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What is best play style to learn

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Mr Palmer Sotken
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#1 - 2011-10-07 18:15:05 UTC
As above
just recently we have moved to a huge open plan apartment in the south east of the uk, we have all this space however there was no suitable fixed location to plant my hand built desktop, it is housed in a huge haf-x case, the wife put her foot down and would not have it spoil the apperance of our space, so as a compromise i said ok i will get rid of that and replace it with a laptop, little did she know i had a nice alienware machine all lined up....£1608 later here i am Big smile
now at the moment i kind of struggle to read the small print on my 1920x1080 screen so i have purchased myself a 5mt hdmi cable fingers crossed its here tomorrow, i have 1 already but its only 1mt long however i have tested Eve and it looks amazin on a 46" hdtv.
so onto my question is eve playable via a laptop keyboard and mouse or will i find myself needing an external keyboard.

thanks
Kilrayn
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#2 - 2011-10-07 18:44:18 UTC
A laptop keyboard shouldn't cause an issue flying your ship. In combat my hands rarely leave 'wasd' and you don't need any button combinations really. Chatting is more vigorous on the keyboard than piloting.

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Mr Palmer Sotken
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#3 - 2011-10-07 19:10:03 UTC
ok cool thank you
Keno Skir
#4 - 2011-10-08 06:49:09 UTC
I play almost exclusively on a laptop, no problems so far Smile

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
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#5 - 2011-10-08 16:33:17 UTC
Exclusive Laptop player. Even dual boxing on it (without CQ that is, with CQ my laptop becomes hotter then Tsjernobyl and Fukushima together)

But never had troubles when FIS with both clients etc.

On keyboard 'problem' besides the hotkeys (F1 / F8) and some other general stuff I don't use my keyboard much besides the chatting.

During PvP all is done through voice comms so even less stressing at that moments.

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Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-10-09 01:13:32 UTC
honestly other then typeing, u can do a lot without a keyboard at all.... you do want a 3 button mouse though, including the wheel.
Lyric Lahnder
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2011-10-10 14:26:13 UTC
depending on how much heat your uber laptop creates you might need external cooling, which is relatively cheap. I payed 30 bucks for a targus and now my lap top is elevated on my desk and I have no cooling issues.

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CCP Spitfire
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#8 - 2011-10-10 16:21:32 UTC
I played for almost 2 years on a laptop and never felt the need for an external keyboard. You might want a second monitor at some point though; I know I did. Smile

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Mr Palmer Sotken
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#9 - 2011-10-10 17:24:15 UTC
CCP Spitfire wrote:
I played for almost 2 years on a laptop and never felt the need for an external keyboard. You might want a second monitor at some point though; I know I did. Smile



:) i was hooked upto the 46" tv the other night
Mr Palmer Sotken
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#10 - 2011-10-10 17:25:26 UTC
Lyric Lahnder wrote:
depending on how much heat your uber laptop creates you might need external cooling, which is relatively cheap. I payed 30 bucks for a targus and now my lap top is elevated on my desk and I have no cooling issues.



uber cool m8 4 hours playing last night 57 degrees across all 4 cores
Anshio Tamark
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Caldari State
#11 - 2011-10-12 07:41:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Anshio Tamark
I'm playing on my laptop about 80% of the time, at the time being. No problems so far, unless I forget to plug my external cooler-stand into one of my USB-slots. Runs CQ smoothly, runs combat smoothly, runs anything I want smoothly (I haven't seen how well it would handle meeting a large 100-man fleet, though...) and it only crashes when I don't have the cooler-stand plugged in.

Generally, yes, you can play EVE on a laptop.

EDIT: Also, the headline is a bit mis-leading. I first thought you were asking about what in-game play-style is best to learn, so I had to re-read each post once more...
jajat
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2011-10-13 13:54:04 UTC
shoot everyone
Fronkfurter McSheebleton
Horse Feathers
CAStabouts
#13 - 2011-10-14 20:01:22 UTC
You ditched you gaming rig because she didn't like the case? Grab a lian-li, man!

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Mr Palmer Sotken
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#14 - 2011-10-15 17:42:52 UTC
Fronkfurter McSheebleton wrote:
You ditched you gaming rig because she didn't like the case? Grab a lian-li, man!


still would not have been suitable , if you'd seen the space you'd understand why..............got the laptop now and quite like gaming on it.
Nat'han
Doomheim
#15 - 2011-10-18 16:25:47 UTC
Mate U need to get a frigging back bone (spine), and stop ya wife from being such a dictator and telling you wat and wat not u can have. Id never get rid of my uber gaming rig for nobody and my partner knows tht, ive even converted the larger Quest room into my games room. LOL

I do have a gaming laptop which is either down stairs in lounge or in dinning room. so i can be online all the time, if she dont like it, tough we both pay the bills so fares is fare