EVE Online

Hey guys, I've been looking at EVE for a while now and I must say, I am impressed. For those of you who have/do play,can you give me a little bit of your opinion on it and what a newbie would need to expect coming in?

thanks

SolidRevolver wrote:

Note: I have never played EVE, I just saw this pic yesterday and this thread reminded me of this graph and made me smile ^_^

i loled

I'm a casual EvE player (I'm SiegesMorraeon on there, BTW), but I agree, the learning curve is a cliff face and the prices of stuff can be exorbitant... but it's a beautiful game with a fascinating storyline and tons of different things to do.

So newbs should try to get some money early on, whilst trying to learn the ropes?

 Also, I hear one of the features is that your income and growth is dependant on real time and not on ingame time. Meaning that your income and experience increases over regular time (did I get that right? lol)

Shadow Griever wrote:

MatrixRefugee wrote:

I'm a casual EvE player (I'm SiegesMorraeon on there, BTW), but I agree, the learning curve is a cliff face and the prices of stuff can be exorbitant... but it's a beautiful game with a fascinating storyline and tons of different things to do.

So newbs should try to get some money early on, whilst trying to learn the ropes?

 Also, I hear one of the features is that your income and growth is dependant on real time and not on ingame time. Meaning that your income and experience increases over regular time (did I get that right? lol)

OK!   I'm a big fan of EVE, recently I've stopped playing it due to some RL issues and In Game frustrations, however EVE in my personal opinion is a very good MMO, however it is not for the impatient, or for the easily frustrated (hence why I havent been playing recently) It is extreamly difficult to get a foot hold in EVE and the game truely revolves around its currency ISK (inter steller kredits) If your just starting out I highly reccomend joining a player corporation (like factions here) that is either devoted to helping new player or at least aware and helpful of new players.

As far as leveling in EVE... Leveling is unlike any other MMO. Its is all based on real time, you train one skill at a time, and that skill could take minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even over a month to finish training. The time it takes to level a skill is determined both by the level of which the skill is training (i.e. lvl 2 or 5) And by how many attribute points your character has at that time. So for example If your training Spaceship command to lvl3 it could take 3 days or 12 hours depending on how high your attributes are. The high the level, the longer it takes to train. And the higher your attributes, the less time it takes to train. All skills have a maximum level of 5.

Now here is where it gets more confusing. Each skill has certain attributes that effect it, for example if you have high preception and/or willpower atrributes, you will train weapons (and other similar skills) faster. Or on the other hand if you have high Intelligence and/or memory you'd train shields or defensive skills faster. Now... to make matters even more confusising, there are skills that are devoted to to giving you higher attributes only aswell, called "learning skills"  I reccomend anyone that plans to play eve for a while to train all thier learning skills to at least lvl 3 or 4 This will help a tremendous amount in the end.

The downside to the skill leveling system... there is a FREAKING skill for absolutly EVERYTHING in eve, so its very easy to lose track of your goals not to mention get discouraged from making any goals at all. But when you finish training those 15-20 skills over that 2 months it took to fly that brand new battleship, it will all be worth it.


As for making money in EVE, that all depends on how motivated you are and what type of things your skill points and/or reputation with NPC corporations allow you to do. Missions are the most common form of making money, but not only can that get boring, but it can be very hard if your alone (depending on the mission) Once your able to do lvl 4 missions you can start making some pretty serious money, until then tho, Im afraid its a pretty steep hill to climb, not to mention a very high hill. However there are MANY MANY more ways to make money then just missioning. Someplayers never fire one missle or lazer and are rolling in the ISK. These people make thier money on the marketplace and in contracts. As I said, EVE revolves around it's currency, and make no mistake, money is the key to this game. So again, the more motivated you are, and the harder you work, the more money your likely to make.


I would reccomend NOT buying ISK with real life money, you will no doubt be getting random EVEmails from people selling ISK for real money and that is the quickest way to get banned or other serious trouble. I've heard horror storys of people logging in to find thier ingame wallets with -10,000,000,000 ISK and trust me, thats WORSE than getting banned. There is a safe secure way to buy ISK with real money, by selling time codes. To make a long story short, you can by a time code worth 1 or more months of Subcription to eve, then sell that code to a player for in game ISK. While the EVE devs watch over this and have deemed it "ok" I would still advise against it because could still get ripped off, but mainly because it takes the fun out of the game. It's kinda like paying someone to power level your character in MxO or WoW.

Sorry if I went a bit long winded there, but as someone once told me a long time ago, I could talk all day about EVE online. The game is that deep, and has SO much to do. Just talking about it makes me wanna go back.

SolidRevolver wrote:

Note: I have never played EVE, I just saw this pic yesterday and this thread reminded me of this graph and made me smile ^_^

Best graph I have ever seen... I actually laughed out loud in the office here... (which never happens)

Ok guys, I just want to thank those of you who answered on this board. especially imax and 9mmfu. I am most likely going to get the two week trial tonight and give it a run.

Translation: I'll most likely be on this thread again, bitching about the curve, but let's hope the opposite.

Again, thank you very much.

Sieges, I might try to hit you up in game, if it's ok with you