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How do you Pass your Time
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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#41 - 2012-11-22 20:18:20 UTC
I generally pass time by playing World of Tanks or MWO while waiting for a ping on jabber about the next juicy freighter to gank.

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Galaxy Pig
New Order Logistics
CODE.
#42 - 2012-11-22 20:36:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Galaxy Pig
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Vincent Riley
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#43 - 2012-11-22 21:15:01 UTC
Im in for the sandbox. I did some missions with my last char, PvE in is the most underdesigned lazy booring PvE content in the gaming industry, dont toutch it, its a wow grind.
This is a sandbox, that means play it as it was a real universe, becasue you can do what you want.
My currently activities:

x Exploration in null
x Mining in low sec and play cat mouse with pirates
x Train Stealth bombers to bomb gatecamps randomly
x Randomly escort transport ships hoping for some friends or cash
x Pick fights in low
x Train for the new sexy destroyers and getting ready for some FW
x Looking into planetary interaction to build my own little empire
x Dive into some wormholes just to spy on people
xLooking into the new crimewatch and bounty system, I might turn into a merc
Things I still want to do as a new player
x Gas mine, dont care about profits I just want to do it, same with ice mining, ita a cool concept
x Have my own solar system with my own pos, PI , my own asteroid belt that I guard, kill anyone that comes near
x Might want to have a carrier in the end, those small fighters and bombers are just to cool to pass out
Leandros Ellinas
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#44 - 2012-11-24 15:09:53 UTC
Jame Jarl Retief wrote:
I mostly play other games while training. Especially if the skill is a level V and takes 3+ weeks. Just too soul-crushing. Even 1-week skills are sometimes too much to wait for.

LHA Tarawa wrote:
  • THERE ARE SO FEW NEW PLAYERS AND SO MANY ALTS
    • Yep. I tried to create a new player training corp, and I found that about 90% of the "new players" are actually alts.


    This, to me, is actually a huge problem as it has a high "avalanche potential".

    Imagine a game with 500k characters. But only 100k players. That is, each player has 5 alts.If 1 player quits the game, for whatever reason that may even be totally unrelated to the game itself, this costs the game 5 characters. In EVE's case, it costs the game 5 accounts.

    Now, imagine EVE releases a "bad expansion", such as Incarna. And a few thousand people quit? That could easily mean a five-digit number of subscriptions lost. That's the 14-17% subscription loss we saw in Incarna (don't remember the official figure). It wasn't 17% of players quitting, the percentage was much lower than that, but the amount of alts bloomed that loss into a much larger subscription loss.

    That's the avalanche effect I'm talking about. When every player has 5-8 alt accounts, it leads to a much less stable system than games with 1 account per person. I mean, look at current what, 450k subs? How many of those are just dummy accounts being trained to be sold at the Character Bazaar? They don't really "exist" in the normal sense of the word. They log in for a minute to queue up the skills and log off again.

    The high number of alts also means there's a very low number of new people coming in. Which is very, very bad. And a shiny new tutorial is not going to cut it - the game mechanics need to be more fun and immersive and engaging. But that's a story for another time, sorry for the derail.



    That all being true i have to say my first MMO was Star Wars Galaxys when they "changed"
    The game and i stoped playing i tried a few Mmos but i never realy got into anything as much ad i did in SWG
    Befor a couple of years and a couple of years befor that i concidered playing EvE but dident. I gues its a game for mature gamers/players. I am now 32 and all i want in a game (MMO) is to Play with and against people. And PvP for me is not Streetfighter/tekken game style bam bam Dead winner !
    PvP for me starts bu choosing a corp, going a path that will help the corp later on in warfare make bonds with your corp mates get some goals and then finaly fight. What i am saying is that eve players are here becaouse they wana stay and know what they want
    They surely arent 16yo boys looking to gonto lvl x getting the best x gear and then kill in arenas ... We are all here to stay i hope. And isent it a great feeling when that launcher opens and says 45k mofos online :) In the new star wars TOR we had 150 people online ... Sad numbers sad.
    This Game
    Is here to stay it might not be for the majority of Gamers but a lot like it. And the linage/wow/gw/swtor player of today might become the EvE pilot of tomorrow.
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