EVE New Citizens Q&A

I heard about it when it came out, but it was always spreadsheets in space, plus I will never pay a subscription to play any game (I have a F2P maxed twink on WoW for this very reason)

I downloaded and started my trial after hearing about 6VDT-H on reddit and finding out you can pay subscription with ISK ... Great, it's not pay to play it's play to pay and holy **** 4000 people in 1 battle o_0

I did my research and am currently 5 days in. My plan was 100% ninja salvage skills, remap for trade skills and use the salvage money to Hub trade between Dodixie and Jita.
and I have 100 mil total assets already so I think with a 21 day trial it should be easy to make a plex or 2 ;)

but I think the main reason I always wanted to play it was because I loved elite

I had read about it on Massively several years ago but had kept putting off trying it because my MMO rotation was already maxed. Eventually a friend from another MMO told me of his experiences in here and so it got bumped up on the list.

I was initially drawn more to the business side of things -- industry, trade, treachery then combat but the longer I play the more I am investing time and energy in PvP alts. I like the many opportunities here.

So I suppose a...

TL;DR - Man trades girlfriend for Eve and never looks back!

Would be accurate?

Reason i started to play.... what memories!

Just gotten into a new relationship a couple of months before (this was back in 04) and of course when a friend of his mentioned this new game to him and he asked if he could play it i wanted to be that "perfect gf" ,unlike his x that refused him to play computer games, i gave him the game as an early b day present

Personally i had never played an online game, and the only computer game i had played was HMM3. Thus i also was not prepared for how addicted people become to online games!
After a few weeks of no attention and comments like "Sorry, not right now, have to do something in EVE" i decided to give it a try and figure out what was the big deal.

Again wanting to be that perfect partner i logged on after he went to sleep and would mine for hours for him for his first BS, and logging off as soon as US guys started to log on. Eventually he went to the army and thats when i really started to talk to people and got more involved in the community within the corp, by the help of a friendly danish player and a lot of google translator

We broke up about 4 years later (i will admit that EVE was not completely innocent in the breakup) but while he stopped playing i kept going and i will admit that even if i miss that "Everything is so big and new" feeling, in some ways the game is better now then it was back then

But in the long run, the community keeps me here, and even tho if i have tried to quit i seem to always be dragged back in by nagging corp members that knows i cant stay away if they ask nicely enough

I'd heard about it a few years ago and wanted to get into EVE, but never seemed to have the time. The combination of getting a decent net connection and then right after, 3 weeks off work after a back operation, sealed the deal. Thankfully the first week and a half of tutorials and finding my way around wasn't too hard to do sitting up in bed for the most part. A life-long fandom of sci-fi and space opera in particular made the game a natural for me to look into when I was looking for an MMO.

My biggest regret in playing is that I had not looked at EVE 10 years ago (or any other point in those subsequent 10 years) and started playing before this year. Still, here's hoping for 10 more years of others tears I can enjoy.

Hearing about it early it peaked my interest about the type/style of the game.

Dying ment losing everything you currently had on.
This kind of games always peaked my interest,
Adding space, huge and ships to that mix I was sold.
Sadly I could not get any friends to tag along with me so we all went to wow and many other games.
I started mmos to play with friends I had, instead of getting new friends.

I kept on reading eve stories and dramas even thou I did not have an account, it was interesting, compared to wow/ragnarok online and so on, this game had news you could follow with interest, not the classic patchnotes/guilds firstkills.
Those classic stories about thefts, alliance-backstabs and so many other smaller stories only eve-community shared within itself.

After on and off when everyone eventually started playing different games I gave EVE a shot.
"9/25/201" was my trial date, I regret it not being sooner, I regret so hard I did not take it up solo back then.
I got myself a 90 day Special (no signup fee), played on and off, maby tops 30 days, was much going on in private life and shortly after that I moved to a new country to work.

Everyday when I was thinking about what games to play I always looked at the EVE icon at the desktop.
A few days ago I resubbed and still cant figure out why I did not play it earlier.

I heard about EVE when the Alliance Tournament caused a date to be cut short. Naturally I wanted to know what this was all about so had a look around and fell in love (with EVE ).

I know it sounds like a very stereotypical "girl" answer, but the first thing that really caught my attention was how beautiful New Eden is. I planned my training progression to get into the best looking Gallente ships and was constantly impressed with the detail around me in space, beautiful nebulae, intricate stations and shiney shiney ships.

After that I joined the public channel of a corp that was recommended to me and the community really drew me in. After a while I joined this same corp and couldn't keep away. I went to various Alliance meet ups along with FanFest and the now regular London meet. I'm still good friends with many of those first guys I met through EVE and love catching up with them both in Iceland and the UK whenever I am able to visit.

Edit: oh, and now I live in Iceland and get to work on the Alliance Tournament and at FanFest, I'm pretty lucky

We were together for a while, turned into a long distance relationship with a lot of hanging out in EVE which was a nice way to keep up with each other during the week.

Didn't work out in the end, but I found something even better.... at FanFest one year <3

My boss kept playing this thing called Eve in the background at work. It had sweet graphics and spaceships. If I remember correctly, he was a space trucker. But the idea of it being a sandbox universe seemed interesting, but I wasn't super keen on paying a subscription at that point. I did eventually find other people I knew who played, which convinced me to take the dive.

The idea of completely unscripted, complex and meaningful PvP always attracted me (as you might be albe to tell by some posts of mine). Little did I know that after several years of ongoing PvP I'd still have stuff to learn -- and even, stuff I've never tried! In addition to all that, life occasionally put me in situations in which social interaction was fairly scarce, and the social aspect of Eve kept me from being too much of a hermit.

I have tried out other MMOs after playing Eve, but they just feel so linear and scripted. I think Eve ruined MMOs for me.

I'm a huge fan of space flight sims, having played all the Wing Commander and Freespace games. Also a fan of MMOs, and Eve's the only one that fits the bill. When I saw the Caldari Explorer pack on sale for 5 bucks I dove in. Can't say I'm wild about the controls though. I'll be leaving for Star Citizen once it comes out.