EVE General Discussion

I'm trying to get into EvE for the 3rd time in 7 years or so. The depth / complexity always appeals to me after I've reached some level of success (read: boredom) in other games. Guess I just like learning.. once I 'get it', it is almost immediately boring.

I'm interested in PvP, nothing more.. UO, DAOC, Darkfall, PoTBs.. the list goes on.. the only constant being no risk == no long term fun.

So here I am in EvE, taking my lumps. Losing badly.. don't mind.. if it ain't hard to get good at, there is no reward.

The only thing that nags me is, I feel like almost all fights are won or lost at the point of engagement. Most times I look back and realize I had no place engaging what I did with my current boat. Setting up something new and heading out in it seems to give me 'the shakes' more than actually fighting in it..

TLDR: does EvE combat get more visceral (for lack of a better term?) once the game slows down? So far I feel like learning about the game is more fun than actually playing it. Anyone Experience anything similar? Am I just too 'real-time twitch-obsessed' to enjoy EvE combat long - term?

Talk about a dumb #@$ing thread, eh?

My first toon was into mining and casual PvE. I got blown up a lot. I mean, like, A LOT.
Garamonde has had much better luck at deading other players. Needless to say, I started enjoying EVE a lot more, once I started racking up kills. And, as a side-note, I'm probably one of the only players that realizes Battleclinic is a much more accurate record of kills and losses.

You know..... I'm just going to say that getting DD'd was about the worst experience of my video gaming life. And this is coming from someone who actually tried to play Bayonetta.

But, oh my Chribba, was it beautiful....

I don't know why they changed the DD effect..... there was nothing wrong with it, in the beginning.
I remember it, clearly..... it was like a big ball of chain lightning. Never before has your own death looked so amazing.

You're right. In cases where player skill is and it's an actual 1v1 most the fights are won based on what ship and fit beats which in the complex rock-paper-scissors. So you get better you learn to do things that will maximize you advantages like dictate range or some other manual flying tricks.

But yes, get used to winning or loosing due to your ability to see farther down the decision tree than your opponent.

I hope that wasn't me, it sounds like me when I've had a few. Its sometimes a bad idea to FC when you have a mini fridge in arms reach

Only time I've ever really used them has been for logistics, have a chain of POS through allied space and use Titan jump bridge to jump freighters en masse. I think I prefered the old way where you could do all of this from within the bubble, knowing we were doing this with thousands of angry reds in local made it all the more fun for us as they saw so much material moved to the front line..... but I suppose that one was a bit broke too.

I used lots of lube and everything turned out okay.

I think I just found a quote for my sig. Thank you!

For me it was like the fat end of a bat sans lube.

But I am told some people like that.

You just need to find what you enjoy. Learn from mistakes, Never fight fair. If you fight fair in EVE you're doing it wrong. Try doing stealth bombers or something else cloaky? That's a very different style of pew pew to blobfests. Just don't be afraid to try new stuff.