EVE New Citizens Q&A

Eve is not dieing or loseing players, its gaining more all the time. Trolls will just be trolls. Don't listen or believe everything you hear. There are a lot of alts who don't use their mains and cry about super carrier nerfs and how it killed their god like status in the game. So now that they can die like the rest of us, they just mad they are now killable. Pretty much explains all the crying. Don't worry about it. Play the game, enjoy it, it is going to be around for many decades to come.

There are between 300,000 and 400,000 subscribed, 40,000 to 50,000 logged in at the same time 23/7. Some time ago there was a rant about people unsubbing, was just a bunch of alts about 1000 fake unsubbing, but posting on the forums, forum warrioring all the live long day once apon a time. Thousands of new people come and play eve all the time. I see a lot of new players and old.

I find this question a bit hard to answer.

The downside of EVE in my personal opinion is that it's full of vets. It's top heavy. Everything has been seen and done and explored and conquered already. Every piece of 0.0 space is occupied, traders have perfected their spreadsheets and it doesn't look like EVE is going to get really revolutionary changes. For example: next "expansion" is mostly about re-balancing, not really any "new" content. And yes, I think EVE would thrive more if there was a second server where people could start from scratch.

Also EVE has its flaws: personally I think almost everything is unneccessarily slow and there's hardly anything that caters casual players that want to jump into action. Finding PvP targets can be quite tedious and you may well end up having no fights after looking around in lowsec for hours. Gettting a bit versatile and well-skilled for anything bigger than a T1 (battle)cruiser takes months, if not years.

That said, the world of EVE is quite extensive and it's kind of fun to get to know how things work and try things out, making money, trying out new tactics. Fights can be exciting if you find one. Your first wormhole or gate camp or fight is quite a thrill. It also depends on what you like and the people you meet. It will definitely keep you amused for a while.

I think it's about 100,000 subscribed with on average 3 accounts each?
Look at this, especially questions 5. and 13.

Have you also looked at the number of people that voted, just over 400 so that isn't even near enough to say the other part of the 100.000+ players have to be like that.

Also I don't think a 2nd server will benefit for a couple of reasons. The first reason: vets/scammers/griefers will move there. Also being on 1 server is one of the main differences that makes EVE 'better' then any other MMO like (BOHICA Blizzard) WoW. I like the part where there is the butterfly effect, so every action by any player (even if it's very small) will have effect. Also being in 1 server with vets helped me alot when I was a newb, loads of people tought me how stuff worked etc.

If you can't find what you are looking for, search harder as it will be somewhere around the EVE universe.

I agree that null-sec is just saturated. Let's hope CCP just found another jumpgate to an entire new region of null-sec or make it more easy for people to aquire null-sec space for themself.

As for markets, they seem to be saturated but if you are a hardcore industry/trader you will get in there. Just try to play the market so you will make profit while your stuff is still being sold below the other traders prices. That's the fun part of the market imo, it takes a bit of effort to get in them and make ISK.

I totally agree with EVE isn't good for a new player who just want to jump into the action from day one. EVE is all about 'long term' planning etc. there isn't much stuff that will let you just jump into the action, even simple lvl 1 missions as a new player require some degree of research about how missions work (triggers, tanking of rat damage etc).

I got into Cruisers in 3 days. Even trained some skills to make mine decent. Of course I'll train more but it only takes about a week to become good at a cruiser, in a month you should be great, a few months you should have all the skills you need trained and be the best you can be in a cruiser; barring personal skill and understanding of course.

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But i i will admit that i am actually looking forward to SWTOR. Even if in it's core it is a enhanced wow clone with lightsabers.

I came to Eve because I saw Incarna footage on youtube, plus I wanted to see if I was smart enough. Lol. I'd tried to get into Eve a couple of times before this Incarna phase, but it was too textbooky for me at that time. The New Player experience felt better this time around.

To start, I enjoyed Eve because it was so different from the other MMOs I've played - you don't have to fight and raid all the time, there's variety, trading, industry, real tension because the PvP can happen all over the place without prior consent. Those weren't around in my last MMO (DDO which I played since 2006). I think Eve is a very fresh take on the MMO concept, and the whole sandbox thing makes the players quite interesting. Re the more realistic PvP, since when does a bad guy say excuse me can I mug you now? :P

Getting into a new player corp that trains you might be okay to get your feet wet, but to escalate the fun factor, after a while join a corp in which the veterans let you participate in what they're doing. The recruitment thread is a good place to window shop corps. An active corp with a good number of vets is when the real fun comes alive. Just my opinion. And have patience, training can take a while, I'm getting a jump clone soon, and then I'll have a safe character to put my training implants on. ;)

Good luck!

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The difference between one character with all skills +4 vs the other with all skills +5 will be 5% to 10%. That the other guy wasn't using implants (or was using missile implants while flying a laser boat), or didn't know to use tracking enhancers instead of heat sinks is a different argument to SP equality.

lol people have always moaned on the forums since the forums conception, take no heed of us "forum warriors" we are usually uptight bittervets that like complaining.

If you ingnore the usual crap on the forums they can actually be a good place for information and help.

I;ve been playing for a few years now and like any game there are issues but this spaceship is definately not sinking, it's a great game!

no, really. level 4-5 generally takes 14-30 days. You get a 5-10% boost from level 4-5...

Whilst the "20% difference" is potentially lower than the actual number, but I wouldn't imagine that it's much higher than 33% or so.