Drago Shouna
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2016.08.29 07:30:13 -
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Paula Mint wrote:After some consideration, I decided to give EVE a try. I'm going thru the tutorial, and kinda enjoying it so far. However, hanging in the back of my head is the fact that it is free for all pvp. I played UO back in its free pvp days...it was horrible...prolly gives away a bit of my age lol... I remember having to get a group together to do basically anything ever that was outside of town. I remember still getting ganked, constantly, and the dry looting, and the trash talk, and the corpse camping. Anyone who was around for those days knows what I'm talking about. As a result, it kinda burned me on pvp in mmo's. I work a lot, and have a pretty limited amount of time I can invest in recreation. I'm not going to waste time I could spend on something else more pleasant. Not that I completely hate online pvp...I hate the griefing that usually...in my experiences always...accompanies it.
So, question is, should I even bother with this? Can I look forward to similar experiences here? What does a person stand to lose in pvp? How prominent of a role is it going to play? Can I look forward to getting wtfpwned over and over and over, and losing like...all my stuff every time all the time? Or is there some cap on what you can lose on death? Do players have some degree of restraint and not immediately jack lowbies followed by the inevitable teabagging or equivalent? Thanks.
If you are already on a downer with the game, maybe you should have a rethink..
One thing that becomes clearer over time is that if EVE doesn't grab you in the first few hours of play, you might stuggle a lot to enjoy it and fall in love with it.
Griefing, yes it happens, but it's easy to find a quiet part of space where it'll very rarely, if ever happen.
Yes you can die undocking even as a new player, yes you literally lose everything you happen to be flying, the ship, all it's cargo etc. Even any implants if you get "podded". The only stuff you keep in that scenario is what you have stored in a station.
There is sadly a portion of players in the game that will repeatedly do their best to make every day a bad day. The secret is not to let them, by, as I said, finding a nice quiet system away from the hot spots, you see, these guys very rarely travel away from their "home grounds"
You'll see guys coming in this thread telling you to go join a corp, but even that could lead to a bad beginning if it's a poorly led corp as well. If you want to fly solo that's fine too. (Don't join a corp that is wardecced, or has a lot of wardecs all the time)
Ok, I'm painting a dour picture of the game, but you can avoid near all of the above quite easily.
PVP will eventually find you, but it doesn't lead as much a prominent role as some will have you believe, I have managed to live very peacefully in the same system for over 2 years, mining, missioning, manufacturing, exploring etc and only losing a couple of ships, 1 in a lvl 4 mission when I stupidly got up to answer the door (bye Mach) and once in a wornhole.
EVE is a fantastic game, but it's not for everybody.
Solecist Project...." They refuse to play by the rules and laws of the game and use it as excuse ..."
" They don't care about how you play as long as they get to play how they want."
Welcome to EVE.
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Drago Shouna
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2016.08.29 09:48:19 -
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[quote=Solecist Project]I'd like to add that when people call suicide ganking griefing ...
... they use the word wrong.
Suicide ganking is NOT griefing!
It's part of the game!
When you die it most likely was your own fault.
See the 8 golden rules of EVE.
Interpretation, interpretation, interpretation...
BTW, you're too late, he left.
Solecist Project...." They refuse to play by the rules and laws of the game and use it as excuse ..."
" They don't care about how you play as long as they get to play how they want."
Welcome to EVE.
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