Flash Landsraad
Nexus Legion
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.07.24 11:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Moghydin
I know, it's quite a problematic title to come up with, as I'm not a developer and quite frankly not a big expert on game. But it's just my thoughts and they should be taken as they are.
The 1-st question should be: Is Eve worth joining now? The answer is û it depends. If you want a multi player Freelancer, then yes. If you want to be able to experience the true depth of the game, then the answer is NO. What we have now and will continue to have in the future is the vast majority of players still playing Freelancer while tiny minority enjoying all the options of the game. Quite frankly, the game was not worth joining even at the beginning of 2005. At this time many things took their current rigid form, especially the community, and for the newcomers, Eve will remain shooty-shooty space sim. The situation got even worse now for those unfortunate (like me) who joined Eve in mid 2005. On the one hand, we're out of competition with Eve veterans club. On the other hand, we might enjoy some advantage over those who joined after us. But those new fancy bloodlines destroyed it all. Very soon we'll be caught up by hordes of Achuras and such. So, basically, it's wasting more than 1 year of game time to rot at the bottom of pyramid.
By turning Eve into political/economical game CCP virtually built an impassable wall, forever dividing the members of ôthe elite clubö from the rest. The game seems to become more open-ended, but in reality, it became the game for the elite and vets alone. The introduction of the capital ships and outposts only highlighted the situation where the masters are forever placed above the humble plebs.
The so called BPO lottery has virtually created Eve gods. Those BPO's either were directly won by the numerous alts and slave accounts of ôthe elite clubö, or were acquired by ISK. And ISK is never a problem for these guys as they have an unassailable control over the best resources in Eve.
To cut a long story short û Eve is not like other MMORPGs where you can be as good as you want to be. Here we have a closed cast of the elite players while others have not a slightest chance of even approaching.
I dissagree, I joined in January 2005 and joined a corp less than an hour after I finished the tutorial. I stuck with this corp for 7 or 8 months and we moved from high sec to taking over and controlling a low sec system a few months after I joined. I have deviated from the corp everyone and again sure, but I always come back because this is where my real friends in EVE are. We created an alliance of 4 or 5 corps and then moved north where we were orchestral in the creation of an alliance in the north. Since then we have changed our name to the name of our old alliance, merged all the corps into this 1 corp and joined NFC, followed by FLA. We now have a strong foothold in 0.0 and an influence within a major alliance.
To be quite frank I think it is your attitude that prevents you from doing well in this game, not the game itself as you would like to put the blame on.
My advice: stop being so damn lazy, stop expecting everything to be handed to you on a plate, specialise in something and work for you goals.
Signature removed due to lack of Eve-related content. -Ivan K
Fair enough Ivan, sorry :( - Flash |