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Copernius Yaken
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-10-27 14:46:39 UTC
Well its only been 8 day and im wondering if theres going to be enough of a game to warrent the £10 amonth. At present this just has an Elite feel to it with mission and flying from place to place. Is the later game just a mass gank fest? will a corp really change the game? What thinks should influence me renewing subs.

Many thanks





Morganta
The Greater Goon
#2 - 2011-10-27 14:57:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Morganta
Copernius Yaken wrote:
Well its only been 8 day and im wondering if theres going to be enough of a game to warrent the £10 amonth. At present this just has an Elite feel to it with mission and flying from place to place. Is the later game just a mass gank fest? will a corp really change the game? What thinks should influence me renewing subs.

Many thanks







its whatever you want it to be.
you can mission forever
you can form a corp and work for a computer overlord
you can join a corp and do the same stuff with other people
you can amass isk while you mission and skill up, so you can go take part in PVP without going bankrupt and ragequitting
you can be a **** in local
you can blow up the feces of innocent pubbies in empire

damn, the universe is your plaything

there's plenty of game provided you don't leave the training wheels on for too long

*really CCP? the medical term for poop "F3CES" is filtered? I can say clusterfuck but I cant say feces....*
Kilrayn
Caldari Provisions
#3 - 2011-10-27 14:59:48 UTC
EvE is a sandbox, and unlike most mmo's, you aren't 'pushed' in any direction at all. You have to make it for yourself. You're only limited by your imagination (and some game mechanics at times). How do you enjoy playing in the box? Cool

"Music is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it makes people remember things they do not expect. Many thoughts, feelings, memories... things almost forgotten... Regardless of whether the listener desires to remember or not." - Citan Uzuki, Xenogears

Alara IonStorm
#4 - 2011-10-27 15:00:52 UTC
Whelp what are you looking for in a Game?

EVE has a lot of little known features and content.

Raids (Incursions)
Exploration and Complex Sites
Wormhole Sites
Missions Lvl 1-5
Arcs (Quest Chains)
Manufacturing and Industry
Trade
Smuggling
Piracy
Wars and Faction Warfare
Null Sec Wars

What are you looking to do?
Dbars Grinding
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-10-27 15:01:43 UTC
Join Eve university , R-v-B, or some small corp to help you decide what you wanna do.

I have more space likes than you. 

rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#6 - 2011-10-27 15:04:16 UTC
The promise of 2 expansions a year, kind of attracted me a whole lot and gave me confidence to keep resubbing. Kind of thought things would change no matter what with that motto so should stay and hang out.

Signature removed for inappropriate language - CCP Eterne

MeestaPenni
Mercantile and Stuff
#7 - 2011-10-27 15:06:55 UTC
Ice mining in a Hulk looks like a pretty good opportunity right now.

I am not Prencleeve Grothsmore.

Mr Bill Bravor
State War Academy
Caldari State
#8 - 2011-10-27 15:14:45 UTC
I have only been around for about a month but there is more than just zerging. Its a open ended environment so its just that you need to figure out what you enjoy. This is how I am proceeding and the results so far.

1. It takes ISK to buy ships so figure out how you are going to get it.
Missions, Trade, Mining, Pirating, ratting - I went mining since at low levels it seemed the easiest.

2. What to do while you are not making ISK?
PVP in blobs (zerging), solo PVP, Missions, Ganking

Mining is kind of boring so I am always looking for a excuse to do something else so I decided to gank the 200M Hulk with 120M BC because for some reason he insisted on mining the same rock me constantly. Of couse I got ganked by concord since it was in hisec but it still felt good.

Other times I go to lowsec and look for trouble.

Haven't really tried the whole player corp blob thing yet as right now it doesn't sound interesting to me. Maybe later.

Anywho, the game is what you make of it but you don't really get a good feel until you have tried several things and have gone out of the box a bit.





Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#9 - 2011-10-27 15:17:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Renan Ruivo
Morganta wrote:

you can [...] work for a computer overlord


I can work for Steven Balmer?

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.

Apollo Gabriel
Kill'em all. Let Bob sort'em out.
Ushra'Khan
#10 - 2011-10-27 15:21:45 UTC
So I've got many RL friends in this boat, they're trying eve again and feeling as you are.

Eve is NOT here for an amusement part, so you don't have your standard MMO progression. However, you do have a much richer end game, you have to hang around long enough to figure out WHAT you can do, so that you can then figure out what you WANT to do. IT really is a big open question.

Some of the most rewarding, yet hardest things to do in eve are:

Anti-pirate,
PvP arenas,
Be a "good guy" and make a profit.

It isn't about getting a new ship or even ships, sure they provide for great fun and are in and of themselves a goal, but it is about becoming something within this jaded bitter nasty but amazing deep community of players. I'd happily push some of them into traffic, and getting a chance to pod them keeps me in the game. For others, I'd sleep in a tent and give them my bed. The depth of emotion and passion here is unlike anything and PVP still gets my heart ready to aspload.

Give it a little while,

Best
AG
Always ... Never ... Forget to check your references.   Peace out Zulu! Hope you land well!
Solhild
Doomheim
#11 - 2011-10-27 15:22:39 UTC
MeestaPenni wrote:
Ice mining in a Hulk looks like a pretty good opportunity right now.


Well played Lol

Currently we have thousands of people organising themselves to suicide gank thousands of other people in their hisec mining alts - all to control the market price of blue ice, and for giggles Shocked

Joining a corp will change the game - really!
Alara IonStorm
#12 - 2011-10-27 15:31:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
Solhild wrote:

Currently we have thousands of people organising themselves to _________ thousands of other people_________ - all to ______________, and for gigglesShocked

Each month or so the words I have removed in the underlined spaces get replaced by new words. The Bolded part stays constant.

Pretty much sums up EVE.
Copernius Yaken
State War Academy
Caldari State
#13 - 2011-10-28 07:23:59 UTC
Many thanks for the replys have given me some things to think about.:-)
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#14 - 2011-10-28 08:02:25 UTC
Okay, here's the thing...

much of the PvE content you see sucks. It's static, not really engaging, doesn't really affect much, and is easy to blow through once you get a feel for the mechanics and/or your skills begin to mature (exceptions DO apply though).

What EVE has that puts it above the pack of other MMOs are the "player driven" element (and the situations it creates) and the generally "grey" rules that govern players with regards to combat and politics.

In EVE you can...

- join a corporation...
-- with the sole intention of ganking someone who wronged you while their pants are down.
-- with the intention of stealing assets from the corporation.
-- to join forces against a person/organization who you hate.
-- to maximize your efforts (whatever they may be).
-- to help others with your skills and abilities.

- work on becoming a combat pilot...
-- to shoot at other players (and their stuff) more effectively and live off the loot.
-- so you can become a pirate and ransom people in their ships on penalty of destruction.
-- to create an impressive tally that garners both respect and fear from friends and foes alike.

- work on becoming an Industrialist...
-- so you can make a profit off of other's combat efforts.
-- so you make yourself cheap ships that you can fly into dangerous situations without a second thought.

- become a trader...
-- to make ISK.
-- control regional market hubs.
-- crash regional market hubs.
-- manipulate and control what resources are available at what price.

- become a leader and...
-- teach people all of the above.
-- delegate and control all of the above.


This is only a small sampling of what you COULD do and none are mutually exclusive from each other. You can be a Combat Pilot that does trading to make ISK... an Industrialist that leads a corporation of combat pilots... etc.

The ONE thing that all of the above has in common is that YOU, the player, MUST show initiative and interact in some form with other players for better or worse. YOU must create the content.
Charles Javeroux
INTERSTELLAR CREDIT
#15 - 2011-10-28 08:02:53 UTC
found this cool chart on the net - What to do in EVE
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#16 - 2011-10-28 08:03:30 UTC
Copernius Yaken wrote:
Well its only been 8 day and im wondering if theres going to be enough of a game to warrent the £10 amonth. At present this just has an Elite feel to it with mission and flying from place to place. Is the later game just a mass gank fest? will a corp really change the game? What thinks should influence me renewing subs.

Many thanks








Pretty much everything worthwhile about EVE is based on interacting with other players. How much of that have you done?

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016

rootimus maximus
Perkone
Caldari State
#17 - 2011-10-28 09:07:24 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:

In EVE you can...

- join a corporation...
-- with the sole intention of ganking someone who wronged you while their pants are down.


If you wronged me with your pants down I'd hire mercs to gank you.
Azahni Vah'nos
Vah'nos Family
#18 - 2011-10-28 09:16:46 UTC
Copernius Yaken wrote:
Well its only been 8 day and im wondering if theres going to be enough of a game to warrent the £10 amonth. At present this just has an Elite feel to it with mission and flying from place to place. Is the later game just a mass gank fest? will a corp really change the game? What thinks should influence me renewing subs.

Many thanks






Good source of information and gives you plenty of things to aim at doing in EVE ISK The Guide. Just download the PDF.

Nex (Cash Shop) / Aurum - removing sand from the sandbox since Incarna. Currently the only use for aurum is to buy virtual items in the in-game store, but Cockerill expects to expand its uses in the future.