Playing EVE

EVE is one of THE best games, the only downside side is you can’t really control your ship …. if you could … it would be perfection itself

Sorry but i’m on the other side of the fence with this game. It’s boring and tedious, way too much micro management, too much sitting around and waiting for for things to happen. Virtually no ship control. Looks nice but on the actionometer its a very low reading. X3 is miles better.

EVE looks nice and it has a few cool ideas, but I really can’t shake the feeling of the entire game still dumbing down to a pretty representation of dice rolls.

EVE is the type of game that is rather elitist in a way- the game is aimed to appeal to the specific player base who enjoy -excessively- strategic games, and alot of micromanaging/corp managing etc.

EVE has its own set of pros and cons, while there is one main server supporting around 50-60k players, and being an open sandbox where the storyline/economy/market/wars/everything is based on player actions, the downside is, as FF mentioned, it is pretty much a point and click type of game (there are circumstances where that becomes a bit more “vigorous” to the point it wont be considered boring and gruelling, like say… solo PVP runs in 0.0 space) unlike freelancer that is more or less a twitch response arcade style space fps, which appeals to alot of people (wish there was a new freelancer :@ :P)

i personally enjoy EVE quite a bit due to the massive amounts of things it has/offers, but even i need a break from eve once in a while, since the logistics part can get rather testing and overwhelming, specially when you hold a crucial position in a corp (even worse as an alliance high ranker/leader, since the pressure quadruples).

EVE in itself has different places for different play styles. 0.0 blob warfare between alliances, low sec pirating, high sec mining/mission running, etc.

@ gibbon- there is action, just not the same style as say… freelancer. and yeh, no ship control etc, which is a con in my books as well.

thing with eve, that i discovered is, if you’re a new player, find a corp to join asap, and play the game with a good set of mates and it wont seem to be a gruelling grind to make credits for better ships etc. during my initial month of eve, i was alone, got bored, left. got invited to join a corp a few months later, got eve, and never looked back

one of the biggest pluspoints of eve for me is the sheer beauty of the ship designs- assymetrical awesomeness.

http://izlin.free.fr/eve/ships/nyx.jpg

this is my all time favorite capital ship design, from eve tbh.

/me stops bigging up eve to avoid getting lynched

I have to say I hate this game. I just wasn’t impressed at all with it. There really isn’t much skill involved at all, it’s just who has the biggest ship and guns if you ask me.

thing with eve, that i discovered is, if you’re a new player, find a corp to join asap, and play the game with a good set of mates and it wont seem to be a gruelling grind to make credits for better ships etc. during my initial month of eve, i was alone, got bored, left. got invited to join a corp a few months later, got eve, and never looked back

Exactly what I suspected. This doesn’t only appeal for EvE only, but also to a given extend to Freelancer, but by far not such much, but the more for all MMORPGs. I even have the feeling that many ppl are playing such games not of the game itself but more with the people around them. Try playing a MMORPG as a solo player and you will get bored very quickly. And that’s what they are aiming for: Player societies like Blizzard does, for instance. You can invite friends to get bonuses and so on, but without any friends the game is tedious like nothing. If a game isn’t such bad and you have friends which are playing it regulary there is no doubt that you can stay with the game for years without even getting bored at all.

SilentAssassin82 wrote:
I have to say I hate this game. I just wasn’t impressed at all with it. There really isn’t much skill involved at all, it’s just who has the biggest ship and guns if you ask me.

You won’t hit an orbiting interceptor in a battleship. And while you’ll be losing your drones to that inty there will be like 3 battlecruisers and/or recons jumping in ;D [just some situation from the top of my head]

Unpaid subscription and forum/EFT-warrior is here… [sigh]

there definitely is skill involved, just a different kind of skill. in the end, you wont expect a battleship to be able to pwn an interceptor with its big slow guns, specially if the ceptor is moving at 5k+ speeds.

setups are also somewhat important, but experience is what counts imo. a 2 year old player with his trusted (albiet “underpowered” loadout as considered by others) will decimate a new player with expensive mods and no clue how to use/exploit them, ergo skill being needed as well

but yeah, i’z an EFT warrior of sorts as well, tho i let others do it mostly while i nick their loadouts cuz im too lazy lol

It’s just like all MMOs and even D&D, WH… Find the imbalanced overpowered build and exploit it until it gets nerfed

im not really familiar with CN eve, what is it exactly? i play on the main server mainly, tbh

Well let’s see, how much would it cost me in real money to get a battleship? Let’s talk months, years and real money. I mean there’s no way i can justify the time and finances to play eve for a start, i’m not the pay per play sort of guy anyway but i don’t have the patience for the slow pace of the thing, let alone the finances to watch myself try and get a skill, only to find out it will be ready sometime next week.

Only comparison gamewise i can make to eve is X3 which doesn’t cost as much and gives me the micro management factor, visuals and ships to fly that i enjoy, without the financial burden of constantly paying for the thing.

You can’t compare FL to eve in any way as they are so different, not even worth the comparison imo

To get to battleship IS quite an endeavor, a few months of gameplay if you dont go RIGHT for it (which is a bad idea, your other skills would be poorly lacking and you’d be a big red target), but you can get into decent ships for group PvE (which is rather fun if you RP), I just got my first Cruiser, and I’ve been playing for only 4 days. So you can get to decent ships early on and have quite a bit of fun, even on trial accounts. And even if you’re a casual EVE player that doesnt have lots of time to grind for ISK (the credits of this universe), once you get a few weeks in, you can set up R&D which can generate about 100mil a month, which is not insubstantial. It’s pocket change to the big boys, but for new players, especially non hardcore players, that’s quite a bit.

I dunno, it depends on what you’re into. I’m ok with the lack of direct ship control, cause once you get to larger ships and start being able to deploy drones, play with fleet groups taht you command, etc, you have alot more to pay attention to than maneuvers.

One other thing i like about EVE and DISLIKE about EVE is the skill system. the good thing is that you can train while you are not in game. the bad thing is that it takes hours to train skills. So sometimes you really are grinding until something happens, IE, a ship ability finishes, or a weapon ability so you can mount that nice shiney rare gun you got.

it’s fun if you like what they’re offering. else, you’ll proly hate it with a passion.

Hours to train ???!?!?! You SURELY mean days if not MONTHS !

i meant early skills. yeah, later on it takes a while. but by that point you have alot more going on, that just one skill wont keep the pace down.