*Zaccheus* on 31/7/2009 at 09:38
Been playing this game for almost two years, though it feels more like an online community than a game.
This video is the best introduction to EVE which I've seen so far:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08hmqyejCYU)
While that specific scenario is very unlikely to happen quite like that, it does show the very real player interaction which slowly takes you from being a solo pilot to eventually joining a space owning alliance which has huge fights that are discussed on the internet.
june gloom on 31/7/2009 at 09:49
1) who the hell are you
2) you're not saying anything that isn't already known
3) people still play that? I thought it deleted all their harddrives a couple years ago.
N'Al on 31/7/2009 at 10:25
All those non-newbs who remember *Zaccheus* raise your hand.
o/
*Zaccheus* on 31/7/2009 at 10:30
Quote Posted by dethtoll
1) who the hell are you
2) you're not saying anything that isn't already known
3) people still play that? I thought it deleted all their harddrives a couple years ago.
1) I'm the guy who joined TTLG nearly 5 years before you. I mainly hang out in the Thief section. Also, see my signature.
2) I searched this forum and found no reference to EVE.
3) Contradicts 2). And no, it only deleted the boot.ini file, but some people did format their harddrives as their computers stopped working. :p
Matthew on 31/7/2009 at 10:43
Quote Posted by N'Al
All those non-newbs who remember *Zaccheus* raise your hand.
o/
o/
dj_ivocha on 31/7/2009 at 11:06
When I started playing some 3 years ago, I mostly did so because I stumbled upon a mention of it somewhere and it said you could play for free, if you can earn enough in-game credits and buy game time cards with those. As I didn't have a job (and thus, money), that's what sealed the deal for me.
The first few months I only did NPC combat missions (which I hear have much improved since then) and wouldn't hear a word about the oh-so-great PVP experience people (and DaBeast) kept on blabbing about. Then, flying my 1 billion credits worth, pimped with rare faction items Myrmidon battlecruiser, I jumped in a low security system to do a mission I was given. Low security systems are dangerous for non-PVPers as the NPC police doesn't go there and your only protection against pirates are a few piddly sentry guns at stargates and stations. So before you jump into such a system, it's best to scout it first with an alt or ask a friend to do it. Only I scouted the wrong stargate because I was in a hurry.
Hilarity ensued, as the pirates popped my myrmidon and I almost emoragequit, seeing that I only had about 1.1 billion in cash and assets, including said battlecruiser. :D
But then DaBeast told me about some nice skirmish he and his (FILTHY SCUM) pirate buddies had with some pirate hunters and so I decided to check what this PVP thingamajig was all about. I tried to join some small null-sec corp (in systems with 0.0 security rating there aren't even sentry guns to defend hapless mission runners and non-combatants), but they wanted a reference list longer than the pope's to let me join, so I looked on.
Then I accidentally stumbled upon a thread on the eve online forums, where people were talking about the struggling Lotka Volterra alliance and one of its corporations, which was still keeping the spirits high and fighting against insurmountable odds. "Hey, now THAT's for me! Being the underdog and shit - coolio!". Their recruitment requirements were more down to earth, so I managed to join them. A couple of days later they moved to a different region as their alliance was finally defeated, and a month or three later we joined the infamous Band of Brothers alliance. In the next two years I took part in the biggest war in eve's history and in a lot of the biggest battles ever. Fun!
Sadly, by then I'd forgotten the name of the filthy scum that blew my myrmidon out of <strike>the water</strike>space, so I never came around to deliver some justice. Oh well. I still managed to kill a notorious and quite an experienced pilot in a sabre interdictor/destroyer (before those were nerfed a bit, back when meeting one in your interceptor meant a certain death), in my taranis interceptor, no less, all the while his buddy in an extremely efficient electronics warfare tech2 cruiser was trying to jam my targeting systems so he can escape. He did manage to jam me too, which was inevitable anyway, but only about a second after his buddy blew up. :o
Also by the time I stopped playing*, I had at least 20 billion credits in cash and at least as much in assets. :cool:
* - mostly due to lack of time and a shitty internet connection, but I like to think it was because I was pissed at CCP for removing "ghost training". Ghost training meant that even if your subscription ran out, your character kept learning his last skill until that was done. So if you couldn't afford a continuous subscription, you could play a month, then skip one, without falling back on your skill training.
Koki on 31/7/2009 at 12:25
Ahhh, EVE. Only MMORPG which really is a MMORPG at the market.
Why I'm not playing it? I have no idea.
Renzatic on 31/7/2009 at 14:14
I like the ideas and concept behind EVE. The whole player run everything and hyper capitalists in space thing it has going on tickles my interest bones, and it pretty much is about the nicest looking space game I've ever seen in my entire life. Problem is, I feel like there's a disconnect between me and the action onscreen. It doesn't make me feel like I'm in direct control of my ship, more like I'm playing an RTS game with a single unit, or at worst, a souped up browser game. Everything is just clicking...waiting...clicking...waiting. It gets a bit boring after awhile.
I can see why people like EVE, but it just ain't for me.
*Zaccheus* on 31/7/2009 at 14:49
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Problem is, I feel like there's a disconnect between me and the action onscreen. It doesn't make me feel like I'm in direct control of my ship, more like I'm playing an RTS game with a single unit, or at worst, a souped up browser game. Everything is just clicking...waiting...clicking...waiting. It gets a bit boring after awhile.
I know exactly what you mean, I loved the old ELITE games where you directly control the ship's movements and it was disappointing to find how ships are 'flown' in EVE.
There are two important reasons as far as I can see:
1) The central game server in London has to cope with large fleet battles involving hundreds of ships. If everyone were sending new commands constantly, the lag would be terrible.
2) The player has to cope with large fleet battles involving hundreds of ships. I was recently involved in a battle where 350 battleships/dreadnoughts destroyed a space installation. I had to make sure I was locking the next target, reloading the guns with the optimal ammunition, keeping an eye out for enemy ships attacking me, to name a few. It gets even worse if you are the leader of the fleet. In that situation I'm very glad that I can just tell my ship what to do (fly in this direction, orbit at 100m/s) without micro-managing it.
EVE is certainly not for everyone, but CCP are aware of the 'disconnect' issue and are working on an expansion called 'ambulation' where you can get out of your ship and walk around in the spacestation, visiting bars etc.
