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goatface
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I've been looking into eve a lot. The concept and features seem great. I also enjoy the anti carebear approach and rewarding mature players. The depth of politics is also very appealing to me. So i decided id give the trail a shot. Went through the 2 hours tortourial -_- and started my first mission.
Eager to finally see some action i set the location and hit auto pilot. Waited abit... nice graphics.... waited abit longer.... by now im bored looking at the specs (stars?) fly past me so i finally open the map and noticed i still had 14 jumps left till i reached the place! I think the entire trip took nearly an hour up and back.
My question is... Is this typically what i can expect the game to be? When i was minning i noticed it took some time too. Maybe im too impatient to play this game, yet i feel ill be missing out if i dont :P
Can someone out there give me an example of the average 1-3 hours of play they go through? What you will do? What you can achieve? Also do you party up and go out and "hunt" ? I cant picture a coordinated large scale attack/encounter with all the space and freedom of movement.
Anyway, tkx for reading 
Hopefully someone out there can help me 
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EVE is a game of patience. 5 hours of absolute boredom for 30 seconds of absolute extacy. Kinda sounds like a date huh? It will take you a few months of skill learning before you get to the real exciting parts of EVE. True EvE takes place out in 0.0 regions. But be warned - there be pirates out there!
Make a difference!
Not exactly.
There are still corporation wars, pirates in .4 that try to gank you while mining, or Sniper-battleships at gates waiting 150km out with triple sensor booster waiting to gank you, as well. It does get exciting after a few months of training, though, with the new ships and all... But still, the True Eve lays with the PvP and it's not all in 0.0
Okay, there are many different types of Eve careers you can do, but most popular would probably be the fighter/PvP'er. For careers, there's the mining, manufacturing/mining, fighting, joining a mercenary corp and be a merc, trades... Most people end up doing two of these, for ISK making purposes. Or running two accounts at once, for purely 1 specific purpose. If you want to speed up your trips around the Eve universe, try using a MicroWarpDrive or an Afterburner when approaching gates. Mostly everybody mines when starting out so they can buy a new ship, and then start hitting the kill missions or the inexplicable - mining MORE. It's totally up to you and what you like.
If you'd like some help starting out in Eve - but not totally financially, just a bit
- I'll give you starting out equip and shit. Message me ingame if you're serious about playing - xEntriq
I like Eve, a bit more than WoW due to originality and fitting my niche.
My wife and I have been playing WoW since Nov 2004 (burn out you could say) and decided to give Eve a shot with the new Cold War Patch and MMORPG's 14 day free trail.
After playing for 3 days or so we both like it quite a bit.
The new starter tutorial is fantastic... completely voice driven and very detailed step by step instructions on how to use the menus, fight, missions, travel, mine... etc. That was a nice new feature that has helped a great deal get us more involved in the game.
The missions have been getting better as we go along. We've done 25 or so thus far, and depending on the agent you use, they get interesting and more involved with each one taken.
Great skills system. Based on time, so you still level up even when not logged into the game. Lots of choices in things to learn which all seem very interesting.
Buying and customizing your own ships is great. Weapons, shields, drones, cargo containers, enchencements of all sorts are available.
Travel, like WoW, takes forever... but we calculate it's about the same amount of time to get from place to place in Eve as it does in Wow. However, there is a lot of down time (flying from solarsytem to solarsytem, mining).
Downtime is perhaps the only real flaw. Although I believe downtime might get shortened with time as your ships get more weapons (fighting with one laser in starter ship takes forever), and enhancements for you ship help you get around faster.
Pvp seems promising... although I have yet to try it.
Player run corporations (simualr to guilds) seem well done. They can own stations, huge mothership things, create missions, and generally create havoc against other corps in pvp it seems.
Overall I really like Eve. They could have created a few more dynamic starter missions to get people into the grove, but I like that the quest are getting better a few days in. Give Eve a shot, if nothing else I'm pretty sure you'll at least get one months worth of fun.
I find that the most boring part of eve is a little while after you get your frist cruiser. The jump between cruisers and BattleShips are huge, your stuck with a cruiser for a while. However, one you get either really good cruiser skills, a battleship, or an interceptor, a whole new world opens up to you. The worst mistake you can make is playing eve, and not going into 0.0.
The Pvp in eve is unlike any other. The huge amount of politics and stratagy, attacks and counter attacks is what makes it so amazing, but i feel that the risk of loss is what makes it the best. you can loose months of work if your not careful. Also, the best thing you can do at any lvl, if find a good corp.
I'll admit that eve can be a bit boring at someparts, an people can loose a sense of direction. But the reason i play this game over other game, is because it doesnt feel pointless. I too play Wow, and it can be a fun game at part, but i find it to be pointless. You PvE in order to get a lvl, so you can get new skills and new armor, so you can fight better mobs. You fight those mobs and do the same thing over again. Of course theres the Pvp there. Which again, is pointless. Today i got ganked by a group of lvl 40s. I had a 60 in my guild come and kill them, what happened? We'll they respawned and killed me again.
Pvp in the game (and most others) has no risk of loss, even city raids. Ok, we killed all the NPCs ganked a few low lvls, what did we gain? Nothing. A player niether gains or loses anything in Pvp, making it pointless. They cant control the storyline, they cant control teritory, nothing.That what i think makes eve shine. That and the player based market system.
As a low lvl, try to do a mix. Mine for a little bit, do a few missions. Also, if you can understand the market, trading works well too. I can make about 2 million for a 10 minute trading run. All you have to do is find what station is selling the item that give the highest profit when sold to another station. (This doesnt work as well with most items except trade goods)
Also, the thing that keeps most people away from 0.0 is that theres always pirates and you get killed every time. This is mostly wrong. Hook up with a really good corp thats part of one of a good alliance. This allows basicly parts of 0.0 where you feel safer than in empire
. I find that the only real risk in 0.0 is the first 0.0 system from empire space.
Rabbidferet.. there is of course the option NOT to get a battleship.
I've been playing since release, i never regularly fly battleships.
I regularly fly frigates, and have heaps of fun.
My corp is PvP all the way - and frigates (and the various t2 variants) are indispensible for combat.. There is nothing better (in my eyes) that flying with a few assult frigs and interceptors in a pack hunting down those battleships