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Looking to play Eve-Online again.
Bambooza
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How is Eve online now a days? Have they fixed the whole feel of CS in space where battleship battles lasted all of 15 seconds or less and the only ship to fly was a battleship?
I played for two years from launch before giving up on the reality that most of my time was spent mining ore for a few minutes of skirmishes over contested ground that was nearly claimed as our own with out any way of truly establishing any sort of presence.
The other big issue I had was simply the fact that battleships trumped everything else even mining was simply equipping your battleship with tech two mining lasers. Battles lasted seconds with it often being based up on twitch reflexes and not so much planning on anyone’s part. Gate camping was truly the only way to establish any sort of control over a sector, while making it near impossible to track anyone who did a mid jump or jumped to a cord outside the solar system.
Not at all the way I initially imagined the game to play as I was hoping for a more freespace / home world ship balance where each ship class had its own unique advantages and disadvantages. Battleships would establish a heavy presence in a region of space but should be easily taken down if left alone by a squadron of frigates fitted as bombers. Interceptors could take down bombers and bombs while being blown always with gunship cruisers who feared the might of battleships. And a battleship on battleship battle would last long enough for the possibility of calling on support from friends with in the system and maybe a few jumps away to arrive in time to secure victory.
What I guess I am looking for is if Eve has broaden the ship functionality and slowed down combat to be less twitch and more thoughtful planning and strategizing. I personally enjoyed the market dynamics as well as the technology tree as it was well thought out but felt they truly dropped the ball on combat and PVP. Where they could have imported the design construct behind home world and Freespace to help facilitate strategic factional combat with in the lawlessness of outer space they seemingly failed to provide any sort of rock paper scissors. But if this has changed then I would like to try my hand at this mmo once again as it has always held such potential.
I played for two years from launch before giving up on the reality that most of my time was spent mining ore for a few minutes of skirmishes over contested ground that was nearly claimed as our own with out any way of truly establishing any sort of presence.
The other big issue I had was simply the fact that battleships trumped everything else even mining was simply equipping your battleship with tech two mining lasers. Battles lasted seconds with it often being based up on twitch reflexes and not so much planning on anyone’s part. Gate camping was truly the only way to establish any sort of control over a sector, while making it near impossible to track anyone who did a mid jump or jumped to a cord outside the solar system.
Not at all the way I initially imagined the game to play as I was hoping for a more freespace / home world ship balance where each ship class had its own unique advantages and disadvantages. Battleships would establish a heavy presence in a region of space but should be easily taken down if left alone by a squadron of frigates fitted as bombers. Interceptors could take down bombers and bombs while being blown always with gunship cruisers who feared the might of battleships. And a battleship on battleship battle would last long enough for the possibility of calling on support from friends with in the system and maybe a few jumps away to arrive in time to secure victory.
What I guess I am looking for is if Eve has broaden the ship functionality and slowed down combat to be less twitch and more thoughtful planning and strategizing. I personally enjoyed the market dynamics as well as the technology tree as it was well thought out but felt they truly dropped the ball on combat and PVP. Where they could have imported the design construct behind home world and Freespace to help facilitate strategic factional combat with in the lawlessness of outer space they seemingly failed to provide any sort of rock paper scissors. But if this has changed then I would like to try my hand at this mmo once again as it has always held such potential.
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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Is probably a better place to ask; that's where all the active PA EVE people hang out.
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We got a passive tankking ships now, imagine that!
Also you can actualy see peoples using remote repping.
Passive tankkers that can out tank active tankking, on ocasions!
Not to mention, HP boost across the board, Damage mod nerf and other quirks.
Its whole difrent game, than it was the time you putted 8 heatsinks on geddon... Altho nosferatu needs nerffing ^_^.
Anyhow, EVE >* other MMO's just because its abaut the only game where you can greif the frack out of peoples. (Just yestuday, killed RA alt freigter with 500$-on-eBay(20 bil) worth of stuff. kekek.)
Anyhow, i culd go on for hours of what is changed, but its only 15 bucks to find out. And i realy think you shuld, since in EVE your limit is your imagination (or lack of it, love taking advantage on stupid).
PS: my favorite pass time is scanning down LvL 4 mission runners, in perviosly, unscannable complexes. Nothing more fun than dropping the hammer of Anti-carebearism on unsuspekting phat mission runner!
> turn on light
Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
Gee if Siddy could spell, or type anything that soundly vaguely like English. i might have understood what he just said. All i know if ya spend more time traveling than anything else. Last time i played, i had to travel 45 mins to get from one point to another (using the safe route, and since i was new i had to take it). At least i got my laundry done. i have to say, it was the most complex and most boring game i've ever played.
Search map, look for areas where pilots have been killed recently, avoid those.
Go to complexes, discover they're in use, repeat ad infinitum until you find one that's not busy.
While travelling, read/do homework/gaze at navel
Get brave, go to 0.1 or 0 space looking for fun, promptly get shot/killed in less than a minute.
Basically there is absolutely no way for a new person to the game to compete, or even find anything to do. Making money is tedious as fuck and ship-to-ship combat is pointless when every opponent is 2 years ahead in terms of abilities. I imagine it would be really, really fun if you were part of one of the big campaign fleets or a rich merchant or what the fuck ever. As a newby though? I'll go play homeworld 2, it's a lot more fun for the time invested.