Our EVE Online Corporation

Best to join the group I think =D

I'll be unlikly to leave my corp but will want to meet up with you guys for fun.

Its probly best to join a corp with a lot of experenced players to get to know the game better. People are usaly very helpful.
 
Yeah, small corps dont seem to be the best thing in this game considering its massive scale.
 
Many of you guys still playing this then? yeah I'd say unless you have a great small corp full of veterans then its better to stick with the bigger corps when you start off.
 
Yea, more and more people are playing. The steam group has gone from about 4-5 up to 15 =)
 
Yeah, the game is growing each day, along with the HL2.net players.
 
I want to get on again but seem to be having some big problems with my net and seems not it probly wont be on untill next month. Its pissed me off so much, just as the new addon comes out and just as loads of people start to play it all packs in. I hate you BT, go burn in hell.
 
EVE seems like it'd require far too much time to actually be any fun, and even once you get to the point of being semi-good, someone could always come along and destroy you so that all that time was wasted. Maybe I've got the wrong impression, but I've played a similar free online MMO that used real-time instead of game-time and that's what it was like.

I can reactivate my World of Warcraft account and continue being the best god damn shaman on the server within a couple of hours of brushing up anytime I want!
 
If you're sensible you don't lose too much when you die in EVE. Clones keep your skills, insurance helps with the cost of the ship.


In WoW... there aren't really any consequences to what you or your guild do. EVE has PvP on a scale and with results WoW never will, as well as (nearly) all production and the entire economy being player-run.
 
Letters said:
EVE seems like it'd require far too much time to actually be any fun, and even once you get to the point of being semi-good, someone could always come along and destroy you so that all that time was wasted.
Nah, the odds of that happened are pretty slim if you follow what you should be doing. Going around and blasting at people will get you killed. IF for some reason you just randomly get shot up, you have clones to keep every one of your skills you have earned, along with insurance to help pay for your ship back.
Maybe I've got the wrong impression, but I've played a similar free online MMO that used real-time instead of game-time and that's what it was like.
Nah, I enjoy it a lot more than other MMO's BECAUSE of real time. I can have a life and still get things done in this game.
I can reactivate my World of Warcraft account and continue being the best god damn shaman on the server within a couple of hours of brushing up anytime I want!
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hmph.
 
so, anyone still playing this?

I bought it while it was on sale this week, anyone got any 21 day trials left?
 
Yep, I'm cruising along with a pair of accounts at the moment, and I've got some free trials to send out if you want one. Add me on steam as "wakiwaki" if you want me to send you one.
 
Going to give this trial a try since I have free time. I don't expect to last.

Has anyone who has played EVE also played X3? I enjoyed X3 quite a bit despite it being slow and difficult as hell.
 
Did you already start the 14 day trial, or do you need a 21 day trial?
 
I played for about 6 months but I didn't know anybody so I stopped. I really don't have time for it but it was loads of fun when I played.
 
I got the 21 day trial. Played for about 3 hours, and the game is a lot like X3. I'm pretty patient when it comes to games, but certain stuff pisses me off. Like how the tutorial doesn't cover some really important and basic stuff, like what to do when your gun has no charge. I was sent off on some mission as part of the tutorial in careers, and now I can't finish something because they never explained in depth how your weapons work.

Other than that, the game is beautiful, and I dig the Vangelis-esq music.
 
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I haven't tried the tutorials since last time they were reworked but that doesn't surprise me. There are various newbie help channels, including the 'starter corp' channels one of which you should be in automatically and the public channel of the ingame alliance who run this website and wiki.
 
I've been playing for a few months now, and while there's definitely a "learn as you go" streak to the game, I thought the tutorials were pretty adequate at covering all the basics.

It has its slow parts, but I really dig the game. The thought of getting Cataclysm and giving WoW another run is something I haven't even seriously considered yet. I recently enrolled in Eve University and I'm not too far off from my first battleship if I finish off a few more skills in the next few weeks. I just wish the Uni's lockdown SOP wasn't such a pain in the ass every time some 11-member corporation faildecs us. :p
 
Everybody currently playing needs to join the "HL2.NET" chat channel.

This if you're a bit slow.
 
I have 19 days left of the trial I think. If I were to buy it now (since it's on sale on Steam) would I then have 49 days of play time, or would it automatically remove the trial days and only leave me with 30?
 
You would have the full 49 days of playtime, and you would have access to everything denied to trial players for that full time.
 
I quit playing for the time being. I don't know the game just takes a lot of time to play. Also the CTA's and lot's of waiting. I rather play a game with instant gratification. I may come back at another time and probably will. I was involved in the conflicts of the South this Summer. I was in Insmother with Consortium and then with CO2. I left when we captured the station system of 68FT.

Are some amazing videos I have taken of Eve (on my xfire profile) and those are Dreadnoughts the 3rd biggest ships in Eve Online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-D6lPqN3oQ That is an early video my corp did when I was new to 0.0. Once you get 10mil+ SP, get your butt into a renter corp that is in 0.0 such as the alliances that own sov in the North. Once you get bored of that area, get into a more active 0.0 corp. The money you can make in 0.0 will allow you to pay for game time with ISK. Also the Sansha pirates are doing the invasion thing this month. I think what I appreciate about Eve is that sense of community involvement, how it relates to the real world so much, and the military structure of the game. Paying for stuff and following orders from a commander like your in the Army makes it unlike any game that you will ever play.
 
ZT said:
What is a Renter Corp?
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Renters (corps or alliances) pay stronger alliances to hold sovereignty of some conquerable space under the latters' control. They use this space to make money but have to pay massive chunks to their masters for as long as the arrangement lasts. They're always first up against the wall when an invasion happens, everyone shits all over them, they tend to have incompetent fleet commanders (none of the good ones like being a renter) and similarly poor PvP showing from their rank and file.
Renters also tend to collapse like a house of cards at the first sign of pressure and if they're not careful their members lose a bunch of assets when they go down.
 
So you can buy game time with in game currency right? I imagine it's an absurd amount you have to gather?
 
You also typically must pay a dues every month to your corp if you live in 0.0 and especially if you are in a renter corp. Like a union, hahaha! But renter corps are pretty much your only way to get into 0.0. Once you get into these corps they let you mine, kill pirate NPC's, and do 10/10 complexs with bosses inside that have billions of ISK in loot. Most importantly though is that you get access to large fleet battles. Unfortunately it looks like a slideshow due to lag.

Try not to get into a renter corp that plans on forever staying that way though. Keep in mind that you have goals that you want and so should your corp. If you want to mine all day then that is ok. For me personally I wanted to be in a youtube video or some news item that landed on shacknews or something. I achieved those goals because I wanted to join a 0.0 corp and they wanted the same. *Game time for 60 days in Eve or GTC's can only be bought on the forums. They typically go for 600mil ISK. You can get that sorta easily in 0.0 though.
 
Plexes are on the market now. You can get 30 days for around 285m, depending on the local market. I wouldn't really say that's absurd though, it'll just take roughly 20 hours of missioning to make that much, less time if you're in 0.0.
 
So who is active in game right now besides Rico and myself?
 
Not me, got lots of pimp characters tho. Might play again some day
 
I am slowly doing training. Learning about exploring at the moment. I don't intend to jump right in afterwards, because I'd like to create my "official" character when that Incursion Avatar update is released. Doesn't it come out the 18th?
 
Sometime around then. If what you're training now is going to end up an alt you could focus on training industrial ships (haulers) or market skills.
 
Are there some "careers" that flat our suck or have little benefit? I'm currently not interested in fighting really, I'd rather just scavenge, mine, and explore (That's why I've been trying explore to see if I enjoy it, and so far I do), but it seems that every game has one "class" or whatever that is useless or rarely needed for a team, and I have a feeling explorer might be that?
 
I wish I could get back in but I simply don't have the time or money. Maybe someday.
 
Mining isn't good money in high security space at all. Exploration you can do with fairly low skill reqs. PvP is the best part of the game imo, since in this game you're actually *risking* some assets it gets the adrenaline going more.

Exploration is fairly solo work.
 
ZT said:
I am slowly doing training. Learning about exploring at the moment. I don't intend to jump right in afterwards, because I'd like to create my "official" character when that Incursion Avatar update is released. Doesn't it come out the 18th?
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Just FYI, you keep your character, you just re-make the portrait.

ZT said:
Are there some "careers" that flat our suck or have little benefit? I'm currently not interested in fighting really, I'd rather just scavenge, mine, and explore (That's why I've been trying explore to see if I enjoy it, and so far I do), but it seems that every game has one "class" or whatever that is useless or rarely needed for a team, and I have a feeling explorer might be that?
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Mining in highsec is one of the most monotonous, dead end things you can do in Eve, unless you find an industrial corp that can teach you the ropes of highsec industry and market manipulation. Exploration and W-Space is where the real money is in Eve, unfortunately (as far as I know), they both require a good deal of combat, so either train combat skills or link up with a good corp based in W-Space and help them with salvaging and hacking sites. Or if you don't want to bother with that, you can come link up with me and help me run some missions, you'll make about 8-15 mil per mission. Just message me in game, or join the HL2.NET chat room.
 
w-space doesn't necessarily require much combat actually. Depending on what kind of corp you're with.
 
Higlac said:
Just FYI, you keep your character, you just re-make the portrait.
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Do you have any idea if this means we can chose a different background as well? I'm just thinking about making a new character all together, so I can go through the tutorial again and because one of the career trainers won't talk to me lol.. And he happens to be the combat trainer.

Higlac said:
Mining in highsec is one of the most monotonous, dead end things you can do in Eve, unless you find an industrial corp that can teach you the ropes of highsec industry and market manipulation. Exploration and W-Space is where the real money is in Eve, unfortunately (as far as I know), they both require a good deal of combat, so either train combat skills or link up with a good corp based in W-Space and help them with salvaging and hacking sites. Or if you don't want to bother with that, you can come link up with me and help me run some missions, you'll make about 8-15 mil per mission. Just message me in game, or join the HL2.NET chat room.
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Alright, I'll first probably be spending more time getting used to everything, still a lot I don't get. Like, I don't understand why sometimes it will allow me to warp from one location to another, and other times I will have to manually go to a jump, and then go to my destination.

I probably will train in combat anyways, but I'd just rather a job that 1.) Does more assisting than fighting 2.) Doesn't deal with a lot of math (because I assume there are some jobs where you just sell high and buy low all day?) Buttt, that might make me pretty useless.
 
No you have the same racial background etc. with new character creator.

The 'career paths' thing is just about how you make your money. If you want to be useful but aren't much into the pewpew you could train to fly logistics ships as a fairly long-term goal while you do exploration or whatever in the meantime.
 
ZT said:
Do you have any idea if this means we can chose a different background as well? I'm just thinking about making a new character all together, so I can go through the tutorial again and because one of the career trainers won't talk to me lol.. And he happens to be the combat trainer.
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That could be an issue, and since you're still new to the 21 day trial, then you could just start over, though if you want another 21 days, just let me know.


Alright, I'll first probably be spending more time getting used to everything, still a lot I don't get. Like, I don't understand why sometimes it will allow me to warp from one location to another, and other times I will have to manually go to a jump, and then go to my destination.
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That's known as deadspace. It's just a tool developers use to give missions/dungeons "rooms" that you have to clear before going into the next area.
 
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