I was just catching up in the "I don't often play space games" thread and was surprised to see so many people having played or are playing Eve Online.
I've often thought of coming back to Eve but the 'finding people you can trust' aspect is always the hardest. If we had a list of people here, maybe we could all band together?
I've played off and on (more off than on) since 2004.
There is a free 14 day trial available for those who haven't tried Eve Online yet.
If I had the time to invest, it would likely be my all-time favourite game. Sadly, I don't. After returning to it many times I have forced myself to swallow the bitter pill that is the realisation that I just can't commit.
Good luck to those of you who do, though! Would you like my stuff? :D
I loved it but left it long ago. A high maintenance girlfriend if there ever was one but could she ever deliver the goods!
Why is there this pattern in my life? Everything changes, everything is the same.
Like I said in the other thread; EVE is that game that I ALWAYS keeps tabs on.
I even get their E-ON magazine delivered at home, which is a quarterly high gloss magazine full of fanart, fiction, guides and articles.
EVE, for me, is the definition of what it means for a game to truely be a virtual world. Almost everything in EVE works like it would in the real world regarding social interaction, reprecussion and economy. It's truely a living game.
Unfortunately its also a game that will only give you back what you put into it. Meaning that it takes a considerable amount of time and effort to become even remotely successful or accomplish the bigger stuff.
Of course you can be happy in your little corner of hi-sec just carebaring about, but the real meat of the game is the Nullsec Corp running and warfare. The whole economy runs on those wars.
Gameplay mechanics range from mining and production to invention, exploration, covert ops and huge fleet battles and the more administrative tasks of Corp business running. You can never do it all. It's just that vast and varied.
And the game is freaking revolutionary to boot now, because of the integration with DUST 412 (or what is the number?). DUST is a shooter on the PS3 where people fight wars on a planet. Yes, the same planets as in the PC version of EVE.
So the PS3 players can call for help to the EVE players. For example, they can go to the planet and make a planetary bombardment, which will be visible in DUST in realtime. Freaking awesome!
I do not play however. With a little child I just don't have the time. But like I said, I do keep tabs on EVE and often look with envy to those who do have the time. :D
And don't forget that the training for the skills you need to mine, pilot spaceships, manufacture stuff, use weapons, improve your social and business skills as well as every other skill you use in EVE Online is done in real time. And that other players--those guys who may blow your ship up--have probably had more time to develop their skills than you and you can never catch up with them.
I've been told that the oldest rule in EVE is "Never fly a ship you can't afford to lose." Because it's all PvP and you can die anywhere at any time.
The first corp I belonged to a very long time ago had some really nice girls who were having fun playing and building.
They built some nice ships at great expense in time and money and went slumming. Some young punk pirates who
I gather were all of about eleven years old, whose sole ambition was to sit in a mineral rich system and kill people who
came looking, did just that. Totally destroyed their ships, stripped their corpses and dumped the bodies after bragging
about the various indignities and defilements they had committed on them. It was very sad. We saved up for a long time
and hired some other punks to go kill the first set and they did. But what a heartbreak if was for the girls. They drifted off.
I like the overall breadth of Eve but it's even more grindy than most MMOs, from my multiple attempts. :-\
However, I think that if some of us played regularly, that might lure me in again (for the fifth time?) again.
I wouldn't mind hanging with you guys a little more but I figure if I am lucky
I might have 20 years left. Eve would use that all up. I can remember driving for a couple of days
to go to school in that universe.
I still maintain 2 accounts on EVE. It's been some time since I could find the time to play much though, 1 1/2 years maybe. It really is a 30 hour plus a week game to do it properly. The key is being able to coordinate with your corpmates which is tough when you work a hectic schedule and have a family and other interests. I must say EVE is very fulfilling when everything clicks. My motto was vertical integration. I harvested, built, transported, and marketed about anything you can imagine in the game. Talk about a time consuming and intense endeavor. It made me rich in isk though with minimal risk. Well, I guess I've been blown up my fair share of times. Just the cost of doing business.
EVE had a grip on me that couldn't be broke until I found "Aurora" 3 years ago. I devoted my time to learning the ins and outs of Aurora with a vengeance and somehow broke the spell EVE had on me. I would love to go back to EVE full time but am enjoying my sabbatical I suppose. Well if anyone has ever run across Akio Jomun in game and remembers the name I am he. I really do have an unnatural reverence for EVE, must be some sort of space sickness.
Quote from: Sparhawk on February 07, 2013, 02:17:45 AM
I really do have an unnatural reverence for EVE, must be some sort of space sickness.
It's an utterly brilliant game, truly groundbreaking, and deserves every accolade it gets. The only problem with it is the time investment required, which of course is no fault of the game's, it just means many of us (especially those of us with families) just can't play. But it's an astonishing achievement, and until I became a dad it really had its hooks in me.
Quote from: Greybriar on February 06, 2013, 05:19:55 PM
And don't forget that the training for the skills you need to mine, pilot spaceships, manufacture stuff, use weapons, improve your social and business skills as well as every other skill you use in EVE Online is done in real time. And that other players--those guys who may blow your ship up--have probably had more time to develop their skills than you and you can never catch up with them.
I've been told that the oldest rule in EVE is "Never fly a ship you can't afford to lose." Because it's all PvP and you can die anywhere at any time.
The part about never being able to catch up to people with a longer history in EVE is a common misconception.
While it is true that you will not be able to pass them in absolute skillpoint amount if you both keep on playing, this does NOT mean the other player is better equipped or skilled in every facet of the game.
There are so many skills and ways to train that specialization is a need in EVE.
Indeed, you can come across someone who is much better equipped for fighting a battle at that particular time, but there is no reason to think that in a short while you can take him on if you specialize your training.
To become effective does not take you ages, as some people think.
The adagium of 'Never fly what you can't afford' always stands though. Even in high security space where the agressor cannot avoid being punished by Concord.
There are shrewed ways to make the lives of high sec dwellers pretty dangerous indeed! :)
But that is the beauty of EVE. The risk and reward principles.
About the game being grindy; solo play does make it feel grindy. Corp life is much better in that respect.