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Dang, I am sold
Riptide69
Member Posts: 45
It's incredible. Here I am hyped about Startrek Online to the point that I have pre-ordered. While waiting for Open Beta and Early Start I decided to re-activate an EVE account that had only played for a week, 2y years ago, to pass the time. It's space themed also after all. I started with the assumption I would be boredline bored with it, but not enough so that it couldn't tie me over.
Now I am sucked into EVE.. Once I joined a corporation and started to hang with them during their 50/50 mining ops I see there are alot more (also based on feedback from this forum). Their sandbox approach and seasoned experience has resulted in apparently a bottomless pit of depth and emersion.
Shoot, and I wanted Startrek online so bad.. But now I find myself more eager to dive deeper into EVE..
Maybe I am a fanboy and didn't realize it..
Hmmm.
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Something similar happened to me recently. My wife bought me Aion for Christmas and she's making me wait, so in the meantime I activated my EVE account to tide me over until Christmas, having just quit WAR, I needed something to occupy my "free time". I too am really having fun this time out!
EVE has it's faults, like all games, but if you fly with other players it will completely destroy this. LOL
Hahaha, you got bit by the bug hard, m'boy!
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Give me liberty or give me lasers
I call shenanigan's. Every troll knows that EVE is a boring screensaver that can't possibly be any fun to play. All the veterans have too much of a head start for you to ever be competitive, you'll never handle the ganking, and without an Avatar that can jump, the game must suck.
Just kidding, glad to see another new face in the EVE universe, good luck and safe flying.
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LOL!!!
Funny thing is, it IS true, if all you do is fly around killing rats. But if you can get into a corp that can show you around, it's like a whole different game.
If CCP could find a way to get trialers into the corporate experience right out of the tutorial, I bet they'd grow alot quicker.
Wait a minute ! Player Driven Game Content?! Well I never
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Damn right, something's fishy here. Everyone knows that you can only really become big and important if you're already playing for 10 years and only motherships count in the battles, so everyone starting now is only cannon fodder for the big guys. It takes 2 years to do anything sensible or fly any useful ships, and mining is the only way to money and it's boring, and all the good blueprints are cornered by the big corps, and everyone's just out to prey on the newbies and swindle them out of their few ISK, and battles are only decided by numbers, and of course they're extremely boring, and ...
I'm sure I forgot some stereotypes and sour grapes?
Damn right, something's fishy here. Everyone knows that you can only really become big and important if you're already playing for 10 years and only motherships count in the battles, so everyone starting now is only cannon fodder for the big guys. It takes 2 years to do anything sensible or fly any useful ships, and mining is the only way to money and it's boring, and all the good blueprints are cornered by the big corps, and everyone's just out to prey on the newbies and swindle them out of their few ISK, and battles are only decided by numbers, and of course they're extremely boring, and ...
I'm sure I forgot some stereotypes and sour grapes?
The UI font is far too small and cannot be made bigger (legitimate).
YOU CAN'T USE ARROW KEYZ TO FLYZ YOUR SHIPZ AND COMBAT IS BORING!!!! (lame).
Welcome aboard:)
Jam is sticky.
Damn right, something's fishy here. Everyone knows that you can only really become big and important if you're already playing for 10 years and only motherships count in the battles, so everyone starting now is only cannon fodder for the big guys. It takes 2 years to do anything sensible or fly any useful ships, and mining is the only way to money and it's boring, and all the good blueprints are cornered by the big corps, and everyone's just out to prey on the newbies and swindle them out of their few ISK, and battles are only decided by numbers, and of course they're extremely boring, and ...
I'm sure I forgot some stereotypes and sour grapes?
Hmmm.. is there a degree of espionage in the game ? If everything is cornered by the big corps can you infiltrate , win favor and leverage power that way ?
I never joined a corp during my run in EVE, spent the whole time running missions and gabbing on NPC-corp chat, but it's just not the same as an invested group. When ambulation comes I will be sure to try it again, and finding a corp will be the first thing I will do. Should do ok since I left with a Domi and maxed out learning skills.
@Riptide - yes, there was a bank robbery not too long ago where a financial officer stole tons of isk and traded for real money.
Also, don't ask in-game or people will assume that's what you are all about.
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I went back to EVE a couple of months ago while waiting for a good PvP MMO to come along and I have been enjoying it more myself. The one downfall is all the petty drama from spies, thieves, backstabbers and scammers. I joined a good corp and have been having a blast roaming around 0.0, but damn...everyone is so uptight about spies, it kinda ruins the fun.
Damn right, something's fishy here. Everyone knows that you can only really become big and important if you're already playing for 10 years and only motherships count in the battles, so everyone starting now is only cannon fodder for the big guys. It takes 2 years to do anything sensible or fly any useful ships, and mining is the only way to money and it's boring, and all the good blueprints are cornered by the big corps, and everyone's just out to prey on the newbies and swindle them out of their few ISK, and battles are only decided by numbers, and of course they're extremely boring, and ...
I'm sure I forgot some stereotypes and sour grapes?
Hmmm.. is there a degree of espionage in the game ? If everything is cornered by the big corps can you infiltrate , win favor and leverage power that way ?
Just a teeny bit...
Give me liberty or give me lasers
Wow, thanks for the advice. That's scary.
Espionage, betrayal, robbery, you name it. It is not a "big" part of the game, but it happens. And when it happens to the big corps and alliances, it usually shifts power quite a bit and you can feel a disturbance in the force
The theft of a valuable Blueprint can easily lead to full blown Aliiance wars that cost multiple billions for both sides.
Usually you needn't worry much about it unless you become heavily involved with one of the sov Allies. Yeah, backstabbing and thievery happen in smaller corps as well, but it's less of an issue. A lot of (often labeled carebear) corps are quite "friendly" and "nice".
Espionage, betrayal, robbery, you name it. It is not a "big" part of the game, but it happens. And when it happens to the big corps and alliances, it usually shifts power quite a bit and you can feel a disturbance in the force
The theft of a valuable Blueprint can easily lead to full blown Aliiance wars that cost multiple billions for both sides.
Usually you needn't worry much about it unless you become heavily involved with one of the sov Allies. Yeah, backstabbing and thievery happen in smaller corps as well, but it's less of an issue. A lot of (often labeled carebear) corps are quite "friendly" and "nice".
The biggest power bloc in the game was brought down some months ago by a defector, so yes esponioge is a big part of the 0.0 game. In low and highsec not so much though, at least from my experience.
I got to agree with x_rast_x that espionage, betrayal and robbery is a big part of the game. Hell I'd go a bit further and say it's a huge part of the game.
I've been in gangs when our FC has told me to prepare to warp because I'm being primaried next, we've been listening to enemy coms for lols, I've been in fleets when Molle has said "girls I'm fleet-warping the enemy fleet on top of you now, enjoy", our corp has stolen billions of isk in equipment from enemy player owned structures, we've had exact time and position of enemy mining and wormhole ops which we've totally destroyed and we always know where, how many and how our usual enemies are going to attack us. Espionage, betrayal and robbery is indeed a huge part of EVE.
Maybe it's just my alliance and our blues, but I don't really think so.
Im sold as well. I would how ever use the word darn
And Im glad to finally play a game that sets my mod only with its title screen. See you in sec 0.5 (for now at least)
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Yea when i first played i did missions mostly alone, i quit, then one day i sarted to watch EVE videos, gave it another shot, went out into low sec, got my ass blown up, had a few laughs with the guy who blew me up, he invited me to the corp he was in, few weeks later he left for some reason, and i left, joined RvB, learned to fight and had fun there, then when Dominion came out he joined back into a 0.0 crop, and helped me get in, even tho i only have 5ish mill SP.
EVE is all about the people you play with. That is what makes it such a great game.
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firstly, welcome aboard mate!
secondly espionage is a huge part of the game (and recently has gotten into high sec)
a principle rule of eve, specially when you are upper ranking officer in a corp,
everyone is a spy, including your real life best friend who started playing with you
the trick is to either buy them out or realize it before it hurts bad in the butt