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How the hell do I enjoy this game?

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ctx2007
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#41 - 2012-09-16 11:04:57 UTC
option 1. Eve is what you make it.

Option 2. Don't think Eve as a chore, but a challenge for you to better yourself in game.

Option 3. Play Eve and have some porn going as well (Dont forget the tissues otherwise goooey keyboard What? )

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Lythane
Weave
#42 - 2012-09-16 11:05:29 UTC
Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#43 - 2012-09-16 11:09:22 UTC
Antisocial Malkavian wrote:
Dyrallanex wrote:
Manufacturing? "Train all your production skils to 5, until then your just losing money".



and havbe a POS to research your BPOs or youre just losing money

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:


Hey, never underrate the enjoyability of chewing rocks away. I am doing it these days to relax after having WvW in Guild Wars 2. Blink


Ir while playing Minecraft lol


Yea - EVE definitely needs more zombies and creepers populating the asteroids. Zombs bring the correct vocal atmosphere and creepers make black holes next to your what used to be hulk before the big bang. CCP has lot to learn.

...besides I want to nurse cows, pigs and chickens in my CQ

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Raya Chandragupta
Observant Eye Inc
#44 - 2012-09-16 11:28:07 UTC
On these occasions people usually come up with ideas why to play the game. I don't. Now, take a look at the pictures of various player gatherings. Who is playing the game? You will notice there are many very, very ugly men and a few fat women. Ask yourself: "Do I really want to spend hundreds of hours a year, and possibly hundreds of dollars, to play with these kind of people, or do I rather want to have a hobby where people don't look like life hasn't stopped kicking them in the face since they were born?"
Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#45 - 2012-09-16 11:37:04 UTC
Raya Chandragupta wrote:
On these occasions people usually come up with ideas why to play the game. I don't. Now, take a look at the pictures of various player gatherings. Who is playing the game? You will notice there are many very, very ugly men and a few fat women. Ask yourself: "Do I really want to spend hundreds of hours a year, and possibly hundreds of dollars, to play with these kind of people, or do I rather want to have a hobby where people don't look like life hasn't stopped kicking them in the face since they were born?"

90% of EvE players are athletic young men or extremely beautiful (single) women. Only 10% of EvE players attend various player gatherings. These numbers are collected from various reliable sources and can be referred as facts. Last year 25% of players who joined large corporation found love of their life from there. EvE is real you know!

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Keen Fallsword
Skyway Patrol
#46 - 2012-09-16 11:52:51 UTC
This game is just that boring .. My advice is. Quit if you can don't buy another plex there is more better games on the market.
Demolishar
United Aggression
#47 - 2012-09-16 11:56:58 UTC
Keen Fallsword wrote:
This game is just that boring .. My advice is. Quit if you can don't buy another plex there is more better games on the market.


It's also just that awesome a system. Once you're rich like most bitter vets, you can make enough ISK to PLEX a whole load of accounts pretty much passively, so you have no reason to ever actually quit. You just keep subbing via PLEX and barely playing the game, and investing your spacebucks to make more spacebucks. And new players feel so far behind you that they feel the need to sell PLEX to catch up. It's a wonderful self-perpetuating system.
Selinate
#48 - 2012-09-16 12:13:24 UTC
If you find it boring, do something more risky. Try joining a pirate corp, merc corp, WH corp, or a null corp. It will make the game way more involved.

Joining a decent corp is the key to having fun in this game. Otherwise, you'll end up flopping around with a loosely affiliated band of level 4 mission runners in high sec who just sit there and run missions... all... day... *shudders*
ISD TYPE40
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#49 - 2012-09-16 14:39:06 UTC
I always found that EVE was best enjoyed by living in the here and now, not worrying what will happen 3 or 6 months down the road. Make the things you can do, be the things you want to do, by doing so you will always have something enjoyable to do.

Too many people sit and say "I want to pilot a Battleship" and then resign themselves to a strict training schedule based solely on that. Instead, what they should be saying is "What am I closest to flying here and now, and how can I make the most out of that?" and then training for that. They soon discover in 3 months or so, that they not only had fun flying smaller stuff, but low and behold they have almost all the skills needed to fly that Battleship they were drooling over all those months ago.


tl;dr Focus on the now, worry about the future later.

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#50 - 2012-09-16 14:43:04 UTC
EVEis about working towards your own goals. If you are looking for Instant gratification and pre set goals you not not make it very far here.
WonkySplitDemon
Doomheim
#51 - 2012-09-16 15:19:13 UTC
Faction warfare. Fly a destroyer and you will get plenty of fights and kills!
lanyaie
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#52 - 2012-09-16 15:39:00 UTC
You can pick go to work or play eve your choice

Spaceprincess

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Barrak
The Painted Ones
#53 - 2012-09-16 16:18:43 UTC
Dyrallanex wrote:
So, I've activated my EVE account for the whateverth time or so, and I still can't seem to enjoy this game. It seems that it takes months of skill training to participate enjoyably in anything except missioning. mining or playing the market .PVP? "Fly a small frigate and tackle in fleets until your 'core' skills are up, and you can fit T2s then move into something bigger". Manufacturing? "Train all your production skils to 5, until then your just losing money".

It's very discouraging and frustrating. If I hadn't already put another 20 bucks in by buying a PLEX(to stockpile some ISK so I can lose ships in PVP), I would have cancelled by now.

So, any advice? Is EVE not for me? Should I cut my losses and cancel, or is there a way to get some enjoyment out of this game.

(oh, and I am not a WoW player, never have been, so don't say "GB2WoW" I like cerebral sci-fi games, it's just I can't seem to get into this game despite multiple attempts because of the interminable skill times and requirements)


Go join RvB (Red vs Blue).

Buy a load of frigates (Merlins are win) and just pew pew with cheap a$$ stuff. You'll learn, you'll make friends, you'll make enemies and you can train for better things whilst enjoying yourself.

Once you've done that, get some Ruptures and do the same........

Unless you are losing them by the bucket load, it's very cheap fun.

Many of the characters in there are alts or have alts in other corps, thus if you get on with people and start asking about other aspects of the game, you could very easily end up in null sec, low sec, an Indy corp, a wormhole corp and be testing all aspects of the game...............

Seriously... do it now

Regards

Barrak
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#54 - 2012-09-16 16:51:35 UTC
Anyone suggested drunk yet?

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Royal Jedi
V0LTA
OnlyFleets.
#55 - 2012-09-16 17:07:41 UTC
Hi,

I felt the same way when i first played EVE in 2006 and again in 2008. Mainly because i was trying to do everything by myself without ever interacting with anyone.

In your post you mentioned PVP'ing so ill assume that would be a main interest of yours. Why not get into something cheap like a Drake which really takes a week or so. Get yourself into a Null alliance which is actually pretty easy, a lot of the ships are even given to you to lose. Then you can start PVP'ing with other people start having a laugh and generally having a good time, which is really what EVE is about.

Once i started doing that i made some really awesome friends and started enjoying the game so much more. We're always laughing and joking, getting people to sing really awful songs on roams etc. just generally having a good time with the game. It really allowed me to do things that i never thought i would do.

Hopefully some of that helps!
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#56 - 2012-09-16 17:25:33 UTC
Start killing people.
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#57 - 2012-09-16 17:30:35 UTC
I recommend you play the game how you want. If you do that, not only will the game be more fun for you, but you'll meet and possibly shoot new people all over the cluster and places beyond. As long as you're having fun, you're doing well at EVE.

ISD Dorrim Barstorlode

Senior Lead

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Kuehnelt
Devoid Privateering
#58 - 2012-09-16 18:09:26 UTC
1. Make friends.

2. Make enemies.

3. Train skills that improve the ship you're flying right now. It's funner this way.

And PvP doesn't take months. My first three months. First month, I trained drone skills while flying T1 Coercers in FW space and, since I didn't expect to get any kills, instead took FW plexes and tried to drive enemies out of them with long-range beam lasers. Second month, about the same. End of second month and into third month: I made some friends, I started training gunnery skills, I flied Slicers. Kills per month: 0, 5, 72.

And tackling is not just a shameful "sorry I don't have any skills yet". Actually, to this date, my best fights ever are ones in which my point was my primary contribution to them. Why? Because I had friends, I was in a small gang, I said 'point' on comms, there was a context to my actions that made it fun. Like, a Dramiel tackled a Cynabal in a system two jumps out, we ran to his aid, he died as we warping in. Point lost. Firetail's first in, gets first point, then loses it right away. I come in in my Slicer, get point again, keep it through the end of the end of the fight. Like, we miss a traitorous carebear Tengu because the only tackler (me) showed up in an AB scram Crusader. A few hours later, a gang catches it off a gate, everyone aggresses, and as I'm landing (in a MWD 3-point Malediction) it starts to crash the gate. I catch it on the other side. And because I'm in a Malediction, I don't die. Actually I still have that Malediction, and it still gets kills in which it contributed zero damage.
Ryhss
#59 - 2012-09-16 18:41:21 UTC
I play Star Trek Online too. It's a nice break from the looooong skill training here. Try STO. It's not too bad. Plus it's F2P!

I just turned into an egg, did I level up? I spent an hour trying to salvage a wreck, when in local a guy said "Stop it, this is my Tempest, I was AFK"
Locust II
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#60 - 2012-09-16 21:01:28 UTC
Use EVE as the Mistress of Online Gaming... always nice to know you have that late night side piece that you can quit on a moment's notice... glhf o7