Owww... EVE

[Stormy]

Its got to that time in the evening when i want to stick on EVE for a cople of hours, check my skills, get a few mil isk and just general catch up on todays events but this extended down time is spoiling my fun . Not that its a bad thing mind! I want wait to get my hands on one of these teir 2 battle crusers, damn the minmitar one looks so sexy.

So what are all you EVE heads doing with your selves? And if your not an EVE head start playing you gooons!

 

[Ravioli]

I have played the trail......2 times. Under that period of time my life was a disaster as i was so addicted to it. The game is amazing and im very thankfull that i didnt buy more time because my life would have collapsed. Even though it was painfull when the trail went out and the next couple of days i feelt like a recovering drug addict i got on my feets. I refuse to play EVE again because im afraid i will become addicted to it again.


Amazing game

 

[Stormy]

I really dont think you would get addicted to EVE souly because there is no grinding so there is never that need of "i have to play this to get better". When you start playing and skills are taking a few hours to learn then sure your sitting there making sure your not wasting a second of your game time but when you end up having to learn skills which take 30 days... damn cruser lvl5... then you arnt so inclined to play it. Saying that tho, when i first started playing i was pritty damn addicted but after a wile it died down. That is one very apealing part of eve. Not only do i have mega space ships with big guns but I can play as and when i want and still feel my character improve.

Soem real nice concepts for the new ships..

http://asgeirjon.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5

 

[Stormy]

Wow, i really thought more people here would be into EVE or at least have some kind of idea what it is. Bascily its an MMORPG based in a sci-fi universe. Your characters improve over time through skill training and the whole economy is player run..... errr play it its ace.

http://myeve.eve-online.com/download/videos/

Check out the top two videos on there, and fall in love with it. There are also 2 week trials avalible if you search on google "eve online free trial" or somthin.

 

[DigiQ8]

Played the trail, didnt like it

 

[X-FacToR]

I played eve for a long time, to me it seems extremely hard for new players to get in and acctually be apart of the game, when time is the most crucial thing in the game. Spending time training zillions of different skills, its just too much of a pain in the ass. I played for a long time, had multiple characters, and I was in some of the big wars, but I quit because its just time intensive and is very boring 85% of the time. Not to mention the fact that when people get engaged they ussually run like pussies and chasing people down time after time just gets retarded. (not that I would want them to just sit there but its like a endless cycle of chasing people to me thats not fun)

I remember back when I could put cruise missles on my frigates and I would go pirating killing cruisers in high sec with a few friends, back then things were pretty damn fun. Allso taking out cruisers with my arbitrator back in the day was allot of fun, so many drones that thing was insane, and under-rated. The interceptors were pretty cool but when the cruise missle nerf came it felt like shit went down hill.

 

[Stormy]

They have just released a new addon, revolations i believe its called. Which has added a nice lot of new content. New battle ships and battle crusers and a load of othr ships as well i think.

Just turned it on for the first time and 1337 people online

 

[Naudian]

^ that's awesome.

I played eve for 2 months + 14 days of trial. I thought it was awesome, and this new revelations thing is really interesting. I plan on re-activating my account at some point, whenever I has some monies

 

[Stormy]

Oh, seriosuly this is kick arse they have now added "ship rigs", they seem to act like an implant for your ship, ie weapon damage mods, speed mods, the lot. Need to train me up some new skills i think to get these new things working.

 

[Jintor]

I'll have a go if someone sends me a trial.

Looks awesome from the wiki and various threads.

 

[Slacker]

I tried the trial a few months ago and was really confused by everything. I have a weird fear against games with strong learning curves, so yeah, as cool as it seems, no go for me.

 

[Fliko]

My password is aslong as your password....
Creepy

Oh, and there are 1337 players logged on the server at the time

 

[Bad^Hat]

Well, I'm bored and my WoW account is expired for the mo, so I caved and got the trial. Science help me.

 

[hungryduck]

I have played the trail......2 times. Under that period of time my life was a disaster as i was so addicted to it. The game is amazing and im very thankfull that i didnt buy more time because my life would have collapsed. Even though it was painfull when the trail went out and the next couple of days i feelt like a recovering drug addict i got on my feets. I refuse to play EVE again because im afraid i will become addicted to it again.


Amazing game

same happened to me.....I got my wisdom teeth out and played it for a week straight...like 68 hours of just the trial. I had to put it down, it was far too addicting.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Okay, so I'm at the tutorial and already my head hurts. How the feck do I fly? Christ, I don't need 5 pages telling me how to sell stuff on my trial...

 

[Danimal]

I played the 7 day trial - It took me 1 day to do the tutorial and 6 days to get that MOTHER****ING KEYCARD OFF THE PIRATES. Actually, it didn't drop!

 

[Mutley]

That tutorial was PAINFUL. The game is too slow paced for me... wait weeks or even months for a new skill.

 

[Stormy]

http://www.gamershell.com/news/17215.html

^^ 14 day trial

The thing with eve is it is alot more complicated then your average MMO just because of the shere amount of iteams/skills and things to do. A big learning curve for a beginner but once you begin to reach the top of that learning curve and really start getting involved in corporations and other players the game really comes into a world of its own. Player owned space stations, corporation wars. I have heard of fleet battles with over 700 people in one system. Its insain.

I'm not normly into my mmo's and it took me a few months to get into eve but now i have played it for a few months i cant get enough of it. In a corp alianced with bob who are one of the major players in the game. Out in 0.0 space which is really unsafe doing alot of pvp and ratting (killing npcs) to make enough cash to get by. No harm in giving it a go but to say you have to give it a chance to get going.

 

[Loke]

That tutorial was PAINFUL. The game is too slow paced for me... wait weeks or even months for a new skill.

Patient, young Padawan. When I and my brother played the trial with two different characters, which was kickass, we did the tutorial simultaneously which took an awful long time but in the end it was definitely worth it.

I did, however, play the game for more than half a year quite some time ago. The game has definitely got a whole lot of new features since that time, the tutorial didn't even take half the time that it does now. Very basic in comparison.

 

[Leviticus]

I just downloaded and am in the middle of playing the 14-day Trial of EVE Online. Unlike what I've heard, I don't find the game to be overly complicated. On the contrary. The fundamentals are very simple, and doing things in Eve Online seems to be, for the most part, a matter of clicking and waiting. What I think is complicated is not the gameplay itself, but the sensory overload that the clunky, intimidating interface windows throw at you. Additionally, some things seem to needlessly be done in multiple steps, but I'm assuming that there is some reason for that that I'll encounter later on. Oh; a bunch of vague stats thrown at new players is a fairly archaic practice in MMORPGs, and EVE is not the better for doing it.

What bothers me most at this point is that I'm in the dark as far as what skills are the most useful, what I should be doing to maximize my advancement, and whether or not I chose attributes that reflect what I'll want to accomplish. Without a doubt I'll be re-making my main very soon as things start coming into focus. Other than that, EVE seems to be a pretty relaxing and enjoyable, albeit unexciting, take on the MMO genre. I'll be surprised if I end up extending, but I anticipate enjoying EVE for the next 13 days.

 

[Stormy]

This is the thing i found with eve, its not complicated on the surface, you buy some stuff you pick it up and you shoot some stuff. But eve is deeper then that what makes the game good is learning what's beneth the surface of just flying a ship about. Learning how skills can improve your character and learning in the most afficent way possible can be tricky to get right. If i where you i would try and get involved in a player run corporation asap. This is where eve gets intresting, the PVP is brillent in eve, especily when your at war with another corporation. Big tactical fleets shooting the shit out of each other... boooooom!

Skill wise it dose depend on what you want to do on eve and what race you are. If you want to play for a long period of time the learning skills are particuly important. The higher your attrobutes are the faster you learn skills but this does take time. Also check out what bonuses the ship you are flying has, this can aid you in what skills to choose next.

tbh i dont think you will fall in love with eve over 2 weeks, there is just to much to learn about how modules and skills can effect your ship, learning to tank correctly against different damage types and how to get to one place from another with out getting taken out by pirates.

Flying about mine fields doing abit of mining is most likly what your gunna be doing for the next 2 weeks and it isnt a good representation of the diversity found in the eve universe but it does get you used to the interface.

 

[Jintor]

Link us to EVE:TV, Stormy!

 

[Evo]

I love reading the PC Gamer articles on how the big corp's f*ck each other about and all kinds of crazy shit!

 

[Iced_Eagle]

I love reading the PC Gamer articles on how the big corp's f*ck each other about and all kinds of crazy shit!

Yea I remember hearing all of the Eve scandals... Crazy shit but it's cool that that stuff can happen in some MMO's.

I'm not a fan of subscription-based games so I refuse to even get the trial for fear of being addicted.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah, I already have my WoW sub and I'm not getting another on top of that. Besides, I'm already eyeing up another MMO for when my WoW addiction runs dry

But hey, if that doesn't turn out to be as great as it's cracked up to be...

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Played it for a couple of months but MMOs always bore me in the end. I need some sort of clearly defined goal to reach, otherwise I lose interest. Pathetic, I know, but it's just me.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

I wish I could afford this game.

Both with ££ and also time.

I loved the trial. Pity...

 

[Bad^Hat]

Played it for a couple of months but MMOs always bore me in the end. I need some sort of clearly defined goal to reach, otherwise I lose interest. Pathetic, I know, but it's just me.

Heh, or is it the rest of us that're pathetic?

So, I'm still working my way through the flight tutorial. Basically the only thing I've really learned is... my computer is a bitch >_>

Hmm... but the flight itself isn't really as compelling or responsive as I'd have wanted, so I'm not sure if it'd really hold my interest. But then I suppose I haven't tried combat or anything.