EVE New Citizens Q&A

I just signed up for a trial and am totally lost.

I am currently working on "Making Mountains out of Molehills 2". It looks like it will take a long time to finish this one.

I do not want to waste my trial time on drudgery I want to use it to find out if I like the game.

What is it about this game that people like? What can I do in my trial to find out if I like it or not?

Thanx

Bodger

From that graph it looks like Cheating/Scamming is acceptable behavior?

This game may not be for me.

Bodger

ya, EVE is like some third world countries where just about everything goes

People can use any in-game means to try to screw you, including stealing every cent out of a corporate wallet and every ship and module in a corporate hanger the same day you gave them access rights to it after figuring you could trust them after a month.

In the sense of cheating there really isn't much "cheating" that anyone can do as things like bots are not allowed (though people will joke that CCP does nothing about it).

You skills always train based on the timer and none of the activities you do make them go any faster (but you can effect training times with remaps and implants) so you can do w/e you want and not feel obligated to do a certain activity to progress. AND it trains while you're offline so it helps with a casual lifestyle.

But yes scamming and stealing is even advertised lol

But it comes with the territory of it being a sandbox type game. Space is dark and ruthless but so long as you stay on your toes and are careful who you trust then you'll only ever have minimal encounters with the scammer type people (aside from just sitting in Jita).

Another twin!

Tanning beds cause melanoma btw

Its a very harsh game, and its this that prevents this game from reaching the popularity of many other mmos. But I wouldent have it any other way.
Yes scaming, suicide ganking, espionage, and baiting people intto combat are all allowed as its part of the harsh nature of the mostly lawless space civilzation that is portrayed in the game. It is important to note that many of these activites are prohibited in the starting 1.0 systems you are in when you first make your char.

Its this lack of rules and guidlines that makes eve great its the ability to make your own goals and the blast, sneak, outlast, outwit all the obsticalls in your path the way you see fit and then finally look back with an actual sense of pride in what you have achieved make this game one of a kind.

My favorite part of this game is small scale pvp with less then 20 people in fleet(large scale combat can have hundres of players on each side). Its in these battles that every action of every player can have a major impact on the outcome of the fight, its where skills are really put to the test and its about the bigest adrenelin rush you can get from a video game.