EVE General Discussion

You are waaaay too hung up on the amount of skill points your main has.

If you want to explore something different with one of your other slots, for gods sake do it.

The only problem with this game is that it is chock full of obsessive/compulsive people.

Oh, don't be dense. He's referring to the fact that you hit max level really quickly in games like WoW, thus it's fairly trivial to have multiple max skill toons on one account, which lets the gamer pick their playstyle du jour: DPS one day, Tank the next, and Healer for when you really don't want to spend much time in the dungeon finder queue.

The problem with Eve is that it takes too long to hit the level cap on even one toon. Thus, the real solution is to dramatically speed up training in Eve and to add end game content such as alliance raids to grind gear. Because, let's be honest here, Eve doesn't really start until you hit the level cap at which point you can go backfill your achievements, play the battlegrounds, and raid for those purple item sets.

Monkeys!

Why's Eve any different than those MMOs? when you grind levels for WoW, Lineage, etc. You can only grind them one character at the time right? one to level 30, stop, switch character, second one to level 15, stop, back to one. Same as Eve, train one character, pause, switch character, train second character, pause, back to one.

Eve even have the advantage of not requiring you to log in, at all, to train the skills.

I'm with the masses here. Eve is fine as is. If you wanna train another character, get your main to a good skill set up, and then just swap your queue to the other guy and train him while you play your main. Though having multiple accounts helps more in the long run as you can run miner/transport or Attack/salvage as a team and easily rake in enough ISK to cover both accounts without having to deal with the headache of re-logging or heading back to swap ships.

Those other games take in and bleed out players at phenomenal rates as there is a finite amount of progression. They hit the cap and boom, quit until the next expansion/content patch. Eve is a constant progression, with player set goals. It's a completely different style of game to the others.


Eve's only real failing imo, is that there's no real incentive to log in a play once you've reached your quotas for the month, unless you're just using it for it's social interaction. It doesn't matter if you play 1 minute or 20 hours per day for a month, your character still progresses at the same rate. About the only change I might be interested in seeing is adding a 5% bonus to skill gain speed while the character is actively logged in to give extra incentive to play even if you don't have a particular goal in mind.

You can only grind one character at any time unless you multibox in any game. /thread.

Now this actually has merit. In fact I'd go so far as to say making it a better bonus than 5%.

Even CCP wins 'cos their Online Player Count will stay higher all day and night.

Plus it's a good way to get the cloaky AFK subject happening again.... lulz.....

Tippia. Oh Tippia, where art thou?

[TL ambles off chortling]

But my prethious Ithk/EthP/LP per hour

Maybe so, but how long does it take to get the top tier gear, which is what really counts?

Of course it would.

Within a few days people would be complaining about being "forced" to stay logged in to "compete".