Who Still Playes Eve Online?
Paranoia2MB
Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7832Members
Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7832Members
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Just curious?
I'm really starting to miss that game and my Caldari Blackbird cruiser class ship.
I know we had a lot of people from here that played it.
What's new with the game if anybody knows or still plays it? Still fun and whatever else?
(wow i haven't been here for a while)
Damn WOW
lol
-p2mb
I'm really starting to miss that game and my Caldari Blackbird cruiser class ship.
I know we had a lot of people from here that played it.
What's new with the game if anybody knows or still plays it? Still fun and whatever else?
(wow i haven't been here for a while)
Damn WOW
lol
-p2mb
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Think if I was to get back in I could roll with ya for a while? lol
Anybody else still in?
Has there been anything else added in since....3-6 months ago? lol
I dislike mining.
I quit.
Mining is just... meh, even with my Bantam, and 2 Mining lasers
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Think if I was to get back in I could roll with ya for a while? lol
Anybody else still in?
Has there been anything else added in since....3-6 months ago? lol <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sure, but make sure you get a new cruiser, the black bird was nerfed to hell <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
First Warlocks on WoW, now my precious electronic warfare ship. *cry*
How'd they warlocked..er nerfed it? lol
In game I play under Jacxx (See sig, every other of my online names was taken -_-). Frig rank 4 finishes in 3 hours so I'll be getting a nice cruiser from my corp (We build most of our own ships). Then I plan on working towards my covert ops bomber.
i always wanted to try it, but was never to fetch one
To each his own.
My name in game is Tildaras Rellik'Cro... I've got a small fleet of cruisers at my disposal and, contrary to popular belief, mining is NOT the only source of income at this game. I don't mine much at all and I've got quite a wallet.
You'll never find me in empire space, though, unless I'm there to pick something up.
Character creation screen.
Hmm, now for a career:
Custom, Manufacture or Scientist? heheh
Also just curious was that scam true where some one got like 10 mil credits in game and swaped accounts or some thing?
As for the Ship Control...It is the way it is because Freelancer was a singleplayer game, not a MMO with 10,000 people on the same server. The sheer ammount of calculations required to operate on a client-control ship design would make someone on a 5,000 gigabyte per second connection lag out.
Your pc loads all the gfx etc, the server then tells your pc in the worl where say npc and pc's are and other things of this nature most other caculations can be done on your pc then a ver easy cacualtion of say i am moving north at % speed etc.
That is one of the most entertaining things I have ever read in my life, and is the single strongest source for making me wish to play Eve again. I won't, though. I know that Eve is a source of sweet, sweet, beautifully rendered lies.
Never again.
yeah i suppose its a real shame when you get people like that who spoil it for every one i have never understood like in cs why use aim bot there is no skill no look at what skill i have in itoh well guess some people are just sad
everyone says mining sucks. I assume that's what you have to start out doing though? what do you do, save up some money by mining and selling the stuff you mine, and then buying a combat ship? what does one do if one doesn't want to sit around and mine? what's a typical day like in EVE?
everyone says mining sucks. I assume that's what you have to start out doing though? what do you do, save up some money by mining and selling the stuff you mine, and then buying a combat ship? what does one do if one doesn't want to sit around and mine? what's a typical day like in EVE? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You start out with a tiny crappy ship, which is basically not good for anything. So you mine for a while until your eyes bleed, and you get a ship that's slightly less crappy, but still worthless for anything interesting. So you mine until your ears and eyes bleed. Then you get a ship that can maybe kill a few things, and you go start running agent missions. And that's fun for a while. They mostly consist of 'go here and kill these guys' and 'deliver this stuff to this place'. You do that for a while, get a slightly better ship, do that some more, get some better guns, etc... It's the same thing over and over.
PvP is horrible until you've played the game for months and months and have enough cash to make it not sting as bad. Because when you die in eve, you lose your ship and all the very expensive guns, ammo, cargo, shields, gear, etc. that you had on it. I hear that there's a lot of fun to be had in the game once you build up to being able to fly battleships around and not care when they get blown up. But the work to get there is mind numbing. You can either mine forever, or kill things, which pretty much consists of targeting a distant little red dot, and hitting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 to start your weapons firing, and then repeating that for the next dot, or you can run cargo, which with the screwy player-controlled economy and no ability to see where your cargo is going to sell the best, is somewhat pointless.
The graphics are awesome, the spiffy new age music makes it very pretty, but beyond that... ZERO CONTENT. Caveat emptor.
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A few things worth mentioning:
1. Eve is easily the most tedious MMO in existence, bar none. Even acts like levelling up your skills take hours to complete. Mining takes boredom to all new highs, a process which is occasionally exacerbated when your ship full of freshly mined rubbish is blown to pieces by some random two-bit pirate.
2. You will need to play this game for <i>years</i> to feel like you're any kind of force in the game world. Until then you can watch the beautiful but not quite charming graphics as you spend your days drifting serenely through a universe 'full of possibilities' which will forever be out of your reach.
3. See points 1 and 2.
A space based MMORPG is a great idea. Eve Online is not. Most massively multiplayer games make at least some effort to bridge the gap between those with massive amounts of time to play the game and those who don't, but Eve doesn't. Quite the contrary, in fact: it revels in the imbalance, even listing it as a feature (its 'hypercapitalistic economy'). Cold and brutal.
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That might be your thing, of course, though I personally would like to think I play games for fun and enjoyment and leave hard grinds for the real world.
You buy a skill (or upgrade an existing skill to the next level), start it going, and there's a timer. Say it's two days. Which is cool, because you can just leave the game alone and don't even log in until it's fully trained. But some skills take like, a month (literally) to train, which is just plain annoying.
While this is good in the respect that you can start a skill training, then go on holiday (which is what I did once), it's amazingly annoying because no matter how good you are at the game, the guy who started playing last year can suck immensely and still have a far superior character because he's just had more time to train his skills.
Since these skills govern everything (you need, for example, "minmitar frigat level 5" or something to Pilot a Probe which at the time I played, was one of the best mining frigates around), piloting, refining (how much money you make off the ore your mine, basically), the weapons you use (split into a few seperate areas, lasers, projectile etc...), the ships you can purchase, whether you can manufacture anything and so on... it means everyone who started playing before you, regardless of their actual level of skill, is going to be better than you.
Sorry.
PvP is horrible until you've played the game for months and months and have enough cash to make it not sting as bad. Because when you die in eve, you lose your ship and all the very expensive guns, ammo, cargo, shields, gear, etc. that you had on it. I hear that there's a lot of fun to be had in the game once you build up to being able to fly battleships around and not care when they get blown up. But the work to get there is mind numbing. You can either mine forever, or kill things, which pretty much consists of targeting a distant little red dot, and hitting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 to start your weapons firing, and then repeating that for the next dot, or you can run cargo,<b> which with the screwy player-controlled economy and no ability to see where your cargo is going to sell the best, is somewhat pointless. </b>
The graphics are awesome, the spiffy new age music makes it very pretty, but beyond that... ZERO CONTENT. Caveat emptor.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't know what game you were playing, you can actively view all the sellers/ buyers for any one item through-out the current region just by choosing "Market Details" from the right-click menu... And cargo moving/trading is easily the best money in the game. I never mine, at all, and I have a hefty pocket-book. Also, your first ships sucks at mining, ALOT. You best bet is to go kill stuff with it, then buy a slightly better gun and kill more stuff. Then you pick up the loot from those guys, either sell it or refine it, then use that to make money. Which gets you cash about 100x faster then low level mining.
Mining is quite possibly the worst cash income unless you are in a large group of long-time players. The ONLY reason people still do it is because A- It's easy. and B- It's tradition. It's been done since EVE was in Beta. Back then Mining WAS the end-all-be-all cash source.
Personaly - I do a mix. If I'm reading a book I'll mine in my happy little 0.1 system that I "own" (read: I'm a hermit. It's a "Dead end" system - only one way in, and it's at the end of a dead-end line of 5 jumps. I've never once seen anyone else enter my system.) and occasionaly kill NPC pirates that stop in to say "hello".
After a bit of mining, I'll run my processed minerals to Empire space, sell them for a profit, and use the profit to purchase trade goods and start trading. After I've got what I felt like getting, I'll start running missions or load up a frigate and go PVPing.
No. You don't have to have a battleship to PVP. Or millions of ISK. Or years of experience. Just the ability to pick and choose your targets, the willingness to die, and a few tactics up your sleeve.
As it's been stated, EVE isn't your typical game. The famous saying I said earlier in this thread holds true still. To each his own. It's the kind of game you either instantly like, and KNOW it. Or hate. There is no in-between.
The current region yes. But when the galaxy consists of, what, 20-30 regions or so, and the REAL money is made by running cargo from one end of the galaxy to the other, it's not a very efficient money maker. Unless you have some hot tips on what sells where, and there's really no way to find that out without just going there and looking. And that usually means flying through low security space, and then running from gankers... etc. I did play the game for months, believe me, I know how the market works. I just think it's too much of a pain to be enjoyable.
I just made 17 million isk in 3 hours using a Hoarder (mid-level Minmatar industrial ship) in Empire(Read: Safe space...above 0.5 Security) space..In the same region.
Market works fine.