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To late to start playing?
Hatcher1970
Member Posts: 3
in EVE Online
Is it to late for me to start playing this game as a noob? I know that after playing AC1 for 6yrs, it is kind of useless for new players to start because most current players are in the high lvls and all new content is for them alone. (ie. no fun for the noobie)
This game looks really cool and I wish I would have gotten into it earlier but I didn't. Your thoughts on weather this will be fun for a new player or not would be appreciated.
Thanks
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BestSigEver :P
Short answer: No, its not too late to start playing.
EVE has the most depth and different types of gameplay than any other mmo i've seen. That being said, A new player can be very attracted to and sucked into EVE if they discover an aspect of EVE that they enjoy. However, they can also be turned off if they find themselves doing something they don't enjoy and thinking there isn't anything better. Most people will say that PVP is the best aspect of EVE and I have to agree it's certainly the most fun. However, even pvp has different gameplay styles whether you're a lone miner-hunting or gate-sniping pirate, An anti-pirate leading your own almost religious crusade against all player pirates, A mercenary for hire, a 0.0 NBSI pvper, or an alliance pilot fighting in empire wars vs. other alliances. That also being said, some people try out pvp and have a bad experience thinking that they'll never have any good ones. Don't be discouraged.
As far as comparing new players to older ones, yes a player who has been playing for 2 or 3 years will have more money than you, more experience than you, more skills than you, pretty much more of everything than you. Then again, did you expect to start playing already having advantages over older players?
Going more to the teamwork side of things, lets compare EVE pvp to WoW since many EVE players are ex-wow players. A lvl 60 WoW player will slaughter 10 level 10 players easy. In EVE, however, 10 1 month old newbies in frigates can kill a several year old player in a battleship if they know what they're doing and the circumstances are in their favor. PVP in EVE is affected by a lot more than just the skillpoints of each player, and teamwork/player skill as a pvper > skillpoints. One great example is a corp called Agony Unleashed. They run a PVP University teaching newbies and new pvpers the basics, tactics, and teamwork of PVP with only tech 1 cheap frigates and minimal skills. They've been doing this for 8 months and I've personally been in a class where we've killed many battleships, HAC's, cruisers, you name it. In fact, the last PVP-Wolfpacks class I was in, we killed over 1.5 billion isk worth of ships and only lost a total of 10m between our group. If you want to get your feet wet into PVP, I definately recommend taking one of their public classes. The enrollment fee was worth every isk and them some of the experience I got from it.
In summery, because of the dynamics of EVE, its never too late to start playing.
EDIT: Oh yeah, their website... www.agony-unleashed.com
Theres also an advertisment for thier PVP-U floating around these forums somewhere.
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It's NEVER too late to start playing EVE.
There's a terribaly gross misconception of EVE's game play mechanics due to it being intelligently unique.
hint: EVERY fleet needs a "tackler" who is someone that flies quick ships, ie frigates and interceptors, and engage a target intending to lock them down with stasis webifiers (can't move) and warp disruptors (can't flee). You can fit out a decent ship, with a little help, in less then 2-3 days and assume the roll of a tackler.
You want to piss someone off in EVE? Get 4-5 of your friends in new accounts and rig out tacklers and hunt down minners and haulers. Get lucky and jack someone who's using their brand new Battleship and demand them to pay you 50m-80m to prevent it's destruction; 5 tech 1 frigates with basic modules would cost less then 2-3 million isk total.
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BestSigEver :P
Basic answer is.. no, its never to late. Week old charaters in are corp are tearing enemy pilots apart. I'd say get an idea what kind of ship you want to fly.. and focus trainning the skills for it. A t1 cruiser is underrated, my charater is 2years old and i still fly them. They are cheap, and they don't require much skills to fly it.
The faster you learn the game mecanics about the game, the faster you will catch up to the older charaters.
Not really you see one of the things about this game is that its not about Levels and the skills are not important where it comes to competing. All the skills do is let you pilot stuff and use different gear.
Whats important is how you use your stuff i.e. fitting the right gear to the right ship, aproaching the enermy and doing the right thing.
Also its good to note that a low level person can easily kill the most highest leveled person in the game if you use the right gear and us ethe right tactics.
So to answer your question no its not too late just be ready to spend a month training the right skills tho so you can compete at all levels.
As has been said before it is never to late to pick the game up. Some things you should know before you head into the EVE universe however. You are far behind in skills, this is a fact of life. You can however negate that to some degree by selecting a path you want your character to take and focus on that until your comfortable with your skill point level to branch out. Another thing to do a little research on is starting attributes as this will effect training times on skills. A new player who intends to be a combat pilot probably shouldnt start out with a very high charisma, conversly if your going to do strictly research or corperation management you probably dont need a maxed out perception either, I prefer a middle of the road approach myself trying to get intelligence, memory, perception and willpower as balanced as possible thus enabling me to learn virtually all of the skills in EVE at a steady pace instead of just a few faster and the rest dreadfully slow.
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The average lifespan of a Eve-online character is 7 months.
That being said: There are more new players then there are older vets. Sure the old guys have millions of skill points (38 million) but they tend to be trained in all aspects of Eve. I always told the newer players to decide what they wanted to do in 6 months...and train to that. IE Pvp stay away from industrial and science skills. PvE train just enough fighting skills to do the missions, or hunt rats. 2-3 weeks and you can be one hell of a frigate pilot, 2 months later your flying interceptors causeing all kinds of damage. Withen 6 months your a capable Battleship pilot with just enough skills to make sombody blink twice.
I sorta like the salad bar approach to MMORPG's, trying out everything and never being cornered into one population (PvP'er, PvE'er, crafter, social, ect...).
I always hear good things about EVE and I'm thinking of finnally trying the trial and I'm wondering if I should follow the path you are taking... If not I could definately go the Pirate route, being hated and hunted sounds cool.
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