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I was curious as to who all plays EVE Online.
Stolen from the old EVE online thread (With some changes).
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Character Name(s) - Flikoo
Location Ingame - Deklein
Race - Gallente
Spec - PvP
Other Info - Just started playing 3 months ago.
 
More like manage Eve Online.

But really, if I were to play an MMO, Eve would be the first one I'd try.
 
EVE Online is, despite what is said on here, a flawless and excellent space simulation game.

In that it perfectly portrays how boring space travel would actually be.
 
Recently just let mine run out of time. Was going to go for HAC's, but...meh, SC2 eats my life.
 
I tried and tried and tried... I just can't do Eve. I'm never motivated to join a corporation or do any of the big stuff so I just putter around killing npcs...
 
I'm doing X3 right now; which I'm told is basically like EVE Singleplayer FPS.

It's confusing as hell, but I do like it.
 
Ah good old eve, Used to play it loads.. Got 2 accounts but both have been inactive for 4/5 months tho.

Maktor - PvP. Around 55mil sp spec in amarr + gallent, can fly both fully t2 with battle ship V + also flys and archon.

Bellend Gobbler - Alt, can fly a guardian but also training up towards falcon and any other useful alt gubbins.

Von Lud - Trade monkey..... makes lots of money being a carebare.
 
For all its faults EVE does a lot of things pretty well which no other games even attempt, at least on similar scales.

Borza Slavak - Minmatar mixed/pvp, Catch/Providence regions
 
If I were to try an MMO I'd go for EVE. Mostly because stuff like the goonsquad/BoB incident stuff is cool (unless you were in BoB)
influence.png

But I don't have the free time or cash for any MMO so oh well.

BTW, does anyone have a current influence map to see how it's changed compared to the above?
 
See, I don't like EVE ... but looking at a map like that impresses me of the scale of it.
 
Goons are pretty much no more now as well. Some noob didnt pay the sov bills and they lost all their territory lawls
 
Here ya go rimfire
http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/verite/influence.png

I'm in Ushra'Khan, bottom centre. We recently drove CVA out with our AAA pals and occasional bandwagon joining by Atlas and Sys-K (overkill).
There was one fight (slaughter) where we ended up with 1600 players in one system duking it out, though by the time numbers got that high the lag made it virtually unplayable. Quite a few fights with 100+ on each side during the campaign though.

As for the cost you can pay to play using ingame currency one you have decent income, that's how Laivasse seems to fund his account.
 
That's how I payed for half a year of my account. After making over a bil in a plex down in 0.0, then going back up to high sec, I just kinda small-time PVP'd in low sec while just paying for my months in ISK. Was quite nice.
 
Yeah, I recently ran out of subscription/money and I won't be playing for a while. I love it though.
 
I have been playing since January last year and since September have paid subscription fee's with in-game money. :LOL: A few months ago though I said to myself "wow I'm never short on cash I want to make MOAR"! So that's what I did and created an industrial alt account that will take advantage of the coming expansion. The best part about this though is that I can do the 10/10 or 8/10 complex's and have been funding both accounts using in-game money. The normal cost for doing that should be $60 but some sucker wants 1 billion in ISK which can be relatively easy to accomplish.

Rebecca Forest is my hot indy Gallente girl: http://eveboard.com/pilot/Rebecca_Forest

James Forest the original PVE/PVP guy: http://eveboard.com/pilot/James_Forest

Also Goonswarm aka the somethingawful.com folks were overtaken by IT who are a collective group of the people who are BOB! Basically the directors ironically failed to set things correctly when leaving for vacation so when the new area upkeep bill came, they didn't automatically pay it! Basically when news started breaking, IT saw it as their chance and so did their allies AAA. Immediately a meeting took place and a spy recorded it: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/1001/sotg.mp3 They slowly crumbled and the CEO finally closed the alliance as saying it was "euthanasia" but originally planned to do it a month ago. http://www.massively.com/2010/02/04/goonswarm-alliance-disbanded-in-eve-online-political-drama/ So now we are left with IT and Goonswarm reforming as BANSOLODRAKEBANSOLODRAKE. It appears as though Ev0ke have overtaken their space now though.

Wildly Inappropriate a Russian alliance broke up in the same day and Shadow of xDeathx took heavy losses as well.

More recently CVA a role-playing alliance also were invaded by AAA. Lawless space operates on NBSI Not-Blue-Shoot-It meaning if your not one of us, your space debris. CVA basically said if your a pirate or screwed us over, we will kill you. Everybody else is ok though.

So now the game is now essentially 2 factions. If you look at the confusing colored map you will see IT on the left and ATLAS on the right. That is the Southern Coalition of mainly English, American, British, etc players. They do a lot of PVP and have a lot of money. The Northern Coalition is the SOLAR Fleet people on the right and Ev0ke on the upper left hand of the screen. They mainly speak Russian have A LOT of money, don't PVP too much, and have way too much power. Non-colored areas are controlled by CONCORD which is safe space or low-sec where pirates live.

It's pretty cool where this game is now going as it's "are you with the Russians in the North or your with the English in the South"?

Personally I was in the North a couple of months ago but I'm now in Consortium which is part of the South. A month or 2 ago we lost a station which was majorly screwed up. We actually had a person pulling a Che Guevara tactic and somehow succeeded in taking many corps with him. Some corps would all of a sudden attack people within the alliance and you wouldn't know what was going on. Now we are pulling in corps, we have funded a new station, and will be putting it up this May.

The game really is the best. :thumbs: *Oh and some time ago a CEO of a bank in the game took everybody's money and sold it for real life money using it as a down payment on a house: http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002527p1.html He got banned from the game but man, what an epic way to go out.
 
the cow says moo said:
That actually does sound like fun.
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Yeah the battles are not boring in 0.0 (lawless space where the drama and lulz happen). When Delve was being invaded by IT, major battles took place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIr0LMlNow

That was a 300+ pilot battle and each laser that you saw came from a ship. The sparkling bubbles are put up to prevent people from escaping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb03dPcpkeU
190 Dreadnoughts were killed in that one and a Dread is about 1+bil ISK. Supposedly the battle was so harsh that the server crashed.

Also Pandemic Legion, an elite PVP alliance and part of the Russians are no more because of IT. They had many Titans (biggest ships in the game) and they won many alliance tournaments.

This is just a cool (but true story) about the area where my alliance is currently at now. We had to kick the Russians out which are SOLAR fleet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuRGj0wgfEM

The stories that come out of that Eve is sometimes like Braveheart. My alliance personally has gone through so much shit and you get a certain amount of pride defending space you died for in the game rather than it being handed to you because people don't want to resist a major power. It's all weird too but your fighting for land in a video game kinda like Spartans. But it's globally effected by thousands of players all over the world. It goes on for 24/7 as well except for the 1 hour downtime.
 
The idea behind the game is fantastic and from those videos you can see how actual wars etc can be fought etc, the story about the guy stealing credits and using it in real life is mind boggling. I could never get into it though, seems like a game that demands a lot of attention, and although those battles looked pretty, they were seem pretty dull really.
 
I'd rather have the gameplay more like Star Wars Battlefront or Freespace 2, but keep all the economics, management, and alliance stuff.
 
Actual gameplay varies a lot, it's not for everyone.

Small scale pvp - gangs of up to 20 - is somewhat like a squad based tactical shooter in terms of each player having a role to fill, individual ****ups can screw everything, and positioning, scouting, feeding misinformation etc are often vital.
Even smaller you can find 1v1 and 2v2 pvp, this is usually in smaller ships (except when ganking carebears lol) and will often involve EVE's version of dogfighting, where manual positioning is essential as well as trying to get the initial drop on your target.

The big battles they feature in the trailers can be much more exciting when you're on the TS server hearing fleet commanders calling targets to focus fire, giving orders for logistics or support, seeing enemy or friendly reinforcements appear out of nowhere, changing everything or ambushing reinforcements due to good scouting or spying. It's much more strategic, where you're generally a footsoldier in a fleet of hundreds, but able to see everything unfold :)

The game isn't for everyone by any means, but it certainly isn't always dull - unless you choose to do the more boring aspects of the game, solo.


P.S. Hool got a lot of details wrong ;)
e.g. the North also has a lot of French, most Russians are in the south and south-east, the south also has a lot of other europeans and the aussies seem to be split into smaller groups or scattered throughout bigger ones.
 
Interesting. I have a feeling its one of those games that will continue to bug me until I actually fully get into it, considering it has a lot of the really cool aspects I've always wanted in games, like free flowing player controlled economy, massive alliances and wars that can span months.

What exactly is required in getting into this game, how long does it take roughly? And how do you join some of the larger corps? Some user written tutorial would help, unlike the useless one the game provides.
 
Shift said:
Interesting. I have a feeling its one of those games that will continue to bug me until I actually fully get into it, considering it has a lot of the really cool aspects I've always wanted in games, like free flowing player controlled economy, massive alliances and wars that can span months.

What exactly is required in getting into this game, how long does it take roughly? And how do you join some of the larger corps? Some user written tutorial would help, unlike the useless one the game provides.
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The last thread on this had a good guide that got me started but I'm too lazy to look for it.
 
Don't actually read the chart, it's got the wrong sort of slope for Eve.

learning_curve_of_eve.jpg


Find a friend to help you in the beginning.
 
Yeah certainly you need a friend, free time, play at least a month or 2, and most importantly to not give up. When you find something in the game that you can profit out of and most importantly have fun doing it, the game is great. The whole Tyrannis thing can be used by even nubs on trial accounts.

Also it's mainly Atlas alts and Atlas in general Eejit in the South. There is no point in being in an alliance where you don't speak English but speak Russian. Section 13 though are pretty badass merc corp who are French. Yes there are various nationalities in the game and they tend to stick together in small groups. Recently they have been around Insmother and we don't know wtf is up with that. Yes I said that, there are corps that profit declaring war on corps or accepting contracts to do wars! So there is your Boba Fett profession!

This is the full HD video of the next expansion. Most of it is CGI but the whole showing you building stuff on the planet 1:33-1:43, is in-game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms95NKFnhCU

Oh and don't forget that sometime in the future they will have a second life like expansion that will let you own your own bar in a station, have exotic dancers, bartenders, parlor games, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNWWxD-q-bg
The concept video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUwFToCXKW8
Very early test footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n41s1Iox18A

This also happened today:
http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=3859&tid=7

The war between the Southern and Northern coalitions is heating up.
 
Hool, I just realised from the talk about Insmother - eastern region on the influence map, for non-players - that you're a neighbour of mine and live a couple of constellations away. I'm in HTA, pale blues high five. I've not been playing much recently though.
 
hool10 said:
Also it's mainly Atlas alts and Atlas in general Eejit in the South. There is no point in being in an alliance where you don't speak English but speak Russian. Section 13 though are pretty badass merc corp who are French. Yes there are various nationalities in the game and they tend to stick together in small groups. Recently they have been around Insmother and we don't know wtf is up with that. Yes I said that, there are corps that profit declaring war on corps or accepting contracts to do wars! So there is your Boba Fett profession!
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You know nothing! :p Atlas and pals are south-east, AAA and pals are south, IT and co. are south-west.
AAA also has a lot of russians -and- europeans and americans. Voice coms for big ops usually have orders repeated in english and russian both.
 
My corp just hangs out in between Evoke and Mostly Harmless. We aren't really part of an alliance, but we get along well enough.
 
What kind of PVP? For low security pvp there's giant 0.0 alliance fleets, small low/nullsec gangs, solo roams, frigate swarms, bubblecamps, pos-bashing, gatecamping, and other gangs that specialize in getting in/out unnoticed.

For highsec PVP there's faction warfare, can baiting, can flipping, solo duels, and wardecs.

Got anything specific in mind or are you just wondering the mechanics of flying pvp?
 
TheOneFreeMan said:
What's PVP like in EVE, anyway? How does it work, in practical terms?
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PVP often times is one sided. Often when you go PVP'ing you bring friends along (around 5). Your FC or Fleet Commander should be experienced and your all on Teamspeak. You have a scout telling you what is in the next system, what they are flying, if they can catch them, or they can bait them. Sometimes you have a logistics ship to repair your squad or a jamming ship.

This can be demonstrated here when I found a Russian doing a complex in our alliance territory: http://www.xfire.com/video/1fad9d/

Other forms include the often rare solo PVP or solo pirates. Pirating basically is finding a person who is doing PVE and has not fitted his ship for PVP. So the pirate blows up the ship in .4 to .1 systems where CONCORD (the police) do not patrol. Once he does, the pirate then prevents the escape pod from getting away. If a pirate achieves this, they can then ransom a person. If the person pays a good pirate, the pirate lets the person go or bad pirates still blow them up. So it's very much like the typical A or B scenario you would find in say Fallout 3 only this isn't scripted.

This can be demonstrated here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrF2691xBEM

Large scale PVP is for wars which you can fight even in CONCORD space, to the CCP trailers you love which is in 0.0 or lawless space. Large scale often includes hundreds if not thousands of people in various fleets and allies of different alliances. You have a tackle fleet to prevent enemies escaping, a capital fleet, battleship fleet, etc. Each FC heads those fleets but those FC communicate with the main FC. The main FC communicates with a scout(s) who is/are cloaked or a spy. These types of battles are mainly for territory, or for high value moons which are harvested for rare resources.

This can be demonstrated here when my alliance got their ass royally handed to them: http://www.xfire.com/video/1be7c6/

Whichever the case when you are doing PVP with other people it's like a military sim game. If you get out of line such as not following orders, everybody will be endangered, you will die or you could scare off a target getting baited. The FC will call X is primary, X is secondary, X is tertiary. So basically once primary is dead, you go down the list. In the previous video we had intel of a hostile gang coming. So we put up a bubble to prevent them escaping on the gate entering the system. We amassed a fleet together waiting for the enemies to enter. When they appeared the FC called targets and the fight started. Unfortunately we got raped because of a bad FC and the types of ships we were using. :eek:
 
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