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Started the trial Friday - weekend review:
Volkon
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Alright, so I see on this very site that something called "Eve Online" won the most innovative MMO. Well, I quit WoW a while back and really haven't been bothering with anything while waiting for GW2, but a quick look shows a free two week trial, so why not.
I start out not knowing a bloody thing, but two things immediately grab my attention... a tutorial is right there to help me out, and right in the chat box is a noob help channel. Nice. Being a total noob I look in noob chat (using noob in the positive, affectionite way) and am highly impressed... not only are people helping out, but there are actual players dedicated enough to helping people out that they wear the ISD label. Good, this holds promise. It's needed, because on first impression this game is so freaking complicated compared to other MMOs I seen... there's so much! However, the old Starfleet Battles pilot in me begins to stir at the complexity and a warm fuzzy begins to brew deep in the cockles of my heart. Maybe even a little lower than the cockles... I think my liver twitched. So, noob chat on, it's tutorial time.
Lesson learned - pay attention to the tutorials and they'll do a great job at getting you ready for action. I went initially in the mining / industrial path not being a hardcore PvP type. It wasn't long before I was out gathering ore and enjoying the relaxing nature of it in high security space. Every now and then some dude in a Hulk comes by and sucks all matter from the immediate universe, but you know... they're cool to watch. I want one. 
However, I'm a long way from the hulk, so into the exploration tutorial. Oooohhh... daddy haz probes. Pain in the rump at first, but once you get a grip on what you're seeing from the probe readout they're not all that bad. I likes.
Long story (for two days) short - got into a corp, one guy took me along on some level 4 type missions. I hung back in my frigate chasing off fighters (that took forever to kill... how embarassing...) but earning millions in bounties. Now in a thrasher, killing pirates in .6 space for the loot while the skills get learned for better mining vessels. Did a little probing - ooh, unstable wormhole. Maybe just a peek... 0.0 space, but no one is in there. Planet looks pretty close, warp over, check it out, it has a customs thing (still don't know what those are), but no ships. Same on a second planet. Scan - lots of "Core Garrisons" and "restricted spaces". OK, time to go. Back to the wormhole - blown up when I get there.
What a freaking blast.
Already gone to the subscription. This is looking like a real promising game. A lot of the complexity is already falling away to being known and comfortable - it isn't taking long. Yeah, there's a ton more to learn, but that's a good thing imo. Great game, my only regret is not knowing about it sooner.
Hang on... is that another unstable wormhole? brb - I hope...
Oderint, dum metuant.
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One thing you probably didn't learn from the tutorials, W-space (spacee in wormholes) the local doesn't change when you enter so if you enter one there could be a thousand players sitting in a Player Owned Station(POS) with some probes out looking for someone to kill. or they could have already found the wormhole and have a couple of cloakers waiting for somebody to show up...
But besides that the fact taht you mentioned starfleet battles gives you a leg up on enjoying this game. Too many people see a space game and instantly see X-wing/Wing Commander style space fighter games which EVE is not. You seeing it as a larger scale ship game will put you in the right mindset at the beginning.
Hope you enjoy it, maybe see you around, once I get time to play again.
Why does the op read like a '03 player wrote it?
I'm not sure what you mean, to be honest.
Oderint, dum metuant.
I have no idea what he means either and I've been playing EVE for quite a long time.
Regardless, nice write-up and I'm glad you enjoy the game. It sounds like you've already done the most important thing too, and that's find a corp with some friendly people to help you out. That'll make the game infinitely more fun than if you tried to do it solo.
Good luck with your explorations, and just remember, don't fly what you can't afford to lose. As long as you can replace whatever ships you lose without too much trouble, it'll never bother you to lose a ship.
Very happy you enjoy, cant wait to see you in EVE. One thing to remember about this game is that EVERY ship has a purpose and place, and learning the skills necessary to play the ship well is key to this game, its not as simple as bigger is better. Dig in skill up, and get a good corp. Also, however you start out (ship, race, etc..) remember you can skill into whatever you like, there are no limits, so find a play style that fits you, and dont ignore any ships, you dont have to only play a frigate, or a Heavy Assault Cruiser, or a Battleship...use and play them all to the most effectiveness. Also, read into things, there are ships for SOOOO many diferent play styles. Beyond that find out what the corp needs, and find out where you fit in in fleet battles, missions, and pvp...you will play better and be happier when your doing what you do best, and your corp will love you for your skill and contribution.
Glad you found a mmo that challenges you, there are many guides on many of the proffessions that eve offers and you would do well to read some of them to get a clue as to what skills are needed for each of them.
Maybe I'm not used to genuine optimism coming from a genuine new player actually learning how stuff works, but my first thought was "this is what marketing would conjure up".
Be honest, the Starfleet battles part is what got me as genuine, not many people would understand that referance and how it applies to make it something a marketing group would use. And really players of that game have the right mindset to play EVE, very details/configuration oriented as opposed to the more twitchy players that come in and generally find they don't like the game.
Used to play the Lyrans (ones with the ESG I think it was called...) online... loved that there was so much to the combat... little things like keeping your ECM/ECCM at the right balance compared to the other guy, watching ranges, etc. Then I heard they made a newer version that dumbed down a lot of the details... that saddened me. Never even picked it up. Haven't really seen any games that detail oriented (to do really well) since... this is a breath of fresh air in that regards.
Oderint, dum metuant.
This guy: he's doing it right.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
I was actually a bigger fan of 3 then 2. i thought that 2 wanted you to handle stuff in real-time that could take 15min or so between turns in the board games. the third one streamlined a lot of stuff that just doesn't transfer from a turn-based board game to a RTS game very well. I see a lot of the same simple elegance that the third shares with EVE, less of the the hectic trying to keep track of 18 things at once of the first and second in that series.
I think we're thinking of the same thing, but wasn't the online version Starfleet Command or something like that? Starfleet Battles was the board game version it was based off of... I didn't even know there was a III, it was many years ago.
Oderint, dum metuant.
The boardgame just recently did get a new revision which streamlined the game as well allowing larger battles in the same amount of time or speeding up the current ones, The computer game also had a new version put out that covered the Next gen stuff that had the same critism of dumbing it down but really just made the computer game playable by someone that wasn't hooked on speed.
New player... joins a helpful player corporation early on. Gets exposure to some fun and help from corp members.
A "good way to start EVE" versus how some others are introduced to the game.
Yeah, I'd guess that's a bit more like the olden days than many recent posts of nightmares and smacktalk.
I deal with newer players quite a bit in the game so I hear a lot of good things as well as bad things but more the former these days. I find it nice to see some of the good stuff in print for a change of pace.
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