EVE General Discussion

OP, did you really just cry because you can't solo compete with big alliances which consists of thousands of players many as new as you are?

Its next to the Esc key.. its labeled F1.

Apply liberally and win.

*Chewytowel Haklar's Wall of Text crit's your eyes for 9,000,000,000 damage*

WTB Goonswarm leadership. I have 1000AUR!!!1

Not got time for this crap. I just play...
Play away, play, play away, play, play away, play away, play away..
Anyone remember that? Ok bye......

The whole idea of a sandbox game is to figure that one out for yourself. I too get the most kick out of PVP. But how to give that purpose? Well, there are many ways to go about that. I myself am a social animal in MMO's, I can't stand these games with XP progression systems that guide you on rails and pretty much tell you to ignore other players untill you are ready to farm the endgame bosses, or whatever drops your fancy endgame crap.

It's the social interaction and simple cameraderie that makes it all worth it to me. Or corp is on the brink of it's second anniversary, we're not exactly old farts by comparison. But we did stake a claim proportionate to our size and capabilities, and while the tides of the sea move the bigger fish off course we had to adapt from time to time, but those ever-changing conditions and political shifts is what seperate Eve from pvp-on-rails systems where you can "own" a piece of land in name only. I once traded land (read: space assets) in turn for a military strike (read: military service). I mean how feudal can you get in a video game? Which other MMO does this, and with space ships no less?

We all sucked at PVP at two months. Maybe we acted confident but we all got our salvage handed to us by more experienced players. And if you are not getting wtfpwnd from time to time, you know you are not playing Eve but just farming it. If you want to get good at PVP you are going to have to roll with the punches and take your losses in stride. Knowing your game is worth a lot though, not only because you can fight for your own purposes, but people will respect your willingness to protect your investments with nail and tooth. Once you have some backers, allies and trusted equals, and are no longer fighting for "teh lulz" but to protect what you hold, you will find out what it's all for.

I remember having a bout of severe depression when I was about two months old in real life. My goal of ruling the world seemed so far off at the time I briefly considered suicide.

Dude.


By whose standards are you playing this game? OK so you don't want to min/max it. Great! We have enough autising going on around here anyway.

But you seem to be operating under some kind of standard. Like there's some need to be playing a certain way and doing certain things and achieving things that for the most part you lack the skills to do.

So what. You are new.

And if you are on some track that you think you have to rack up skills and do all kinds of grinding "before" you can play the game, then you already screwed the pooch on getting Eve and you should go.


The game is open ended. I have been at it since 2006 and still have yet to see more than 30 percent of the content of this game. It's too big for that. And who cares anyway? I don't.


So here is what you do: nothing. Not like, don't play it, but stop thinking there is something you have to do, or should be doing, because either you can't do it or lack the skills to do it.


You are obviously here because you like spaceships or something. That's all you need. The game is so open ended there's no limit to how you can find ways to enjoy it. If I put out a dialog on "how I play Eve" at least half the bittervets would die laughing if they read it. Half the noobs would go running and screaming back to WoW. But I still have a good time and have been enjoying it since 2006.

So find a way to have some fun, forget the "stuff" and "da rules" of how you should play or what you should accomplish according to other players. Set your own goals and have fun and the more it seems unattainable, then the more challenge you are getting for the cost of your sub. And that's a good thing.

Fun is just a buzzword. You heard it here folks. People don't actually have fun when playing any games at all NOPE never.

Fun ? We are not here to have fun.

Do you think this is some sort of game ? Get all thoughts of fun out of your head right now, EVE is serious business.