Casual?

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• Hechicera Member Posts: 15

  January 2006

  
  I think you should be fine.
• daeandor Member UncommonPosts: 2,695

  January 2006

  Well, my thoughts are that you could do this, however it may not be all that exciting for you to only log on 2 times a week.  A couple reasons why:

  • Although there is no "grind" perse, there are a lot of activities that you, being new, should be concentrating on daily.  The skill system is based on time, whether you are logged in or not, and when you are just starting out, your skills only take 15 min - 3 hours (generally) to complete.  Bottom line is that, at least initially, you would probably be better served logging on nearly every day for a short period of time to get your skills up.  Tip:  You can train a short duration skill while online and just before you log, switch to a skill which has a long learning time (hours, days, weeks) to make use of your "levelling while you sleep."  Even if you have not completed a training level (eg. Navigation level 2 to 3), if you switch to another skill (eg. Engineering 4 to 5), you retain all the time (skillpoints) already invested in the "aborted" skill (Navigation in my example).
  • Until you get really accustomed to the travel and mission system, the game moves quite slow.  If you are not remaining at least somewhat fresh, after a week offline you are going to waste a lot of time just getting set up for your missions or mining, or whatever you choose to do.
  • Having only short periods of time to play EVE will most likely confine you to remaining a PvE ("Empire," "safe zone," or "carebear") player.  Although you won't be required to only mine in secure space or repeat missions over and over, you will have difficulty sustaining yourself alone outside of the Empire space with such limited time online.  Not impossible, just difficult, and possibly lonely.  In all honesty, PvE (missions or mining generally but not limitted to) in EVE is not that much different than any other game.

  In the end, EVE is not only about having fun, but also about time management.  In many ways it is a semi-realistic space life simulation, and is often referred to as an online space "economy simulator."  Therefore, just like life, the game moves at a pace which is unpredictable, sometimes mindnumbingly slow, sometimes dazzlingly fast.  I would never tell someone interested in EVE not to try it, it is well worth the 14-day free trial, or for that matter, it is even worth a month subscription to figure out for sure if you like it.  When I am subscribed to EVE (I switch back and forth alot), I sure can't play it for only 10-15 hours a week.
• Ragosch Member Posts: 727

  January 2006

  There was a guide for a trial posted these days, I would suggest to read it and see if you might like some of the ways to play this game suggested there. With just 15 hours a week you will not have much time to mine or such stuff, you will have to focus on things which provide fun fast and easy.

  Maybe a good pvp corporation might help here - they can provide you with information to come up with things much quicker than on your own and they might integrate you as a welcomed member to their navy forces. There you might find exciting action in short time and the corporation might help you out when you got podded - with some money for new clone and new ship.

  If pvp is not your thing, you will have to try out for a month or two if you are able to find fun also within those 15 hours a week. I guess you will, but we are all different.

  Ragosch
• _Overkill_ Member Posts: 19

  January 2006

  The game works at your speed.  Sometimes the missions can take a while, but nothing close to the retarded taskforce missions of CoH/CoV, or the Epic missions of EQ.  You can pick and choose whatever missions you want, and what type and who you go to get them from.  You wont miss out on the content by changing agents or locations (ever).  If something is important to the storyline of the game, it will tell you.  It will also tell you on whats going on at the log in screen before you enter. 

   Since everything is dynamic, you will be happy that you're not stuck in the same mission that everyone else who has ever played has had to do (even though they have similar issues).  You don't even have to do missions.  You can mine, kill pirates, build ships/guns/modules/everything else in the game, haul ore, do courier missions for players and their corps, or even make your own trade routes.  You don't even have to start a group to do it!  I do suggest applying to a good corporation though, you will get the most help and fun out of the game with players that will happily guide you and help you if you need/want it.

  Good luck, and don't ever pass up a free trial.  Unless its testing pharmaceuticals... even then, its hard to pass up sometimes. 

  Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat.
• Solanar Member UncommonPosts: 188

  January 2006

  i think this game is more for casuals then hardcore people.

  you can play this game at whatever rate you want, as long as you keep training your skills.

  
  ?played: Nearly everything.
  ?waiting: *Darkfall*, Hero''s Journey
• Rod_B Member Posts: 203

  January 2006

  Ok, I've played Eve since june 2003 now, more or less nonstop with a few smallish breaks now and then in which I subscribed but did not play much.

  I'll list you the main drawbacks for casual and active players, most things not mentioned then are by default not a drawback to either unless they don't appeal to you as a player anyway (like open pvp, competitive gameplay, no instancing, death penalties and the requirement to involve yourself):

  Active players...

  • sometimes find the skill system retarded since it doesnt allow for powerlevelling

  • sometimes think ti sucks they dont have more skills then a casual player

  Casual players..

  • can generally do anything everyone else can in the game solo, with a few exceptions in high end gameplay
  • do need to manage their time better then active players because its more valuable
  • might get behind in resources at their disposal (which are essentially Eve's grind-items)
  • sometimes think corporations (guilds) arent interested in them, when a corporation is exactly what a casual player needs to be able to make up for the timeloss against active players

  Some general tips if you are a casual player and want to start:

  1. Get in a group, if one game needs you to group up it's eve. Not to enjoy the content, but to compete once you get into medium adn high end gameplay after a while. But for a casual player, the support a good corporation gives in resources and organisation is invaluable.

  2. Don't feel held back by having less time, but invest some of it in simply getting your knowledge up. A casual player with alot of game knowledge (eve can get exceedingly complex) beats any active one without it in both gameplay options as well as value to a group.

  That's it for now, if you have more questions, just get a trial account and post on the eve-online new player forum section. They will be answered faster then you can say "post message"