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So I guess I'm going to try Eve Online or PotBS
I've played WoW for the last few years off and on, more off than on I'd say. I've just decided to let it go for now. It's kind of worn me out on the whole elves, dwarves spell type of game.
I'm waiting for Star Wars the Old Republic. I think I will play that, in the mean time, I think I'm trying to find a different genre of game. Which would be Eve Online or PotBS. My computer can pretty much play any game out there, and I do like FPS, but only on consoles, not the PC.
Thoughts on my two choices? I'm DLing Eve Online, it's only going 124/kb from the official site. Know any good sites for better downloads? Even for paying?
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Potbs is going free to play in about 20 days.
As someone else said, PotBS will be F2P soon, so no reason not to try it out then. EVE is a great game, it is COMPLETELY different from WoW, which is what you said you were looking for. Just keep reminding yourself that you are going to be learning a whole new style of play at a much different pace.
All im going to say is starting Eve now you have to understand that you will never catch up to the folks that have been playing a long time and it will take a few months to realize that you never will. Im gonna get flamed but that is how it is.
MAGA
You're going to get flamed because you don't realize that it doesn't matter how many skillpoints and how much cash you have when your player in combat is limited by whatever ship you are currently in and what it's fit with, skillpoints do play a factor in how effective you fight and yes does give someone an advantage in that aspect if they have it over their enemy, but the battlefields are too dynamic in both situation and how many are present on both sides that in many a fight it doesn't matter how much total sp a side has, but what they are flying, what they are using, and how it compares against the enemy group.
It's rock, paper, scissors, just because it's a larger rock doesn't mean it won't lose to paper.
So I shouldn't play it?
Your call.
MAGA
New people start all the time. Vets quit all the time. In Eve, you aren't trying to "catch up" with the highest skill point player there is. Set a goal, then get enough skill points to accomplish that goal. Now you've "caught up" with your own goal. Rinse and repeat.
I play eve and I say give it a go. I got a friend who is playing it atm as well and I thought he wouldn't have enjoyed it, yet he does. If you enjoy it, you can eventually pay for the game via ingame currency rather than real cash.
As for skillpoints and trying to catch up to people, it's not all that important. A fleet consists of different type of ships to support each other. Dreadnaughts for seiges, carriers for support/logistics, smaller ships to counter the enemies smaller ship. Just because you do not have high skill points doesn't mean you are useless. Small ships can't dps the large ships fast enough to kill it, but large ships can't shoot faster smaller ships as their guns are slower etc.
If you join, focus on a specific role, and try to find a decent corp to join in and have fun with.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. This is the secret to enjoying the game. Find something you like to do, and do it - set goals, specialize, and accomplish those goals. Find a great corp, and play with them.
People don't seem to get that there is a LIMIT to how far a vet can take a single spec. All they see is 45 million skill points invested, without realising they capped out on whatever combat ship they like long ago and started dabbling in other crap, like industry and trade.
If you fly a battleship, you can MAX everything that you plan to use on it (fittings and the governing skills to them) in about 8 months. From there you can invest in other things, but it WON'T help you in your battleship. This depends on the battleship though, as drones will take longer to max in that department as well (drone interfacing 5 is a bitch).
*the pimp hand of common sense*
Essentially, "never being able to catch up" means not being able to do absolutely everything on a single character till years down the line. It may sound like something you want as a goal, but a reminder; the more SP invested, the more you pay for clones. Someone with 11 million SP that has the EXACT same output in combat (in any choice of ship) as someone with 45 million invested amongst tons of other things will only be set back a fraction of the costs in death. The smart move is to keep your combat characters SP investments low. Pump tons into the ones you don't expect to die all the time.
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