Maekchu
Black Rebel Rifter Club The Devil's Tattoo
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Posted - 2014.08.08 12:58:00 -
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I am starting to get a sense that this is a universe where the most experienced players can pretty much act with impunity and everyone else is basically at their mercy. Like the real world, money drives power, but is offset slightly with a tenure requirement that the skill system builds in.
More SP points and ISK is a good thing, but you can go and ruin someones day from moment you start your character. But yes, EVE is a harsh environment, where if you can't take care of yourself, you will be taken advantage off. One way or the other.
The initial missions were OK, but once I was done with Aura and the career agents at Pasha, I was kind of lost after that. What do I do now? PVP? Hell no. I realize that the people who have pod killed me so far have played for years, and have just about every skill at level V, plus they have a gang of other kids they hang out with to back them up. So that's out.
It's a sandbox. You do whatever, you set your goal to be. There is no clear progression, except progression in skillpoints.
Join a corp? I have a job. I play only when I have spare time. I am not going to show up to events or make this an important part of my life. Eve seems to not be good for casual gamers.
There are many corps out there that are playing the game "casually". It all comes down to your own goals in the game. But the more ambitious the goal, the more time you need to spend in the game (Obviously).
So my choices are to mine and run missions. Mining is pretty borked up, it seems to me. The ore values are all very similar, and looking at the markets, the prices are constantly dropping, and the more rare ores are only slightly more valuable most of the time. Mining veldspar with little travel is most lucrative in terms of ISK/hr.
Seems to me your research on mining and ore prices is faulty. You should probably go back to the drawing board on this one, cause the conclusion you've found so far, is just not true.
I do not understand why NPC pirates do not show in the directional scanner.
Would just be too easy to do some activities. Like Sec tag farming.
I do not understand why agents giving the next missions are scattered about the galaxy instead of just popping up in your home station. I don't understand why the last agent didn't point me to the next one instead of me having to search for them. After I finished the career missions, I didn't even know there were more agents.
This is no WoW clone, where you got questing hubs that will follow your leveling progression. Do some research, and you'll figure out spots to mission in.
The agent missions are all security missions in my constellation. I'm a noob, so I am not leaving my little area of ten or so hi-sec star systems any time soon because I am afraid to be killed and have to do all of that boring mining again to buy a new ship.
If you are not willing to explore, how do you expect to learn the game?
Insurance is broken. I could only insure my venture for 350K, but with all of the goodies on it, it cost me a fortune to fit with good modules.
If you'd get the same value as your ship and modules, then it would be broken.
The most important thing I could share is that the community is unfriendly, probably because of the nature of the game, and seems to bring out the worst in people. The rule is very old west - shoot first, talk after. It's left me with the impression that the community are not nice people, and that everyone is basically laughing as they shoot up noobs while the noobs come and then quit because studying for a month to just die a lot and mining sucks.
The community is unfriendly to people who think they somehow are entitled to safety and other stuff you'd get used to in the common themepark MMO. EVE caters to a special kind of person, if you are not that kind of person, then it's just not a game for you. EVE online is a niche product after all. There are nice people in EVE, if you are nice as well. But writting a huge rant about the game. Ranting on stuff, you obviously have no clue about, is not the best impression.
I tried injecting some helpfulness into the game myself by flying my ship around and guarding noobs mining from NPC pirates in some of the systems I frequent. I could not hope to guard them from hostile players. I notice no one ever does that.
Cause it's useless and a waste of time.
So, PVP seems like something I never want to do, mining is boring, and I have not yet decided whether or not to buy another month. Possibly not.
EVE is a PvP game, not matter the area you choose to play in. So, if PvP is not you cup of tea, then EVE is just not for you. Which is fine, and we'll just part here, and no one will give it another thought.
When the remaster of homeworld comes out, I think I am out of here, because while the game is pretty, it only has two modes: repetitive and boring or exciting and over in ten seconds with someone PMing me that I am a noob ******* in Russian.
Those are my thoughts. Flame on.
Well, so long. You probably won't be missed.
EDIT: Even if it is a troll, I'll bite. Too bored at work. |