This game sounds interesting, should i try it?

Zuus

I have heard a lot about this game over the few years, but never really tried it. After seeing some videos on youtube, and doing a little research about the game. I figured i might as well poke around a little bit to see if this game is in fact interesting as a few of my friends have described it. I have played countless numbers of MMOs over the past decade or so, and i think the one i really enjoyed the most was Ultima because of the community, and SWG because i felt to free.

I just want to know from the actual player base, what is EVE? Why is EVE so great?

 

Ariolander

While I like to recommend EVE to everyone to try I always give a word of warning: EVE is not for the light of heart. It is not just because of the massive death penalties. IE when your character dies it really dies, your ship blows up, and though you are revived in another clone if you are not attentive and forget to update it periodicly as your skillpoints grow you can loose weeks of progress. As for your ship you can try to loot/salvage its wreck it someone didn't beat you to it but a lot of it is luck. This is no game where when you die you only loose 1 piece of armor.

Beyond the death penalty EVE requires a different mindset than most games. When they call EVE a sandbox they really mean it. One of the major problems many players find is that they can't figure out a goal for themselves. In other games goals are handed to you on a silver platter be it boss battle raids, epic armor, or lvl 60 the ultimate goals are usually pre-defined for you. In EVE you can do whatever your heart desires so a lot of it is self-motivation and making your own long term-goals. For example when I started the game my ultimate goal was to get into a Tech 2 Heavy Interdictor and now 13 months later after I reached it I find myself at a loss asking myself "whats next". I am sure I will think of something but for now I am concentrating on certifications till I figure it out.

Finally while EVE is what you make of it EVE is also best played with friends be it friends IRL or new griends made in-game as you join a player corp. Its fine and dandy to stay in an NPC corp but you will have the most fun if you work with others!

Malcanis

Originally posted by Zuus


I have heard a lot about this game over the few years, but never really tried it. After seeing some videos on youtube, and doing a little research about the game. I figured i might as well poke around a little bit to see if this game is in fact interesting as a few of my friends have described it. I have played countless numbers of MMOs over the past decade or so, and i think the one i really enjoyed the most was Ultima because of the community, and SWG because i felt to free.
I just want to know from the actual player base, what is EVE? Why is EVE so great?
 

 

I like EvE because you're free to fail, so succeeding actually means something

I like EvE because you're free to be evil, which means choosing to be good actually means something

I like EvE because you're free to play any role you like, so your character skill choices actually mean something

I like EvE, because the skill training is real time, so your time in game is spent actually doing things, not grinding XP. You are freed from the treadmill of "character advancement". Incidentally, this concept is the one that players from MMOs seem to find hardest to adapt to; in most other MMos character advancement is the game. In EvE, what you actually do is far more important than what skills you have,

decoy26517

If you enjoy basic one click combat, spreadsheets and sleeping while the game progresses for you then Eve Online is the game for you. However; if you want something more interactive look elsewhere.

 

Here's a video showing what you're looking forward to in Eve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMSjd6HNQdY

nurgles

the part that captures my imagination is the single server philosophy and what that allows the player and the developers to do.

What you do in the game has an impact on the other players. All of them. Because you are tied into the same star systems, resources and economy. Your story can be famous, Innomiate nightmare, is one good example. A newb that went to null sec and told his story http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=370209

The high cost of dieing is an important part of the continuation of the server, you loose your things, items are permantly destroyed. This means there is a demand for more stuff. Stuff that can then be supplied by players in the game. This generates an economy. It means that crafting has a reward, but only as long as stuff gets destroyed.

Malcanis

Unfortunately, the open-ended play, combined with a game structure that allows you to fail, means that people with no imagination and not much skill, have a boring time in eve and totally fail in it because they try and play it like a "theme park" style MMO, where you basically do nothing but quests for NPCs. Sooner or later they either get ganked, or just bore themselves out of the game. Their place in the EvE community is, as you can see in the above post, to troll eve forums and convince other people not to even try the game because every new player who joins up, and then discovers how to have a truly deep, intense MMO game experience is a open sore on the egoes of these failed pilots.

 

qazyman

This game just plain blows the doors of the typical PVE theme park MMO. As others have said, however, it makes you work for it. Personally, I think the real key is you need good social skills, and you need to be mature enough to not force your view of what you think a game should be on this game. 

EVE is all about what you make it.

DevilXaphan

Most of the above posts except one is true about EVE. You make of it what you want it to be instead of the game making you into what it wants you to be.

Depending on your playstyle, from carebear to PvP god, a good player corporation is key to your long term fun, but their are solo players too.

dacofty

I agree with ebery post.  It takes some getting used to but it is more a game of longevity than level to 80 and stand around.  It takes attention, setting up the skills you want to learn takes time.  It will train when you are not online which is a good thing.  It def. isnt the daycare lead you by the hand standard MMO (which i will not call its name)  The best thing is if you want to walk a straight line then you can, but if you want to be on the evil side and fly around and kill anyone for no reason you can.  BUT better watch out.

Kyleran

As others have said, EVE is what you make of it.  In my past 2.25 years I have

1) Gotten level 4 mission running down to a science using 3 ships at the same time.

2)  Flown with a stealth bomber corp bottling up major highways during 0.0 wars

3)  Flown sniper Battleships in 200 vs 200 support ship battles and survived to win the day.

4) Lost a few too and watched my alliance get removed from space by the maurading hordes

5)  Training up skills that allow me to earn ISK in EVE without lifting a finger, even when logged off

6)  Fought mercenary corps in empire wars and learned the art of station camping.

7)  Fought in a mercenary corp for fun and profit.

8)  Roamed 0.0 in gangs of Heavy Assault Cruisers looking for hapless victims

9)  Learned how to mine ore and gas (still hate it though)

10)  Learned how to punt out of stations, thwarting those hoping to camp me in one.

11)  Busted POS's in a "poor mans dread" (armor tanked, remote repping Ravens) in the great BOB war and even helped capture a station.

12) Contributed to building 3 stations, all of which I no longer have access to since my alliances are long gone. (someday I may decide to take them back, who knows?)

13)  Made billions of ISK ratting, mining, through industry and mission running.  Lost billions of ISK watching my ships die under a hail of laser fire, being scammed, or through panic selling in advance of a coming collapse of my alliance.

14)  And now, I'm in wormhole space, finding out how easy it is to make 100M ISK in just 2 hours play time and looking forward to upping that even more.

Things I still haven't done: Been a pirate, captain of industry (crafting), mining (I can mine, didn't say I'm good at it), Complex running, Level 5 missions, flown a capital or sub captial ship, (or even a super cap like a Titan), PVP'd for either the red or blue side, been in faction wars, ratted in any other 0.0 space besides damn drone regions, made billions through trading, scammed noobs out of their hard earned cash, can flipped, ninja salvaged, or infiltrate a major alliance and destroy them from within.

So much still to do, so little time. 

EVE is never ending, but it is up to you to make your own story.

edit: oh yeah, definitely just "spreadsheets in space" 

 

Eanok

Originally posted by decoy26517


Here's a video showing what you're looking forward to in Eve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMSjd6HNQdY

Best EvE video I've ever seen. I almost wet myself laughing.

Xennith

should rename that video to "eve from an idiots perspective"

 

if you are unwilling to challenge yourself, then eve will accomodate you as well.

tvalentine

Originally posted by Zuus


 what is EVE?
you researched it ... watched videos .... and had friends tell you about it.... and you want some random eve players to tell you what exactly? What do you not know about from everything you've seen and heard?
Why is EVE so great?
 because there are people still willing to answer threads like these every 3-4 days.

 

really surprising how many of these threads are out there. Someone should just take one of these threads and sticky it to stop this clutter/spam.