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How did you get into EVE?
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Paul Panala
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#21 - 2013-10-30 13:44:18 UTC
Take the game one step at a time. If you try to fully understand it all before you do anything, you will never get into Eve. Just try things that seem interesting. Learn from your mistakes and ask for help. Find yourself a good new-player-friendly corp to join, meeting friends is a big part of the game.

While I am sure that many hard core PvPers will disagree with me. I found that running security missions was a good way to learn about ship fittings and basic flying mechanics without dying dozens of times a day. They are NOT a good way to learn about combat in Eve, security missions do not come close to properly representing the way real players fly.
Paul Panala
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-10-30 13:49:19 UTC
OP has been bio-massed. Sad to see a new player go. I hope they just wanted to recreate their toon.
Alaric Faelen
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2013-10-30 17:45:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Alaric Faelen
oh well, no point in that wall of text I had going if he biomassed.
Herzav
Perkone
Caldari State
#24 - 2013-10-30 19:23:10 UTC
I recreated my char, I'm just trying out all of the races since I'm still on a trial but I'm finding myself pulled in little by little day by day... Other MMO's don't seem as fun now...
Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#25 - 2013-10-30 19:53:37 UTC
Herzav wrote:
I recreated my char, I'm just trying out all of the races since I'm still on a trial but I'm finding myself pulled in little by little day by day... Other MMO's don't seem as fun now...


Glad to hear that. Keep in mind that the only things your race affects are character appearance, starting location, and a few free starting skills. Any character can fly any ship in EVE with the proper training.

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Eli Kzanti
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#26 - 2013-10-30 20:56:20 UTC
Herzav wrote:
I recreated my char, I'm just trying out all of the races since I'm still on a trial but I'm finding myself pulled in little by little day by day... Other MMO's don't seem as fun now...

Now that I think about it, I have found other MMOs so dull since I started playing EVE... my conclusion is that EVE has really ruined my gaming experience in any other game. Thanks Obama CCP.


I got into EVE from a text-based space MMO thing, a few friends came over to EVE and I eventually relented for a trial... this was back in 2010. One long break in there somewhere and here I stand, still playing with those same friends from 3 years ago ;)

As for the learning cliff, I just got over it gradually... I knew what I liked and I did it, googled it, researched how to do it better, did it more, lost ships to rats, lost ships to players, googled more etc. etc... got there in the end, eh. But knowing vaguely what you want to do and researching/skilling for that specifically really helps you get a grip on things.
Paul Panala
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#27 - 2013-10-30 21:17:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Panala
Herzav wrote:
I recreated my char, I'm just trying out all of the races since I'm still on a trial but I'm finding myself pulled in little by little day by day... Other MMO's don't seem as fun now...


I would not suggest spending a lot of time swapping characters out. The only long term effect of your faction and bloodline choices are the way your character looks. In the meantime, every time you reset, you are losing whatever skill points you have earned.

In the short term, your faction choice effects what part of space you start in, but you can fly to any empire space in about 5 minutes. It also effect which race's ships you get starting skill points to fly. Bloodline effect how your starting skills are focused. However, you start with only about 2 days worth of pre-trained skills, so it is really a non-issue. You can train to fly ships from any faction.
Malcolm Shinhwa
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2013-10-31 01:41:29 UTC
I found Eve during the Star Citizen crowd funding. Figured I'd give Eve a try while I waited for my investment to pay off .... derp... Now I'm going to be hard pressed to play much SC. Eve has ruined me for all other MMOs. I had a couple of lvl 80 toons in Guild Wars 2 that I haven't logged on in months. Same goes for SW:TOR. Sandbox, best box.

I didn't really follow a plan to learning Eve. 2 really great things happened to me my first month of the game. The first was when an evil pirate ganked my venture and pod (with my free genos!!) in hisec. That guy became my first Eve friend and I eventually spent some time as a spotter for him, although I mostly sucked. I learned a lot about surviving in hisec against people just like him.

The second was when someone stiffed me on letting me salvage L4 missions for him only after I spent almost all of my isk on a Noctis. I forlornly sat in Vylade and asked in local if anyone would let me salvage missions for them for a cut. Gulmint immediately sent me a fleet invite which I accepted. I proceeded to salvage 10 level 4 missions he and his corpmates were working on. They didn't want any of the salvage, but I sent him a cut anyway. I paid for the entire Noctis in that one night. I joined Suns of Korhal and stayed for several months learning about ship fitting, PvE missions, and wormhole space. Probably not realizing what I would become, Gulmint even took me on my first gank :)

Then I found the joys of the New Order and have since learned a breathtaking amount about hisec, lowsec, and nullsec. Even more about ship fits (mostly what bad ones look like). And currently find myself living in a C2 wormhole anxiously awaiting the hellaisk I hear wormholers make. I've awox'd corps, flown multiple jumps into nullsec in a catalyst to die, and went a couple of times with Bombers Bar (all on alts).

Mostly what I'm saying is, you're going to have to experiment and take some risks. Most of the risks will involve trusting other people. In Eve trusting other people is usually a really bad idea. That's one of the things that makes Eve so great.

[i]"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental[/i]."
Keno Skir
#29 - 2013-10-31 18:30:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Keno Skir
I liked your story malcolm.

When i first started EvE i literally had no idea what i was getting myself into. I used to play various other games a lot in my spare time but since EvE hit me other games have looked restricted and short, almost to the point of pointlessnes (what a wierd word). Against most peoples (reasonable) advice i started my own corp right off the bat, intending it to be just me and who ever else needed a hassle free corp. Collected some fellow newbies and had a blast in hisec doing whatever we wanted.

Life as a corp completely full of newbies (including newbie CEO) is hard, but that means FUN and INTERESTING. We made loads of good contacts and the corp grew with us. Of course we got wardecs all the time from anyone who saw us and bothered to read up a bit, we were all horribly underskilled for almost everything we tried to do. I think the constant wardecs helped us clean away the non-hackers quite nicely :) We had to learn the hard way that actual intelligence is more powerful than SP most of the time, and eventually i was left with an amazing crew of survivors that i still play along-side today.

Later we moved into a C1 wormhole and learned about running a POS, surviving with no security, bits of PvP and lots about wormhole space before upgrading to a C2. The C2 was much more active and helped us learn more about small scale PvP and much MUCH more about wormhole space yet again. We fought several other corps who set up POS in our wormhole, learning all the time about enemy fleet composition, tactics & lots of funny stealth bomber training.

Cut to now and i have nulsec plans, then more wormhole plans stashed for when nul gets boring.

The point i'm trying to get across here is that it's taken 2.5 years to get to grips with the game and properly investigate a small part of it.. That's why i love EvE.

In 5 years i'll probably still have new **** to try out and new things to learn.

Other games take 2 days to complete and spend 2 years as a coaster for my coffee mug..

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Malcolm Faust
Cthulhu Expeditionary Force
#30 - 2013-11-02 19:55:27 UTC
I started playing because I love sci-fi, EVE drew me in by the depth of the game. I did some nerdy research before I ever subscribed just to see what there was exactly to do in the game.

PVP, PVE, mining, manufacturing, exploration, trade, invention, planetary interaction, smuggling, role playing, Dust, hell I think there's even a knitting club.

The hard choice to make is to pick a direction. I initially chose exploration, and then I got drawn into other aspects of the game. Mostly PVP, now I can't leave until I see where it all the strings go.

There is a reason why everyone says to find a corporation to join. That is the absolute best way to play the game, find likeminded people to play it wit. Figure out what you want to do and look in the reqruitment page for someone with the same intrest as you.

Good luck!
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#31 - 2013-11-02 20:46:38 UTC
I started back in the days because it was one of the steam offers. I got hooked and never left EVE for more then a month break here and there.

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Richard Ramlrez
Doomheim
#32 - 2013-11-05 20:55:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Richard Ramlrez
Marzom Dread wrote:
I came to eve in 2010, after leaving FFXI (played it for 6 years or so). I had left FFXI for FFXIV but quickly realized it was garbage. I didn't want to return ti FFXI so I gave EVE a try and fell in love with it within minutes. I been here ever since, with multiple chars. I love the ruthlessness of EVE, and will only leave when the servers shutdown. Cool



I played FFXI also for many years and recently decided to stop it. It's too time consuming even to do mundane tasks. I have very limited playing time now and the offline skill training allows me to progress when i can't play. Also i got tired of being told what to do in traditional MMORPG and the hunt for the new best set of gear.

I rather enjoy EVE's relaxing scenery and playing whenver i can and still not feel gimp compared to others. I'm coming back to EVE after 2 years and enjoying it slowly.
Lance Stratos
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2013-11-05 21:17:11 UTC
I find eve to be more about the social aspect.

I started this game in high school, oh 5 years ago I think (this is an alternate character i use). Back then looking at the dreadnaughts and large ships, just thinking about one day being able to fly them instead of my level 2 mission running destoryer kept me playing for a month until i found a corperation of people. early on i went from corp to corp and met many people. 95% of whom have stopped playing for many reasons (money, work, school, family) until i found my current corp almost 3 years ago. Since then we have not played just eve but other games as well, but eve draws us back in either because of the space ships, the politics, the fact we can build up and do so much, and know people who listen to us and can make things reshape this entire game for thousands of real people.

If you are leaving Eve then its not the game, its the people you are playing with. Finding a group where you fit in and are heard is important above all else in this game. And remember, they can't make you do anything, this is your account, play the game as you feel.
Jim Roebuck
State War Academy
Caldari State
#34 - 2013-11-06 03:00:49 UTC
I'm sure a decent-sized number of us came from WoW like me, maybe a tad bit smaller number who stuck around even through the complexity and politics and bullshit and whatnot.

When Bon Scott died and he appeared before St. Peter at the gates of Heaven, St. Peter looked at his record and told him he couldn't get in. Just then, God screams at Peter, "Let him in, Karen Carpenter is driving me nuts. I want to hear some music with balls. We'll haggle over the paperwork later." At least I hope that's what happened.
FEARNAUGHT O'BREQ
Open University of Celestial Hardship
Art of War Alliance
#35 - 2013-11-06 17:51:43 UTC
I was looking for a PC game that was a bit different from the console fare I'd been consuming these past few years. EVE came up in a search, after some further checking, helped by the videos of Scott Manley & Seamus Donohue, my interest was growing.
What finally sold me on EVE was a series of videos by Rooks & Kings, that was when I decided I wanted in.

Early days, just started the Industrial tutorial. Got to figure out what all these bells & whistles do. Lol
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#36 - 2013-11-06 19:38:22 UTC
Deck Cadelanne wrote:
Disastro wrote:

Many years before that (yes i am this old) i used to play a pencil and paper space RPG called "Traveller" which i enjoyed at the time. It was more or less a dungeons and dragons in space sort of thing. Later they came out with a PC game called Megatraveller which was fun but was a solo player game not an online game. When EQOA began dying off in popularity i began looking for an online version of traveller which i did not find in my searches. Instead I came across EVE. It isnt quite the same but it is pretty close.


Traveller FTW! I think of High Guard every time I log in :-)

Oh yeah, Traveller! If they really integrated EVE and Dust and had marines on ships, it could actually be Traveller.
GordonO
BURN EDEN
#37 - 2013-11-07 00:56:56 UTC
A friend introduced me to EvE. When he first told me about it I thought its just another grindy boring MMO. Turns out after the first week of smacking my head out of frustration against the keyboard it was different, still grindy in some cases. What I love is the planning and thought you need to put into the game. I get bored easily, and I can honestly say I haven't been bored yet.
Best advice is to join a good corp and learn from them, it makes a huge difference in getting to know and enjoy the game.

... What next ??
RomeStar
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#38 - 2013-11-08 16:38:51 UTC
Can I have your stuff when you quit?

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Dasola
New Edens Freeports
#39 - 2013-11-08 19:51:05 UTC
In 2008 my wife watched television documentary about virtual worlds: second life, etc... One of featured worlds was EvEonline. Based what she see in document, she tells me: I think you might like it, give it a try...

So i went throw the forums having bit disbelief, can there really be mmo where you are free, no pre scripted path to follow...

So i downloaded trial, created account and two days later im hooked to this damn game..

That was 2008, since then i haven missed literally more then week of not login...

Bad thing about founding EvE is, now all other MMOs feel too easy and scripted... So literally my play time on any other mmo has dropped massively.

For me biggest lure is freedom to go and do what you want. You want, not what developer think you want.

We are Minmatar, Our ship are made of scraps, but look what our scraps can do...
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