EVE General Discussion

"hey, go try this awesome game, it's a sandbox and you can do amazingly funky things that you just can't do in any other MMO's you've ever played. All these opportunities, you can go wild! So here's an idea: Go grind like it's a ******* cubicle job for a couple of weeks and get bored to hell with it so you can save yourself the cost of a McD's lunch".


Do you actually LIKE your friends?

OP, to your question ... with hours and hours of stupid grind and luck.

Opinionated response:

Earning a PLEX as a new player is almost the opposite of getting hooked on the game. Without a large network (eg. Alliance/Coalition) around to provide the opportunities, the way to earn a PLEX is to do the most grinding, boring activities within the game (eg. station trading for hours while also learning the market as a new player, grinding for hours and hours in missions or mining or salvaging, etc.).

I can totally understand people making decisions about their spending that don't result in them spending more on gaming.

In that case, my view would be to really get them into the addictive aspects of Eve to the point where they decide to subscribe, even if that results in them dropping other subscriptions.

Grinding for a PLEX won't get them hooked.

I'm a new player myself.. 3 weeks in and I'm hitting 1 billion "soon".. it's always soon...

I gave myself the target to earn myself a plex by the end of the month... but 2 weeks in I bought subscription cause I love this game too much... and I found myself enjoying the content and stuff I do with friends online.. I didn't really care too much about the isk amount.. I wanted to get better.. I wanted to do new stuff.. the isk came in steadily when I found myself doing the right things... doing it faster..

Luck is no doubt a factor too.. I got pretty lucky a few times. Then I realise the most intriguing, addictive part of this game is you don't know what you'll find after a kill.

Thus... it's good to let your friends know they can play the game well and it pays for itself...but let them enjoy their newbie journey. Don't feed them too much.. be it info or isk. Finding out stuff is actually fun in this game.

May the force be with them.

They could but 10 100mil items for 0.01... that would get them pretty much there

It probably doesn't help that you are getting them killed in gate-camps - 'the works' - as that sort of thing is distracting

im going to write a guide on making a plex in the first week.

Step 1 - log into eve account management page

Step 2 - select buy plex

Step 3 - input paypal details (if paypal is not linked then please refer to "Key Point 1")

Step 4 - Pay for a damn plex

Step 5 - Log into EVE Online

Step 6 - Drag the plex from "Redeemable Items" to the desired character.

Step 7 - Click the character to enter the game

Step 8 - sell that **** on the market for a billion isk!

Step 9 - Buy dem battleships with meta modules and undock that **** right in Jita

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Point 1 = https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/CZ/html/TopUp/buyer.html

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****Alternative Methods****

Follow "Step 1" and subscribe to EVE Online for a little as $9.99

There fixed eve and your friends hopes can be traded for many funs

Thxbye

Why would they care? It's the same money for them, no matter whether the buyer is space poor or rich.

Who uses plex, when subscription is several units of money cheaper?

I told my friends to man up and get another job, at McDonalds. Sadly they won't accept anyone without at least 30 years of experience in the fine art of burger flipping. Shame really, since that €4,25 an hour for two nights a week could've really helped pay off student loans besides a full-time job.

It's not about having a job or funds to pay for EVE, it's the willingness to pay for EVE, games and in general monthly fees/subs. Since subs are generally frowned upon by a growing minority of gamers, with a vast sea op F2P/B2P options available. Most of them don't know EVE is in fact good value for money as Ralph said. Expansions are 'free' for example. You pay a sub for the reason subs were actually implemented in games, to support the expansion of the game. Real expansion packs, not updates (updates, which in my opinion are a service for the customer->the player->you and I, not something you pay for, although other MMO companies state otherwise). PLEX is just a good alternative, a goal to work towards, or something you say to your friends you want to continue play EVE with, gnegnegne.

I pay an annual sub, I've never saved ISK for a PLEX. So I was curious if it was actually doable. Thanks for answering that question guys! Seems you can't really discover the things that, gets you hooked on, and you'd enjoy in, the game if you need to grind for PLEX.

So I'll redirect and rephrase! How did you guys get your friends to continously play EVE? Ignoring the need for a monthly PLEX for now.

Thanks again ;)

Aha, this is another "I want EVE to be F2P" hidden agenda thing. Noted.


Still I'll alswer it: You show them options and let them decide for themselves what they're going to do, everyone is different and everyone has different drives, goals and turn offs. If they like it they'll pay for it, if they don't like it then they won't pay for it. If it were F2P they might try it a few times but if they didn't like it when it was sub based they won't like it F2P either, not enough to pay because then they'd pay for a sub too.

So there's no gain to be had for EVE to go F2P because all that'll happen is alts accounts with maxed/fleshed out alts stop paying sub and an onslaught of poorfag low IQ inbred morons who will clog up the intertubes, **** in all corners and never pay a dime.