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After a couple of weeks since I started EVE...
Toquio3
Member Posts: 1,074
I am completely in love with the game. It never felt I was "playing a ship", it feels like Im just a pilot trying to make my way in the universe. The learning curve has been steep, but nothing I havent managed to overcome so far, and getting over an obstacle is just the more rewarding for it. I also got a friend to start at about the same time as me, and he's absolutely sold on EVE as well. My only regret is that I didnt start playing this sooner.
As someone else has in his signature on mmorpg.com, this really is a game created by God himself =P
So, here's to EVE *raises glass*
PS - posting this on the ingame browser while mining and listening to the jukebox 
If you stand VERY still, and close your eyes, after a minute you can actually FEEL the universe revolving around PvP.
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Welcome to EVE!!! I used to think the exact same thing...then I would remind myself what this game was like when I played it back in 03' and Im thankful to be playing it now. ( the game was absolute trash IMO )
I played over 20 trials for this game before I bought it in 07' .
-Fly Safe!
I must admit I have thought about playing eve for at least 3 years,I always got the feeling I missed the boat...It is 1 of the few things I regret about mmo's...
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
It's true that some people have crazy amounts of skill investments if they are big-time EVE vets, but it usually means they are well-versed in things other than combat (because there is only so much to invest in that department), and every death costs them about 10x as much as it would me, and I left my char with tons of maxed out combat skills and a kickass Dominix battleship after playing maybe a year.
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By no means have you "missed the boat" - EVE is still in it's growth phase, and showing no signs of slowing down. (Some of the snarkier veterans comment that the open beta is almost complete). I know that most MMOs that are 7 years old are pretty much dead, or at best, barely maintained, but CCP are still VERY actively developing the game, and they have huge ambitions for it yet.
My advice would to to start today. Why miss out on any more?
Give me liberty or give me lasers
Also, keep in mind characters are a commodity just like any other item in the game. If you're a successful player and get rich, there's nothing stopping you from even passing the skill point hurdle. Characters are traded often, and this is sanctioned (and protected) by CCP.
For the low low price of 30 billion isk you can get yourself an '03 character with 100 million SP!
OP- did you find a corp?
'Someone else' wanted to say hello, but it was Shek who made the comment, I just stole it. (as any good scammer in EVE would do)
Glad to see you are enjoying the game so far, and I hope you find long term enjoyment from your time here.
One problem though, it is so unique that once you find you like it, no other game seems to come anywhere close.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I support this thread. I'm sorry, but most games released since wow are the same game with slight variations. Eve is the only game that is worth playing in my opinion because its the only sandbox i can find period.
A common misconception about EVE is that older players have some sort of unfair advantage over newer players, because newer players can never "catch up" in terms of skillpoints. This is completely over-rated. Victory in whatever you do has infinitely more to do with tactics used than skillpoints.