Igwee
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Posted - 2008.02.06 23:53:00 -
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Edited by: Igwee on 06/02/2008 23:53:14
This is very interesting, it's similiar in some ways to the 'casual vs hardcore' debate i've seen in other MMO's, especially WoW.
To me, empire space is perfect for now as a previous poster posted quite accurately, it allows people like me (who are still fairly new) that have a VERY low skill lvl (2.1M SP and barely able to handle basic ships/missions due to still learning how to play EVE), aren't part of a big corp, to learn the basics, mining, skills, fittings, the HUGE variety of different setups, this whole trading thing and so forth.
EVE has a huge learning curve, I've been playing it for months and learn something new every time I log on.
I've found that MMO'ers tend to fall into a few seperate categories:
A) The Casuals
These are (like me) people who log on every now and then, mine stuff, make stuff, potter about on missions and aren't really fussed with PVP all that much, couldn't give a dam about 0.0 and avoid anything less than 0.5. The nice thing about EVE is that you can still learn skills even when logged off.
May be into a bit of PVP here and there, but generally is quite happy to just muck about and be left along, often a loner or with a small band of friends, may even have a small corp and some basic goals that they're working towards at their own pace.
Make no mistake, some of the BEST MMO'ers are often casual, they can and are of often surprisingly good at what they do, but they're just as happy to play 4 or 5 hours a week or disapear for months at a time and pick up where they left off.
B) The Hard-Core
These are people on a mission! Whether it be mastering the art of trading, finding those hard to get plans, working on super hard missions, learning how to drive the big stuff, run fleets, run corps or go prospecting for rare or or.. just like being really good at blowing stuff up.
They'll play a LOT, they'll play HARD and will often associate/group with similiar minded people to achieve big goals (POS's, alliances and so forth), they enjoy the cut and thrust of taking on other players and beating them, or achieving hard to achieve goals, the WoW equivelant are the heavy PVP'ers and end-game raiders.
To me, the casuals will probably stay in empire (0.5) or higher for longer, simply because the 0.0 area is more hard-core and requires a lot more commitment, but has more rewards too.
If you find a lot of newer people are casuals, then you'll probably find we'll stay in empire space for a long time, or even forever. It's not a case of one being better than the other, it's just a case of different people doing different things :)
Empre space = casual friendly
0.0/low sec space = more hard-core
Anyway, after a cpl of months that's how I see it, it may be wrong. One day i will probably muck around in low/0.0 sec space, but not till i've learned a lot more about how EVE works.
Dont' worry, more people will end up in 0.0, it may just take a while for us newbies to get comfortable with how it all works.
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