3000 member EVE fight - What insanity looks like
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I was only joking, but thanks for the footage!Cry Wolf said:
Played it myself for a while and I did get some interesting stories out of it, it's just a really slow burn, you can't even call it a grind, it's like having a flower garden and taking pride in keeping out the weeds and making everything look pretty and making sure no insects come to spoil the party.GunsmithKitten said:
Christ! It remind me of at the end of Clone Wars (not the CGI, the Genndy Tartakovsky version) when they zoon out of Coruscant and you seen the massive space battle with the Republic and Separatists ships. The difference was there was only two ships types in the battle and it was spread out compared to EVE battle.
Are you thinking of this maybe? Or maybe it was before then even. Most weeks only 2-3 super-caps at all get taken outCry Wolf said:
And I think there were only 2 other big weeks since thenhttp://jestertrek.blogspot.de/2012/10/kill-of-week-expensive-week.html
It's not that bad, in fact if you work for a big alliance they'll just straight up give you money. Almost no-one who lost a ship in this battle will actually have to buy it back because their alliance will foot the bill for them. And the alliances make money from all their members from stuff like ratting and mining, so they don't need real money (but the idea is, if someone wanted to turn all that ISK into real money, they could have done if the chose)deviltry said:
In fact it's even more cool, most of the resources needed to build decent ships can only be found on certain moons, which are pretty rare and only found in certain regions. So all the big alliances formed a cartel and decided to fix prices amongst themselves and deliberately dig less than demand requires to raise prices =D So the CFC, who lost the most ships, invented this idea and has a crud load of moons, so they make oodles of money without even trying
It's not that bad.GunsmithKitten said:
Most corporations, especially specialized ones like EVE university, will go out of their way to help new members.
How new you are doesn't really matter as long as you understand the basic gameplay (which is quite complicated). What matters is having friends.
Hell, a major turning point of EVE was the Goons (newcomers with lots of friends) beating Band of Brothers (the old and connected) by basically swamping them with tons of newish players in cheap ships.
That's not to say EVE's for everyone. It's obviously not. But being new isn't nearly the disadvantage many believe it to be.
The video is actually sped up 90% hence why you hear him stop talking. he was only getting 10 fps from how overloaded the servers were. that video you see there was over 4-5 hours.Cry Wolf said:
I don't think I could ever play EVE, but gods is it entertaining to hear about.
I cannot imagine a battle with that many people and factions going even remotely as planned.
I cannot imagine a battle with that many people and factions going even remotely as planned.
I love that people have banded together into coalitions and companies to essentially make their own economy. Kind of shows you how awesome or insane we are.
You can't get in as a Goon unless your SA though right? And I assume TEST are the same with redditt. Are there other alliances that a newbie friendly? And how hard is it to hook up with people? I don't have a good track record of meeting up with other ppl in my MMO experience and thats whats always held me back, because it seems like unless you do find other people to play with, you're missing most of the good experiences of EVEHagi said:
If you're totally new the corporation I'd suggest would be EVE university. The corp itself will teach you all you need to know about gameplay, PvP, industry and everything else plus you get lots of free stuff to make starting out a lot easier and once you've been shown the ropes there's several larger alliances that recruit directly from EVE uni.BrotherRool said:
I personally also usually solo a lot in MMOs but EVE can easily be different with the right corp though. Just make sure you select one that's active in your own timezone, best to see which timezone corp leadership is in since every corp usually claims to be active in every timezone, you want to find one whose leaders are in your timezone. A specialized corp is usually the best as well, find one activity in EVE you want to focus on and then find a corp that focuses on that as well. Corporations that claim to do everything usually do nothing.
If you manage to find the right corp then meeting people and grouping up is rather easy, almost all activities are better done in groups and there's no limit on group sizes so active corporations usually have a fleet active that anyone can join to participate. This is why you want a specialized corp whose leadership is active at the same time you are, because then that fleet will be lead competently and will be doing what you want to be doing.