Verminasia Syn wrote:I am wondering just cause I used to play this game...Well about 6 years ago? Well maybe longer or less I can not remember for the life of me but saw it has one server when I was sure there used to be multiple but I can understand merges. I am only on trial at this moment but was thinking of actually paying to play again but did not want to make a mistake.
Also races dont matter other than starting skill sets in different ships right? I picked Minmatar just for the fact heard they are better for pvp sooner than the rest?
You cannot make any assumptions about EVE dying or not, based on the number of servers, because EVE has always been a three-server game: One test server, one server for Chinese players, and one regular server for worldwide playes.
As for choice of race and background, it affects your starting skillz very slightly. It used to be you got around 800k skill points based on your choices, so that mattered quite a lot, but now you get so little that it really makes no sense to choose Minmatar for that reason. Whatever skillz Minmatar starts the game with can be trained in 2-3 weeks by anyone else. The reason for this is that it takes almost no time to train the low levels of skillz.
The first level might take a minute, 2nd level might take 5-6 minutes, 3rd level might take an hour, 4th level might take 5-6 hours, 5th level might take a day and a half. (That's for Rank 1 skillz. Rank 2 skillz take
twice as long, Rank 10 skillz take
10 times as long, and so forth.)
Race and perhaps background affects two other things: What your avatar looks like, and your attributes, but you're going to re-map your attributes anyway.
Some players do elaborate long-term plans where they first optimize two attributes and train skillz dependent on those, then they re-amp to optimize the two other attributes (everyone ignores the fifth, Charisma) and spend about a year training skillz dependent on that attribute, then they go back and optimize for the first two again, and so forth.
That's extremely efficient, but I've opted instead for the freedom of only re-mapping once. I dump Charisma as low as I can, and distribute my remap points as evenly as possible between the other four attributes. This means I train less efficiently, measured in average skill points per day, but that I have total and absolute freedom to change my mind regarding what I want to train, any time, as often as I want.