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Lord Arakkis
Knights of Illusion SquarePig Transport Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.13 01:46:00 -
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Im fairly new to owning a gaming pc. I have always wanted to get heavy into MMOs but never found one that I thought was worth the monthly. I started on FF which was extremetly brutal to the newcomer, didnt want to pay for that. Played Phantasy Star on dreamcast which while initially was a blast quickly became a dragging bore.
Then a friend convinced me to try EVE and I found heaven on earth. Very detailed, not the most new player friendly but I like the "figure it out, we think you are smart" approach to the game.
And I have never...never ever played a game where im in a constant state of anxiousness as anytime someone can try to kill me. Out of nowhere. For no good reason at all.
I love it.
Im staying! Troll proof since...well...forever. |
Xearal
Black Thorne Corporation Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.13 02:08:00 -
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There's just too many reasons this game rocks beyond measure...
1) Whinyt little 13 year old kids( wether actually 13 year olds or not ) get weeded out in the first week because they can't figure out how the game works and what the 'endgame' is and hoops they have to jump to get there to be 'leet'.
2) Darwinism in action. You **** up, you die. Survival of the fittest. You need titanium guts, and a mean streak to play this game. even if you're a 'non-pvper' ( hint, in Eve they don't really exist )
3) Awesome complicated scifi game
4) 'better' means being smarter 90% of the time, not more leet gear, or daddy's credit card.
5) Winning/Losing has meaning, you're not up against stupid NPCs, they're just background like they should be. The real opponent is other players, whatever venue you play.
6) Sheer diversity of activities, many of which would be totally frowned upon or cried about in other MMO's, like market manipulation, scams, massive wars and true emergent gameplay. ( Imagine Goons invading stormwind and really taking over... )
7) The players! seriously.. is there a more sadistic, nastier, scarier, more devastating comunity of people out there, aside from Serial Killers Anonymous. ( who are probably too busy playing eve to do their normal thing... ) And yes, I mean that in a good way. This is not a game for the meek. This is a game for mature gamers who know how to have a laugh, and who know how to play hardball if they have to, yet also are nicer and friendlier 'to their own kind'. There is honour among thieves, even when they are out to scam or kill you.
8) The Devs. CCP dropped the ball a few times, yes, but still, I don't think there's many more devoted, openminded and 'serious' developers out there than the ones working on Eve Online.
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Ayuren Aakiwa
Wyvern Operations Eternal Syndicate
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Posted - 2012.07.13 02:16:00 -
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Spaceships, single shard and the community(most of it anyway). Also the pew, don't think any game has given me such an adrenaline rush.
Why are you reading this, it is not relevant to the topic. |
Jack Miton
Bite Me inc Exhale.
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Posted - 2012.07.13 02:37:00 -
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It's the only game where trolling, scamming and griefing (ok, ccp have dropped the ball on this one a bit lately) are actively encouraged.
this sums it up nicely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xvkAPXB9c
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Ginger Barbarella
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.13 03:11:00 -
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This thing isn't about shooting someone just to watch a head explode. This game requires you to think and learn; if you're not capable of that, you won't last long.
And I can play my own game, and EveO gives me a metric crap-ton of different things to do. |
Spc One
The Chodak Void Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.13 03:26:00 -
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hate new UI.
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Lyskal Oskold
Sefem Ortus Swift Angels Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.13 03:29:00 -
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I love how the game is an awesome sandbox with people who don't RP and people who would assault you in real life if you said their empire were a bunch of filthy dogs.
I love how everything exists, it has to be acquired, refined, constructed, used, destroyed, salvaged, recycled... Plus the community is alright. When they're not scamming you or trying to lock onto your ship. :D Pirates are red,buddies are blue,if you're unlucky enough to be orange,I'll f*cking kill you. |
Kyle Ward
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.13 04:01:00 -
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EVE was my first MMO, and I played it on and off for about a year. But EVE is a cruel mistress, and eventually we had a falling out. I bummed around trying other MMO's but they all frustrated me ("Why does this games economy suck? Whats the point of ganking me if I just respawn 10m away? Now that I'm lvl 50 what do I do? Why is PvP only happen in these special instances? WHY CAN'T EVERYONE BE ON THE SAME SHARD?!). All the while I'd glance over my shoulder and see EVE, her long spaceship hair glistening in the sun while an army of bloggers wrote about how pretty and deep she was. Eventually I caved to temptation, and jumped at the first reactivation offer they sent me.
Now I'm a leet carbear space-trucking industrialist freedom fighter rocket scientist/quantam physicist with a gambling addiction; suck on that SWTOR.
Needless to say I have a newfound appreciation for CCP... The Sandbox, you're playing it wrong! |
Ruareve
Applied Creations The Fendahlian Collective
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Posted - 2012.07.13 04:31:00 -
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I like Eve because
1. My characters can progress even when I'm deployed or when I don't feel like logging on.
2. The complexity of the game. I really enjoy the fact you need to search for information to progress in a meaningful manner.
3. The wide variety of options. Mining, missions, incursions, exploration, fleets, market, industry, there is so much to do in the game. Yet another blog about Eve- http://ruar-eve.blogspot.com/ |
Lost True
Paradise project
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Posted - 2012.07.13 04:51:00 -
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* It's grows, big ambitions: WiS, Dust 514, and updates. * Cool graphics. * Skill system. * Space. Waiting for WiS for 4 years now. Discussion thread about WiS
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Istan Mahwi
Aliastra
6
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Posted - 2012.07.13 04:53:00 -
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i like the variety of mounts...
i love station trading=addicted to station trading
the community
been playing close to 3 years and still haven't seen it all (which is hard to do once you've found a comfortable niche)
single shart
and i guess CCP's continued commitment. will you guys ever stop? eve is game. |
Tarsus Zateki
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
683
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Posted - 2012.07.13 05:03:00 -
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I like that its a single sharded sandbox where I can take someone's stuff and I actually get to keep it. Money, ships, modules, entire regions... try scamming someone in World of Warcraft.
I like that the developers of Eve Online are generally hands off when it comes to players doing horrid things to each other. Eve Online is virtual Somolia.
I like that the single sharded nature of Eve Online creates some of the weirdest high powered internet video game politics I've ever seen including a bewildering array of mental complexes, primarily cognitive dissonance or double think (E.g.: A enemy alliance thinking that they are winning the war by blowing up lots of our ships while we continue to take sovereignty over their entire region). Its fascinating and frequently hilarious.
Pretty much everything I like about Eve Online comes down to its single shard and sandboxed nature. Eve Online shows us exactly what human beings are capable of when laws and mortality are removed. You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. |
Celeste Lovette
Down Girls Show Entertainment
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Posted - 2012.07.13 06:25:00 -
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I love it because they're many ways how to play this game Sandbox game
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." |
Esteban Dragonovic
Odyssey Inc SpaceMonkey's Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.13 06:47:00 -
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3 things come to mind for me.
1. Scale: Eve is HUGE. You're not pinned to a tiny island or planet, the entire galaxy is your playground. I remember the first time I warped in my nooby little ibis and my jaw hit the floor as I watched what at the time for me was giant planet slide off and disappear into less that pin prick. It was an amazing image and sensation, a beutiful one too.
2. Persistance The clock doesn't stop ticking when you look away, and neather does it fix itself after a couple of minutes if you choose to break it. What you do has a lasting effect on the world around you even if you're not there to see it.
3. Risk and Value Eve is the only game ever that has litterally given me the shakes, an effect most horror games would only dream of having. The persistance of the world allows one to experiance actual risk, value, and most importantly, loss. If you lose something, its gone, forever and you lose that time and wealth spent to get that object. This puts weight behind our actions, it gives actual value and consiquences to our choices, something which eve has become extremely potent at. |
Adalynne Rohks
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.13 08:04:00 -
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From the perspective of someone who's been here for just over a week:
It's nice to be overwhelmed by a game. There are just soooo many things to do, places to see, and people to meet. Too often games are trying to dumb things down and funnel you into a specific direction. Not here. Want to shoot stuff? Go for it. Change your mind? Here, try your hand at marketing. Maybe you like to look at product lists all day, and try to turn a profit. Whatever you want.
I like having game mechanics that are sophisticated and difficult to understand at first. The first time I flew my Thorax, I couldn't hit anything at all with my turrets, even at optimal range. After some head scratching and experimenting, I figured out that my tracking speed was too low for that range, so I bought some ammo with mid/high range, and suddenly I was killing stuff again.
I like that death has real consequence. When I lose my 15mil ship, and I only have 20mil in the bank, I understand that the mistake I just made can't happen again, unless I want to go back to flying a starter frigate. And since death is mostly avoidable (in pve, at least), I have nobody to blame but myself.
The graphics are simple and beautiful. The ship design is great. You really feel like you're warping through vast amounts of space as your ship flies from place to place. It creates a really cool atmosphere for whatever activity you're doing.
A player run economy that works?! Awesome! If you want to see what a crap economy looks like, that was designed by imbeciles, just go play Diablo 3. It's amazing how many moving parts there are in this game's economy, and how fluid it is. And the fact that it's been functioning for years without crashes (it hasn't crashed, has it?) is amazing.
I could continue, but I won't. I'll just say that I decided to pay for a real subscription after just 7 days, because I'm more than happy to support good, creative game developers.
(Oh yeah... and the avatars are crazy fun to mess with while I'm waiting 4 days for Drones 5 to level up ) |
William Nimitz
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.13 08:19:00 -
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I like that CCP accepts with humility (atleast publicly) some very harsh criticisms from it's playerbase, and hopefully realizes that it's because we care so much about this game. It is a symptom of madness that thoughts become uncontrollably disjointed. This can be encouraged.
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Irya Boone
Escadron leader La League des mondes libres
23
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Posted - 2012.07.13 08:21:00 -
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The Nyx <3
The Beauty of graphism , spaceships |
Maddie Gunslinger
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.07.13 08:52:00 -
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I love fitting guns on ships, and loading them, and then shooting them, and reloading repeat... the target isn't very important.
Also missiles are fun too, I just rarely have enough high slots for them, increase number of high slots to x2? /petition What? No... |
Lord Arakkis
Knights of Illusion SquarePig Transport Empire
12
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Posted - 2012.07.14 00:29:00 -
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Lost True wrote:* It's grows, big ambitions: WiS, Dust 514, and updates. * Cool graphics. * Skill system. * Space.
Goodness, your avatar looks EXACTLY like my last weekend. Sorry for topic derail. Carry on. Troll proof since...well...forever. |
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