These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

EVE General Discussion

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

Why did you start playing EVE?

First post First post
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Blind Phew
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#61 - 2012-12-24 15:16:03 UTC
CCP Falcon wrote:
Survey filled out Smile



I did too...
Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#62 - 2012-12-24 16:32:17 UTC
Internet Spaceships.

...end transmission...

♪ They'll always be bloodclaws to me ♫
Beta Miner
COBRA Logistics
#63 - 2012-12-24 16:36:27 UTC
My very first MMO was SWG .... and we know how that worked out. So then I moved to Eve. =)

AFK Cloaking? An afk cloaker has never ganked me. In fact a cloaker at his keybourd has never ganked me either.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#64 - 2012-12-24 17:00:18 UTC
Survey done.

In short, spaceships.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

New Player FAQ

Feyd's Survival Pack
Some Rando
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#65 - 2012-12-24 17:09:55 UTC
Done. Open gameplay, harsh and unforgiving universe, and spaceships.

CCP has no sense of humour.
Ginger Barbarella
#66 - 2012-12-24 18:10:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Ginger Barbarella
Needed something to take me away from a) the day job, b) my side-gig of website development, and c) working on building my photography business. Yes, I keep myself busy. Wanted something fun, thought EveO looked interesting (not interested in FPS, but a thinking game is really my style), gave it a whirl.

I've had between two and 6 active accounts at a time since I started playing 7 years ago. Got 6 right now: training up a couple potential spies on their own accounts (see, great evidence that the whole API discussion is a joke, right there) right now.

Edit: one question does not a survey make.

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Simetraz
State War Academy
Caldari State
#67 - 2012-12-24 18:14:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Simetraz
Filled out survey, even though I question the rationel behind the survey.

Wing Commander: Privateer
Loved that game and EVE is a continuance of that game.

I will say there is something that has disappeared over the years and that is cut scenes.
Anyone that remembers the landing cut scene over some of the planets will understand.
Granted it was a way to hide long loading times but it added polish to games.

Something has been lost in the rush and the I instant satisfaction of today's generation.
I still think there should be cut scenes when entering station.
And one for when you leave.
Ability to disable yes.

But zoning without cuts scenes has always been cheesy (all games, MMO's especially) and in my mind is an immersion breaker that makes a game feel incomplete.

EVERYBODY KNOWS
Xorth Adimus
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#68 - 2012-12-24 18:33:32 UTC
I held off for a while, played space sims and open ended strategy games allot elite / WC / MOO2 / xwing/ tie fighter / freelancer / homeworld etc.


Main cause of me starting to play was these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrWAOeIN4Ik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsmXjJOTN64

Pretty much sum up eve as it was and as I played it, and the glory days it still clings to despite years of little new actual playing content (last was WHs and to a lesser extent incursions). The stagnation of any real content or even ideas and plan for 0.0 and low sec hasn't done much for EVE over the past 4 years.

Main reason I stayed and have never unsubbed was PVP with the most fun awesome people in eve over the last few years, the majority of the active ones all being in my current corp.

As long as my EVE friends log in to kill stuff I will be there with them.
Murk Paradox
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#69 - 2012-12-24 18:35:36 UTC
Internet spaceships of a higher caliber than just "pew pew".

ie- Cloaky, ewar, scans, probes, drones all that other stuff. Lasers are fun and all but simple boom headshots fix can be gotten from FPS's galore all over the place.

But a spaceship to do whatever you want...? yessir!

This post has been signed by Murk Paradox and no other accounts, alternate or otherwise. Any other post claiming to be this holder's is subject to being banned at the discretion of the GM Team as it would violate the TOS in regards to impersonation. Signed, Murk Paradox. In triplicate.
bbb2020
Carebears with Attitude
#70 - 2012-12-24 20:30:22 UTC  |  Edited by: bbb2020
Survey taken.

I downloaded the game one evening when I was bored. Still play it today when i'm bored.
Basicly I'm a very boring person and this game is my medicin as it's anything but boring.

Edit: Oh yeah - the cut scenes. What happend to them? I'm sure there was some in here when i started to play the game.
Korsiri
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#71 - 2012-12-24 21:33:26 UTC
interesting

basically for me it was, hubby, mining, industry and ability to shoot assholes that **** me off
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#72 - 2012-12-24 22:00:27 UTC
Elrich Kouvo wrote:
masternerdguy wrote:
I wanted to go to nullsec and be in a fleet. I got into nullsec in 2008 and have been in many alliances. I also did solo PVP, faction wars, and hi sec pvp.

I liked the idea that when I lost, I really lost something real instead of just an instance or match. I also enjoy the rather romantic notion of fighting for a piece of space that me and my glorious space empire control. This was the hook for me. I've been a successful PVPer in hi , low, and null ever since and these days I live in lo sec.

If it wasn't for EVE's hard core player vs people pvp environment I wouldn't be here today. Participating in CTAs and roams made me want to be an FC, which I became and have been leading fleets ever since.

Personally I think the hi sec training wheels are too good at keeping people safe.

Yeah? what kinda wheels and what kinda training?


The problem of hi sec is not the level of safety - that is ideal at the moment. You can gank people and war dec but it costs money and is balanced and fair penalties are applied. The problem is that there is too much profitability in hi sec.

Level 4 missions, Incursions above Vanguard size, and endless industrial slots (don't lie to me about how hard it is to find them - I used to do it just go a few jumps away from a trade hub and there's always tons free) are too much income for an area of space that is as safe as hi sec is.

Hi sec also teaches players to depend on game mechanics and NPCs for protection instead of friends and stuff. Many of the hi seccers I've talked to during recruitment just can't understand why they get shot on sight in nullsec when they enter some alliance's space, since they're "just a player and harmless".

Hi sec is good at churning out people who are afraid of the rest of the game.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Maxpie
MUSE LLP
#73 - 2012-12-25 04:06:40 UTC
I came across this awesome story on the net one day. It was such a great read. I just had to try this game. Been hooked ever since.

No good deed goes unpunished
No Alibi
Sometimes Here
#74 - 2012-12-25 05:45:37 UTC
I was told that I could blow stuff up. Big smile

I fly by the seat of my pants, No wonder my ass is always on fire!
Makavi Astro
State War Academy
Caldari State
#75 - 2012-12-25 08:46:39 UTC
Valkris Arkayne wrote:
Anne-Louise Chasse wrote:
I've played almost every game of spaceships that have come in the last 20 years. Then saw some videos and then EVE Ambulation video and thought it was like a dream come true.

I admit I was disappointed discovering that the avatars were a demo and not something that exists in the game, and well, here I am, I still hope that EVE be the science fiction game where besides being a ship I be able to be a person and do things like people.

In a way, I always wanted to play Babylon 5 online... Lol


I'm EXACTLY the same! I started when I saw the Ambulation demo and thought I'd start gaining skills early so I was ready when WiS became reality. Unfortunately, the dream has faded almost completely away and I only pop into EVE an occasional month at a time.

Whichever game ends up with Spaceship *and* Avatar gameplay - both in meaningful ways - will have my money forever. I'll cancel everything else. Until then, I'm bouncing around from game to game.


You know about this game in development? "0x10c" If you don't know it, I strongly suggest checking it out :D
Nyancat Audeles
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#76 - 2012-12-25 14:55:29 UTC
Ares Desideratus wrote:
"To me, Eve Online is easily in the top 5 of GoaT (Greatest of all Time) video games. It should be more popular (but sadly people are stupid).

And the way I see it, anybody who enjoys good art / eye candy would love Eve. Putting Eve in a nutshell it's a world with over 7500 star systems laden with deep and heavy nebulae and space stuff, also filled with beautiful planets, suns, space stations and ships. Besides that it's gotta have one of the darkest (yet most beautiful) atmospheres in the MMO world, with corporate warfare and espionage being the main way of the community, and a disturbing back-story about how a race of beings called capsuleers dubbed as "immortals" fight each for god knows how long over various assets in the universe.

That's why I play. Sure, I PvP on occasion. Yeah, I gank a miner every once in a while and run the crap out of missions every time I need some money... but without the beauty of Eve and pure joy I've gotten over the years just from exploring space (anywhere in Eve, high-sec null-sec it don't matter), I wouldn't play it just for PvP, or just for High-Sec missions, or just to make money buying and selling stuff. I play it because it's just fun to look at and it's epic being in a universe THAT huge to me.

I just realized that your question was "Why did you START playing?" and I answered with "Why I currently play..." but that is just a derp of language, indeed the reasons stated above are why I started playing in the first place and why I will most likely play till I'm in daipers."

i wonder if that's even an acceptable answer

THIS THIS THIS THIS
Asuka Solo
I N E X T R E M I S
Tactical Narcotics Team
#77 - 2012-12-25 15:10:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Asuka Solo
Back in 2003, I was playing Freelancer.

It had all the right stuff: The spaceships, the battles, the different planets, cultures, technologies, getting out of your ship on stations and cities, the bar, stunning pixilated ladies and the hangers etc.

And was loving it.

Then one day in 2003 I picked up a copy of "PC Gamer" and they had a review of Eve Online in it.

I had to get it... but I would only get my chance to try it in 2006 with Red Moon Rising. Being a student at the time, I couldn't afford to pay the sub myself beyond the trials...

in 2008 that all changed, I made it official and I've been around ever since.



-> PS, your method for acquiring empirical evidence ala a survey regarding why people got into Eve to back up your demands to nerf hi-sec so your 0.0 space is more worth it is flawed....

Eve is about Capital ships, WiS, Boobs, PI and Isk!
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#78 - 2012-12-25 15:14:13 UTC
masternerdguy wrote:
Hi sec also teaches players to depend on game mechanics and NPCs for protection instead of friends and stuff. Many of the hi seccers I've talked to during recruitment just can't understand why they get shot on sight in nullsec when they enter some alliance's space, since they're "just a player and harmless".

Hi sec is good at churning out people who are afraid of the rest of the game.

Game mechanics and NPCs are powerful things. The rest of the game is harsh and cold.

Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?
ctx2007
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#79 - 2012-12-25 16:03:13 UTC
The wife held a gun to my head and told me to play it Ugh.


Nah thats a bad lie! I was a Freelancer vet and had added the various mods to it, so jumped aboard EVE.

You only realise you life has been a waste of time, when you wake up dead.
Zenethalos
Doomheim
#80 - 2012-12-25 16:16:35 UTC
I-pod, that was their alliance ticker IIRC. Had a friend who was with them, watched him play for about 2 days straight. Him and few people were pirating in Caracals before the days of warp to 0. I thought it was magical watching five of them gank stuff as it came threw gates, flying threw MH and getting fights with the local anti-pies and then heading back to 0.0.

Those were the days.