EVE Online

Well, I just gave up on EVE. If I said I enjoyed  the 3 months I was there I would be lying, but I believe the game wasn't for me.

What I wish EVE had...

Little more action based.... In my final week I was on Level 4 missions, challenging sort of but i found myself on a sub-afk mode (in my Drake). Watching TV and looking at my ship time after time, just to change my missle target (BTW this was solo). Mining- almost full afk... i put my keyboard on my monitor and did my college homework with a my corp (about 20 peeps in the belt).

I guess some peeps get a kick out of being almost semi-afk throughout their game experience, but I don't know. I think I'm looking for a game with a little more action.

On my 2nd month, my corp got wardecced (War between Corps). So again we did a blockade on their station.. and again I went semi-afk until they left their station or they logged on. The fight lasted about 30 min with them darting back and forth with their microwarp drives on.

Tried pirate hunting with a my corp mates... we found one, warp disrupted him bam he was dead. (only excitement i had).

Then we gate camped.... Z Z z z. Killed a couple pods.

I guess the game isn't for me, but I just don't get it. All the systems I went into .4 and below were barren. Just me in an entire system doing a .2 complex.

When I went to 0.0, just people hanging out at gates waiting for the next sucker to come through.

Just seemed that all the encounters I did. I either outnumbered the guy or he outnumbered me, thus the winner was the guy with either more peeps, or the guy with a million or two more sp than me. In the end I had 3 mil SP. I know everyone says that with EVE having SP lets everyone be able to become skilled in one area of the game... but not having skills in other areas makes the game very boring IMO.

Later EVE. It was interesting. Just alittle to slow for me. Give me some ASWD controls on my ship or make the game faster paced.

Heh Amen to that!

U'r absolutely rigth, sad, but true.

Shoulda came and hung out with us.  You woulda had more fun.

Can I have your stuff?  (sorry had to say it

You should get into a 0.0-Alliance at war, not into a gatecamping carebearalliance. You just took the three most boring parts of eve.. ;)

Originally posted by treefitty

Well, I just gave up on EVE. If I said I enjoyed  the 3 months I was there I would be lying, but I believe the game wasn't for me.

What I wish EVE had...

Little more action based.... In my final week I was on Level 4 missions, challenging sort of but i found myself on a sub-afk mode (in my Drake). Watching TV and looking at my ship time after time, just to change my missle target (BTW this was solo). Mining- almost full afk... i put my keyboard on my monitor and did my college homework with a my corp (about 20 peeps in the belt).

I guess some peeps get a kick out of being almost semi-afk throughout their game experience, but I don't know. I think I'm looking for a game with a little more action.

On my 2nd month, my corp got wardecced (War between Corps). So again we did a blockade on their station.. and again I went semi-afk until they left their station or they logged on. The fight lasted about 30 min with them darting back and forth with their microwarp drives on.

Tried pirate hunting with a my corp mates... we found one, warp disrupted him bam he was dead. (only excitement i had).

Then we gate camped.... Z Z z z. Killed a couple pods.

I guess the game isn't for me, but I just don't get it. All the systems I went into .4 and below were barren. Just me in an entire system doing a .2 complex.

When I went to 0.0, just people hanging out at gates waiting for the next sucker to come through.

Just seemed that all the encounters I did. I either outnumbered the guy or he outnumbered me, thus the winner was the guy with either more peeps, or the guy with a million or two more sp than me. In the end I had 3 mil SP. I know everyone says that with EVE having SP lets everyone be able to become skilled in one area of the game... but not having skills in other areas makes the game very boring IMO.

Later EVE. It was interesting. Just alittle to slow for me. Give me some ASWD controls on my ship or make the game faster paced.

 

 

We've all been there M8. Just some friendly advice...Keep training your character if you can...just take core skills (shield and armor resistance skills would work) and space ship command skills to level 5 and let them train...if you decide to come back later you will be sooo glad you did.

I was going to keep my subscription and come on change a skill, but then I thought about it. It costs me 15 dollars a month to 'play' EVE. But if all I do for the next 3 months or so is log on and change skill then log off. I would have spent 45 dollars, not including the 20 dollars for the game, and the two months of subscription I have already paid for. So in all, I would pay 95 dollars for a program that all I did was log on change skill then log off. So in 5 months I logged back on with a character with a good amount of skillpoints to do reasonably well in 0.0.... and then I figure out if I like the game?

No offense but that doesn't sound like fun to me. I want to enjoy the next 3 months of playing the game.

I play games to enjoy them. Don't get me wrong seeing all the stuff in the first few weeks was cool, but to get where I wanna go by offline sp training just doesn't seem enjoyable to me.

I guess I'm just one of those crazy people that play a game for enjoyment.

If i don't enjoy the game at 2 mil sp, I don't think, I'll enjoy the game anymore after offline training to lets say 7 million sp.

I think I'm looking for more of an action based game earlier on.

Plus if i came back to EVE, then decided to move into 0.0. The dread of transporting my cargo 36 jumps to a new corp, doesn't get me that warm fuzzy feeling.

Enjoy :). I wish I had the patience and the money to get a high sp character in EVE.

You didnt quite understand. ;)

Take the time left to train lets say your racial battleship to 4. Then start training lvl5, and cancel the sub.

You skill will proceed to train, so when you decide to come back, you will have some nice bonus (t2 battleships..)

Yeah, whatever skill you have training when your sub expires or you cancel it will KEEP training until its done.  So when you do cancel make sure you set a big one like Battleship lvl 5 and it will be done when / if you decide to come back some time.

Originally posted by treefitty

Well, I just gave up on EVE. If I said I enjoyed  the 3 months I was there I would be lying, but I believe the game wasn't for me.

What I wish EVE had...

Little more action based.... In my final week I was on Level 4 missions, challenging sort of but i found myself on a sub-afk mode (in my Drake). Watching TV and looking at my ship time after time, just to change my missle target (BTW this was solo). Mining- almost full afk... i put my keyboard on my monitor and did my college homework with a my corp (about 20 peeps in the belt).

I guess some peeps get a kick out of being almost semi-afk throughout their game experience, but I don't know. I think I'm looking for a game with a little more action.

On my 2nd month, my corp got wardecced (War between Corps). So again we did a blockade on their station.. and again I went semi-afk until they left their station or they logged on. The fight lasted about 30 min with them darting back and forth with their microwarp drives on.

Tried pirate hunting with a my corp mates... we found one, warp disrupted him bam he was dead. (only excitement i had).

Then we gate camped.... Z Z z z. Killed a couple pods.

I guess the game isn't for me, but I just don't get it. All the systems I went into .4 and below were barren. Just me in an entire system doing a .2 complex.

When I went to 0.0, just people hanging out at gates waiting for the next sucker to come through.

Just seemed that all the encounters I did. I either outnumbered the guy or he outnumbered me, thus the winner was the guy with either more peeps, or the guy with a million or two more sp than me. In the end I had 3 mil SP. I know everyone says that with EVE having SP lets everyone be able to become skilled in one area of the game... but not having skills in other areas makes the game very boring IMO.

Later EVE. It was interesting. Just alittle to slow for me. Give me some ASWD controls on my ship or make the game faster paced.

 

 

Exactly, this isn't like Earth and Beyond - so sad :(. Although I heard Microsoft acquired Earth and Beyond and it will be released next year - I can't wait!