Ex-Eve-online players
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I used to, but not any more... After you get jumped by a whole fleet of pricks, While your on your way to a war in your best Titan, your practically give up...
That titan took me 3.2trillion isk to make... And it was taken out in the matter of 10 minutes... I thought I could get them all with my DD, but failed.
That titan took me 3.2trillion isk to make... And it was taken out in the matter of 10 minutes... I thought I could get them all with my DD, but failed.
i tried it for about 20 days, i probably only played a hour or two a day but it was to confusing to get into, but i always figured it would be a rewarding game once you wrapped your head around it, much like table top rpgs, and by reading these posts (well some of them) i can see i was right, but i can also see it must be the most evil game ever made, it sounds like the game equivalent of heroin, you gotta be a certain type of person to do it, when your on it its the best time of your life, when you finally get off it your life is ruined.
EVE - all the cool kids are during it, your not afraid are you?
EVE - all the cool kids are during it, your not afraid are you?
I played the game four one month, started with a trial account and moved on to a paid account after one week when I got stuck wanting a ship I couldn't buy a the trail account. I enjoyed the game for two weeks from the start of play. I joined a corp who were involved in a small alliance and even had a sizeable war going with another alliance. I got a new ship from them, quite a good one and spent some time training skill so I could fly it.
I mined, bought containers, ran missions and started making cash but after two weeks it started to hit me.
Grind, missions are all variants of go here, shoot that.
Grind, mining is mine this, mine that, store in container, get transport lug stuff back, refine and get cash.
I eventually got myself a destroyer, got myself a few decent missiles, a jump stabiliser and some defence power ups. I finally had enough base line skills and a ship to actually take part in this war and visit my corps home base.
You see the corp neglected to tell me that they were located on the other side of the universe from where I had started. That I would need to travel through dangerous space to get that and that the war was being fought over there.
So I set out, got insurance, got a clone and the second I took one step inside the un patrolled sections of space I got gang raped by seven folks. My weapons were useless, my warp stabaliser was utterly useless and of course I died.
In real terms I lost nothing, no skills and no cash but it hit me. The game is so massively flawed. The addons for the ship are utterly vague, the warp stabiliser is meant to allow me to overcome folk who try to jam my get away. Except it didn't work. More expensive versions give the exact same description as the cheaper ones with no quantitive values to allow me to judge how effective the thing will be. The only way to find out is five seconds after it's to late to do anything about it and it's the same problem with almost everything in the game.
It requires that you have tried everything, that you know what works and as such it means that the games cycle will be, grind, grind, grind some more, buy stuff, experiment, get ass handed to you, repeat several thousand times until you get lucky.
Sorry but that just isn't my kinda game because it does approach far to close to being terminally boring.
I mined, bought containers, ran missions and started making cash but after two weeks it started to hit me.
Grind, missions are all variants of go here, shoot that.
Grind, mining is mine this, mine that, store in container, get transport lug stuff back, refine and get cash.
I eventually got myself a destroyer, got myself a few decent missiles, a jump stabiliser and some defence power ups. I finally had enough base line skills and a ship to actually take part in this war and visit my corps home base.
You see the corp neglected to tell me that they were located on the other side of the universe from where I had started. That I would need to travel through dangerous space to get that and that the war was being fought over there.
So I set out, got insurance, got a clone and the second I took one step inside the un patrolled sections of space I got gang raped by seven folks. My weapons were useless, my warp stabaliser was utterly useless and of course I died.
In real terms I lost nothing, no skills and no cash but it hit me. The game is so massively flawed. The addons for the ship are utterly vague, the warp stabiliser is meant to allow me to overcome folk who try to jam my get away. Except it didn't work. More expensive versions give the exact same description as the cheaper ones with no quantitive values to allow me to judge how effective the thing will be. The only way to find out is five seconds after it's to late to do anything about it and it's the same problem with almost everything in the game.
It requires that you have tried everything, that you know what works and as such it means that the games cycle will be, grind, grind, grind some more, buy stuff, experiment, get ass handed to you, repeat several thousand times until you get lucky.
Sorry but that just isn't my kinda game because it does approach far to close to being terminally boring.
Long time EVE player, played for coming up on 2 years. Would have quit long ago, if it wasn't for Wormholes that came out with the last expansion. Soon as they came out, I signed up with a corp that had plans to live in one, and we still do to this day, its better than owning turf in 0.0 I find, better NPC's for shooting, drop awesome loot, some nice stuff to mine if your into that, and there's always folks to shoot. Well, not always, but at nice intervals.
The thing i'm trying to get at here, is that, there is an awful lot to do in EVE, and if you get bored, its not CCP's fault, its your's. They made the universe, you make the game.
As for the newbies who quit after about a month, they are trying to address this issue, which has the adverse effect of bringing a lot of what most of us would call "WoW Players", into the game, you know the kind I mean, which is diluting the player base IQ down a bit. Its a lot easier to start now than when I did.
The thing i'm trying to get at here, is that, there is an awful lot to do in EVE, and if you get bored, its not CCP's fault, its your's. They made the universe, you make the game.
As for the newbies who quit after about a month, they are trying to address this issue, which has the adverse effect of bringing a lot of what most of us would call "WoW Players", into the game, you know the kind I mean, which is diluting the player base IQ down a bit. Its a lot easier to start now than when I did.