EVE New Citizens Q&A

So after a decade of hype, I decide to take the plunge into Hyperspace. Woohoo, I am gonna Pirate , Bounty hunt , mine and whatever my heart desires. But, most of all I am gonna fly my spaceship across the cosmos.

Fly?

No flying?

wtf?

.....Disappointed, uninstalling now.

How do you play a space game like this where you do not actually fly the ships. All these cool awesome ships and no flying?
I have a radial to navigate my ship? No physics?

What is the hook? I am truly curious.

Please do not tell me to go back to WoW, I have never played it nor desire to.

Waiting patiently for STAR CITIZEN!!!!

Ok , i third person view i could dig tho just for the fun and screenshots.

But eve has many cool things to do , you just tried it?

Umm you can manually fly it to an extent, just double click in the direction you want to go lol

Same here. For diffferent reason, though.

I do not want to fly ship manually (real astronauts do not fly manually as well, inlest in emergency situations)

I took this game as a perfect (almost) space simulator. Very detailed and nicely designed world, ready to explore. With the opportunity of PvP in factional wars or in corporation vs corporation wars.

But some players made a stupid copy of Dark orbit out of it. PvP is all what they see here and I was expecting something more out of this game. If I want PvP I go pplay games like World of tanks, where I have PvP when I want and ready. Not when some 7 years old char with over bilion ISK in implantants and faction cruiser decide to cure his/her/it cripled selfesteem by shooting newbee ship that is not able to fight back. I was in the middle of security mission with over 20 drone tragets around me. So I could not see him comming in overview before it was too late. And he shoot me down in three shots, despite I still have had over 5 k effective hit points to that moment. No point to keep play game like this. Sore loosers like the one, who shot me in the back, made this game PvP just everywhere, high / low null sec... And to be PvP game Eve is not that fair

What? You want me to take your hand and show you how to have fun? Do it yourself, I'm not your nanny.

No eve is not fair , wich makes had a excellent "simulator" its its strenght , ist unforgiving , space is a hard cold place liek it should be.

And no , i have killed dozens of players that are way older with better ships & inplants , you have to think your stratagie , even if it does seems like only press f1 and w8 who is the winner , lots of things during a fight you can do to make it win.

You were not killed because that player was 7 years older, but because he used the game mechanics better.

Looks like you were in lowsec. There is no concord protection there, so anyone can attack you without repercussion. You know you are taking that risk when you jump into a lowsec system. If you're not ready to deal with that, don't go there. The eve-client even gives a warning about it if you are jumping into lowsec for the first time.


When he shows up in overview, it's to late. But you can see him coming waaaay before that. Since you are in a mission area, he will need to scan you down. This means you could have seen his combat-scanner probes on direction scanner, after that he needs to warp to your mission area wich would also have been visible on you're directional scanner way before he shows up on grid (and thus overview) giving you more then enough time to get out, especially if you are aligned at all times.

When I first installed EVE I found it pretty boring tbh and did not bother to play beyond a free trial.

Then after I got sick and tired of all the other theme park MMOs out there I thought I would give EVE another go. I got playing with EVE-UNI then moved to a corp and started learning the game, the industry, the PVP the risk, the player run economy, the single shard, CCP there is nothing else in the gaming world that compares.

I have now been playing for a few years, I still don't know how to do everything, still have a lot in game that I want to try and still enjoy logging in.

When you can see everything that EVE has, not having twitch controls isn't something so terrible. I would say give it another go try to find a corp to play with who can help show you the ropes and maybe you will get to see the appeal

Manually having to fly a spaceship all the time bores quickly. It is no more fun then driving a truck. By some simulation game if you want to pilot anything. Luckily Eve is not like that.