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Question before i buy...
murdera2k6
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in EVE Online
Well, i've played the trial several times and I love it every single time but i have one question, can yopu play this game casually? When I played the trial i had much more free time but in the coming year i am going to be a lot busier, is it possible to play this about 1-2 hours a day at maximum?
Thanks in advance.
"If they can make Penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you," - Muhammed Ali
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Very possible.. many people make money by playing the economy and most of the time you don't even need to leave your station for that. With the new Skill Queue system you can set up all your skills to train themselves after one is done and that eliminates the need to log on at 3am in the morning to queue a new skill. =(
The game gets better as you get more SP but you can have a lot of fun from the very beginning.
Your skills will always continue to advance so long as you keep them queued. With 1-2 hours a day your drawback will be having isk available to keep buying ships/skills. And, depending on what you wish to do, nothing might be happening in that hour or two. Completely possible to camp a 0.0 gate, or a low sec gate, for hours and not have any kills, or exploration scan not find anything. Or you can mission/mine instantly or do whatever your corp is doing.
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It all depends on what you want to do.
If you want to do POS warfare, the answer is No. If you are asking wheter there is a way to play the game casualy - definately yes.
my cousin has 2 kids now and a full time job in a hospital and he loves eve cause every time he gets to play a new skill ended for him well they are at the point that they might take weeks to finish and its fine by him, he tells me about all the crazy pvp he gets in and he use to hate any pvp in any game before eve so you can do what ever you want in eve cause you skill up even when not online.
at the start you will need to log on more just to change skills that take a few hours to train but with the new Q you can set a bunch of skills that need 23 hours then put a long skill at the end to make that go way more then 24 hours
thanks for the prompt replies but i have another question, can a new player (over-time) take on a veteran player despite the veterans skills being higher?
"If they can make Penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you," - Muhammed Ali
Yes.
Mostly the skill difference is not that huge, but you do need to specialize. Like whether to go with armor or shield tanking and with what weapons or ships. Veterans have more choices.
"The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in."
Character skills aren't mandatory in EVE.
Basicaly it only means how many ships a character can fly or how many other disciplines he can perform in.
I would say non-combat activities are a bit more skill intensive.
Ups
after 6-7 months in eve you should have the skill capacity to have a perfect 1vs1 in a battleship against any other player older that you
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I've played EVE off and on since beta and its stil an immersive game, despite it being grindy at times. Money can be made once you know the system of how to do it and there are a variety of ways to make money.
My biggest disappointment with the game is still the galaxies still all look alike. You can't walk around inside your ship. And, you can't land on a planet to explore it.