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Flybye
Heaven's Avatars
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Posted - 2008.03.18 01:48:00 -
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I've been curious about other people who have used EVE as their first MMO. I come from a long list of FPS (Unreal Tournament series, BioShock, Half Life Series, Mech Warrior, Doom series, Quake series, etc) I was in an Unreal Tournament clan, and probably have over 2000hrs logged for Unreal Tournament 2004.
I'm sure I'm not the only person around here with a similar history. For those that are the same, what are you finding yourself doing in EVE?
Me, I'm simply fascinated by everything.  I got pulled into a corp a few days into the game. All these guys want to do is PvP and more PvP. Being in a FPS clan, I've kinda been preprogrammed to get your good "guns" before stepping into the area. But damn, I've been enjoying traveling all around the different galaxies, meeting people in local, discovering each race's stations & ships, finding new and interesting looking planets (found one planet that looks like it has an electrical storm on it), experimenting with different skills & implants, discovering the joys (and yawns) of mining, etc. And I've been playing around with manufacturing a few simple things to see what sells and how closely it relates the the market data. Just the other day, I discovered the joys of PoS and the craziness involved with it. 
But what is slowly creeping up on me is the lack of true FPS control. I love the complexity of the game, but the "select this" and "push weapon of choice" and let the computer do the rest has been kinda bugging me lately. I miss having to use my actual mouse aiming skills. Here is also where I am curious about how the rest of the FPS background guys are handling it. So far, I've been playing for about 1.5 months.
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Sir Emi
Space Odyssey Heroes
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Posted - 2008.03.18 01:55:00 -
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Yeah I miss the X3 or X - Interceptor combat a bit...
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Logdsen
CAD Inc.
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:29:00 -
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A friend of mine pointed Eve out while he was on a trial account. I love flight sims, WIng Commander especialy. Eve was so similar to Privateer and Freeleancer that it sucked me right in. I was never into online gaming other than Halo 2 and a little Starcraft back in the day as I would consistently get my ass handed to me. When I get bored in one area I just move on to another.
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Roxanna Kell
FinFleet
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:40:00 -
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I am an FPS junky, and eve is the only double clicking gave that i play.
For the momment i am waiting for Infinity to be released in a year or two. If it turns out to be better than expectation i may even quit eve. Well cant have time for both.
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goodby4u
Logistic Technologies Incorporated
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:41:00 -
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Sad to say runescape was my first MMO, after that and several FPS(h1 h2 ghost recon etc...)came eve.
And I do wish we could control our ships the way you describe but it might add too much lag.
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Reem Fairchild
Shadow Forces Inc.
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Posted - 2008.03.18 03:33:00 -
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First and only MMO (unless you count free browser-based strategy games like Archmage and Utopia).
I'm very much into the combat side of the game, but Eve not being very FPS like is a huge plus for me. Also, I never had the notion that I had to get trained up and get into a good ship before I could actually fight. I wanted to get right into it from the beginning.
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Kil'Roy
The Rat Patrol
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Posted - 2008.03.18 03:41:00 -
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Yes, and the only one that could pull me away would be BattleTech Online when it comes out.
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DroneBay Diva
Hogosha Ronin
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Posted - 2008.03.18 03:56:00 -
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Eve is my first MMO :)
Been playing for nearly 2 years now, and haven't touched another game.
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squishinator
Hogans Heroes
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Posted - 2008.03.18 04:09:00 -
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I played CS and DOD in CAL for a number of years, and now I pretty much only play EVE , my first MMO. I'll still load up COD4 or CS:S/DOD:s from time to time, but for the most part, I'd rather just play EVE instead
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Kruel
Beyond Divinity Inc
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Posted - 2008.03.18 04:12:00 -
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I was a big UT2k4 player as well, until I found Eve after getting bored of UT. So yes Eve was my first MMO, unless Planetside counts (I would say it doesn't).
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Vladmir Loki
State War Academy
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Posted - 2008.03.18 04:12:00 -
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EVE is my first MMO. I too came from a lot of single player FPSs. I've been playing for over 4 years now, and I can't for the life of me figure out how I found out about this game. I had considered trying WoW, but it never appealed to me even though I had played WC 1 and 2. The 14 day trial is what won it for me. I remember downloading and being about 2 hours into the game when I went and activated. I'm still not sure if I go the 14 days for free or not!
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Sylthi
Coreward Pan-Galactic
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Posted - 2008.03.18 04:26:00 -
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Eve was my first MMO way back in 2003.
I have tried over 9 other "main line" MMOs since then, but none of them kept me entertained for longer than 2-6 months. Eve is the only "mistress" I have never truly left, and keep coming back to for more over and over again.
In my almost five years in Eve, I have done and seen about 90% of everything there is to do and see; at one time or another. However, Eve does still does hold many mysteries for me, even after all of my years "in pod". The biggest mystery about Eve, for me at least, HAS to be this: How can it be that the devs suck so badly at almost every patch deployment, and the "balance" kings go on wild Nerf binges almost every month it seems, yet keep the game so addictive that I keep coming back?
It HAS to be a labor of "love" on my part. That is the only word that explains how something can be so "bad" and so "good" at the same time.
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The Geoman
Anarchos Industrial Cooperative
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Posted - 2008.03.18 04:51:00 -
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I'll age myself a bit with this, but I have fond memories of BBS games like MajorMUD and Tele Arena. That was really my intro to MMOs. That, and the original Neverwinter Nights! Since then, I've gone through most of the major players, like Ultima Online, CoH/V, WoW, and a few others. Eve surprised me with its depth, and the way it made me think like no game before it. Its still doing it 
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Danae Melios
Stair Fall
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Posted - 2008.03.18 05:10:00 -
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I was brought into Eve by a friend of mine. Neither of us have done online gaming really, both of us were on a couple of MUSHes back in the 90's and we've done networked RTS.
My background is more RTS and roleplay games such as the World of Darkness games, especially the LARP version. The politics, the teamplay, the articles I've read about the scams and the thefts and the uncertainty of putting everything on the line, and trying to sa***uard everything....
Yeah, not so much FPS. Used to play Halo with some friends because that's what they got into, but my dyslexia and latent ambidexterity mucks my twitch responses.
To me, the game is getting more exciting as I have more to lose. I recently acquired this character from my friend as he departed the game, and the opportunities to get involved deeper in corporate affairs due to higher support skills has really opened my eyes as to the scope of risks taken. I may get bored in a year or two, or I may stick around for years. But it seems to be getting better for me as I get to be able to do more with higher skills.
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Zeba
Pator Tech School
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Posted - 2008.03.18 05:14:00 -
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Eve was my third mmo. First was E&B God Rest Its Soul  with Wow being my second and I still sub up a couple of times a year to get a few moar levels on my Dwarf Hunter. 
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Saint Lazarus
DROW Org
Brotherhood of the Spider
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Posted - 2008.03.18 05:20:00 -
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Tis my first, EvEs not like any other MMO no other one could possibly hold my attention.
If another comes out that can I might jump boat tho 
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Myshella Drake
Ward-Tech Industries
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Posted - 2008.03.18 05:27:00 -
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EVE was my first MMO. I was big fan of Privateer and Freelancer before that. When EVE came to an Expo in New Zealand i picked up a 14 day trial card...and well the rest is history. Ive played countess MMOs since then but i always come back to EVE.
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theteck
Castor Technologies
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Posted - 2008.03.18 06:50:00 -
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my first mmo too
after ut and battlefield :)
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Niffetin
Omni Research
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Posted - 2008.03.18 06:52:00 -
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Indeed it was.
Although I have tried a lot of different MMO's before, I have never played one for more than 2 weeks I think.
Until I stumbled upon EVE that is 
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Kuolematon
Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United
Reavers.
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Posted - 2008.03.18 07:02:00 -
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Neocron!
"The Amarr are the tanking and ganking floating rods of goldcrap"
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Kyra Felann
Noir.
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Posted - 2008.03.18 07:14:00 -
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Originally by: Flybye
I've been curious about other people who have used EVE as their first MMO. I come from a long list of FPS (Unreal Tournament series, BioShock, Half Life Series, Mech Warrior, Doom series, Quake series, etc) I was in an Unreal Tournament clan, and probably have over 2000hrs logged for Unreal Tournament 2004.
It's sad that you list Mechwarrior as a FPS. That may be accurate now, but it used to be a mech sim.
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But what is slowly creeping up on me is the lack of true FPS control. I love the complexity of the game, but the "select this" and "push weapon of choice" and let the computer do the rest has been kinda bugging me lately. I miss having to use my actual mouse aiming skills. Here is also where I am curious about how the rest of the FPS background guys are handling it. So far, I've been playing for about 1.5 months.Cool
Eve isn't an FPS at all, and it shouldn't have manual aiming.
Anyway, Eve is my first "real" MMO. I played MUDS all the time back in the day, I played that online RPG on the Sierra Online thing (Imagination Network or something like that), and I played Guild Wars. But never WoW, Everquest, Ultima Online, etc.
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Sokratesz
Rionnag Alba
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.03.18 07:51:00 -
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I played Knight Online for a few weeks but it was grindtastic then i tried eve and havent been off the pc since 
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Manji Lee
Galactic Express
Frontier Trade League
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Posted - 2008.03.18 07:58:00 -
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My first online game was quake 2. Thou, I didn't really get into online games until around the time I tried a mod for quake 2 called gloom. Man, talk about good old memories of it. In matter of fact, people still play the game time to time and it also inspired mods such as Natural Selection for half-life. Eventually I made a switch to Diablo, then diablo 2. After that went into day of defeat. after year of playing that. I got into battle field 2. Which, around 6 months I went to "wow"(yes, I know...) and Dawn of War with my clan mates from bf2. After a good year of playing WoW, I stop and went to a Online game which always wanted to try:eve online. Since then, I been playing since.
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Riho
Mercenary Forces
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Posted - 2008.03.18 08:40:00 -
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it all started whit ultima online :P then Dark age of Camelot what i played for allmost 5 years :P and now its eve :)
firts online experiance was whit duke nukem and quake... i played those heavily in lan caffess as my PC didnt have a internet connection.
then came the uber Counter strike (i still play from time) to time :P
i was very into it and even made money whit few friends in local tournaments :P
thats my rough history :P
for those who EvE is first MMO.... you are playing one the best MMOs out there... hard to find anything that can compete
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Tzar'rim
Reckless Corsairs
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Posted - 2008.03.18 08:48:00 -
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erm
- dark age of camelot, since 2001 first on US, later euro. in total almost 5 years.
- city of heroes/villains on and off since the start, US first, later euro.
- EQ2 since the start but gave up after a month, boredom and groupdebt drove me away. Now it's a nice MMO.
- WOW ofcourse, since the start on Euro on and off (on atm).
- Vanguard, for 5 days
- EVE since a while, have been on and off as well, restarted few times.
- tons of other MMO's I forget about because they were either crap or not to my liking.
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Fink Angel
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2008.03.18 09:18:00 -
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Originally by: Kuolematon
Neocron!
Neocron made me sick! Literally. It's the only game I've ever played where the bobbing motion of the camera gave me motion sickness, and I couldn't play it for any length of time.
Apart from that ... DAoC (got to level 50 and then pretty much gave up), City Of Heroes (great initial fun, lacks longevity), Ultima Online (played many, many years ago and never really understood what I was supposed to be doing, so gave up).
I keep coming back to Eve becasue there's so much you can do. So many sub careers. If I'm bored doing one thing, I'll skill up and do another.
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Rawr Cristina
Naqam
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Posted - 2008.03.18 09:27:00 -
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am I the only one who's never played a fantasy MMO? 
I don't know, I guess i've always been allergic to the whole magical elves thing.
First MMO had to have been Darkspace. God I miss that game, but it was pretty much ruined when the devs went and nerfed pretty much all the fun things out of it till all the races were the same and it took an Interdictor to kill ANYONE 
Then I played Mankind... which IMO was an amazing concept (harsh universe / no 'PvE' whatsoever) where you could build a galactic empire type thing and squish other galactic empires.
That got ruined by the devs not even knowing the basics of server maitinence, and not having backed up the database for six months when a crash happened. Fun...
Then EVE came out.
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J Ripper
Silent Retaliation
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Posted - 2008.03.18 09:44:00 -
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EVE was my first MMO, been playing it since 05. However, Since trying out a different game (in nov 07) I am finding it increasingly hard to class EVE as my #1 game choice now :(
I cannot afford to pay for 2 mmo's (well I could but dont see the point), I play EVE for free now, or at least untill my funds for timecards run dry :(
I never PVP'd in eve cos 1) I suck at it, 2) It's too expensive to build a ship up with all my hard earned isk only to be ganked a few gates into lo-sec.
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Rawr Cristina
Naqam
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Posted - 2008.03.18 09:59:00 -
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Originally by: J Ripper
I never PVP'd in eve
Probably why you don't really like it tbh.
I originally played from release in 2003 to mid-2004. During that time, I shot another player ship uh... once?. I got bored, quit, revisited my social life for 2 years before eventually returning and actually bothering to do some pewpew, where I actually started to enjoy myself. I do take regular breaks still but EVE is the only MMO out there I can really stand atm
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Donatien de'Sade
Metalworks
THE INTERSTELLAR FOUNDRY
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Posted - 2008.03.18 10:06:00 -
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My very first mmo - Jumpgate, fps spacceships looking forward to see if the new one is any good.
Eve was my first beta though 
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