EVE General Discussion

Find some nice people to play with. First order of business. ^-^

Go out and make friend.

Go have adventure with friend.

Kill friend and/or take his stuff, or not.

Rinse and repeat as necessary.

Eve!

Null is more fun.

Industry processes have been simplified with a better UI and a bunch of annoyances and bottlenecks removed, but the actualities of it have gotten more complicated with the usage of teams and install costs. You can be deluded into thinking things are simpler and more user friendly. If you want to make money in manufacturing you will need to change your paradigm.

There's more ships, and the modeling, stations, stars, and soon asteroid belts keep getting prettier and prettier.

Things are balanced quite well, but there are still some major holes. Carriers are still out of balance, and it's still Tengus Online, Ishtars Online, etc. Sov still needs work. However, balancing progresses very quickly. Ganking is harder now and more balanced, friendlier to the industrialists who properly fit their ships. However, most people don't properly fit their ships. Awoxing is going away soon.

For all the changes, Eve is still the same game. It's still a mixture of some of the rote types of play imaginable (mining, missions) that you do while you watch TV along side some of the most strategically advanced and heart-pounding play you'll find anywhere (small gang PvP, etc.). When you're an industrialist, you'll still think it's too easy to get killed. if you're a PvPer you'll still think it's too hard to get kills and find a good fight. As always, your group will make the difference. A lot of people log in to ship spin and play World of Tanks. Other groups are better. It's still hugely a matter of picking the right group.

Overall you'll adjust to the changes quite quickly and find out you're playing the same game. So my advice is to repeat what worked for you last time and avoid whatever it was that made you leave the game the first time.

Run about naked and
wonder if Adam has a chick on the side,
what's Caan's problem
and will he and Abel ever get along?

OOPS! Wrong Eve.

Welcome back to Eve,

Hope you have a long and rewarding career this time.



DMC

Freighters were given low slots and a role bonus to Bulkheads and can be much more heavily tanked at the cost of hauling capacity. So EHP can be increased while load value is can be decreased. Time has shown that most people prefer to fit for larger hauling capacity, though, which actually decreases EHP from before and makes freighters easier to gank. Reaction from the community has been mixed.

The Procurer was given an extra low slot allowing for the fitting of a Damage Control while keeping a relatively high yield. Also Procurer and Skiff have had offensive capabilities increased through drone bonuses. If I remember correctly, Procurer and/or Skiff also got their shield resist bonuses increased. I can't remember exactly all the details on these ships, but at this point Procurer/Skiff are effectively the barge/exhumer of choice for nearly all circumstances.

Deep Space Transports have had a whole new suite of abilities added. Concerning ganking, the overheat bonus allows a DST to be effectively unbreakable for a limited time.

Finally, the new Bowhead ORE freighter coming out will allow low, mid, and rig slots, allowing it to be fit to have over 400K EHP. It's nigh ungankable.

Basically, if you fit and play not to be ganked, you won't be ganked. However, tons of people don't fit that way, so ganking is still alive and well. It's a better situation overall.

I would start with cancelling subscription and burning building in which your Eve machine is.
Eve might get a facelift but under all that stretched shiny skin same all soul crushing evil awaits.
Fight fire with nuclear bomb!

WH

NO....Just NO !!!!!