Memphis Baas
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Posted - 2017.07.17 12:03:04 -
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EVE is a sandbox game; there are no quest arcs to move you from zone to zone as you level up. Instead, after a brief tutorial, you can go anywhere and do whatever you want. In practice, this means you have two options:
1. Come up with your own plans and goals, and achieve them. I found this to be similar to kids playing, where they can build a whole universe with a single doll or toy, and unfortunately as an adult, plots and goals that I may come up with are spoiled for me; I get bored.
2. Participate in someone else's plots, plans, and goals. Much more enjoyable, for me. This means, however, that you have to join a corp, so that you can participate in their corp goals and organized events. Finding a good corp is probably the hardest thing to do in EVE, but a good corp really makes the game awesome.
EVE corps aren't about chatting, they're more about doing. High-sec doesn't have much that can't be achieved solo, and with less taxes or donations than in a corp, so most high-sec corps tend to suck, as they don't have anything that would convince members to stay. If you look at "dangerous" space (lowsec, null, wormhole space), that's where there are enemies and friends, as well as things that a corp can provide that you can't really do solo. So corps that operate in these regions of space are generally better quality.
Otherwise, you should be able to find a corp that accepts "casual" players; after all, most of us have kids and jobs and time constraints much like you do.
The game is a PVP game; the PVE aspects of it are years behind what you can find in other MMO's with their quest lines and advanced AI boss encounters. You'll get bored relatively fast with the randomized repeatable missions, and nothing beats the unexpected interaction you'll get from other players.
Your skill points accumulate by themselves, whether you're logged in or not. So you don't need to "grind" for "xp" or "levels". You could grind for money, but it's a lot more convenient to pay "double" subscription for a month here and there, basically pay your subscription + get 500 PLEX, and sell the PLEX in-game for 1.5B ISK, which will set you up with hundreds of ships to lose to PVP or PVE for fun.
But, again, with no grind for "xp" and possibly no grind for money, your enjoyment will really depend on finding goals to attain and things to do. |