EVE General Discussion

Don't say it twice you can get ban for this is ISD is in bad mood

In Quake, everyone got access to the same weapons and armor and the only advantage that the veteran player got over the new player, is experience and real skills (not calculated skills by subscription time). That's the farthest possible thing from eve mechanics I can think of.

Meh, OP should stop reading GD. Go to any game, read the forums, and tell me how the game is. Tell me how every class is broken, every corp/guild/random instance is full of idiots, how new players dont have a chance.

Then actually play that game, and tell me whether the forums are an accurate representation of the game. Just remember, people enjoying the game do not go to the forums and post "OMG, I am really enjoying PvP at the moment" because they are, strangely enough, playing the game :)

If the OP doesn't want to join a corp, he should at least check out the eve-uni class library, so he can learn a bit about game mechanics.

The myth that new players have no chance is no more true than it was when it was first touted, probably a year or so into eve.

So what if someone has 100m SP....there is a limit to how many they can have in a given field, specialisation is what you are after. If it was true that all that matters is SP, then whoever had the highest SP would by default win in PvP (Since they are a higher "level"), a new player would not be able to manufacture/Mine/Mission as well as an older player, no matter how long they played, they would not be able to compete on the market, and yet none of this occurs.

Burn Jita occured in 1 out of 5000 systems...in 1 of 23 regions with high sec in them, Other hubs were and are available if people wanted to avoid it. It was also only for 1 weekend.
Hulkageddon is for 1 month. Don't sit AFK in a belt.

Low sec is (sadly) under-populated, so "I am going to get ganked as soon as I jump in" is not entirely accurate. "I am going to get ganked if I jump into Rancer/Amammake/Eggelhende/Bosena/(Insert busy system)" is perhaps more accurate....but then, the most kills/hr always happen in high sec, so you judge where is safer...

The sociability of eve? I also play(ed) WoW, AoC, LOTRO, EQ2, WAR, Rift etc and it was far easier to play those never interacting with other players. In Eve, even the most solo 1-man corp people (Like me) are usually hanging out in several channels with other people swapping information.

Did they accomplish this act of ganking without a ship? Because the ship will eat into their profits. And to gank a Hulk in 1.0 space, solo, you need T2 fittings. You're going to need a destroyer most likely worth more than 10M ISK. So, no profit.

You're a newbie whiner, go back to WoW.

Just what I said. Null sec is full of really hardcore carebears. The whole game is full of them /us. The OP seemed to think that null sec was full of LEET PVP'rs or something. It's not. Many people(not all so don't freak out)in null are just as risk adverse as their high sec counterparts. Just because they join blob fleets now and again and get some kills doesn't mean they aren't carebears.

w/e

Referencing back to the op. That is because the majority of casual, respectable and other people who enjoy the game's social aspect, want to have a good time etc are too busy doing that to try to be showy attention grabbing bigots. Who cares about the self concious people who have an undesirable need for attention, find good peeps, and play the game. There are many out in new eden.

uh what

EvE grows at a very acceptable rate for CCP. A single shard universe cannot at the moment serve hundreds of thousands simultaneous players. What about profit? Well, for every 100 players who try the game and don't like it, there are a few who do subscribe, and, amongst those few, a couple who will buy a scout account, an industrial account, a remote boosting account, an ecm account, and fund everything through PLEX.

Gameplay in EvE is incredibly and quite absurdly harsh... if you play on a single account. A scout is mandatory, and players are forced to use several clients at once, if they wish to attain any degree of relevance in New Eden. And not only for solo. Ever seen a higher up in any powerful corporation that hadn't a slew of alts? yeah, me neither.

Single sharding also creates very strong power plays. A big player in EvE can truly brag, instead of saying "I'm the best warrior on the 289th WoW server", he'll say "I'm top brass in X alliance", that sounds somewhat more impressive. Power plays in this game are also driven by real money, some people are just very rich and like to spend it on online games. Mercenary fees and the like will be negotiated through isk created by PLEX (and some paypal transactions that will escape CCP's grasp).


EvE is actually the most Pay-to-Win game out there. Sociopathy is absolutely encouraged, as it generates a very high profit to player ratio.




Financially it would not make sense for CCP. Allowing alts generates the same revenue for much less server load than an equal number of different players would. And the P2W/multiple accounts aspect of EvE generates huge profit.

Greetings, person-who-thinks,

He wants to eviscerate nullsec people, who often have many paying accounts. I'm planning out accounts #4 and 5 actually ...