EVE General Discussion

The only other games I can enjoy are DotA 2 and LoL probably because of the social aspect. I still sometimes play morrowind because after 6 years I still haven't done everything and oblivion and skyrim are boring with less than 100 hours on them there's nothing to do.

I'm not sure if it's just that video games released now are blander than used to be or I was just 9 at the time, but beating Mass Effect 1, KOTOR, and Morrowind just felt awesome. Even with the rush you get from PvP gone now there's no game that can come close to EvE in terms of complexity, immersion, and gameplay.

Never played another MMO, EvE was my first, but if I understand correctly, you're saying most MMO's have "zones" or designated servers where you can PvP and no where else?
That's kind of stupid. I'll be sticking to EvE forever then.

It's also the only MMO I've ever played :) These are just the things i hear.

I played World of Warcraft for a long, long time. I was never involved enough to get in with the bleeding edge raiding guilds, but I carved a niche for myself as a pick-up-raid healer and tank. After Burning Crusade I stalled a little, trying out different classes, exploring the quest lines in different areas (WoW is a great PvE MMO), and doing my own thing. But after a month my friends were raiding and I wasn't. So I took time off work, focussed on leveling one character, doing all the quest lines required to get into whichever were the starting raids (Gruul? Serpent shrine Cavern?), and getting the entry level gear I needed. Then I got put on the wait list and burned out.

While sitting outside the raid instance one night I was looking over the new iMacs thinking about whether it was time to upgrade yet or not. For some reason EVE Online caught my eye: I had heard about this space MMO before, had no idea what it was actually about, but knew that it was only for Windows and never looked into it further. But here it was, on the Apple Store: download now for a free trial!

“What the heck” I thought, “I won't be raiding tonight unless someone drops dead, may as well give it a go.”

The first thing that got me about EVE was the lack of direction, and the lack of constraint. I managed to get lost after jumping through a star gate or three looking for tutorial agents, asked for help in NPC corp chat, and was directed to a system I hadn't been to before. The people I had taken up with invited me along to L4 missions. The game didn't stop me entering their dungeon just because I wasn't high enough level, or there were too many people in the fleet.

So there I was in L4 missions flying a logistics Osprey (cap stable even with very low skills), healing my new friend who was flying a battleship.There was no GM intruding to tell us that this strategy was breaking the rules. There was no restriction on where I could go or what I could do. I had the freedom to write my own story!

I still play WoW sometimes. I bought the WotLK expansion and leveled one character to 80. By the time the next month's subscription was due I had no desire to keep playing. I was not going to be doing anything new, just pressing play on the same story everyone else was watching. This was MMO on rails, EVE had spoilt me.

Last night I took my Dranei paladin into the Scarlet Monastery, the first time I have been to that instance since Burning Crusade launched (at the time, my friend needed lots of silk to level tailoring so we got it by being daft in SM with port warriors wearing shield spikes), and I couldn't believe the attitude of the other four players: I was being told how to play my character not only by the game itself as a paladin, you only have these spells, and you can't use daggers or staves) but by the other players (hey doofus, why do you have a shield spike? Pull this group, skip that group, don't you know anything? Oh, and I am not healing you if you are stupid enough to get caught by blades of light).

EVE has spoiled me.

Other games are still great: I am slowly playing through Zelda on the Wii, for example. At least in Zelda while I am playing through a pre-scripted story, I don't have other players telling me to play the game their way :)

But then, some things never change.

I used to be a solo-pvper like you, but then I took a hot-drop to the face.

Only one... only one!

I am an older gamer, I started off playing Battlefiled 1942 as my first online multiplayer, Moved on through the BF series with the same bunch of guy. MMO's never really interested me and paying a monthy sub for a game was just for idoits.

Then a friend from my clan joined Eve. Then 2 more did, with in 1 month we all had. It took over our clan forums so much so that our BF clan folded. We were all playing Eve 8 hours a day and more at weekends. I have been playing for 6 and a half years and still love the game. The EX wife hated it but I meet my girlfriend who also plays Eve so I am playing more than ever.

I have 'given up' many times but am back within a few hours. I think for me it's a very soical game I can spend housr on TS just chatting and haveing a laugh with the corp/alliance guys.

You are right there is just something about Eve!

Same here. Same reasons i got tons of games on steam realy more than 400 games on a ccount dont want to share my dvd collections with games thats just to many games.

Many of my free time was playing sfci games or some co-op games with friends. Afthere some years doing that this i got borred try every mmorpg i can find play 3 days the 4 days is like meh........

So i try eve back in 2006 played the tut and join a corp with local friends here. Then i stopt. because i was had no clue what to do in eve online. Going to youtube searching video reading about eve see reviews ask people across internet what eve is and how you play it. Because i like starfleet command orion pirat vessel back in tha days. So i was hoping for the same kick.

So i installed eve mon use my main to how to skill. People say well to my the first thing you need to know about eve is what do you want to do. So i make a skill table i want a caldari and i want the rokh so this is how my journey of eve starts my main have been stop it was a 1 year learning the basic with my main. Afther that i make this char and now its my new main.

So now the only game i played are eve online and some others games if real life friends want to Lan party with me. Then i play other games.

Turns out, the fact that I can't ignore someone because they are in a cheap ship and have low skill points is exactly the game I always wanted to play

That person is me at one (often long) period of time too

I'm a casual player of games and hate being boned for it

I've played games ever since, the BBC Micro came out with games like Beachhead and Galaga.

I've currently got an Apple iMac, PS3 and a Xbox 360 with numerous games, which are collecting dust on the shelf.

The only games I play are the Assassins Creed franchise (Xbox), the Battlefield franchise (PS3), and EVE (Apple iMac), and Dust 514.

Before EVE, I played Bigpoint's, Battlestar Galactica, which is a really small and limited version of EVE.

Then I found EVE (I remember looking at the box for EVE in the Virgin Megastore), and closed the Bigpoint account and never looked back.

Thank you CCP, you have created a game, that I can fully escape into.