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Nissui
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.04.24 17:09:00 -
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I'm in the final 2 days of my trial and I'm sorry to say I don't feel compelled to go on playing. Obviously I haven't been able to explore much of the game since I just got sent from tutorials to missions which are more dull than your standard MMO grind. I had to spend 2 million ISK on skills the tutorials never told me I needed, but training them doesn't seem to matter because from what I have read in the in-game channels, the reputable corporations want characters who are older than 30 days before applying. The one activity that seemed interesting, other than getting my ass handed to me by other military pilots, is exploration, but those books are much more expensive and take way longer to train, so I guess exploration is set up for well-established players
So that's my disappointed ramble. Clearly, I am missing something or doing something wrong. The game seems more interesting than other MMOs on the surface, and many players have made it past the trial. I just can't figure how
Commence flame away @ stoopid scroob. |
Lyric Lahnder
Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
17
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Posted - 2012.04.24 17:13:00 -
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Is this a question or a complaint?
If your leaving bye. I wont waste my time.
If your trying to find your niche in the eve universe you need to make that more clear. Noir. and Noir Academy are recruiting apply at www.noirmercs.comI Noir Academy: 60 days old must be able to fly at least one tech II frigate. I Noir. Recruits: 4:1 k/d ratio and can fly tech II cruisers. |
Nissui
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2012.04.24 17:28:00 -
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I think the post body is a complaint. The question is in the post title. Based on your post, the implicit answer is to 'find a niche', which I guess is one thing I'm failing to do. I know mission hopping isn't cutting it, though. |
mxzf
Shovel Bros
1327
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Posted - 2012.04.24 17:28:00 -
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There's plenty of stuff to do in Eve, check out what to do in Eve.
Most corps want players that are atleast slightly commited to the game both because it's annoying to have players in your corp that play for a month and then quit and because other players making spy characters to infiltrate another corp is a very real danger in Eve.
And exploration is very accessible to younger players. It takes a little bit of ISK to get into it, as with anything in the game, but overall it's very doable and far cheaper compared to something like missioning. |
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat Working Stiffs
631
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Posted - 2012.04.24 18:24:00 -
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EVE doesn't lead you by the nose. You have to decide what you want to do, and what your goals are. If you can't do that, you are not suited to EVE, and will very quickly find it boring.
The eternal hisec war of Red Federation vs. Blue Republic (RvB)corporations are also friendly to young characters. Some people with limited time enjoy RvB because of the targets it offers, and low entry costs (frigates and cruisers). Saw about 20 of them brawling on a gate just last evening. They looked like they were having a lot of fun. |
Lyric Lahnder
Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
19
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Posted - 2012.04.24 18:29:00 -
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nissui, mission running isnt meant to be fun. Its a means to an end. Isk. Then you use that to do what your first love is in game.
If your not making enough cash from them you need to get standings up with a faction that will give you better missions. Get connections and negotiations to V and the appropriate connection skill. By the way dont bother salvaging lower level missions it will actually halt your standings grind for very little isk.
You die in pvp alot. You need to find a good corp that will walk you through it properly. PVP is the sweetest drug in eve. I personally only had to be killed once myself before I was like,"Ill do anything to be on the other side of this engagement."
Corps dont take trial folks because they have no penalty to not play. If you pay for it you miss out by not at least logging to train skills. Trial people become a liability because they wont stick around. Its not a insult or a generalization its just a fact of life.
You need to do some can flipping or piratey type things to draw out some fights you can actually win. If you dive first into a gate camp in low sec you'll get destroyed pretty fast. Tons of pvp guides on you tube.
Im not all for giving CCP more money,(I dont make enough to pay using plex), but seriously dude take the plunge. If nothing else you loose a little money and you'll get a month of play time. With the trial label gone you can join a decent corp get into the social aspects of eve and really see what all the hulabaloo about this game is. Noir. and Noir Academy are recruiting apply at www.noirmercs.comI Noir Academy: 60 days old must be able to fly at least one tech II frigate. I Noir. Recruits: 4:1 k/d ratio and can fly tech II cruisers. |
Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
350
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Posted - 2012.04.24 18:56:00 -
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The key problem here is that EVE, particularly as a newbie, is a terrible solo game, yet corps have issues taking in trial accounters as they're very likely to flake out and generally require instruction.
My suggestion would be to look for a corp that -does- accept new players. They certainly do exist |
J'Poll
Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Side Effect.
169
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Posted - 2012.04.24 19:01:00 -
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Could post another text blob on here, but I won't because all that I had to say is said above.
EVE isn't a handheld game with an End-game, all you want to do in EVE is set by yourself.
I started as an industrial character, but now a days I'm more and more involved in PvP. And I use industry and missions to get the ISK for it.
And as said, most larger / established corps don't take fresh new players cause they can't tell if you're a genuine new player or just another spy account made by another corp/alliance to infiltrate them. Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction |
Nissui
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2012.04.24 20:17:00 -
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It just seems odd to me that the deck appears stacked against you if you're just picking up the game on a whim. A bit flustering trying to force fun.
But this post has shown better advice than two weeks asking around in game and trying to fill in the blanks, so thank you for that.
I started looking at the flowchart and read the can-flipping wiki... guess I will find out how important one's reputation is in this game. And... if that works out then, as was suggested, I can afford to blow 15 dollars to train and see if the game is worth the money... by the end I can try to find a good corp, preferrably one that isn't overly structured.
Thank goodness for forums. |
Lyric Lahnder
Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
22
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Posted - 2012.04.24 21:08:00 -
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oh trust me Nissui.
Structure is a convenience of which you can only hope you will find in your corp.
It doesnt mean people will be ***** about you logging in. It just means theres structure for people to work together to get things done. Loose corps with no structures are either a group of real life friends that are relatively exclusive, or the corp has Blas+¬ leadership, and those corps dont last long.
Dont be afraid of structure it can be very helpful. Noir. and Noir Academy are recruiting apply at www.noirmercs.comI Noir Academy: 60 days old must be able to fly at least one tech II frigate. I Noir. Recruits: 4:1 k/d ratio and can fly tech II cruisers. |
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Valkyrie D'ark
Armed Resistance Movement
2
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Posted - 2012.04.24 21:24:00 -
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Obviously missions are not your thing. Usually people mission out of necessity rather than coz they like it. It's the most sure way to make ISK however there are countless alternatives. It all depends on what you want to do. If you'd like to get into PVP, try faction warfare or RVB. It's a good start. If you want to make loads of ISK as a noobie while you skill up and train join Pro Synergy corporation. If you like the economy side of things look into trading, manufacturing, etc. You dont have to mine or even undock sometimes and you can make tons of cash. If you dont know what you want to do, I recommend EVE University. They pretty much teach you anything and everything. Either way, finding a good player corp would be your best first step. |
J'Poll
Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Side Effect.
172
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Posted - 2012.04.24 21:40:00 -
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Nissui wrote:It just seems odd to me that the deck appears stacked against you if you're just picking up the game on a whim. A bit flustering trying to force fun.
But this post has shown better advice than two weeks asking around in game and trying to fill in the blanks, so thank you for that.
I started looking at the flowchart and read the can-flipping wiki... guess I will find out how important one's reputation is in this game. And... if that works out then, as was suggested, I can afford to blow 15 dollars to train and see if the game is worth the money... by the end I can try to find a good corp, preferrably one that isn't overly structured.
Thank goodness for forums.
Indeed, EVE tutorials are not the best. And 14 days of normal or 21 if on buddy invite isn't by far long enough to get to know EVE.
And true, ingame asking in help channels sometimes don't give you the right answers. I'm happy to see you at least are considering to buy 1 month of game time to try the full game out, that makes me happy as it shows you are willing to try things out / willing to learn new stuff.
As many said, EVE is a MMO, so best played with other players. Finding a good corporation is part of that, but it also takes some research on how to find them.
As lazy as I can be, I know a good forum post that explains it all, so I won't type the whole thing myself but give you the link:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=16943
Courtesy of Nightcrawler 85
kind regards,
J'Poll Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction |
Nissui
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2012.04.25 08:49:00 -
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I tried can-flipping with no success. I went 20 or so jumps into Amarr territory since I figured I should try stealing from the 'bad guys'. I used the directional scan and warped to the asteroid belts but all I found were giant secure containers. Only in the very last system did I find any actual miners, but they had no containers.
So it was kind of a flop. I guess I can always try again tomorrow night, maybe I'll go into Caldari space, the other 'bad guys'. Though personally, I admire the Caldari entrepreneurial spirit. |
Otrebla Utrigas
Space Bastards
9
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Posted - 2012.04.25 13:10:00 -
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Nissui wrote:I tried can-flipping with no success. I went 20 or so jumps into Amarr territory since I figured I should try stealing from the 'bad guys'. I used the directional scan and warped to the asteroid belts but all I found were giant secure containers. Only in the very last system did I find any actual miners, but they had no containers.
So it was kind of a flop. I guess I can always try again tomorrow night, maybe I'll go into Caldari space, the other 'bad guys'. Though personally, I admire the Caldari entrepreneurial spirit. Any decent miner won't shoot you if you can flip him. He will just go out or just bring his friends in shiny big guns to pop you. Or just wait that you go out and pick the can back with an alt or another corp mate.
BUT, if you want to can flipping and you have your friends standing by in the gate... then the fun is way bigger :D |
Itis Zhellin
Vampires of Transilvania
0
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Posted - 2012.04.25 14:35:00 -
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I know how the OP feels because I tried for almost 2 years to play EVE but always failed after the first days of trial. No, is not because the learning curve is so steep, but mostly the very bad design of the missions and tutorials. Also it's horrible to be a newb in this game, almost everybody will abuse you, scam you and pod kill you if you leave the hi sec space. And if you complain, you will be asked to leave the game.
But.. I had to do this. There is no more other mmo out there left that is not turned into a theme park for kids and retards. And if you manage to spend more than 2 weeks in EVE and hop over the bad guys and all the crap, you may find out that EVE is actually a brilliant game. You have to wanna play this game and take the trial as a challenge. It will pay off later :)
Here is a nice article about EVE and the first steps on massively.joystiq.com .. worth to read it. Take a buddy trial and try to find someone who may activate ur account with a plex, then you will have 51 days free, just enough to make a solid impression, find a nice corp and enjoy the game. |
FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
1375
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Posted - 2012.04.25 14:36:00 -
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I think the key is in figuring out what you like to do, and what kind of personality you have in the game. Rather than asking us "what should I be doing in this game?" I suggest you ask yourself "what kind of gameplay am I looking for?" When you know the answer to that question, we can help you find where in Eve that gameplay is.
For example, I'm a bit of a loner. I'm fiercely independent and like to be free to go do my own thing when I want. Getting involved in a large corporation that required participation and expect constant social contact was out of the question for me. Mining and industry bore me, running missions is tedious, incursions make me deal with annoying people too frequently. I ended up discovering exploration when a friend of mine tried it out, and I'd finally found my niche. It's time to put an end to CCP's war on piracy. Fight your own battles and stop asking CCP to do it for you. |
Katarina Reid
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
170
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Posted - 2012.04.25 22:36:00 -
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maybe look at rvb https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=24444 |
Oraac Ensor
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
0
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Posted - 2012.04.25 23:02:00 -
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Nissui wrote:I had to spend 2 million ISK on skills the tutorials never told me I needed, No way. 2 maybe 3 skills at most and they won't cost 2m. |
Callistine
Martyr's Vengence Test Alliance Please Ignore
0
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Posted - 2012.04.26 06:00:00 -
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How to make it past the trial period: join a corporation that has focused goals. Join a newbie-friendly corp (NOT a noob corp) to learn the ropes, then if you want you can branch out and try different things. If a corporation ends up not suiting your goals (like if you joined one that lasers asteroids all day and you want to PVP instead) just hop to a different corporation.
The corp I was in until recently only had seven players, but was still active and social enough to keep me interested. The alliance I'm in now has... what, 6000 or something like that? I don't care enough to check, but it means there's pretty much always something happening.
EVE is not a solo game.
Also, EVE is NOT a solo game. |
Nissui
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2012.04.26 08:00:00 -
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Tried again tonight, didn't find any miners, but purchased a skillbook in a lowsec station and went to go pick it up.
The system was very quiet, but I noticed there were a lot of asteroid belts, and since I was the only pilot in system I decided to take a minute to use the directional scanner like the guide pages said. A whole bunch of normal containers showed up and I thought, "why not?" I went from belt to belt finding containers and wrecks from two other corporations, and proceeded to steal everything. It must have been unwanted stuff, because they never came back over the next 45 minutes to pick it up. But among the modules was a remote armor repair module that was worth a million ISK, and the rest of the items sold for an additional 180000, so I made back half of what I spent on those 21 skillbooks.
While I was going from belt to belt, someone from a third corp arrived in the system in a Coercer, then another from a fourth corp in a Vengeance. I thought that my Rifter would not be a good match against these ships when I checked info, so I warped off to the first thing my cursor fell on the dropdown list, which ended up being a planet. I thought getting away from the belts would make me harder to find, but within ten seconds the flashing orange Vengeance was about 150km below me. I watched the distance as I spammed the afterburner (stupid adrenaline), but he did not give chase. Then another pilot from a fifth corp showed up on local channel and now there was a Helios on directional scan. At this point I felt outnumbered and my aggression countdown was less than 2 minutes, so I warped to the first belt I hit then aimed straight down and turned on the afterburners again. No one showed up this time, and after the countdown elapsed I made it to the highsec gate and jumped to safety.
This was the best time I've had in the trial, and even if I was blown up and never got to sell the stolen goods, would have been drastically more exciting than any of the other newbie activities. I'm totally paying for a month of this game if I can keep doing this. Awesome. |
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Sin Pew
SWARTA Mostly Clueless
22
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Posted - 2012.04.26 09:44:00 -
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The sound of your last post makes me think you might have a good time trying some pirating, or finding a good low sec gang that does small hulls PVP. Just a note, can-flipping is for high sec, in low sec you don't need to flag yourself since concord won't show up in a belt if you aggro someone, so you can just point and shoot, but once you get a GCC criminal countdown, stations and gates sentries will fire upon you until the timer runs off. It feels like you could have a good time dabbling in ransoming ships in low, with a rifter you can already fit the necessary tools to pin down a target and if you bit more than you can swallow, you only lose a cheap hull. But if you succeed, you can kick a little career. However, your sec status might cause you troubles if you like spending time in high sec, but that can be worked on with rats. Fight your way in and you might have some good thrills. [20:03:08] Sin Pew > I regret the auto zoom when my ship blows, I'd llike to see the fireworks at least if I'm going to blow |
Schmata Bastanold
Black Rebel Rifter Club
80
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Posted - 2012.04.26 11:56:00 -
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When buying skillbooks very rarely you really need to buy them in lowsec and when you are newbie it is better to pay little more or make one more jump and have it in hisec. On the other hand usually you don't carry skillbooks back but inject them right away so even getting blown on way back is not very painful. With modules it different because you have to haul them back but again: usually you can buy them near you home system which I assume for you is in hisec at the moment.
If you want to feel da thrill and dabble in lowsec pvp you need to know few things:
- making safe bookmarks (places where you can hide offgrid to avoid or at least postpone being hunted down, very useful when you get GCC and have to wait it out). make few of them and if you are hunted bounce between them to avoid being probed down
- on grid bookmarks - 300km from gates to have a look if gate is camped or not, useful also in case of top belts and station
- funny little detail about GCC: you can dock one minute after getting flagged, you don't have to wait whole 15 minutes of timer in space
- you will lose sh*tload of ships but if you want to be pvp pilot that's ok, each fight will teach you sth or at least it should
- big and/or shinny does not mean better, don't throw all your money on ships you barely can sit in
- destroyers are nice step up from frigs, you only need to train Destroyers skill, all skills and mods/gunz are the same as for your rifter. they also are good for L1 missions if you want to do them
- don't expect 1v1 even when agreed before, some ppl respect it some are just, well... I am not my skills but... http://eveboard.com/pilot/Schmata_Bastanold |
Blackhuey
Into The Pink
13
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Posted - 2012.04.26 22:31:00 -
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Nissui wrote:This was the best time I've had in the trial, and even if I was blown up and never got to sell the stolen goods, would have been drastically more exciting than any of the other newbie activities. I'm totally paying for a month of this game if I can keep doing this. Awesome.
Another baby Doberman. Outstanding.
My brother had a similar experience. Tooled around on the trial doing tutorials and missions, not really "getting it". Then on day 20 of 21 I took him to nullsec in a 100 man gang. Half an hour in, he said "omg NOW I get it." @blackhuey | @srspodcast | Srs Bzns Podcast: http://srspodcast.com
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Lost Greybeard
Fenrir's Dogs of War Union 0f Revolution
43
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Posted - 2012.04.27 06:33:00 -
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Nissui wrote:I think the post body is a complaint. The question is in the post title. Based on your post, the implicit answer is to 'find a niche', which I guess is one thing I'm failing to do. I know mission hopping isn't cutting it, though.
Mission running is a tool to get isk that you can then spend on things you actually want to do, and even then it's not the best use of your time as far as isk return is concerned.
Grab some frigates and join a PvP corp, is my recommendation. A Red versus Blue corp would be the obvious suggestion, assuming those alliances are still around. PvP is much more exciting. If you want more exciting PvE, you're probably stuck with missions, but grabbing a buddy and running some higher-level ones will make things less ********. |
Chal0ner
Sons Of 0din Fatal Ascension
30
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Posted - 2012.04.27 10:51:00 -
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Tau Cabalander wrote:EVE doesn't lead you by the nose. You have to decide what you want to do, and what your goals are. If you can't do that, you are not suited to EVE, and will very quickly find it boring.
This is the secret of making it past the tutorial. EVE is not for those with lack of patience and will to find out stuff for themselves. It's not a fairground MMO. You create your own content and adventures in this sandbox. You get sand kicked in your face, get pushed over by larger and older bullies, fight back and ultmately succeed in what you are trying to do.
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J'Poll
Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Side Effect.
180
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Posted - 2012.04.27 10:56:00 -
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Chal0ner wrote:Tau Cabalander wrote:EVE doesn't lead you by the nose. You have to decide what you want to do, and what your goals are. If you can't do that, you are not suited to EVE, and will very quickly find it boring. This is the secret of making it past the tutorial. EVE is not for those with lack of patience and will to find out stuff for themselves. It's not a fairground MMO. You create your own content and adventures in this sandbox. You get sand kicked in your face, get pushed over by larger and older bullies, fight back and ultmately succeed in what you are trying to do.
Best way so far that I've seen that describes EVE.
It's a sandbox, build your own sandcastles and destroy others while preventing them to destroy yours =) Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction |
Homo Jesus
The LGBT Last Supper
3
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Posted - 2012.04.27 13:18:00 -
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Nissui wrote:Tried again tonight, didn't find any miners, but purchased a skillbook in a lowsec station and went to go pick it up.
The system was very quiet, but I noticed there were a lot of asteroid belts, and since I was the only pilot in system I decided to take a minute to use the directional scanner like the guide pages said. A whole bunch of normal containers showed up and I thought, "why not?" I went from belt to belt finding containers and wrecks from two other corporations, and proceeded to steal everything. It must have been unwanted stuff, because they never came back over the next 45 minutes to pick it up. But among the modules was a remote armor repair module that was worth a million ISK, and the rest of the items sold for an additional 180000, so I made back half of what I spent on those 21 skillbooks.
While I was going from belt to belt, someone from a third corp arrived in the system in a Coercer, then another from a fourth corp in a Vengeance. I thought that my Rifter would not be a good match against these ships when I checked info, so I warped off to the first thing my cursor fell on the dropdown list, which ended up being a planet. I thought getting away from the belts would make me harder to find, but within ten seconds the flashing orange Vengeance was about 150km below me. I watched the distance as I spammed the afterburner (stupid adrenaline), but he did not give chase. Then another pilot from a fifth corp showed up on local channel and now there was a Helios on directional scan. At this point I felt outnumbered and my aggression countdown was less than 2 minutes, so I warped to the first belt I hit then aimed straight down and turned on the afterburners again. No one showed up this time, and after the countdown elapsed I made it to the highsec gate and jumped to safety.
This was the best time I've had in the trial, and even if I was blown up and never got to sell the stolen goods, would have been drastically more exciting than any of the other newbie activities. I'm totally paying for a month of this game if I can keep doing this. Awesome.
Found a way to pay for skill books without grinding missions on a trail account? You'll do fine.
You would be very surprised at the number of long time players that don't know how to use d-scan. My advice? Use your noobness and willingness to read and learn to get in a high sec corp with very bad security, work your way up while you train some stuff....then rob them blind and kill the ones with expensive ships before you quit. If ya score at least a billion (not hard) that's 2 plex so your account will cost zero for two months while you go on your next adventure.
Corps and alliances are not as important as blues (friendlies) and contacts with bigger groups (batphones).
Have fun, Play dirty |
Nissui
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
1
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Posted - 2012.04.27 17:00:00 -
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This thread was the best decision I've made so far, due to the responses I got from everyone. So thanks for that.
Bought my time code last night, but didn't get to play due to schoolwork. Guess I will start looking into corps, been told to try to find a fight or two, and if I have no luck scavenging or stealing I will run some of the Sisters of Eve missions to pay for more ships. Not my favorite thing, but hey.
Oh yeah, I still had questions about some things that I couldn't get answered in Rookie help, but I will look around for answers as I'm sure they've been asked before (bookmarks, frigates vs destroyers, gun selection, etc). |
Ky Vatta
Majority 12
8
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Posted - 2012.04.27 23:44:00 -
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What the people in the NPC Corp you start off with will tell you, is don`t join a player Corp, you get declared war on all the time, they will rip you off etc...
That happens sometimes, but is mostly not true at all
Most player Corps will help you get along, help train you, give advice, even isk to buy skillbooks (however, they can be quite unhelpful, until you say you plan to subscribe, they don`t really want to waste stuff on trial players)
Some Corps run chats open to anyone, where you can get free advice from experts (better than Rookie chat) You do not have to be in a player corp to chat there (If you ask me, I can direct you to one)
I`ll give free advice, to the best of my knowledge, to anyone btw (I have played Eve nonstop over 8 years now) |
Forest Archer
Ethos Mythos Pathos
2
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Posted - 2012.04.28 07:50:00 -
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I'm glad you got the experience that captivates most eve players. I'd offer to take you pvping with those that I commonly pvp with unfortunately as of late it has been targets of opportunity but if you need help making Isk. Just hit me up if I'm not preoccupied don't mind helping new players. Or if you have any pvp questions just hit me upin a mail or a pc. |
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Naes Mlahrend
KINGS OF EDEN Sev3rance
2
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Posted - 2012.04.29 02:54:00 -
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Heck yea, some good PvP gives you a little rush and maybe a little chubby when it goes right. |
Claire Deveraux
Pulse Industries Knights Collective
2
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Posted - 2012.04.29 06:17:00 -
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I'm having the same problems as the thread starter, I came to EVE with a preset bunch of ideas of what I would be doing based on previous experiences in other MMOs. In other games I'm used to crafting for my friends, healing in groups and just do a little bit of everything, but here I found that production is mostly about burying your nose in spreadsheets, is very much detached and abstract and I simply don't like it here. PVE (for the most part) has been a solo affair and, to me at least, is just plain boring.
I did find a corporation and through talking with them and people from the help channels I'm slowly starting to realise that this game is about team play and teamwork but on an entirely different level than I'm used to. So I'll stick to the game for a few more months, getting my skills up and hope the game proves me right. But right now it's very much a "pfff, why even bother logging in" bore fest, I must admit. |
Brannsy
Sathainn Braithrean Cartel Apocalypse Now.
30
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Posted - 2012.04.29 07:13:00 -
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EVE is very much what you make of it. Simply put, do whatever strikes you at the moment. Sometimes I'll be sitting out in null, go "F*** this" and run to highsec to partake in some good old Exploration, which is what I do for a "living" in EVE....when I'm able to make it back there.
Will you get bored sometimes? Yes, probably, but it is always possible to find something to do, and if anything else you can sit in a trade hub and BS with people, or go looking for PEWPEW.
As for Corps, most Corps do not like taking in Trial Pilots simply because they have a horrible tendency to go inactive, I found that out the hard way. EVE is very much a people game, if you don't interact with others it can be very very boring. |
Forest Archer
Ethos Mythos Pathos
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Posted - 2012.04.29 10:01:00 -
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Claire I have to say that your comment gives me a very good opportunity to say that eve is not like other mmo's and thats in my oppinion a good thing, though it also involves a lot of numbers. There is nothing wrong with playing like you have in other mmo's and manufacture and play logi (your main healers in eve). Just be aware that you might not be able to make great Isk doing it. After all you you can always make stuff if you happen to have materials laying around I know I do. And if you fancy playing alone there are a number of professions that allow for solo play in eve. Just be aware though that eve is designed for working in groups, and most things are more profitable when working in groups, for examples incursions and whs. That is why to any player that wants a real eve experience find a corp and play the way you want, (hopefully its a corp that doesn't dictate your play style). But if you don't become part of the eve community you mis out on 90-95% of the game. |
Claire Deveraux
Pulse Industries Knights Collective
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Posted - 2012.04.29 11:05:00 -
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a BAD thing but it is kind of a "culture shock". I'm used to light entertainment, simple fun MMOs to waste half an hour or so of time and that just doesn't seem to translate to EVE (so far) mostly because it doesn't seem to be light entertainment from the get go.
So in my case I need to redefine my goals and intentions and I need to "translate" my needs and wants into what EVE can offer me, and that simply takes some time to figure out but the thing is that in the mean time it's "boring" and then it all depends on how long term one can think to sit it out. I'm fine to accept that I'll have to endure it a little bit in the beginning and take my time because I can see the potential EVE has but I fully understand people who choose not to wait that long. |
Homo Jesus
The LGBT Last Supper
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Posted - 2012.04.29 15:27:00 -
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Claire Deveraux wrote: to waste half an hour .
Yeah, just play solitaire.
If ya want to hop on and kill belt rats for a lil bit a 1/2 hour is more than enough. If ya plan to grab a ship, enter space and find a fight?...well I guess you can but that would take much longer than a 1/2 hour to explain to you.
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