EVE General Discussion

o7 Hello folks!

Before i kick this thing off, i apologise in advance to the people running the content in the forums. If this is in the wrong section then please point me in the right direction.

I've been thinking about EVE and its contents and being a sandbox game I thought there would be no better place to do the following. I believe the term I'm looking for is the 'Ironman Account', an idea I stole from the Runescape 3 community (Please don't judge me to harshly). Basically, the player creates a new account with specific rules.

1.) The player can not trade or buy from the market hubs.
2.) Everything must be self made, found, rewarded, sourced from the games environment.
3.) The player can not accept donations of any kind.

i.e, if i want a specific ship to fly, then i need to mine my own materials, use PI for the components, find the correct blue prints and gather the right skill books to achieve this goal. Not to mention the specific modules I need to fit the ship (as you can see, the task is endless.....)



Why do this?

Well, I would love to document how i get on, starting with nothing and progressing my career as a pilot. If that is not creating your own content, than i don't know what is. Hopefully, through my career documentation, 'newbies' or vets can get a few ideas for them selves and understand that actually, in EVE you literally can do anything.....

I hope to get some feed back on the communities interest and if it turns out there's a lot of interest.

Then i shall do the following:

1.) Report on my findings, progression, problems, the lot.
2.) Produce detailed fortnightly (Maybe weekly) stories of my time is space, as i know there is a lot of people interested in space stories.
3.) I hope to catch some of this content via online streaming sources, however my internet is terrible and need to look into it.

So please + or - for your interests....

Thank you....

Yah, see you next year sometime after you build your first . . . cruiser? Uh huh. Good luck with that.

score? -5 for not having a clue what all this involves.

I was thinking of doing something similar to this but on super hard mode. Doing it out in nullsec and working for pirate corps as my PVE system.

EVE started like this, but the way they "balanced" things, it will be a while before you get out of your starter ship.

If you lose your sanity, can I have your stuff?

+1 for creativity. Gryffindor wins.

- Lego

Market hubs are part of the game's environment..

..urge to track down character and troll them with donations.

To each their own I guess. Have fun.. but remember that Eve is a game that is meant to be played with other people..



You are new here, so ill let you off with a warning this time. It is widely known that I have what is referred to as 'Perma-dibs' on peoples stuff. In the future, please word it as "Can UaE have your stuff?" in order to cut down on paperwork for us all.

How do you plan on obtaining anything beyond a newbship?

No Hipster!

As mentioned the social aspect of the game is being ignored as this is a big part of the game this seems wrong to call your project "The EVE experience".

You could also consider modifying your parameters to include, negotiated trades (via contract) with other players to obtain items instead of the only buy from NPC parameter. This will keep it hard mode but will also include social interaction while allowing you to keep your not buy anything from the market parameter.

Well if you are adding missions into the mix, you might as well for get it. You'll be playing the game just like everyone else.