EVE New Citizens Q&A

What got me in was player driven market and no hard rules.

Please never take that away.

well, to start off, I quit playing about 4 years ago, due to rl . I;ll be back in a week or so, due to waiting for cc card payment to clear.
a rl friend talked me into starting, and popped my main toon into his corp(this is my alt) main's name is Taggert Hightower.
guess what corp I got popped into as a newb?
that's right.........Black Ice......from the old Curse alliance. Anyone remember them?
3 weeks into game, I lived, and pretty much stayed in 0.0..........had a LOT of fun fights in a frig against some of the best players in game.........took forever to get my sec status back to where I could go into even low sec
so,I'll be returning, with one toon 18 mill sp's, one with 16 mill sp's, should be great fun

I tried this game years ago, But I think I only played for an hour.... My PC was a Load of rubbish.

I just built a £1600 Gaming Computer myself :)
erm... Well First thing I did was start a new trial acc and within 5 days I Subbed :)
now 2 months in I have 2 alts One in FW and one in Trade/Mining/Haulage :D

My Main is Pvp/Missions.... Altho if You've seen my killboard, I suck balls :P

Well I'm not new anymore.. but as I remember it..

Some friends of mine from Lovecraft MUSH were mentioning it, and I started clicking around the forums for about two weeks, learning how turret tracking worked, and missile explosion velocity and lots of technical things, which I think helped ALOT with that vertical learning curve.

So then I join, do missions for a bit, decide to do some sight seeing, and went to Amarr via Jita. I was blown away by Jita.. so many stations to mission from, and thousands of players in local. Also, this was back during the Privateer days, so there was fighting on EVERY gate I went through. And also just the look of the game, the nebula in the background as I would mine in my Tormentor..

I remember when I bought my first Condor, how I had to go to Niarja to get it.. But I thought it was low-sec, and so I sat in pulse-pounding suspense as I tried to align (before the align button came along) then warp warp warp, why isn't it warping!!, oh **** I forgot to highlight the station!, JESUS somebody just jumped in behind me!!!

I thought I would have a heart attack. It's probably that specific experience that got me hooked.

After that things got silly, I got roped into a noob exploitation corp called Caesarri Industries, which got wardecced two days later by TRAPS. I couldn't make it in a standup fight at the time, so I would just warp from planet to planet leading them all over the region. They caught me eventually, but it was a good time. Eventually I left that crappy corp and learned about the Sansha loyalist roleplay... I really liked the idea of playing a cyborg zombie so I spent a few weeks stalking Izzychan and others.. been Sansha ever since.

I burned out pretty hard about two years ago, and gave the character to my wife.. tried WOW for a while until somebody booted me from a fleet because I didn't have the right "gear score".... and that was when I heard about all the Sansha live events.. I left WOW in disgust and came back home to this harsh, brutal, lovely mistress. I missed her alot more than I thought.

We're not talking about a guild, we're talking about a gang.. it would be the equivalent of somebody saying "you can't tackle for us since you don't have Estamel's Resplendent Web-o-matic on your Malediction". And that never happens here... Everybody can use more tackle..

Obviously i'm not really a noob anymore... But my current favorite thing about EVE is the markets. The fact that 99% (or w/e the % really is) of items are player built is amazing. Also, there is something special about flying a ship that you built yourself.

The thing that impressed me most on day 1 was during the mining tutorials i happened across a hulk and spent probably 15 min staring at it. It was easily 20x the size of my noobship.

The day I foolishly ignored the "your entering lowsec" warning, thinking how bad could it be, and getting blown up immediately on the other side of the gate is also a fun memory. Although i wasn't too happy at the time.

Well, I've tried this game out twice before, first time around I played the trial, then quit 'cause i didn't get anything.. (about three-four years ago :P)

Second time I actually subscribed! Played like two months before I saw the same problems as I've seen with most mmorpgs: What's the point of it all? You get rich, you get the best stuff and that's it..

Then I saw the video "Eve is real.." and started a new trial account, got myself into a sweet corp, got meself a a nice goal (Get a capital freighter filled with marines and take over the universe planet by planet!!! *evul luagh*). Oh, and yeah, I realized pretty soon that Eve is NOT like the other mmorpgs. There is no "end-game", you can't get "the best stuff", sure, you got a titan! Good for you, but you can still die. That's the charm with this game, atleast as I see it, you can do what you want. Not what the game developers want. A good example of this: CCP discovered that players where using the screen in captains for watching their own videos.. If this were any other game, they would consider it "hacking" the game client.. In eve? Well, it could cause trouble when you update, so here's how you do it properly! *Simple explanation + links to how you do it"

That's why I'm gonna live here for quite a while!

I'm posting for myself, a vet of quite a few years, and the four newbies i've recently convinced to trial in lieu of the much-anticipated winter expansion. Two of them are friends who played EVE in the past and never got out of trial and the other two are ex-WoW players I met on another forum and convinced to come try the dark side. I'll try to stay brief, so up-front here's the toll: One of those four players made it through his trial convinced that he wanted to play for the long-run (purchased a long-term sub), one got just enough enticement from me to try it for another month, and the other two (coincidentally, the WoW players) decided at some point in their trial they were not into it. Here are a few excerpts from what I can recall of their reasons:



The fellow who bought in hook, line, and sinker was absolutely impressed by the market. He is an accountant and an amature futures/commodity trader IRL, so he really needed no further prodding once I introduced him to the Market forum, a few links to the success stories of the wealthy EVE elite, and I can only assume at this point he's training some social skills and working furiously on an excel spreadsheet.

Conversely, the other fellow, only tentatively interested after his trial, was drawn in more by the big universe and the potential for exploring it. I think he's also got some interest in pvp. From what I could reckon the biggest plus for him was factional warfare. He seems quite smitten with the concept and hopes that the winter expansion will bring in more opportunities for young pilots making their way into the ranks.



It's hard to say what drove off the two former WoW players. I'm quite sure the first to leave (a mere 4-5 days into his trial) was unimpressed with the skill training system and the prospect that he would be playing "catch-up," in the world. The second who dissapeared only after his trial was officilaly over was probably just not impressed by the pve avalible to him. I think both were after serious rat-killing or something to that effect, despite the fact that I'd been very explicit about ratting and mission running being the most tedious chore in New Eden.

Personally, I've been anything but impressed for the last few years, but I'm very excited by the winter expansion. I've been in npc nullsec for the last few years in order to both enjoy smaller scale pvp and avoid the drama of sov. It would be thrilling to have a reason to rejoin old friends in a sov. alliance, but i'd be just as pleased if FW got some serious love too.