Too late to start?

schizzed

Really want to jump in to the game, but i'm afraid i'm a little to late.  I played EA's Earth & Beyond and when the servers shut down I kind took a LONG break from the MMO genre.

Should I bother or just wait for the next space/sci-fi mmo to come out?

Jacinta

Never too late to start.  Depends on what you want though, really.  Most of the big alliances are well established and I suspect that starting a big, universe beating alliance in anything short of a couple of years would be pretty impossible.  But there's always room for one more pilot in space and you should find yourself holding your own with the best of them in a few months at most.



Best advice I could give you if you do decide to join is to find yourself an active corporation to help you on your way in the first, haliting steps you take in a large galaxy.



Good luck, whatever your decision

WolfClaws

Hah!  It is never too late to start.  With the new character creation system you can start a combat oriented character with just under 1 million Skill Points (that is a lot more than my 200k sp I started with) and you get 2-3 skills at V which is a huge advantage.

 

 

Taniquetil

Don't worry about starting late , just get yourself a good corp who'll teach you the ropes and you're laughing.Eve can be overwhelming at first but once you decide what you want to do , its a blast.

dutchman

This wotn be a problem, jsut make sure you specialize in a sertain area and you can get good in it pretty fast, after that pick another 1 and train it up.    And make sure you do the tutorial ALL of the tutorial:)

Resetgun

Yup. Never late to start.

Just specialize to certain ship type and you are going to be better than 3 year old veterans.

Gr4dient

It's not too late, if you want to be a second class citizen.

Unless you are going to cheat, (ie account share, use macros or buy ISK) then you will always be at the bottom of the heap.

Far better to find a game that is in beta, or just started and play that.  This site has plenty of information of other great games.

 

NaThuul

 

Originally posted by Gr4dient


It's not too late, if you want to be a second class citizen.
Unless you are going to cheat, (ie account share, use macros or buy ISK) then you will always be at the bottom of the heap.
Far better to find a game that is in beta, or just started and play that.  This site has plenty of information of other great games.
 

That has to be one of the most idiotic statements ever. Skills != Levels in WoW.

You now start with just about 1 million skillpoints. Here are numbers showing how many characters there are in different skillpoint ranges:

1 to 2 Million 38.371

2 to 3 Million 16.780

3 to 4 Million 10.302

1 to 5 Million 8.074

5 to 10 Million 30.110

10 to 15 Million 21.639

15 to 20 Million 12.833

20 to 25 Million 8.499

25 to 30 Million 6.624

30 to 35 Million 5.496

35 to 40 Million 4.342

40 to 45 Million 3.152

45 to 50 Million 1.892

50 to 55 Million 1.012

55 to 60 Million 311

60+ Million 40 

As you can see, the vast majority is below 10 million SP, and a great deal of these will be people training junk with no real purpose. Be smart, specialize and you will be as good as any other quickly in your ship.

Also, remember, they way EVE works, there will always be a max number of SP you use at any given time. The 2 million SP I have in Gallente Battleship counts for nothing if I fly an Assault Frigate. The 2 million SP I have in Gunnery does nothing if I'm flying a hauler, mining or trading, etc etc etc

Taram

Originally posted by schizzed


Really want to jump in to the game, but i'm afraid i'm a little to late.  I played EA's Earth & Beyond and when the servers shut down I kind took a LONG break from the MMO genre.
Should I bother or just wait for the next space/sci-fi mmo to come out?

No it's never too late to start EVE.  I have several friends who just started recently and they love it.  Ignore the naysayers who claim you can't start and excel now.  I know folks who started less than a year ago running entire alliances already and a couple who are already flying in Carriers (one of the most powerful ships in the game).



My corporation is just approaching 1 year old and the alliance we founded last month already own several constellations in 0.0, have our own Station (no, not POS, we have dozens of those) etc.  Our Alliance leader is just barely over 1 year old himself. 



So no, it is NEVER too late to start in EVE.  Anyone who says otherwise REALLY doesn't understand how the game works.   It's even possible to acquire Tech2 BPO's if you really want them   Just harder is all.





But you did miss the boat on one thing:  Everyone who played E&B when it was shut down was brought over to EVE free of charge at the time.  That offer isn't valid any longer but at the time all you had to do was send CCP your E&B CD Key (so they could verify you actually played E&B) and they'd give you a free copy of the game and free access to the game for a month I believe.  So all E&B players who switched to EVE back then got 60 days of game time free of charge.  Was a pretty sweet deal as I recall.



I wish they'd done the same for us SWG Refugees

w175jab

I agree... It is never too late to start playing in EVE.

rebal88

WOW...60+mil SP



"How do you kill one wich has no life"? and its never to late!

Moghidin

It's not too late to start. And it's not too late to have fun in Eve. But if you want to be as good as the best of them, it's pretty late for that. I was in Eve for 2 years and got all the right skills for all the cool staff. But I couldn't afford to use it (I'm talking about PvP here). Grinding for 2 weeks for a ship and losing it the next day was not my idea of fun. Take into account that ISK (in-game currency) is your friend. If you have time or can afford to run 2 accounts, do it. Make 2-nd account miner or trader, so that it'll earn you ISK for your "fun" activities with your 1-st account. Start R&D agents as fast as you can. If you get a nice BPO, ISK problem solved forever. Bottom line is - ISK ISK ISK. I was always struggling with it, so I got to the point where I couldn't compete with ppl who brought hundreds of milions (or sometimes several billions) of equipment and implants into the fight. I realized that I'll never be as good as they are and left. But on the other hand, it took me nearly 2 years, so you can still enjoy the game, just don't expect to be one of the best there.

dutchman

The people stat started out on day 1 are pretty much good in everything.  But liek i said before specialize and you can get jsut as good in 1 area at a time in a few months time.

pihlssite

 schizzed   it's never to late to    get into EvE.

 Join the fun..

O btw it's alot of Earth and Beyond players around in EvE

inc me     give me  tell on msn pihlssite@hotmail.com

 

 

PegasusJF

I started a year into the games start. I'm not a good PVPer, but I can fly all the ships, and never felt down because of my lack of skills at first, I just had fun.

It's all about your corp and community.

damian7

Originally posted by PegasusJF


It's all about your corp and community.

t20 and all his dev/staff/volunteer buds.

 

cheers.

jch0ss

Originally posted by PegasusJF


I started a year into the games start. I'm not a good PVPer, but I can fly all the ships, and never felt down because of my lack of skills at first, I just had fun.
It's all about your corp and community.

This man speaks the truth. 

I haven't been playing since launch, thus I'll be "behind" those that have.  Having said that the fun I have in Eve has more to do with the folks I play and fly with, not with the number of skill points I have.