EVE General Discussion

kind of curious about how player’s ended up here, personally I’ve been a gamer for years. I was always switching from free mmo to mmo, mostly Ragnarock Online private servers and Maple Story. But eventually the games changed, I was tired of games making it so easy for new players, all the hard work... down the drain.... 12yrs old being able to grind to my level in 3 weeks and reaching the same levels I had. Depressing :/. I had always had my eye on EVE, sometimes I would sit hours on and watch videos of people playing. I had always longed to play but never felt like paying (broke high school students felt this way). I had tried EVE once before, one day I couldn’t take it and got a trail, I lasted 3 hours and was utterly confused and lost. I had absolutely no idea what to do; I wasn’t used to sandbox type games. So I returned to other random mmo's, I tried lotro, and D&D Online, and even played a random open source on called The Mana World but it didn’t abide my thirst. Eventually I got fed up; all the free games were full of immature kids. I remember my tipping point... about a year ago I got into Black Propchey. I really wanted a cool sci fi game to play, it was alright. But didn’t seem "free", it just wasn’t an open universe. I wanted to explore. Fly through space doing whatever I wanted. Eventually I couldn’t take it. I went and bought a 6 month subscription to EVE and forced myself to learn the game. Boy the first two months were tough, but I’m glad I got through it. I only wish now I had done so sooner. But tell me your story, what brought you to New Eden?

Used to play mostly Japanese import shoot em ups and arcade puzzlers (2d vertical scrolling shooting games, not third person shooters btw).

About 2005 I uh... got my own place and my own internets and remembered a game I dabbled with in beta way back on dialup. I've never played any other mmo for any significant time and I suspect Eve has ruined my chance of enjoying any other mmo ever.

Its all about the spaceships and lasers

I was playing Freelancer on a small Crossfire Mod server (35 logged into space at once!) and there was only one or two players I flew with but they disappeared. Than 6 months or so later I saw one of them playing on another server (different mod) and asked him if he had been playing some mod I hadn't heard of... and he said "No... I started playing EvE. You should check it out... and quit your job." While I had to pass on the latter recommendation I did finally check it out... and here I am. Still miss Nomad guns, stick and rudder flight, and more interesting environments of FL... but other than that major upgrade.

Back in 2003 i was spending £200 a week on clubbing / booze etc etc and needed a sharp 'come back to earth / live like a hermit for a while'.... a mate from an external forum linked the end beta to eve and i thought 'this will make a fine hobby to keep me indoors while i dry out'
Apart from a couple of year break, i'm still here, cleaned up and a family man treating the space lanes as a hobby to escape the day to day grind rl has to offer

I was a die hard Master of Orion fan (part one, but mainly part 2); later I discovered Starcraft and with 2 friends we used to go to the local gameshop and challenge other teams. Yes, that was the time when internet connections were so bad that people actually met face to face to play a multiplayer game .
Our starcraft team was pretty succesfull, I think for a short time we may have been the best in town. Then 4 korean schoolkids came in and taught us the all important lesson to never, ever play starcraft against koreans...
Our team was so massively slaughtered that we disbanded and I lost my interest in videogames for a while.
Several years later a friend brought me to WoW (vanilla), and after about 2 years (just after the Burning Crusade release) i got so burned out on WoW that I gave away all my stuff (so you cannot haz it anymore) and left, never to return.
This friend was quite obsessed about videogames, until this day he has played almost every MMO. I often used to come over to him, we were drinking beer and he showed me his newest games. And somehow, when I was drunk, he got me into making a trial account for eve. At that time I hadn't had the slightest idea what eve was about.
We made a character for me this night- Zimmy. Problem was, this friend told me that eve was all about mining and trading- so I first developed my character accordingly. This is a bit of a curse for me, until this days my skills always tend to bring me into industrial corps or industrial branches of more combat oriented corps. And there is hardly a thing I hate more about eve than mining...I am still struggling to break out of my niche.
For the first years I have been playing eve on and off, with long breaks. Tried City of Heroes in the meantime (Plant Controller, YAY), but in the end I kept always returning to eve....

Short version as i've been playing PC videogames for 20 years... I played Elite New Frontier, Privateer, Privateer 2, Freelancer, X3: Reunion, and loved the genre. Then i learned of a game called EVE Online, was, well, an online game, and was on the genre. I just had got a DSL connection so I read about EVE and was a bit perplexed; tons upon tons of information like pieces of hay, but couldn't find a string to tie them together. WTF was all that nosnens about laser crystals, dunno-repair modules, and so and so? How where they used, or where they of any use? So i looekd for opinions on the game and most of them warned that it was slow and tough to start as all what could be done for the first month or so was mining. Also found a video review that described combat as "all automated and the guy with the most expensive sutff wins", which was less than engaging for a joystick flyer. So i abandoned the idea of playing EVE altogether for like three years.

Anyway, I spent about a year playing X3: Reunion and switching it with online comabt at Il-2 Sturmovik, and eventually all I was doing was online PvP with il-2 Sturmovik. Anyway my first online game was Pirates of the Burning Sea, which i subscribed to as an expansion for another pet genre of mine, naval games. Anyway POTBS turend to be plagued by a seriosly disgruntled player community, somehow misguided developers too willing to listen to players, and very specially the perpetual demands of PvP players to have more fun. The game began to go to hell, population dwindled, servers were merged and PvE issues were backlogged while ground combat became ludicrous and PvP began plaguing PvErs. I grew tired and thought it was time to get back to space so I looked back at EVE, and signed for a trial and after four or five days I fell in love with it. Anyway I was bit misguided, I had a wrong concept of how PvP and retribution worked, joined EVE-U but it was wardecced every week so I essentially could do nothing, then focused on PvE and aimed for flying a better ship and learned the very hard way what skills mean in-game... left EVE for about a month and then started again with my good ole Ishtanchuk, almost three years ago.

I've been out of game for shorts period of time, (even went back to POTBS, just to see it in a painful condition right before going FTP), also played AoC for a while but grew tired of senseless killing for leveling, killing for traveling around the map, killing for breakfast, lunch and dinner... yikes. The longer i lasted was 2 months.

And now here i am... have stopped playing EVE, have no hopes to get back to playing it this year, and i am pretty aware that i may come back some day but it all will be ex-sex... nice for a short period but plagued with all what it was and how it went "meh"... and all in all she's gonna be the same, for good and for bad.

Really, really CCP had to spoil incarna and then begin listening to nullsec whiners and give the finger to everyone else...

I first became aware of the existence of Eve about 6 or 7 years ago at a Magic the Gathering tournament in a game store that had a rather impressive array of networked gaming PC's.

Between matches, with little better to do than mill about waiting for the next pairings posting, I'd find myself glancing over to see what people were playing. WoW, mostly.

But there was one screen that was notably darker than all the rest. From far away, I could only tell that It was crowded with an incomprehensible UI and - Oh my god, was that a planet?! He's playing a pretty decent looking sci-fi game! I edged closer. His screen seemed to be centered on a tiny fixed object. Then he zoomed in.

It was love at first internet spaceship.

Fearing I might never find out what he was playing, I broke protocol and outright asked. "Eve", he said. I had played Starcraft, Privateer, Homeworld and Starlancer before. Excellent titles, to be sure, but I hadn't heard of any other singleplayer sci-fi titles, and it seemed odd that someone would be playing one here. I asked him if it was an MMO, positive that there had to be some heart-breaking catch since I hadn't heard about this game before. He explained that it was, and launched into some of the broader aspects of the game. I could tell from the snatches of his ramblings which I could understand that the game had impressive depth. Moreso than WoW, if half of what he was saying was true, anyway.

The tournament called me back, but I remembered that MMO, so unlike any other. Some time thereafter, I downloaded the client and played the free trial. At the end of the trial, I was certain I must have been one of the best pilots in the game, sniping rats with my 'super long range' Kestrel I had farmed my way up to. Alas, I was but an impoverished high school student, and was very committed to WoW at the time. I couldn't bring myself to take on a second monthly subscription. That old EVE trial account faded into obscurity.

Fast forward to roughly 2 or 3 years ago. I had earned a gladiator drake in arena season 2 on WoW, and my class was nerfed into the ground because Warrior Tom 'Chilton' Kelgan and his Rogue girlfriend couldn't beat Warlock/Support in 2's. The shockingly short timespan between the release of Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King made it obvious that no matter how much effort you put in, you'd never be on top for long before the game universe changed around you, effectively forcing you to start from scratch. Leveling and gear aquisition continued to be made easier and easier to attract a broader playerbase, further undermining everyone's accomplishments.

From my perspective, I had beaten the game just as it began to fall to pieces.

At the time, Eve banners had begun to pop up on a LOT of the websites I frequented. I hate to admit being suceptable to any form of advertising, but some of them were GORGEOUS. I was sucked into another free trial... but this time, making the switch was an easy decision. I eagerly traded what had become "Baby's first MMO" for what is probably the most vicious MMO out there. The learning cliff was a bit of a shock, to say the least, but I had always been a big fish in a small pond in WoW anyway, so I muscled through.

And now here I am, 52m SP later! :)

Was addicted to Elite as a kid. Years later, I moved on to Doom and then Quake online. After Quake, I became completely bored with FPS games. Tried a few RTS games, but nothing online.

I remember when Eve came out. I watched it develop but never registered an account. Simply didn't have the time. Went to Uni, had the drunken party life, went to work, got married, had kids...

Then one day, my kids showed me an online game they were playing: Wizard 101. I registered an account so I could play with them. It's only a kids' game but it was a lot of fun playing online as a family.

Wizard 101 sparked something in me. I wondered how Eve was going these days. Hell, I've got plenty of spare time now. Was Eve ready for me, yet?

It was. And here I am.

The funny thing is, we haven't played Wizard101 for quite some time. My eldest discovered Minecraft and is now addicted. But my 8 year old likes hopping on to my 2nd account to 'be my scientist' as she calls it. I give here the blueprints and minerals, tell her what I want and off she goes. She's quite a competent manufacturer.

So go ahead and have a good laugh. I'm guessing I'm the only Wizard101 to Eve convert here.