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Returning from 2 years inactivity and new stuff ere'where
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Quinn Reynolds
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-06-06 14:49:56 UTC
I started playing EVE in 2007 and after having a few long, costly adventures I found myself taking a break and not picking it back up due to things that happen in everyone's life.

Anyhow I return after odyssey has been released and am enjoying all of the new content but I feel lost and find myself without any news or important information about whats happened over the past two years. I have looked around the forums and found some scraps of information but nothing solid.

I was hoping people could fill me in on major events, formal or not, that have happened pretty much since inferno. For instance, last time I played I remember alot of myrmidons yet I haven't seen one yet. I would appreciate a rough update on how certain careers are going as well, like mining, after seeing a massive amount of mining ship updates. I got quite heavily into scanning but never tried exploration properly or archaeology, it would be great to get some pointers about that too.

Tl;Dr Return to EVE after 2 years, have no idea whats going on and whats changed. Need information and advise.
Ra Ten
Caldari Unification Front
#2 - 2013-06-06 16:57:57 UTC
Welcome back Quinn, I myself recently returned after a 7 year (!!) break and have been getting re-acquainted with things over the past two weeks. I've got assets scattered all over the universe so I'm trying to figure out what's going on as well.

You may want to pick up the career trainers and run through the missions to get familiarized with the new systems.

Good luck,
Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#3 - 2013-06-06 17:03:25 UTC
Dev blogs, go read the dev blogs

Also a good idea to roll a new character to run the tutorials with and keep the main for later.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/

The Drake is a Lie
Lord Battlestar
CALIMA COLLABORATIVE
Atrox Urbanis Respublique Abundatia
#4 - 2013-06-06 17:07:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Lord Battlestar
The current expansion: http://www.eveonline.com/odyssey/

The one you missed: http://www.eveonline.com/expansions/retribution/

And various small upgrades in between mostly.

Every expansion the game has ever had: www.eveonline.com/expansions/

I once podded myself by blowing a huge fart.
Boomhaur
#5 - 2013-06-06 17:15:49 UTC
If you wanted to run the tutorials you can just run them with your main if I recall correctly there is an option for that. Past 2 years, well I just joined after being absent for several months and this expansion just hit which has faction BC's. Took out tiers for ships, took out destroyer and BC skill and made them racial so whatever it was you get racial equavlant. Changed skills req for some ships, if you can fly it before you can fly it now, but due to how it was setup some of us can now fly ships we weren't able to before I could only fly caldari/gallente command ships before and only half of them now I can fly all command ships after the update.

Beyond that new destroyers from prior patch, changed bounty system, new user interface. Captain quarters, they suck so don't get excited. It's their version of Duke Nukem Forever but for Eve, lots of hype over the years just to disapoint and when they did that they took out the hanger and ship spinning. The forums were full of rage with no ship spinning and the hatred for captains quarters and getting a choice between that and "THE DOOR". I read about it on the previous forums for a good laugh if I were you. Oh Burn Jita as well.

That sums up some of the stuff I remember off hand.

Welcome to Eve. Everyone here is an Evil Sick Sadistic Bastard who is out to get you. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either trying to scam you or use you.
Quinn Reynolds
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-06-06 22:22:16 UTC
Ra Ten wrote:
Welcome back Quinn, I myself recently returned after a 7 year (!!) break and have been getting re-acquainted with things over the past two weeks. I've got assets scattered all over the universe so I'm trying to figure out what's going on as well.

You may want to pick up the career trainers and run through the missions to get familiarized with the new systems.

Good luck,


Thats a long ass break, good luck with your EVE rehabilitation too.

Lord Battlestar wrote:
The current expansion: http://www.eveonline.com/odyssey/

The one you missed: http://www.eveonline.com/expansions/retribution/

And various small upgrades in between mostly.

Every expansion the game has ever had: www.eveonline.com/expansions/


Thanks for the links, have been able to go over the major features that I didn't know about.

Boomhaur wrote:
If you wanted to run the tutorials you can just run them with your main if I recall correctly there is an option for that. Past 2 years, well I just joined after being absent for several months and this expansion just hit which has faction BC's. Took out tiers for ships, took out destroyer and BC skill and made them racial so whatever it was you get racial equavlant. Changed skills req for some ships, if you can fly it before you can fly it now, but due to how it was setup some of us can now fly ships we weren't able to before I could only fly caldari/gallente command ships before and only half of them now I can fly all command ships after the update.

Beyond that new destroyers from prior patch, changed bounty system, new user interface. Captain quarters, they suck so don't get excited. It's their version of Duke Nukem Forever but for Eve, lots of hype over the years just to disapoint and when they did that they took out the hanger and ship spinning. The forums were full of rage with no ship spinning and the hatred for captains quarters and getting a choice between that and "THE DOOR". I read about it on the previous forums for a good laugh if I were you. Oh Burn Jita as well.

That sums up some of the stuff I remember off hand.


Thanks for all the info. I did see some stuff come up about the whole new character creation stuff and it looked interesting but I wasn't about to resubscribe to it for that alone, I was glad to see I go still sit in hanger view and spin my ship to pass the time. As for the racial BC skills I remember alot of people that I knew played, even shortly after I left were saying about racial BC skills. When I looked on the forums some time later about it I remember seeing alot of people saying to get BC to 5 asap so that it will give you 5 in all racials when they changed it, almost made me resub for that, unfortunately I missed my chance to get it to 5 if that actually mattered.