EVE New Citizens Q&A

I joined for ambulation but stayed for the rat hunting

I'd never even considered playing an MMO before I discovered Eve. I'd played Elite in the 80's, and played Freelancer, Wing Commander, Sins of a Solar Empire over the years, as well as a trial for Eve in around '06. I was bored, laid up with a busted leg and an Apocrypha ad caught my Eye, got a trial and had subbed within a week, never looked back. The meta game is out of this world, and the community, while a little harsh on those who deserve it, is genuinely friendly and helpful; even to those that they're shooting at.

I have begun playing this great game only very recently, after having a co-working tell me about all the fun and exciting things he experiences in-game. So far I am having an absolute blast.

Also: Spaceships. Seriously awesome.

The same way most people did, an article about some dude losing a pricey ship and going, 'didn't want that $5,000 ship anyway". Everything in this game seems to revolve around real-world currency and PLEX, or at least that's all that seems to make headlines. EVE is apparently a pissing contest where everyone measures their penis by how much money they throw away each month losing flying penises.

Learned about EVE on a internet search. Being a fan of Science Fiction, I was looking for a Sci-Fi based MMO to play around with.

The elements that interested me in EVE was SCI-FI, robotic drones, and jump clones. Many of EVE players are Sci-fi fans, and so am I. Interest in drones because of experience in robotics and industrial control( RL robots are more fun.). Jump clones because of enjoying the Eight Worlds novels and short stories by John Varley.

I first learned about EVE not too long after launch, reading reviews. I liked the sci-fi setting, and it seemed similar to the online Escape Velocity I'd long wished Ambrosia Software would produce, but for whatever reason I didn't dive into the game.

Since people are posting more detailed stories, I'll post mine too:

After getting into FFXI and later WoW in 2004, and quitting WoW for the first time in 2005 (I'd quit FFXI shortly after WoW's release), I decided to give EVE a try. I didn't enjoy the experience much, and quit after my trial. Played WoW again for a few months, quit again (mostly for good), and decided to give EVE another chance. This time, what threw me off was a graphical problem. Specifically, Amarr stations would flicker and distort. It ruined the immersion and put me off again, and I couldn't find a solution to the problem, so I quit for the second time.

I returned to the game in 2009, and enjoyed it a bit more. I didn't have the issues with Amarr stations, the skill queue had been added, etc. I played for a few months I think, even joined EVE University and started really learning how everything worked. However, I ended up quitting again. I don't really remember why.

I briefly tried again in 2011, but at that point I was using a budget laptop and just trying to use the new character creator was a painful enough experience for me to abort re-entry.

Now I'm back again, and I'm enjoying the game much more. Perhaps I'm more patient now, or I'm busier and thus better appreciate EVE's progression system, but I think I'll be around for a while this time. We'll see.

I watched the Eve Online Trinity trailer on YouTube and got really caught up in it. It looked awesome.

I didn't go and subscribe to the game for another 3 or 4 years, but the game was always in the back of my head. Then I started watching Johnny Pew's "Explorer's Log" on YouTube. Did a trial account and found it interesting, but didn't have the money to subscribe to another game. I was already playing World of Warcraft with one of my best real-life friends. After the Kung-fu Panda expansion, she dropped out of WoW and I got disillusioned with how the whole game was geared toward max-level players.

Started looking for something else. Started with World of Tanks, which I still like. But then watched the "Battle of Asakai" video on YouTube and was impressed all over again, and started listening to Eve podcasts pretty heavily while traveling. Finally caved in and paid for a three month subscription and am enjoying it a lot.

I've known about EVE since it was launched. I didn't get into it for years though, because it just didn't have much gameplay then. Mining and auto-orbiting combat looked really boring. Cut to a few years later, sometime around Dominion, and a buddy of mine got me to do a trial. At that point, there were lots of things to do besides mining (exploration is what grabbed me) and that's that.

Having a corp to jump into right away helped a lot too. o7 to the old rock, paper shotgun guys for taking newbs and tempering them in drunken fire.

I've been hearing about EVE for a very long time now, and did watch the old video in the past, poked the forums a bit.
One of those games that you might find interesting but something else always comes in between.

And what was it that appealed to me all that time?
The things people kept talking about on these very forums: the cold, harsh and dark playstyle that is EVE - one moment you think you have all, only to see it taken away a breath later.
A fully player driven economy, piracy, scams, politics, wars and quite expansive industrial facets - it's all there.
It makes me curious, as is my nature, and i felt like being part of it, but I always postponed it.


Until last monday, I thought, screw it and go for it. I always felt I'd like it so I went and took the 3 month sub from the get-go.
Sat down spending 2 hours fiddling in character creation shortly after.

Only two days in and the click is there already.
I sense there is some serious devotion required to progress properly and it drives me.

Yep, logging in the instant I come home tonight, damn work keeping me from playing it.

I was playing Planetarion (web based mmo thing -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarion -- ) and one of the guys in the clan i was in told me about a game in production that would be like Elite in some ways. Anyhow that hooked me right in, having been a bit of an Elite addict in my youth, and i started reading up on this Eve Online thing. Spaceships, trade, space pirates, all in a graphical 3d MMO .. whats not to love. Within a few weeks, i had attended a Dev chat on IRC and everyone in the chat got into the Beta - was probably september 2002.