EVE General Discussion

There's a story about some guy who wrote a "I'm 12 and what is this" post on an MMO forum (either SWTOR or STO, can't remember) and got banned because the Eula states you have to be 13 and over.

Yeah in my short time in eve ive already been there and done that, its nice ot hear people with the same experiance stepping up. Maybe it is really a part of having children and a demanding full time job, the time i get spare to play id rather be playing something worthwhile where i feel like im making an impact and achieving something

oh i remember alright, and yes,, lots of them where indeed crap lol, but s the years went by the crap mutiplied, i'm sure with that you'll agree yes ?

Eve isnt a game. Eve is real!

All other games are the same. Cost $60 just to get new maps and updated shadows. Once you have played one fps you pretty much played all of them. Capture the flag, Team deathmatch, same stuff since quake. The same can be said for racing, RTS, sim, You name it. They are all pretty much the same. Im surprised people still pay for the same repackaged stuff.

But Eve... Eve is REAL.

This, they are also not challenging at all compared to EVE.

I'm completely in the same boat. Sure i can complain about eve as much as the next guy but it's pretty much the only game that holds my attention.

I still like to keep my ear to the round for any new/interesting games (FTL, DayZ, etc.) but i hardly ever buy full price new games anymore.

sounds like someone needs dark souls :)

If it weren't for other games, I would have quit eve a long time ago. I have to have some battlefield every now and then or I go crazy. EVE can become a bit of a grind sometimes. Grinding anoms for isk, staring at rocks, or getting in the same fleets over and over.


eve can get stale if you're not careful

Same here, at least for MMOs, I used to be that person who tried out every "big" stuff that came out right on it's first day, just to get that "leverage". I'm not quite sure if it's a good thing though since everytime I tried playing another MMO it's either gets boring pretty fast, feels like it was made for 13 year olds or in short totally unattractive.

Agreed. What follows is needless tl;dr reminiscence.

I'm 30.

Brought up on computer games, starting with the epic Manic Miner on the ZX Spectrum. This game was infuriatingly addictive! At one point, my dad got the speccy one of those external drives (similar to a zip drive i suppose) and lo, it was good.
As the years fell off the calendar, the ol' computron was replaced by a stunningly powerful workhorse known as the Amiga 500. D-Paint IV, anyone? A trillion floppy disks accompanied it, and it was perhaps another 5 years or so before i realised that people paid for games, and that they came in their very own boxes.
The '500 was eventually replaced by the 1200 (OMFG! Seven hundred more... somethings!!) and by this time my gaming career had seen me spend almost unacceptably long periods of time playing Gods, Street Fighter II, Banshee, The Settlers, Cannon Fodder, Tanx, and perhaps several dozen more. "Distracting" was putting it mildly.
At this point I believe my parents thought there was real danger of me becoming some sort of limp-wristed shut in, hissing at natural light in a Golem-like manner. I was churning through school and fiction books at a prodigious rate, and these new "Home Computers" that people were buying up were just for doing the accounts on anyways, and why bother worrying, ey? Our new 'PC' was bought about a month before the bottom fell out the market, during a time where it was cheaper to buy gold than it was to buy memory for your computer. Needless to say, Father was not impressed when this happened, but it didn't matter to me in the slightest. I had a new platform with which to play games on (even at a young age, i tended to look down on consoles as kiddy toys).
Command & Conquer. Dear god, what a goldmine that was. I lost *days* to that blasted game. I perfected the tank rush without having heard of the concept, and when Red Alert was released with a map editor, my friend and i would spend long periods of time carving battlefields to fight in, and writing up short fiction to go with it ("Good evening commander! The enemy lies on an island close to where your MCU is deployed... wipe them out), silently brush-passing the floppy disk with the new map on it while we were in school. Good times. Also, laughing myself almost-sick when rushing an NPC base with about 50 attack dogs (unit ready unit ready unit ready unit ready unit ready...), not realising that their Flame Towers would incinerate my canine units immediately. Lesson learned, eh!
Ahhhh Duke Nukem, how i missed your misogynistic and surprisingly casual attitude toward exploding women to spawn enemies to shoot! Secret rooms, rocket launchers, quips - this game had it all. I played that game to death, completing it twice. The quicksave button got hammered during the maps in space; utterly terrifying at times. Well, for a young me anyways. The Devastator still has to be one of my favourite FPS weapons ever.
Wait a minute, there's this new game called "Half Life". It has... well, this strange attraction. Again - played to death repeatedly. Never got bored of it.

Quake 2 CTF. At least 400 hours' playtime. Railgun kills from across the map became a speciality.

...ah. Counter-strike. How you mock me with your addictive 5 minute rounds. Those almost-affordable guns (JUST ONE MORE ROUND) and satisfying weapons made for the most intense action i'd ever seen. People were rage machines just waiting to get killed, venting their bitter spleens across the internet in the hopes of insulting your mother. What an age to be alive!

Anyways... I've caught myself rambling. The real point is that i never "got" MMO/MMORPG games until my friend at work said "There is a star wars mmorpg coming out. Play it" - and i did. For years, I played SWG faithfully - creating friendships and stories that were forever memorable. I had a great time - I trained massive, dangerous creatures, fought hugely powerful NPCs with groups of like-minded individuals, laughed at the spam in Corellia and got to grips with a market system that hilariously limited anything you bought to 6000 credits (a measely figure - imagine going to Jita and everything being capped at 1million isk!). I made lasting real world relationships, and occasionally would spend hours fishing with an almost-perfect quality rod i bought for 6000 credits. Then came the Dark Times....a gutting of the game from over 30 professions to something like 7 - the "NGE", or "New Game Enhancements" were a slap in the face to anyone that's ever sat down in front of a computer. Imagine someone hollowing out your pet, replacing it with excrement and seaweed, giving it back to you and looking insulted when you screw your nose up and almost vomit. This was the NGE; this was the end of my SWG life. Finding it hard to deal with (honestly, thinking about it still makes me kinda angry/sad), i asked my longtime friend to meet me on Tatooine. This guy had actually been a friend since Day 2 - saving me from getting messed up by NPCs as i tried circle-strafing a creature, not realising that the weapons were affected by things like range and all that. Anyways, he meets me near the Krayt Graveyard. I give him about half a billion credits, and all of the best 'stuff' i had accumulated over the years. There was *a lot* of it. After this, i /emoted a hug, and then saluted before running off toward a massive Krayt dragon (a huge reptile about a thousand times my size). I kicked it in the face, and died. I /tell my friend, "Goodbye" and uninstall SWG forever.

Meanwhile, another real-life friend of mine has been playing some sort of space-sim for a few years or so, and recommended i give it a go. "EVE Online", eh? Naeh. Looks boring.

...started playing in 2008. Haven't looked back since. Its just better than real life, tbh. Why bother with anything else?