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EVE has given me...
ariargento
Member Posts: 15
...one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had in a videogame in my life.
I'll be honest with you. I tried to play Eve like 10 times. I was never able to complete the first tutorial, the game simply didn't hook me. 1 month ago I tried it one more time... and oh my god, I did it, and what I found after understanding all Eve has to offer, all I can say is, thanks CCP. I mean, I really can't believe how amazing this game is. From the freedom to the graphics, from the music to the community, from the interface to the gameplay. This game is just different from everything else, and as I said, the experiences you get after achieving and completing your self created objectives are just totally satisfying.
Just wanted to share my feelings with you. If you ever considered playing this game, or you just couldn't get past the tutorial, trust me, do it, try to get into the game, you can't imagine all that awaits in this universe.
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Perhaps you should say what you did differently on the eleventh time that ended up selling you on the game?
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I had the exact same experience. I think I tried the trial around 6 times. . the 7th time was the charm. Two things made the difference,
1) I didn't try it right after burning out on another game so I gave it some time
2) Giving it the time to get through the tutorials to see what the game offers had me hooked!
The game takes a good investment of time and brain matter to get into. If you just got tired of something else you might not give it the chance required.
Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
It took me three trial accounts, but it finally got me.
I'm on the 7th try myself.. station sitting at the moment learning skills (playing Fable: TLC in the meantime).
took me 2 or 3 times to "get it". People who dont like eve think we're idiots and fanbois when we say "you just dont get it", but experiences like the one in the op show, that you have to "get" eve to truly enjoy eve.
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I got it and didn't like it.
How do you measure "getting it"? Getting it =/= Liking it.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
So it cost you about £100 before you 'got it'. Sorry but there is something at fault there, you or the game.
I suppose they could have been free trials but even so that's a lot of wasted time.
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Pi*1337/100 = 42
i got it that eve combat was spread sheet based. and lets face it, at the end of the day, alot of us find spreadsheets boring. now if it had actuall dog fighitng, it mighta been a fun game for me.
Snore fest. Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-pew-pew-turn around-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-shoot rocks-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-pew-pew-pew-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-Jump-jump-jump-. Log out. Log in the next day. Wash, rinse, repeat. Buy a bigger ship. Do the same thing for the next 5 yrs and call yourself elite gamers. etc. etc.
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I can tell you that all of mine were trials. And the biggest problem was that I didn't spend enough time. . so not sure how you get "a lot of wasted time". I guess you only read the OP and responded so chance are you won't read this anyway.
Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
You could play EVE like its a second job, or you could actually try and have fun while playing. From my experience, the legitimate, consistent ways to make ISK grow extremely stale after awhile. Thats why you need to use some of that ISK you grinded to actually go out and explore New Eden. I was getting burned out from mission running this week so I decided to setup a ratting BC and just explore nullsec while trying to earn back the ISK I spent on the ship. Already made my ISK back (after 1 night), even with spending hours cloaked while pesky pirate groups hunted me. Most importantly, I had more fun doing it than I could ever have in highsec.
Same with WH space and lowsec, the potential gankers lying in wait adds to the enjoyment IMO. Highsec is a good place to grind ISK relatively risk free and cut your teeth learning the basics, but if you never leave you'll never learn what EVE has to offer.
Yeah... and once you get bored of grinding rats in nullsec, you'll try and grind dead space complexes. And once you get bored of those, you'll try grinding wormholes of increasing class. After that there's no going back. Once you get bored of wormholes and the PvP is too weak and too scarce to keep you playing, you just quit. -Like I did.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
Yeah... and once you get bored of grinding XP on ten alts, You'll try and grind Heroics. And once you get bored of those, you'll try to grind raids of increasing difficulty. After that there's no going back. Once you get bored of Raids and the PvP is too weak, repetitive and meaningless to keep playing, you just quit. -Like I did.
There we go we both just described the two best games in this genre. This boring "grind" you're bitching about is a genre wide issue not just EvE's.
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Absolutely beautiful. I played on and off for nearly 6 years, and this is exactly what the game is. The only reason I played that long was becuase I would unsubscribe for 3-6 months at a time, come back for a month or two, then unsubscribe. I could only take playing the thing for a couple months at a time before it got too boring for me. Still, I did keep coming back because when stuff does happen, and when it goes good, you can really have a lot of fun. Unfortunately 99% of the time you are on, there isn't much going on, and that 1% left is usually when you get popped by gate campers. Eventually I said "screw it". Real life was a lot more fun.
If ships and gear were not so insanely expensive to replace every time you lose them, it would be a lot more interesting, as there would be a lot more PVP going on, all the time. I tend to be a solo gamer (but enjoy talking to others while I'm doing my own thing), and honestly there is no way to have fun in EVE when you are that type of player. Yeah I was part of a large alliance, but I tend not to play well with others.
-Arguably the best and there isn't much competition within the sandbox sub-genre. I don't play either and dislike both in equal measure. It's all about the illusion. On one hand, I'm envious of those that can maintain it, but at the same time I'm glad I can see through it. It seems silly to call grinding complexes or wormholes "exploration" when you know exactly whats out there, you've done it a dozen times over and you're just trying to get the best ISK per hour. No surprises, no discovery. Gankers only pose a hit to your ISK per hour -rate and you will never get caught if you know what you're doing.
I find Eve's best PvP to be the one in the alliance tournaments. Ironically, Eve was not designed for small scale, tactical arena-style PvP - so for me, the choice is something else.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
...the biggest waste of money and time on one of the worst online games ever. Nothing like paying money and playing for years only to find out the developers and their buddies were part of the opposing side and were caught cheating. Why should one side get free goodies or be rigged to win while the other side has to work for their isk and equipment and still be rigged to lose? For those fanboys that try and claim the cheating was a long while ago and didn't affect you or anyone, don't presume to speak for me or my former corpmates. We were there as real players and we were affected and hated the CCP lies of the game being a sandbox.
Me and my corp quit all our accounts. I have since warned off several more of my friends that were originally interested in playing. Nor will we be trying any further CCP games as we don't believe given CCP's history of cheating and attempted cover up that they would be truly honest and not covering up new stuff. There's no true sandbox and no true game if the developers are fiddling and playing the game behind the scenes for their own benefit, and as I see it, if I'm paying money, I'm the customer. The company serves the customer. The customer is not paying money to be cheated.
If you ever considered playing this game, think again. The grind is just concealed under another guise, and you will never know if all you're doing is paying money to be someone else's plaything.
Nor am I alone:
http://nitpickins.com/2010/07/26/csm-scam-by-ccp-2/
Another player's experience of the cover ups and corruption by the company. It appears that nothing has changed over the years. It is still the same cover up, ban the whistleblower, and then make a statement saying "Nothing happened. We didn't cheat. You saw nothing. Move along."
must resist flame bait.....
oh hell I'll just address the last paragraph
It is still the same cover up, ban the whistleblower,
If by this you are reffering to the t20 incident the whistleblower was banned for recieving isk payment for hacking peoples websites. CCP do not condone hacking and as he came forward saying that he had found some information while hacking ppl's website for isk a ban was kinda inevitable.
and then make a statement saying "Nothing happened. We didn't cheat. You saw nothing. Move along."
http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=424
http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=626
10 seconds in google can find them saying cheats have happend in their game and by their developers.
Yes there is plenty of corruption in eve and i'm sure plenty of dev's have and will cheat (just like in every other game in existence) but I don't buy into the theory that CCP are some sort of evil puppet master controlling eve politics with cheats and dev hax.
Into the breach meatbags
I really like, and support eve, but i find myself playing it in "Seasons"..
After a while i find myself thinking i need 3 months to train a paticular skill skill or skillset which means 3x$15 for sub fees which basicly means im paying $45 for a skill i want?
However, Im yet to find an efficient way to buy plex which would solve the above problem lol.
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Im trying the game and it seems kinda cool, looking forward to get cool ships and so on. However, I have starting to find my self looking at walls of texts a lot. Will this get better or do we always have to do research and learn for every piece of activity we are doing in the game? Sometimes it feels like Im doing a university course instead of playing a game.
Yeah the learning process pretty much never stop, although it does slow down after a bit.
You seen the famous cartoon about MMO learning curves? That's not wholly a joke.
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There is a learning curve, but once you have done the tutorial you could manage without a lot of text.
Best way to proceed is to join a bigger corp and learn on the job.
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Funny how EvE seems to take a couple of trials before hooking you. I am now playing my 3rd or 4th trial and now I am really enjoying myself and ready to subscribe.