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[EVE] - A Game of Megathrons
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I'm pretty sure that the mission payouts are linked to the completion rate and speed at which players complete the mission. So if the payout was lower than you'd expect, there was probably an easier/faster way to do it. Maybe security status still affects payouts as well? I haven't done missions in ages.
If you need some isk to get you started on your chosen EVE career, PM me your player name. I'll send you some isk from an alt account.
Seriously, I helped kill a freighter and enough Occators came out for everyone to share. Totally understand why sacking cities was a thing.
As far as I know the only speed thing is the bonus, which you basically always get unless you accept a mission but don't finish it for a couple of days. You get money for killing the rats in the mission, but if you can complete it without killing them all you usually get more money just doing another mission.
L1 and L2 missions aren't a way of making money, they're a chore you need to do on your way to L4s.
I am honestly not sure. Apparently they're now a huge pain in the ass and not worth the effort for the isk you make. Even the highsec pubbies are refusing to run them anymore, since L4s or running a mining Bot are better sources of isk.
W-space plexes, perhaps?
hardly new, but...
We're talking about different things, but yes, you're also correct.
I really shouldn't be surprised that CCP managed to muck up incursion balance in the other direction while trying to fix them. Though I wonder if it's just people not adapting to the change to their isk faucet and if some people will catch on and make it worth it later.
Problem is: I don't want to do the really dumb shit to make a few thousand isk to get the skills to train up. Any chance I could convince some one to bankroll a few mil starting over?
PM me your character name. I'll fix you with some isk.
Actually, from my research, they had a decently balanced Incursion change on SiSi -- Vanguards were nerfed a little bit, Assault were buffed a little bit, people were gearing up for 20 man Shieldfleets instead of 10 man Armorfleets...
And then CCP, just to remind us they're still CCP, implemented a completely different change on live than the one that was playtested for weeks and was balanced, completely ruining Incursions. It's to the point that even the highsec kids won't run them, they're just not worth the effort. Last time I looked there were like 4 incursions active in game and none of them were even moderately touched.
Eve is boring as shit if you are not playing with other people. Someone is going to suggest that you join merch, which is fine and all, but the real point here is that you find other people to play with, regardless of who they are.
As a reviewer, if your review time ends and you are still in HiSec with positive sec status, then you haven't really tried the game. Find an 0.0 alliance that will let you ride along. Suicide gank people. Pick fights in LowSec. Join RvB for some quick PvP. I am assuming that markets and industry arn't your thing. If they are, then play the market. Try a scam.
If you still can't get into it; then maybe Eve isn't your game. It does require a lot of effort. It can be really slow, a lot of the time. And for many of us, the best way to play Eve is to read about it and keep up to date with the drama, and never ever log in.
The real game of EVE, the game you hear about in blog posts, and news blotters, happens out in nullsec and lowsec, not up in high sec.
Mining and missions aren't for everyone, but having my EVE "palette" accustomed to Bland EVE® makes Super Banana Split Sunday EVE® taste even better. Like I don't think I'd appreciate small things like jump bridges if I hadn't only known jump gates.
2. Go on a fleet op
3. Mention in fleet chat that you're a newbie
4. Get drowned in money
I went on an op last night and got on a few killmails, before running for our lives from a larger gang.
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So I dunno if I'm just jaded, but if I get less than 35 million an hour ratting in anoms I feel cheated. Is that normal for highend jewing (like L4 missions and mining in a hulk), or am I just jaded as all hell?
I've been hearing a lot about this Jita place lately. Supposedly it was burning. Is that in nullsec or lowsec?
This is rather splitting of hairs.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
If you don't want to skill into a Tengu, a Naga will get like 17-18mil/tick and is well tanked, and a Talos will get like 22mil/tick (although the tank is just barely sufficient).
I think every time I had ever gone on an op I never even so much as got to target something, much less get in on a killmail. Either we got blueballed, ran away, the enemy ran away, I died instantly, or our fleet killed them so fast I didn't get a chance to do anything. Some of them were fun because of the people on teamspeak/mumble and others were boring as fuck because they were all srs bsns.
Does travel still take "Oh god I want to slit my wrists" amount of time when you're a newbie?
Hint: travel takes the same time whether newbie or the bitterest of vets. What does improve travel time is not using autopilot to move your ship. You should only use it to tell you which gate to warp to next...
...unless you're totally not in a hurry and you're not in a ship or pod that would cost more to replace than it would to suicide-gank.
Basically, don't autopilot anywhere.
This is an epic quote.
Says the scrub without a jump drive.
Cog in the machineCog HerderSo because one event happened in Jita, that even begins to change my point? For that matter, the entities that were burning Jita were....you guessed it, nullsec entities.
Heh point taken, but you know what I meant.
(I have 5 ships with jump drives)
lost a BC goofing off in lowsec.
good times.
I'm trained to fly an Ishkur and I am working on getting trained for the fittings needed. Question though...how does one make money? I'm going missions in my catalyst but I'm only getting 30k a mission. I assume there has to be better way to get that cash money?
I see that they're giving out presents again, is it safe to assume that the most valuable ISK-wise would be the +4 mem and int implants?