EVE General Discussion

Imagination.

We can't have your stuff, but you've subscribed so you can post and ask us for our stuff (the work required to summarize everything for you).

The fact there's no other sandbox mmo with as much sand in it, oh and spaceships.

Can I have your SP?

-Lots of ship balancing and smallish quality of life improvements.
-Some would say dumbing down of features (ex. Scanning interface and Industry rewrite) which removed some role specialization.
-Changes for Jump Fatigue and Fozziesov which were designed to break up the big blue donut in null-sec, but has had the side effect of making null feel empty & low-sec more active.
-Big changes coming to capitals and citidels this spring+. New content is promised after that on the roadmap.
-High-sec carebearing made more safe.
-Skill point trading just happened so we'll have to see if it is a net positive for the game.

Forums are overall less salty, but much less activity. Reddit has picked up some of the slack.

Playing because it takes a long time to try everything in Eve.

The tude on this guy

Droidster,

Ow, looks like I hit a nerve. Best graphics of any game? When was the last time you played another game? The graphics seem to be pretty much right where I left them the last time I checked in, which was three years ago, ish. I was particularly impressed with how dull all the Amarr structures seem now. I recall golden citadels in the sky, but some of that may be fond memories, old screen shots are pretty pixelated. (Have you seen the thread about a high end texture pack that is not yet released?)

In any case the view that got me to come back was one of the CCP advertisement movies which was clearly Jita, but looked nearly photo realistic. So I logged in, and I see what I remember from before, same folding turrets, same gold skins.

We had wormholes when I left. They were ok. some folks really liked them. Except for a few ships, I don't see new systems have been added, so we got the drone regions and WH space in pretty short order, then what? Did they open access to the Jove sector? I'm happy to find out I'm wrong, I'm just not seeing it.

I see some new ships, and new cap stuff and new citadels for the folks what build them. I don't doubt gameplay evolves, I started with active tanks, then moved on to passive ones, it looked like active was trying to make a comeback did that stick?

I love how even all these years later people on this forum compare EVE to WOW. nuff said there I think.

As for inflation, that's more like a 4 or 5 year shift, and that would be about 70% inflation. The Fed keeps things to 3% on average. Maybe take an econ class eh?

I spent most of my days pissing people off, so I'm not really surprised I've rubbed a few people here the wrong way. Perhaps you think it's presumptuous of me to pass judgment on EVE. I wonder what you think someone would have to have in there resume to be allowed to do so, perhaps you don't think anyone anywhere should.

For me, I'll be splitting my time, Space Engineers fails miserably to capture the scope of EVE, but I can build whatever I want and land on the planets, so that's something. MWO has big stompie robots and I can get a fight whenever I want one. EVE will give me a stuff in space fix for another 20 some odd days, maybe I'll find something fantastic that I haven't seen and buy more time. Maybe not. If you wanted to sell me on the game though you are failing. I get that you really like the game, but I don't think you have a realistic appreciation for the competition. I would put EVE graphics as roughly on par with STO. EVE has better ship models, but the STO skins change as you take damage. EVE has better long range vistas, it feels like space, I love the distance combat can occur at, but STO has something to do outside or even inside of the ships. It also lets me play for free.

If EVE went to a FTP model, (I'm sure that's heresy eh?) I'd probably spend a lot more time here. I don't know what they would tempt me with for microtransactions though.

At any rate, I like EVE. I have many, many fond memories of playing. I just don't know if there are more memories worth making here. If you are having fun, then I am happy for you. No need to get touchy or defensive. They have been saying "EVE is dying" since at least 2003 when I started. We had an EVE is dying thread at least once a week all through 2012 when I stopped paying attention. I'm sure there will be threads about it long after those of you I've upset have moved on as well.

Too many changes along the way to summarize them, I'd think. If you start a new char and run through the tutorials for a while you might see quite a few new things. Also?

-Goons changed from being rude boys Stalinists into respectable soldier-citizens of the Imperium.

-CODE. (New Order of Halaima, something like that) miner-freighter gankers are the new nasties/snarkies. They've got an operation rolling, seem to be harvesting good high sec isk on a daily basis. But currently overshadowed by....

-Blue funk by many new and old codgers about the introduction of an SP-trading/buying feature.

-Little patches of mold growing here and there, about how official EVE forums are recently have about as much content as a newspaper color advertising insert. Seems the discussion moved over to the kitchen party in Reddit. Will CCP move it back to the hi-fi stereo living room, or establish a hipster presence in the chatty scene? You make the call.

Anyway, many changes mate, I'd recommend touring the tutorials so you don't miss anything. It's so easy to come back and go back to what you were doing before, and never know what else is out there.

The same happens in EVE. Take a cheap catalyst (as it looks awesome when being damaged), fly somewhere with npcs and let them get you to hull before you jump out, you will see then.

Some of the time because I enjoy the game, some of the time, force of habit.

I have always paid by annual sub, so even if real life takes precedent for a while, I am still in the game.