I wouldn't recommend you to try EvE if you have an older comp. I have a P4 2.6 HT 1.5 gig of ram, and i had bad problems with it. The sound would crack and be static, and the help talked in slow motion, and the players wouldn't/couldn't help me. Besides that, I didn't really like the rest of the game.
For me, Eve combat sucks. The only fun part is chasing your target down, then its just a matter of who's tanks gonna break first. Which involves sitting at your computer screen, watching your ship orbit your target, and praying you dont run out of cap/shield/armor/ammo before the other guy dies/flies off/call in reinforcements/LOGS OUT...
and may the gods help you if you happen to lose a ship (cause eve doesnt)
EVE is a great game, but in my experience people who come to it looking for a "space shooter" end up walking away bitter, angry and confused and write nasty posts about EVE in online gaming forums ....
I remember spending an extra £100 on a joystick when I bought Eve.
EVE is a great game, but in my experience people who come to it looking for a "space shooter" end up walking away bitter, angry and confused and write nasty posts about EVE in online gaming forums ....
I remember spending an extra £100 on a joystick when I bought Eve.
What a pillock.
LoL
Anyway sadly and i do mean this as well There is so little in the way of Space based MMO's that the only real choice right now is EvE. My advice is to try eve and wait to see IF Infinity ever comes out.
EVE is pretty much the only space MMO, aside from some very small games like Space Cowboy. That explains much of EVE's success, right there.
The combat in EVE does not appeal to shooter/twitch oriented players. I would say based on my 2+ years playing that 50% of PvP result is determined when you are fitting your ship in the station, minutes or hours before you even undock, because the majority of what happens in EVE is math. The rest is mostly superior numbers, sheer luck of finding an appropriate target or perseverance, or a combination of all of those, the latter being fueled by one's bank account.
It's a fun game, but the combat in the game is not generally the kind of combat shooter people are interested in.
EVE is popular because it's a financial sim which lets you gank people if you're good with numbers and politics. For white collar Johnny, that's probably a wet dream come true.
There are plenty of actually decent space simulator MMO's, but the reality is that most people have never heard of them. Most of them are small titles run by very small development teams, stuff like Vendetta and Jumpgate. Both of those games are quite solid. If you're looking for a space sim which uses Newtonian physics, you're not going to find anything better. The only MMO which even tries to use arcade style space sim physics is JtL, and it does it so poorly that I can't see it appealing to anybody but MMORPG fans.
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and may the gods help you if you happen to lose a ship (cause eve doesnt)
I remember spending an extra £100 on a joystick when I bought Eve.
What a pillock.
I remember spending an extra £100 on a joystick when I bought Eve.
What a pillock.
LoL
Anyway sadly and i do mean this as well There is so little in the way of Space based MMO's that the only real choice right now is EvE. My advice is to try eve and wait to see IF Infinity ever comes out.
The combat in EVE does not appeal to shooter/twitch oriented players. I would say based on my 2+ years playing that 50% of PvP result is determined when you are fitting your ship in the station, minutes or hours before you even undock, because the majority of what happens in EVE is math. The rest is mostly superior numbers, sheer luck of finding an appropriate target or perseverance, or a combination of all of those, the latter being fueled by one's bank account.
It's a fun game, but the combat in the game is not generally the kind of combat shooter people are interested in.
There are plenty of actually decent space simulator MMO's, but the reality is that most people have never heard of them. Most of them are small titles run by very small development teams, stuff like Vendetta and Jumpgate. Both of those games are quite solid. If you're looking for a space sim which uses Newtonian physics, you're not going to find anything better. The only MMO which even tries to use arcade style space sim physics is JtL, and it does it so poorly that I can't see it appealing to anybody but MMORPG fans.
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