EVE General Discussion

I totally get your dilemma, man. It took me 6 trial attempts before I finally took off. First trial was biomassed in rage, after not taking the time to stop and *Right click...Show Info* and blindly jumping into lowsec after just beginning the SOE arc. Lost my brand new, shiny (to me at the time, at least) Cormorant. Several trials after that ended with me just having complete apathy, and not really giving a damn. Then I finally get here, and I begin to see things a little differently. I grew a little more patient, day-to-day. I started chewing rocks. Trained base skills toward an indy career. So I asked in Rookie Help.....What now? They, of course, told me to join a corp. So I join an indy corp. Then the events transpired I mentioned earlier in the thread. I learned to fly combat ships.....quickly I might add, lol. Then I started missioning. Then it turned into weekend roams. Then I got caught up in the incursion scene, when it was really popping.

Then we jump to now. Granted, I have already taken my first EVE break, for about 6 months, just because of complete login apathy. I had trained pretty much solidly into Minnie combat, and even though they are fun to fly, I grew bored. That and at the time, I was in the CFC, and the Tribute War being my first introduction to the sov grind, and needless to say....that was not the most pleasant thing to do. In fact, even as a grunt, it wore me down. I cannot imagine how FC's and alliance leaders feel about it. But then I came back. I am now rounding out Caldari subcaps, have an Exhumer, and am firmly on my way to starting the T2 line of Gallente subcaps. I can explore. I can mission. I can pvp (though I am not tgreat, there is no thrill quite like EVE pvp.) I can incursion. I can mine. I can go WH daytripping. Point is, the options open up when you keep with it...like any game.

If your biggest complaint is skill training times, there are +3, +4, and +5 implants that can greatly reduced some of the earlier levels of skills, opening up things a little quicker. Then there is also neural remapping, which can be even more of a training time boost for you.

EVE is a special place, bro. And I hope you can overcome the initial barrier, because there is so much to see and do. There is no game quite like it, there is no community quite like the one that inhabits this game, and it would be cool if you find it.

If you think that the time sink necessary to do what you want to do is too much you are perfectly free to pay someone else to do it for you.

1)Purchase game time with RL money.
2)Sell game time for ISK.
3)Use ISK to buy a character.
4)?????
5)Play EVE the way you want to.

The interesting thing about this is, the cost effectiveness of it.

To most, it is a prohibitive expense.

That is, until you think about the fact that it's basically just paying your sub fee for a long period of time up front, and getting all your skills trained instantly for a nominal fee.

Char buying is quite the bargain.



Entirely possible he was using Translate. He mentioned at the end that he is not a native English speaker. Given his grammatical structure, I suspect Russian. Way to be a ****.

Everything is better with the good ship friendship.

Unless its other groups during PVP and you lost.

Then it is "WHY CCP MAKE EVERYTHING ENCOURAGE BLOB?!"

The thing is though, in games like wow, the "skilling" or "leveling up" process is part of the experience one pays for. It involves running quests, killing NPC's and so forth. In Eve, a low sp toon has very few options that will actually offer a fun gameplay experience. Maybe the only thing a newbie can have fun with is PvP, but that is not straightforward either.

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Couldn't have said it better.

There is very little point in fighting in EVE for anything because it has zero value in real life.