EVE New Citizens Q&A

As a seasoned veteran of another popular MMO I am 2 days into a trial of this game and so far I am hugely impressed. A chat channel dedicated to helping new players? the best you could hope for is a response in the game I have come from and it would probably be sarcastic and/or insulting. A GM contacting me voluntarily to check how I was enjoying the game and if I had any problems ? You would have absolutely no chance of that in the game I have been playing. From afking for hours with nothing to do a few days ago playing my old MMO, I am now hugely excited about the prospects of developing my capsuleer down the mirriad of skill paths available to me. ( ps there's nothing in my cargo hold, I promise ^^ )

North

For all the trolling and complaining one sees in other subforums, even this one from time to time, it seems people forget how helpful the devs and the community actually are, especially if one compares this game to other MMOs. I've been around for only a couple of months but have been totally blow away by the dev involvement on the forums and the overall community. Granted according to threadnaughts around here this is a fairly new approach(or it's deemed non existant), but I think it deserves merit. I've not seen one other video game (let alone MMO) forum with quite as much community input as I have here.

Oh, and the ISDs are like a well tuned immune system when it comes to handling trolls. So that helps.

normal mmos don't make your head spin just navigating the ui.

I have in WOW back in the days what now seems like an eternity, I was .. ahem ... scaling the walls ... near silithus what was later to become Ahn'qiraj, so this blue robed guy appeared and asked "how did you get here ?" my answer was "I walked" and he was like "well you're not supposed to be here" this was like what is it 10 years since wow was launched a few months before the user numbers just exploded.

As a side note you shouldn't publish discussions with a GM staff as it is a breach of EULA, though I'm not sure how it's interpreted in regarding to what you posted since GM's name is removed.

Consensual, Ralph. Non-consensual.

No such thing as non-consequential gameplay in my EVE.

Everything has consequences here, OP. Everything!

Mr Epeen

This ^^^ truly describes EVE... players don't even trust the GMs.



It also helps to understand how valuable a group of trustworthy capsuleers will be to your career here in New Eden.

OP... Find a good crowd (corp) to hang with and EVE will become even larger than you thought.

As a new player, all I saw was a strange person contacting me and offering help for nothing in return, with no proof of credentials. That sets off all kinds of alarm bells in EvE.

In retrospect it was a bit silly, but a healthy dose of paranoia is always good to carry around with you in EvE. However, just talking to a strange character isn't dangerous really. They really can't do anything to scam you without some concession on your part - giving them items/isk, going somewhere lawless with them, joining their corporation, etc.

So, go talk to strangers.

its in the back of my ishkur

If you come over to HED I have some candy there at the sun

As a fellow newly-awakened capsuleer, I can't tell you how much I agree. This game is so... infectious. I'm still in the starting NPC corp and have only done the basic missions and SoE Arc; this content is considered by many to be the most boring part of EVE. The sheer complexity and beautiful intricacy of the game balance alone is staggering. I think this game is a work of art, in many ways. I haven't had the time to really dive into the game, but every day I am reading the forums and some sort of informative guide/post/blog etc. The community, the fear, the risk, the reward, the options, the seemingly endless possibilities... there isn't a day that goes by where I don't read about some aspect/gameplay of EVE that I didn't know about. No other game has ever truly captured my attention and impressed me more than EVE.