EVE New Citizens Q&A

Start off for $10 get like 45 days of play time. Get a sub for the next month, total of $25.

Get your final sub, and you're at having spent $40. Maybe if you take a break or don't play very much, have to pay for another sub for a total of $55 max.

Now, within this amount of time, you can have trained up your character to be able to do moderately profitable actions capable of financing your play through purchasing plex with isk.

At first EvE is Pay to Play, but then after investing some time it turns into play to play.

I dunno about right now though. CCP might be going through a financial crunch considering the cost of plex, the entrance fee to the EvE themepark, has gone up like 35%.

So maybe potentially, it's worth it? I'd say give it a shot. Play for 3 months, and if plex hasn't gone back down to around 550mil, consider it a wash and move on.

This is one of the things I love about EVE and it's single shard universe. You don't get to say "I want to be left alone" in this game, it's a shared experience and if you don't like that, you should be playing regular mmos that let you do "single player with other people".

Too bad that I personally know a married couple in EVE that met through EVE in the first place, they married and moved in together.

So, yes, EVE friends are real friends, if you meet the right people in EVE.

This isn't even remotely a reasonable demand.

Sure, Eve does do two major reworks a year, but if this is your core expectation of online games then you probably should stop playing online games and just buy two AAA releases a year instead.

Well, one and a half, since AAA releases run 70 to 80$ at the moment, I guess.

(Why is this an unreasonable demand? Because even stand-alone games with the highest replay value around don't have anywhere near 7-8 months of play time with their core content. Hell, some of the most-hyped ones barely have a week's worth, look at Diablo 3 or pre-mod Skyrim.)

a) Twice a year generally.

b) Rubicon was a disappointing release overall, IMO. Most expansions are better than it. The best expansion in recent years was Apochyra (not even going to try to spell that right).

In EVE however, it's often the small changes that create the most gameplay. Odyssey made one small change - re-randomizing the materials on each moon in the game - and in doing so singlehandedly caused most of nullsec to go up in flames as alliances fought over moon materials again. Even for someone like me that doesn't have any involvement in nullsec sovereign warfare, this created opportunities to trade with alliance logisiticians, scam alliance line members looking to buy themselves doctrine-fit ships, and somewhat changed the shape of highsec for a while by getting most of the Goons and TEST alts out of the space.


c) I don't know if there are subscription sales often at all. PLEX sales happen a bit - maybe quarterly - but subscribing directly is almost always cheaper.

d) I would assume in general in the entertainment industry that it's 60% running costs/development and 40% profit. I could be wildly wrong here.



If you are still on the fence about resubbing, I recommend you go out of your way to be a bastard in EVE for a day.

Bump a miner so far that they lose their target lock. Invade someone's mission and try to goad them into shooting you. Suicide gank a pod in highsec. Type the lyrics to "Call Me Maybe" into local chat in a trade hub. Dishonor a duel. Fit a suicide Celestis, enter an incursion site, and damp the two logi pilots to the point that they lose their target locks and cannot repair the fleet. AWOX a corp. (Actually, don't do #4, it's mean).

Then, deal with the consequences of your actions when others try to get revenge upon you.

That is what makes EVE so much fun.

These 2.

Honlstly, just start with a 30 day subscription. Try the game out for a month, there is already enough content in EVE to keep you trying out new stuff for months if not over a year.