Sever Aldaria
Agony Unleashed
   |
Posted - 2006.09.18 02:54:00 -
[2]
 Originally by: Dark Shikari
Originally by: Reina Rashar
Originally by: Nev Hortator
AFAIK that's not really how EvE works. From what long timers have told me if you train the right skills you can compete on some level with veteran characters it just depends on the situation. another way to combat experience is with numbers. Remember there are more n00bs playing than there are vets and with enough time a larger force will beat the strongest loner.
This is so wrong. If you come into the game and go straight for mining then you will of course be a better miner than a character that has been pvp for 3 years but you will never be as good as a character that has been mining 3 years. As the current skill training system works it is impossible to "catch up" no matter what the developers and some players of thus game would have you believe. With skills that take 30 days when you get to some of the tech 2 stuff it is IMPOSSIBLE, PERIOD. And Ebay wont help because if they catch you they will take everything away from you. I knew someone who bought a billion isk on ebay, for his corp. Not only did they take the isk but the also took back everything that had been bought with the isk, so that the corp was ONE BILLION! isk in the red and they no longer had the frieghter that they had bought with the isk.
I don'e care what anyone says, you can never really catch up and this is from experience, after five month of play. The more you learn the more you realize how wide the gap really is.
Nevermind the fact that there's only about 8-10 months of mining skills in the entire GAME, so you cannot possibly get better after that period of time
Not only that, but who cares if you can't get as many skillpoints? The fun in EVE isn't about watching your skillpoints go up every second. I've only been playing only for about 9 1/2 months. I don't NEED to catch up to someone to have a chance at blowing them up or making more money than them or whatever it is you want to compete with them in, and neither does anyone else. I have killed and seen others kill many players with more time and skillpoints invested in combat. So what if you aren't the uber miner? There are better ways to make money than mining; I know this by experience as well  .
Lets assume that you can catch up with effort. How will you know when you have "caught up"? How will you know when you are the best, when you are better in skills than anyone else?
Your arugment suggests to me that you are a person who can't be happy unless he/she is the best. If that is the case, then EVE is not a good game to play as, just like in life, there will always be someone better than you.
Originally by: Zabriele
Yes it does so other newbs are aware of this potential for loss....the game designers certainly dont mention anything about this..other then 0.5-1.0 space is secure...hehe your prolly one of the people piking on newbs
Oh yes, Dark Shikari is a BIG newbie bully.  
|