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Should i play eve?

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Motamar Askold
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2011-09-09 21:25:21 UTC
I've played the free trial, and im running out of time soon, see i love MMORPGS! I've been playing 2 major MMOs for years, runescape and WOW (World of Warcraft), on runescape i've got two level 138's (maxed level on runescape) and have done almost everything on there. WOW i've gotten to level 85, gotten all the expansion packs, and done almost everything too.

So now i come to eve, a very very hard game, but the greatest i ever played, so far i've been doing alot of agent missions and just exploring the universe and its very large size :P, so now i say should i play?, if you could tell me your eve starting stories and give me a list of stuff to do!

Thanks!

WARNING a pirate is posting on the fourms.

Sovennek
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-09-09 21:29:56 UTC
Here's a handy little chart:

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/

Pick a path! Any or all paths!

Also, join a player-run corporation. In EVE, it's all about the people. Big smile

Remember: They're only pixels; it's not real money; it's supposed to be fun!

Motamar Askold
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2011-09-09 21:36:20 UTC
Hey thanks man!, eve is a must for me! thanks for the link.

WARNING a pirate is posting on the fourms.

Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#4 - 2011-09-09 23:01:49 UTC
The number one thing you need to be aware of about EVE Online is that it is not a "theme park" MMO like World of Warcraft.

In "theme park" MMOs you are given instructions: "kill 10 pigs", "collect a dozen wraith fingers" etc. As you progress through the pre-written story, your quests send you to different places to kill different monsters and collect different items. Thus a "theme park" MMO spoon feeds you, and provides external guidance so you have very few decisions to make besides simply continuing to push buttons. In a way, they are nothing more than interactive books.

EVE Online is a "sandbox" MMO. There are no character levels, for starters. You will never catch up in "Skill Points" to people who have been playing the game for eight years. The missions you get from NPCs are mere ISK-generating distractions. Where the game is really played is in the interactions between players, the forming of alliances, and the breaking down of the same. EVE doesn't hold your hand and tell you where to go or what to do.

You are a capsuleer, unbound. There is no prewritten story for you to follow. You have the power - indeed, the responsibility - to choose your own destiny.

In my case, I've been puttering around as a hisec care bear. When I started, I was fixated on generating ISK. I didn't focus as much on building friendships - and for that I'm now suffering. The number one task that I would give to any new player is make friends. Your friends will help you find interesting things to do.
CCP Zymurgist
C C P
C C P Alliance
#5 - 2011-09-09 23:06:52 UTC
Sovennek wrote:
Here's a handy little chart:

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/

Pick a path! Any or all paths!

Also, join a player-run corporation. In EVE, it's all about the people. Big smile



+1 from me on the link Sovennek posted. Don't forget you can click on a lot of those boxes and it will take you to our EVElopedia for information on those professions and goals.

Zymurgist Community Representative CCP NA, EVE Online Contact Us at http://support.eveonline.com/pages/petitions/createpetition.aspx

Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#6 - 2011-09-09 23:31:27 UTC
Sovennek wrote:
… Any or all paths!


Just a word of caution there though: training the skills to pursue any of those paths takes time. Time is the scarcest resource in EVE. Training to fly a Hulk to strip asteroid fields bare will necessarily take time away from training to fly a covert operations frigate, which will take time away from training the skills required to build battleships.

The starting "Career Advancement" missions will educate you in the basics of flying ships, manufacturing, probing cosmic signatures, and most importantly losing ships to significantly larger enemy gangs. Make sure you do those missions. Do them again if you can, through the Career Agents in a different region.

Oh, and you might find the New Citizens Useful Threads page to be useful (that's what it's called, after all).
Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#7 - 2011-09-10 04:43:35 UTC
DO IT, you can add me in-game and join my channel as listed in my bio if you want a place to hang out ^^

The Drake is a Lie

Alekseyev Karrde
Noir.
Shadow Cartel
#8 - 2011-09-10 04:47:16 UTC
CCP Zymurgist wrote:
Sovennek wrote:
Here's a handy little chart:

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/

Pick a path! Any or all paths!

Also, join a player-run corporation. In EVE, it's all about the people. Big smile



+1 from me on the link Sovennek posted. Don't forget you can click on a lot of those boxes and it will take you to our EVElopedia for information on those professions and goals.

would be nice to see the in game recruitment tool have filters to this level of granularity

Alek the Kidnapper, Hero of the CSM

Alxea
Unstable Pirate Sharks Of The Damed Sea
#9 - 2011-09-10 05:53:06 UTC
Motamar Askold wrote:
I've played the free trial, and im running out of time soon, see i love MMORPGS! I've been playing 2 major MMOs for years, runescape and WOW (World of Warcraft), on runescape i've got two level 138's (maxed level on runescape) and have done almost everything on there. WOW i've gotten to level 85, gotten all the expansion packs, and done almost everything too.

So now i come to eve, a very very hard game, but the greatest i ever played, so far i've been doing alot of agent missions and just exploring the universe and its very large size :P, so now i say should i play?, if you could tell me your eve starting stories and give me a list of stuff to do!

Thanks!

I have been playing this game since 2007 and I play a lot. I have done many things in this game. I still love it and always will. Find what you want to do and have the most fun with and do it. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Eve is also a harsh place but rewarding specially if and when you push back.

Eve is all about doing what YOU want to do because it is a sandbox. It is a game that rewards you for taking risks. Find a corp or alliance with your similar goals and roll with them. You will be sure to totally enjoy your experience here. This game is unlike most tho because it takes time. But you don't have to invest much effort into this game to become powerful it just takes time. I never like leveling up games much anymore because it takes too much effort killing the same stuff ten hours a day.

In eve I don't even have to rat to make isk, I can build stuff, or trade stuff. And I am a billionaire from that because I know the market and what to build also because I have good skills in it. This lets me have most of my free time to pew pew. This is how I love to play like. XD It may be a long road but eve gets more fun over time you just have to be the kind that can wait without trouble. That does not mean you can't pvp right away.

All you need is a team and a frigate that can tackle and you can blow people up right away. All corps need tacklers. If pvp is not your thing find what you like. The limit is only your imagination I would say because this game just about has it all and pretty close to having it all. lol
malaire
#10 - 2011-09-10 07:46:28 UTC  |  Edited by: malaire
Sovennek wrote:
Here's a handy little chart:

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/

Pick a path! Any or all paths!

Also, join a player-run corporation. In EVE, it's all about the people. Big smile

There is also nice PDF about different careers at
http://play.eveonline.com/en/getting-started/support.aspx (direct link, 55MB PDF)

And if you want to know more about EVE, you can download this 400+ page "manual": http://www.isktheguide.com/

New to EVE? Don't forget to read: The Manual * The Wiki * The Career Options * and everything else

CCP Guard
C C P
C C P Alliance
#11 - 2011-09-10 13:03:25 UTC
Welcome aboard Motamar :)

My number one advice would be to start thinking about getting into a player run corporation. There are many different out there to choose from but for a lot of people, EVE truly starts to make sense when you join a corp and start doing things with a good group of people. A good corporation will teach you a lot of things you need to know and back you up in many ways.

And don't hesitate to use this forum if you have any questions about the game, people are generally really helpful here.

-CCP Guard, EVE Community Developer

CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer | @CCP_Guard

Motamar Askold
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2011-09-10 16:26:47 UTC
Thanks everyone for the advice!

WARNING a pirate is posting on the fourms.

Fon Win
Win-Star Corp
#13 - 2011-09-11 01:32:09 UTC
When you get blowed up, and you will. don't take it personal, if you can strike up a convo with the guy/guys afterword. (presuming they're cool people, most pirates actually are. this doesn't mean you should trust them though.)

I learned more from the 5 minute convo with my first pirate than i did from the first month of playing.
Montevius Williams
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2011-09-11 02:30:57 UTC
Fon Win wrote:
When you get blowed up, and you will. don't take it personal, if you can strike up a convo with the guy/guys afterword. (presuming they're cool people, most pirates actually are. this doesn't mean you should trust them though.)

I learned more from the 5 minute convo with my first pirate than i did from the first month of playing.



Same happened to me, I had a mission that took me to low sec. I was in the middle of doing the mission and a Pirate in his Thorax came, killed all the rats for me, then killed me after, told me where the mission item was then gave advice on how to survive envounters with pirates like him. I learned more from that 5 minute experience than any of the EVE tutorials.

"The American Government indoctrination system known as public education has been relentlessly churning out socialists for over 20 years". - TravisWB

Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-09-11 03:31:41 UTC
if u liked it from the trial i would go for it. i mean if u pay monthly and u decide to quit later on its not to bad.
Flakey Foont
#16 - 2011-09-11 05:28:17 UTC
And when you get to a certain income, you can play for free with ISK!
Tank CEO
MASS
Pandemic Horde
#17 - 2011-09-11 08:02:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Tank CEO
Want a 21 day trial + learn my secret on how to make billions of ISK + earn 65-175 million ISK, well simply check out my forum post on these forums by clicking here!

All you have to do is accept my buddy invite (recruit a friend type of deal), start a free 21 day trial on with that buddy invite, and subscribe to EVE. Your game time is stacked with the trial if you subscribe.

Learn from a 8 year old vet and have a great head start in EVE with my starter ISK offer.

You may contact me via email if you wish for more details. Its: tankceo.buddyinvite@live.com, but I recommend reading my post here first!
malaire
#18 - 2011-09-11 08:06:58 UTC
Tank CEO wrote:
Want a 21 day trial + learn my secret on how to make billions of ISK + earn 65-175 million ISK, well simply check out my forum post on these forums by clicking here!

That isn't your post, but then that offer is better than yours Lol

New to EVE? Don't forget to read: The Manual * The Wiki * The Career Options * and everything else

Tank CEO
MASS
Pandemic Horde
#19 - 2011-09-11 08:16:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Tank CEO
malaire wrote:

That isn't your post, but then that offer is better than yours Lol


Hah, thanks for the tip. Is his offer really better than mine? I tell you how to make billions of ISK yet he only offers 250m isk and shut the door, and that is if he pays you. People can go ahead and offer more than 50%, but the more they offer, the more it indicates its a scam. Plus, I have a lot more feedback than him, and this may surprise you, but majority select the lower ISK option with the advice.
Tank CEO
MASS
Pandemic Horde
#20 - 2011-09-11 08:17:09 UTC
oops.
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