of the best for an mmo ever, thats probably changed now mind...
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The community changed when people started using the forums, particularly the COAD section as a way of PVP. There is no friendly banter, or comical insults...its all cat scrapping and I got bored of it. Really bored of it.

Essentially all you do in eve is point and click on things, with the occasional use of the f1-f8 buttons. They made a good game out of it, but you have to have some good friends to play it with...it is essential you at least find some people that aren't irritating.

If your a casual gamer eve isn't really casual at all, the older your character gets the more time you have to put in to grind the relentless NPC tasks to make enough isk to get ships...oh well fitting really; modules and rigs used to work out more in total than the ship itself for me anyway.
 
spacedskunk said:
the older your character gets the more time you have to put in to grind the relentless NPC tasks to make enough isk to get ships
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Not sure about your experience, but the better my character got as he got older made it so much easier and quicker to grind the cash. Hell, now that I have a bunch of research agents passively farming datacores I really need to do very little ratting to keep me in pvp ships.

In any case, making money in eve doesn't have to be about grinding npcs all day, you just need to use your imagination and get out of the wow mindset.
 
Gatsby said:
Not sure about your experience, but the better my character got as he got older made it so much easier and quicker to grind the cash. Hell, now that I have a bunch of research agents passively farming datacores I really need to do very little ratting to keep me in pvp ships.

In any case, making money in eve doesn't have to be about grinding npcs all day, you just need to use your imagination and get out of the wow mindset.
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Well I make isk very fast, but the costs for my ships increased as I went further specialized.

And I never go into the industry side of things.
 
I downloaded the trial.. played for about an hour.

I understand the appeal to some geekier kinda people, or people into scifi a lot. but for me it just bored the hell out of me. far too slow
 
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