EVE General Discussion

Hi,
I am a long time player and just recruited 2 of my friend and we want to have fun today with eve online.
each have went trough being well introduced to the game for some weeks now and today we want start something meaningful.

I suggest to them we join our Gallente militia to fight for our origin empire. (like you would start with in any MMORPG)
but what they face when they make this decision "ok i am ready"
Eve say's NOPE
24 delay

well that destroyed our hype pretty quicky.

do you have to wait 24 to JOIN a player group in other successful game out there?
this delay gonna make us join only Sunday afternoon..

I am just mentioning that this shattered how 2 new player experienced this game.

I know you can pvp without being in the militia
I know there is probably a good reason for this 24h delay
but put perspective on this.
relatively new players belong in the millitia (not trial but 1-4 months old)
nope 24h
well this really *#%$%#
I welcome anny suggestions to discus how this behavior of the game could be improved

Oh no... 24 hours not that! Perhaps they can do some missions while they wait and learn how to operate internet spaceships. Or you could fly them to Jita to see the wonders of the biggest trading hub.

Erh?

A normal plan/scheme/plot in Eve runs at something between 6 months and 3-4 years.

If 24h is an issue then you're playing the wrong game.

Respect.

I didn't know about this delay or why it is there? I can understand your frustration. I will keep this in mind for the future.

OH MY GOD ... they had to wait one FULL DAY ..



Man this game let's people suffer in ways unhuman.

Make sure to start a whine thread if it takes them longer than 24h.

My friend subscribed to the game 3 months ago and he hasn't even finished the training missions. I told him he wouldn't like it.

This is a pure guess, and based more on alliances then FW.

As it stands now you can war dec a corp and have members join instantly after the war dec is officially started, thus catching your opponents off guard. Lets be honest, a one man corp war deccing you will make a lot of people laugh and not do any preparation, but a 50 man corp will cause the war decced corp to do their best to prepare and be as ready as they can be.

With alliances it could work the same way but on a much larger scale. Instead of the alliance growing with a few members, it grows with a few corps and suddenly they are a much larger threat, and finding all the new members fast can be challenging (not to mention who is actually active) and there is a higher chance for ships to be lost due to people not paying attention, or knowing who to look for (yes most would notice the red star in local and such, but some wont).

But on the other hand, it does not make much difference if they join just as the war starts, or 24 hours after the war started. The war decced corp will not get any notifications (as far as i know) about a new corp joining the alliance so the 24 hour wait timer will not give the war decced corp a chance for more preparation.

But its also possible its simply just a part of the game mechanics for reasons that are related to the programming it self, but me being a complete idiot when it comes to computers would not be able to even begin to guess on reasons for this.

Did someone tell him about skill-queues yet?

o/

EVE is full of timers. Some exist for obvious reasons, some are questionable. If you'd like a mechanic to change, features & ideas is a good place to post.

On the other side, you easily could have made this experience an enjoyable one for your friends by either knowing about this as a long time player or at least knowing in time where to find the relevant Information.