EVE General Discussion

I played EVE like four years ago and it didn't really jive with me, but this time around I'm really digging its vibe. I've been mining, making millions, doing security missions, and currently waiting on training for mining barge and post-BC ships.

I see plenty of complaining about the game being unforgiving or certain players being relentless, but I haven't really seen any of that yet. Even skimming around in lowsec with my Venture, I've managed to keep out of trouble. It seems some people take the game very seriously, and like to impose that hardcore mentality onto others, but I don't really have a problem with any of that. I think MMOs are all about being immersed and trying to share that with others.

Even though I'm a loner and probably won't join a corp until I want to do some nullsec mining ops, there's plenty in the game for a person like me. I can play the market, mine endlessly, do all the pve missions, and team up with another friend for bigger challenges. Most MMOs have a ton of downtime. Waiting for raids, dungeons, pvp, opportunities. But in EVE, your time and efficiency ratio are entirely up to you. If you want to menu-hop for hours and not leave the station, that's up to you! And you can still make money doing that. I, however, like to aim for no wasted movements. No wasted trips. Always doing something.

This post doesn't have a point, but I suppose is an appropriate vehicle for me to introduce my apt presence to the forums, and to greet those of you who have enjoyed and mastered the game over the years.

Hello, and good day to you all.

You simply don't have anything anyone wants yet. That is why you haven't experienced anything all the whiners complain about. Stay vigilant as you obtain more valuable assets and you should be fine.

I appreciate your positive attitude and hope you are able to keep it, even after bad thing start to happen.

Good luck.

Hahaha nice. I actually got a friend to buy me a plex for the first month (past the trial anyway) so bonus, right?

And I've noticed that whilst humming around in my Venture, people generally ignore me. As I'm sure most would-be pirates have the freight sensors to check my freight, so they realize I don't have much of anything of worth.

You know what I should do is buy 30 plex and load them in a reaper and fly around on autopilot. hmmm

EDIT: Forgot to add that I've had two ships destroyed so far. One was a Thrasher in a duel with someone who essentially hustled me. I looked at her pilot info and saw she began her character 20 minutes ago and thought "Oh hey, I could beat her" and she had warp scramblers and webifiers all up in my face. Was pretty epic. She almost got another ship when I mistakenly left the dock after I had cloned. But I was quick with the draw, by clicking "Dock"

Second ship I lost was a Mammoth in .5 sec space. I got stuck on an asteroid while trying to warp out from belt rats. I felt so stupid haha

Nothing wrong with getting a PLEX for implants or whatever but it's a slippery slope. The problem starts when you have that two week old player in a faction battleship.

If you get stuck on something just double click in space to manually pilot away from the object. Better to learn this lesson in something cheap.

It depends really. I took the cardinal rules of EVE to heart after my trial ended. Don't fly what you can afford to lose. Since FW is mostly frig warfare that one plex supplied me with an abundant amount of frigates to blow up and learn how to PVP. To this day I haven't regretted that decision. Doing L2 missions and mining simply isn't my thing since I joined EVE when I watched goons getting dunked in Asakai in youtube.

Of course if I went the carebear route and bought a BS with only >900k SP it would have popped instantly.

Hang on, let me get my bucket

Edit: grr iphone

Hello and welcome back!
Welcome to the solo players club, hope we will be hearing your thoughts about the game features...
We need more of us solos talking on the forum to give our perspectives on the game, and establish a balance with the big powers lobbyists ' voices.

Ctrl+Space is your friend


Also glad to hear you are enjoying yourself =D

You do realize those people who "Take the game too seriously", are the ones youll probably wanting to join, if you decide to go into null.



Yeah, keep doing the AFK thing, and rush to buy you a faction Battleship, then shoot anyone who tries to steal your mission loot, youll be in a pwnboat, and can take them all.

Technically I said "People who take the game very seriously" not "People who take the game too seriously." I chose my wording because I knew one small change there would probably result in your post. Either way, your point is well taken. Games can't thrive if everyone is as lazy and friendless as I am. It needs people who are motivated and cunning to push forward and bring about changes in the political landscape that people like me deign to accept willingly.