Silver Getsuga
Quantum Studies Institute
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Posted - 2013.08.18 22:05:00 -
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Hello. I'm new player and I find current skill mechanics is great.
No, I can't have all weapon systems and all t2+ hulls in my first yeah of playing. Neither I need to. Choosing and planning is part of the game for me. What if I got all stuff in one year? I would probably quit after 2.
And if I specialize I can be 80% as effective as 7 years player full of level 5 skills. Because: 1. you can't fly all you trained at the same moment 2. skill benefits are linear, well technically they aren't, but it's reasonable estimation because: 2. skill training time blows up exponentially, meaning that while my enemy trained for couple optional level 5s I did them to 4 and trained to 4 bunch of other skills.
Also, there's plenty of action in t1 hulls, even in lower ones. Cruisers are excellent at pvp. You can do level 3 missions in 1-2 month in battlecruisers, 1-4/10 plexes in cruisers/battlecruisers. Exploration: T1 frigs work. You can trade with next to none skills. Etc.
As for T2+ hulls. AFs and bombers are pretty easy to train. Prerequisites of them are basically must to train anyway. Same goes for HACs (logi should be easy to train for too, go check for yourself). Only diffrence is ~20 days of Racial Cruiser V. Hell, you can fly Strategic Cruiser with T2 weapon in like 6 month of the game (maybe less, go check for yourself!). Decent Navy Battleship will be flyable in not much longer time frame.
Basically only special snowflakes are Command Ships and Black Ops. Huge prereqs which is not useful for general (non-FC/cap) character.
Recruiters of PVP (including WH) corps will try to recruit you even if you're 2 month old. Meaning you can be useful for them even in your low SP.
Game should be diverse, game should have hard to reach "goals". Blaming diversity and deepness is like asking for all science branches to disappear because you can't study them all. Or different kind of sports. Pick one and just touch the others. You'll find this kind of world more interesting and deep.
And if you disagree you can start alts and/or buy characters from Character Bazaar.
Thanks for reading.
Skill mechanics of EVE is unique and proved itself to be great. For me. |