Alxea
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Posted - 2011.10.11 21:05:00 -
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Indigo Amar wrote:
lets go to another Dimension to view what I see in Eve from another angle, in the World of Warcraft. Lets say in place of World of Warcraft's current leveling system, you now gain 1 Level each day on your main character, this is on a preset timer, that has no player involvement, after 84 days, you would reach level 85. You are limited to only the quests, abilities, skills, professions up to the level that you are currently on, and regardless if you take part in any of that, or decide to not even play for that day, week, or month, you will continue leveling up, with everything you've done the day before being completely pointless to your characters advancement. As far as content goes, all the quests and professions serve the purpose of earning gold, but gold earned from such things, exponentially increases by level. Today you can make 1 gold per quest, and in a week you can make 10 gold per quest, and two weeks you can make 100 gold per quest, but you don't have to play today, and you don't have to play next week. You don't even have to play this month, you can wait a month without playing and make 1000 gold a quest, why does the level where you only earn 1 gold, or 10 gold even exist in the game? The game starts you out in a cage with a long prison sentence to give you the illusion of "character advancement".
There isn't much of anything to do in this prison, If I want to be free and play in the world, I might as well go afk and wait out my prison sentence, put absolutely no time into the game until its day 84, and iv paid for 3 months of subscription time, then I can play the real game. This is purely a content related review you could say, and I know this is a social game with a vision that I would love to support, but I cannot look past this, what I see as a completely game-breaking, undesirable, pointless system.
It has nothing to do with any complex learning curve or any kind of grind at all, this games character advancement is a Prison, where every new player starts with a very long sentence. This is what keeps players from playing, they think there is a grind, they think it takes a lot of time to play, but there actually is no grind at all but an illusion set up by this prison character advancement system.
Eve has no Grind Eve is not Hard Its just an Illusion and is not nearly as vast and complex as you have been tricked to think it is.
What are you talking about, you can grind in eve, there are rats in belts, missions, incursions, plexes, sleepers, plunty of NPC's to kill. That is what grinding is, have you even been outside of the starter systems or below a 0.9 sec system? Non grinding is like mining or trade or pi or construction. Passive income that requires massive skills and isk up front a noob can not get by just playing for a few months. I am talking about making tens of billions of isk with mainly trade and construction.
I have been playing this game for 4 years, can fly most of the ships in the game, have almost every skill in the game to level 4 and level 5. I can tell you that it is not a illusion, eve takes dedications and time, eve is as hard as you want it to be. Try going to 0.0 and solo killing some fleets. Try worm hole space and kill sleepers or do incursions. Pretty hard stuff even for me, not soloable above a class 3 wormhole and some class 4's. Class 5 and class 6 require 10 and 25 people. Eve is very much harder then wow. Ever seen the eve learning curve sheet. Yeah... you did not give eve a chance mate.
Eve is much more rewarding then any mmo I have ever played and keeping my interest is hard. Eve was always perfect for me. I have 78 million SP and you are too use to leveling up and getting to the top fast. Your other problem is that your going about everything all wrong. You prob have no idea what your doing or where to go to do the fun stuff in eve. You need to talk to people and stop being afraid to lose ships. Thats when all the fun starts is when you go out and get in your 1st pvp as a tackler at least it was for me. You can not do everything on your own in this game at 1st. You have to rely on others. This game is much about teamwork. You can do everything yourself it is just a lot slower and harder on you then it has to be. Not much fun grinding 99% of the time and killing 1% of the time. I do 100% killing now that I don't grind because I am old enough to make isk other ways that are passive and they make me my billions.
Eve is the most complex mmo out there. You can be anything and do whatever you want. It is a sand box, you just got to be more creative. You are so wrong about this game. You know nothing about this game as much as you believe you do. I have been playing a very long time and I still have not done it all or been everywhere in eve. Your looking at eve in a very closed mind.
Go make some friends, learn so socialize, and do things with a corp or a alliance. You will get no place if you try to do everything on your own. You can do a lot of things with friends, like kill players, do just about any grinding to make isk. All you need is a few weeks to get into a battle crusier and you can do wormholes with friends and make 100 mil a hour. You don't need 3 months to do anything in this game. You are just overwelmed by the options and think you need a lot of skills to do anything in this game. That is not true.
The time you invest into eve is rewarding and there is no level cap so you can go on forever pretty much. The game never ends is the whole point. People don't realize this that are new. The time you put into eve is more rewarding then grinding to a level 85 in WoW. There is no Exp in even. SP is more like time points. The more time you put into eve the more you can do. The real reward is with friends. Best of all you don't need to even play the game to level up if you want to use that term. Wile your logged off you keep on leveling up. |