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marinrider
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So, let me start out by saying when I last played Eve I was obsessed with getting my mining barge and getting some PI going. I did all that and very quickly got bored, even when corp mining. (Yes, I understand that there isnt much way that staring at rocks in 0.6 space will ever be fun). I just got an offer from CCP for 60 days for 15 bucks but I have a few questions.
From what I understand about Eve, the real fun is obviously in PvP. My question is what kind of time commitment will I be looking at (played time, not training time) if I were to go down that route (PvP, missions, and rats)? Would I need to treat it like a second job?
Also, along the same lines, flying crappy ships for 2 months (as I saw someone suggest in another thread) doesn't sound fun to me either. I do understand the concept of "dont fly what you can't afford to lose" so how long does it take until I can afford to lose a nicer, better equiped ship?
Finally, what else would you fine folks suggest to do in Eve that might also be fun (and more than gate jumping for an hour and a half)?
A few notes:
1) All of this will be with a corp that I find. So thats that.
2) I'm interested in "Time to fun." While I'm not interested in that take months on end, I'm not attacking the time commitment if that is true. I'm just saying thats not for me at this current stage of my life. (And my current level of patience)
Also, does anyone else feel a greater desire to play Eve in the cold months than in the warm or is that just me?
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EvE is fundimentally boring, if you got bored once, you will get bored again.
Return quite often for a month now and then and i never play out the time, 2-3 weeks tops then i remember why i quit.
Community is terrible in hi-sec, it's just chocka block with scammers, flippers, ninjas, griefers and many really unpleasant people. The worst thing, no-one moderates the channels, ok the scams are part of the game, but the xenophobia is unchecked and some of the conversations should be investigated by the police, they are that abhorrant and evil.
Low sec has gone downhill fast and null is just utterly pointless unless your in a massive alliance....which means you'll essentially be "playing" but actually doing an unpaid job as a miner.
If you take it for what it is, can ignore the local channels and the huge amount of hatred that plagues the game it's still a great game. The fun is pvp, but it's such a rock, paper, scissors type game that even that gets old really quickly. Don't expect fair fights, it's gank and blob almost always.
Mission running sucks these days, too many ninja looters trying to grief and limited number of missions available meaning you do the same over and over ad-nauseum, mining blows with the ice belt annex in Gal space.
If you want to try something different and fun, grab a cloaked frigate and go scanning.
Expresso gave me a Hearthstone beta key.....I'm so happy
Not true and fairly stupid assumption, I wonder how did you come to such conclusion?
There are no crappy ships. Each ship has it's specific role and use.
It is true that open world PVP is indeed relatively more time consuming as you need to spend time on looking for targets. From all what you said, I would say that Faction Warfare, FW Piracy and Red vs Blue could suit you the best.
1) Very low entry barrier.
2) Handful of other, low skilled pilots.
3) Often PVPed in cheap fits and ships.
4) The 'warzone' takes place at relatively small area.
5) It is established active PVP with good population.
You can just go out solo, it is doable but very limiting on target selection thus time consuming. Being a member of the groups listed above will help you greatly.
Don't be stuck on the idea that you need skill points to do things in EVE, to fly 'nicer' ships. There are plenty of veteran players with a lots of skill points flying 'crappy' T1 frigates.
You are just entering PVP which means you will lose ships easily and quickly thus there is little point flying expensive ships. Take is easy with no rush and start with frigates/cruisers. With time, your experience will match with your skill points required to fly different ships.
Fly safe.
This is a true statement. Sure, you can sit and wait in your station, training to get that extra 5% bonus to something, but in the grand scheme of things, player numbers and player skill will outshine the "extra 5%" most of the time.
PS. The length of time to get introduced to the game used to be so long because of trianing learning skills. You had to train skills that would in turn train the rest of your skills faster. Having removed those, you're training towards your ships right from the start. I think part of the new introduction packages for the winter even offer implants that will help you train even faster. If you have a friend or someone to fund you implants, you're getting combat ready faster still.
I'm tempted to start some Corp recruiting up in this piece to get the people that really want to see what the game has to offer.
Start here: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=691169
RVB you will get cheap no committment pvp. While you learn and train skill sets for bigger better ships.
You can do incursions for isk and eventually move into 0.0 if you want to join in large scale battles.
PVP can be solo ro in groups, its up to you. Once you get experience yo can join a mercenary corp or a pirate corp.
Boring is as boring does. Eve leaves it all up to you to find and do things you find fun, so put some effort into it and you will get fun out of it.