So aah... I've had my eye on EVE for awhile, I tried the free trial but never made it past the tutorial as I couldn't find four straight hours with which to get through it, so I've already used my free trial (and never got any actual gameplay done )... about how difficult is it for a newbie to jump in? And is this even a good time to jump in?
All this talk of a giant galatic war has me interested...
So aah... I've had my eye on EVE for awhile, I tried the free trial but never made it past the tutorial as I couldn't find four straight hours with which to get through it, so I've already used my free trial (and never got any actual gameplay done )... about how difficult is it for a newbie to jump in? And is this even a good time to jump in?
All this talk of a giant galatic war has me interested...
The tutorial took me about 10 minutes - you don't have to run through the entire tutorial, just enough to know how to make your ship shoot holes in things.
So aah... I've had my eye on EVE for awhile, I tried the free trial but never made it past the tutorial as I couldn't find four straight hours with which to get through it, so I've already used my free trial (and never got any actual gameplay done )... about how difficult is it for a newbie to jump in? And is this even a good time to jump in?
All this talk of a giant galatic war has me interested...
The tutorial took me about 10 minutes - you don't have to run through the entire tutorial, just enough to know how to make your ship shoot holes in things.
So I have a question. I'm at the Hoshoun moon right now with my Caracal and about 100 million ISK. Should I just drop it and fly a shuttle to wherever the "hotspot" is right now, or should I risk flying my Caracal? Maybe get some of those anti-warp scrambler things or something?
So I have a question. I'm at the Hoshoun moon right now with my Caracal and about 100 million ISK. Should I just drop it and fly a shuttle to wherever the "hotspot" is right now, or should I risk flying my Caracal? Maybe get some of those anti-warp scrambler things or something?
Set your medical clone to 77S, undock in your pod and self-destruct it. You will respawn at 77S (Goonspace) and be able to get a new ship there. Remember to upgrade your clone to cover your skillpoints after you do this.
So aah... I've had my eye on EVE for awhile, I tried the free trial but never made it past the tutorial as I couldn't find four straight hours with which to get through it, so I've already used my free trial (and never got any actual gameplay done )... about how difficult is it for a newbie to jump in? And is this even a good time to jump in?
All this talk of a giant galatic war has me interested...
The tutorial took me about 10 minutes - you don't have to run through the entire tutorial, just enough to know how to make your ship shoot holes in things.
False.
The Tutorial is divided into 10-20 minute sections. You can stop and comeback whenever.
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Only the strong can help the weak.
This is sort of weird, I really want to play EvE, I keep making sure that I always have skills training. But when it comes down to it for the last week or so, when I get home I just cant bring myself to login and play. I just lounge around and watch trash TV.
But every day while I'm at work I cant stop scouring the forums and reading every Eve tidbit I find even slightly interesting on the Eve-O forums (the Short Stories/Chronicles/IGS).
Not sure if this is burnout or what, but that must be a first for me getting burned out on a game from the forums.
Edit: Thats not entirely true, I mostly burned out on WoW from all the forum bitching, and in the past the other sections of Eve-O like ships & mods or general caused some burnout.
This is sort of weird, I really want to play EvE, I keep making sure that I always have skills training. But when it comes down to it for the last week or so, when I get home I just cant bring myself to login and play. I just lounge around and watch trash TV.
But every day while I'm at work I cant stop scouring the forums and reading every Eve tidbit I find even slightly interesting on the Eve-O forums (the Short Stories/Chronicles/IGS).
Not sure if this is burnout or what, but that must be a first for me getting burned out on a game from the forums.
Edit: Thats not entirely true, I mostly burned out on WoW from all the forum bitching, and in the past the other sections of Eve-O like ships & mods or general caused some burnout.
Friends don't let friends read Eve-O.
Read Scrapheap-Challenge.com if you want to interact with a group of the eve population that has an average IQ higher than 2.
I felt a great disturbance in Eve, as if millions of Gallente suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened to the Myrmidion.
I felt a great disturbance in Eve, as if millions of Gallente suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened to the Myrmidion.
What exactly do you mean? Did I miss something?
Nevermind. Just read it.
Myrm is getting nerfed... No more 5 heavies.
I am not sure if I agree with that... but I don't fly myrms anyway. So I can't complain.
This is sort of weird, I really want to play EvE, I keep making sure that I always have skills training. But when it comes down to it for the last week or so, when I get home I just cant bring myself to login and play. I just lounge around and watch trash TV.
But every day while I'm at work I cant stop scouring the forums and reading every Eve tidbit I find even slightly interesting on the Eve-O forums (the Short Stories/Chronicles/IGS).
Not sure if this is burnout or what, but that must be a first for me getting burned out on a game from the forums.
This is exactly how I was with WoW for a long time. I'd just be thinking about the game and different talents or classes etc all the time at work, but the moment I logged on in Shattrath, and was appalled at my prospects for things to do, I'd log off. Set a high level skill to training and take a break from EVE.
I felt a great disturbance in Eve, as if millions of Gallente suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened to the Myrmidion.
What exactly do you mean? Did I miss something?
Nevermind. Just read it.
Myrm is getting nerfed... No more 5 heavies.
I am not sure if I agree with that... but I don't fly myrms anyway. So I can't complain.
The Myrm was way overpowered. Hopefully that will help.
This is sort of weird, I really want to play EvE, I keep making sure that I always have skills training. But when it comes down to it for the last week or so, when I get home I just cant bring myself to login and play. I just lounge around and watch trash TV.
But every day while I'm at work I cant stop scouring the forums and reading every Eve tidbit I find even slightly interesting on the Eve-O forums (the Short Stories/Chronicles/IGS).
Not sure if this is burnout or what, but that must be a first for me getting burned out on a game from the forums.
This is exactly how I was with WoW for a long time. I'd just be thinking about the game and different talents or classes etc all the time at work, but the moment I logged on in Shattrath, and was appalled at my prospects for things to do, I'd log off. Set a high level skill to training and take a break from EVE.
Yeah, I've taken two breaks from Eve before, but I always end up cancelling the account instead of just managing training without logging in... this causes me to have a 13 month old character with only 4mil SP =P
I think its mostly the last time I really wanted to sit down and play was the night the server kept crapping itself, so I ended up playing some BF2142, and I havent had the urge again. So it feels like its been a long time.
I felt a great disturbance in Eve, as if millions of Gallente suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened to the Myrmidion.
What exactly do you mean? Did I miss something?
Nevermind. Just read it.
Myrm is getting nerfed... No more 5 heavies.
I am not sure if I agree with that... but I don't fly myrms anyway. So I can't complain.
The Myrm was way overpowered. Hopefully that will help.
Excellent, we can always use more new pilots. Just remember to join Merch BEFORE coming out otherwise you'll be shot for being a spy.
Also yeah, we got a lot of welp on that jump. The huge capship jump was traffic controlled, but frankly I think that's for the best as due to the lag if we had jumped in all 70 instead of just 20 we'd have even more dead capships.
Also also: I'm probably going to be jewmerching on Saturday, but Sunday will likely see a return of Riese Blecja Idiot Ganking Ops. More on this as it develops.
I'm actually really intrigued by EVE Online, but a friend of mine was also interested watched *his* friend play EVE, and was a little disappointed. Reportedly, little time is actually spent ingame, and most of it is spent strategising and planning on forums. Is this at all true?
N.B. said friend of mine has a notoriously short attention span and tends to gravitate towards FPS and fast RTS games, but I'd still be a little disappointed if I found out that half of EVE Online's game didn't actually take place in the game.
That's something I'm a tiny bit worried about as well. EVE seems... extremely complex. Extremely, extremely complex. I'm not an ultra hardcore gamer by any means, but I can't help but be interested in the idea of fighting in a giant war for the fate of much of the galaxy. And since like an idiot I already burnt my free trial... I'd be jumping straight in with the monthly fee and everything. IS this a good time to join up?
I'm actually really intrigued by EVE Online, but a friend of mine was also interested watched *his* friend play EVE, and was a little disappointed. Reportedly, little time is actually spent ingame, and most of it is spent strategising and planning on forums. Is this at all true?
N.B. said friend of mine has a notoriously short attention span and tends to gravitate towards FPS and fast RTS games, but I'd still be a little disappointed if I found out that half of EVE Online's game didn't actually take place in the game.
It depends on how much money you want to make. If you're content with tackling in a little frigate, you almost don't have to actually play at all. If you want to roll in a battleship, you'll have to play more (fighting pirates, exploring, mining, etc).
That's something I'm a tiny bit worried about as well. EVE seems... extremely complex. Extremely, extremely complex. I'm not an ultra hardcore gamer by any means, but I can't help but be interested in the idea of fighting in a giant war for the fate of much of the galaxy. And since like an idiot I already burnt my free trial... I'd be jumping straight in with the monthly fee and everything. IS this a good time to join up?
It seems complex, but only because there's so much to do. There's no rule that says you have to explore every corner of the game world (as much fun as it is).
Alrighty... well then! Looks like I'll probably be coming to EVE Online sooner or later, just one last question. Isn't there an expansion pack coming out, and more importantly, how much is it going to cost? I'm a bit tight on cash right now...
name your ship beep beep Im a truck and jump into 00yz and if you die before you can activate a module you have to take a shot and just keeping doing this in newbie ships
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Its not enough to win. You want nothing left of your enemy but a skull nailed to a fence post so everybody understands the cost of crossing you. -Durga
if you don't update your clone you have to take like 6 shots or something
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Its not enough to win. You want nothing left of your enemy but a skull nailed to a fence post so everybody understands the cost of crossing you. -Durga
I'm actually really intrigued by EVE Online, but a friend of mine was also interested watched *his* friend play EVE, and was a little disappointed. Reportedly, little time is actually spent ingame, and most of it is spent strategising and planning on forums. Is this at all true?
N.B. said friend of mine has a notoriously short attention span and tends to gravitate towards FPS and fast RTS games, but I'd still be a little disappointed if I found out that half of EVE Online's game didn't actually take place in the game.
It depends on how much money you want to make. If you're content with tackling in a little frigate, you almost don't have to actually play at all. If you want to roll in a battleship, you'll have to play more (fighting pirates, exploring, mining, etc).
That's something I'm a tiny bit worried about as well. EVE seems... extremely complex. Extremely, extremely complex. I'm not an ultra hardcore gamer by any means, but I can't help but be interested in the idea of fighting in a giant war for the fate of much of the galaxy. And since like an idiot I already burnt my free trial... I'd be jumping straight in with the monthly fee and everything. IS this a good time to join up?
It seems complex, but only because there's so much to do. There's no rule that says you have to explore every corner of the game world (as much fun as it is).
Could you clarify a bit more?
What's a frigate's purpose and why am I hardly playing the game if I use one?
And where the battleship is concerned, I assume the most money is made with fighting pirates, exploring and mining?
Alrighty... well then! Looks like I'll probably be coming to EVE Online sooner or later, just one last question. Isn't there an expansion pack coming out, and more importantly, how much is it going to cost? I'm a bit tight on cash right now...
Expansion packs are actually just giant, free patches.
What's a frigate's purpose and why am I hardly playing the game if I use one?
And where the battleship is concerned, I assume the most money is made with fighting pirates, exploring and mining?
I'm not saying you're hardly playing the game if you're flying a frigate, but you don't really need to play. An hour or two of fighting pirates or whatever is enough to buy and fit half a dozen frigates. It's the perfect ship for people who don't have much time to play, but still want to help the war.
Early on, the most money is made by mining and scavenging leftovers from ratters (people who destroy NPC pirates for bounty money) - they often leave the wrecks behind, which you can loot.
After a few weeks to a month (depending on how you train), you move on to actually hunting pirates. At first in a battlecruiser, and later in a battleship. You can also get a mining barge and just strip-mine belts while browsing the web or doing homework.
I don't have much information about money-making past a few months, but from what I've gathered things like research or stocks bring in passive income in the range of 150 million a month.
Goon/Merch guys listen up. You need to take 00YZ-G from those BoB fucks asap. I helped build that damn outpost way back in my carebear ASCN days and it was stolen right from under us when BoB paid some dis-satisfied EDF'er to offline all the POS's. I was a sad panda that day.
God knows i wish i could be there with you all, i'd love to be there when the station falls and i get to fly over it and scream (read; type in caps with many exclamation points) obscenities at BoB for rendering months of stupid mining pointless. And then thank them for being the leading cause of my changing direction and joining Agony Unleashed
Goon/Merch guys listen up. You need to take 00YZ-G from those BoB fucks asap. I helped build that damn outpost way back in my carebear ASCN days and it was stolen right from under us when BoB paid some dis-satisfied EDF'er to offline all the POS's. I was a sad panda that day.
God knows i wish i could be there with you all, i'd love to be there when the station falls and i get to fly over it and scream (read; type in caps with many exclamation points) obscenities at BoB for rendering months of stupid mining pointless. And then thank them for being the leading cause of my changing direction and joining Agony Unleashed
Former-Carebear bitterness ITT
We're trying. This was actually the second major push on OOY.
I jumped in with my Carrier . Never actually loaded the system in 30 minutes, but when all the caps started dying without even loading grid we all got orders to log off, so I did. My carrier appears intact (it being a turkey shoot, BoB wisely targetted the more expensive dreads first), but I'm still stuck in OOY. Luckily I have a 7 day skill training.
Goon/Merch guys listen up. You need to take 00YZ-G from those BoB fucks asap. I helped build that damn outpost way back in my carebear ASCN days and it was stolen right from under us when BoB paid some dis-satisfied EDF'er to offline all the POS's. I was a sad panda that day.
God knows i wish i could be there with you all, i'd love to be there when the station falls and i get to fly over it and scream (read; type in caps with many exclamation points) obscenities at BoB for rendering months of stupid mining pointless. And then thank them for being the leading cause of my changing direction and joining Agony Unleashed
Former-Carebear bitterness ITT
Hey, wait -- you're an Agony pilot? I'm an Agony pilot! I thought I was all alone, here! :^:
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All this talk of a giant galatic war has me interested...
The tutorial took me about 10 minutes - you don't have to run through the entire tutorial, just enough to know how to make your ship shoot holes in things.
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Set your medical clone to 77S, undock in your pod and self-destruct it. You will respawn at 77S (Goonspace) and be able to get a new ship there. Remember to upgrade your clone to cover your skillpoints after you do this.
The Tutorial is divided into 10-20 minute sections. You can stop and comeback whenever.
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But every day while I'm at work I cant stop scouring the forums and reading every Eve tidbit I find even slightly interesting on the Eve-O forums (the Short Stories/Chronicles/IGS).
Not sure if this is burnout or what, but that must be a first for me getting burned out on a game from the forums.
Edit: Thats not entirely true, I mostly burned out on WoW from all the forum bitching, and in the past the other sections of Eve-O like ships & mods or general caused some burnout.
MWO: Adamski
Friends don't let friends read Eve-O.
Read Scrapheap-Challenge.com if you want to interact with a group of the eve population that has an average IQ higher than 2.
What exactly do you mean? Did I miss something?
Nevermind. Just read it.
Myrm is getting nerfed... No more 5 heavies.
I am not sure if I agree with that... but I don't fly myrms anyway. So I can't complain.
This is exactly how I was with WoW for a long time. I'd just be thinking about the game and different talents or classes etc all the time at work, but the moment I logged on in Shattrath, and was appalled at my prospects for things to do, I'd log off. Set a high level skill to training and take a break from EVE.
The Myrm was way overpowered. Hopefully that will help.
Yeah, I've taken two breaks from Eve before, but I always end up cancelling the account instead of just managing training without logging in... this causes me to have a 13 month old character with only 4mil SP =P
I think its mostly the last time I really wanted to sit down and play was the night the server kept crapping itself, so I ended up playing some BF2142, and I havent had the urge again. So it feels like its been a long time.
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Eos is getting nerfed too
BOOM! dreadshot
I created a combat minmatar sniper guy, similar to the recommended build on the goonfleet site.
Once I regain my bearings, I'll be off to sacrifice myself for the corp. :P
Also yeah, we got a lot of welp on that jump. The huge capship jump was traffic controlled, but frankly I think that's for the best as due to the lag if we had jumped in all 70 instead of just 20 we'd have even more dead capships.
Also also: I'm probably going to be jewmerching on Saturday, but Sunday will likely see a return of Riese Blecja Idiot Ganking Ops. More on this as it develops.
I'm purchasing the destroyers skill for 90k in a few moments-once I acquire sufficient money to purchase a destroyer and equip it, I'll be over there.
For shield tanking, should I purchase massive numbers of shield boosters? :P
I'm actually really intrigued by EVE Online, but a friend of mine was also interested watched *his* friend play EVE, and was a little disappointed. Reportedly, little time is actually spent ingame, and most of it is spent strategising and planning on forums. Is this at all true?
N.B. said friend of mine has a notoriously short attention span and tends to gravitate towards FPS and fast RTS games, but I'd still be a little disappointed if I found out that half of EVE Online's game didn't actually take place in the game.
It depends on how much money you want to make. If you're content with tackling in a little frigate, you almost don't have to actually play at all. If you want to roll in a battleship, you'll have to play more (fighting pirates, exploring, mining, etc).
It seems complex, but only because there's so much to do. There's no rule that says you have to explore every corner of the game world (as much fun as it is).
If my calculations are correct, I'll have all the skills I need (sans cloaking) in about 20 days.
Could you clarify a bit more?
What's a frigate's purpose and why am I hardly playing the game if I use one?
And where the battleship is concerned, I assume the most money is made with fighting pirates, exploring and mining?
Expansion packs are actually just giant, free patches.
I'm not saying you're hardly playing the game if you're flying a frigate, but you don't really need to play. An hour or two of fighting pirates or whatever is enough to buy and fit half a dozen frigates. It's the perfect ship for people who don't have much time to play, but still want to help the war.
Early on, the most money is made by mining and scavenging leftovers from ratters (people who destroy NPC pirates for bounty money) - they often leave the wrecks behind, which you can loot.
After a few weeks to a month (depending on how you train), you move on to actually hunting pirates. At first in a battlecruiser, and later in a battleship. You can also get a mining barge and just strip-mine belts while browsing the web or doing homework.
I don't have much information about money-making past a few months, but from what I've gathered things like research or stocks bring in passive income in the range of 150 million a month.
I'm posting to request acceptance in to this corporation.
Currently my ship is en route to Mista. Just dropping a line for a heads up, as was requested in the thread.
Thanks.
-edit, forgot to mention my character's name: Janos Reynolds
God knows i wish i could be there with you all, i'd love to be there when the station falls and i get to fly over it and scream (read; type in caps with many exclamation points) obscenities at BoB for rendering months of stupid mining pointless. And then thank them for being the leading cause of my changing direction and joining Agony Unleashed
Former-Carebear bitterness ITT
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We're trying. This was actually the second major push on OOY.
I jumped in with my Carrier
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Sorry if I missed the purpose of the thread, I thought it was more of an open recruitment with all of the "Here's how to start and install."
If that's not the case, then never mind my post.