rbstewart7263 said:
Ldude893 said:
This is what I have in mind when I imagine the most big-ass space battle of all time.
EVE Online is a game for insane grinders and virtual tycoons, and I won't even put a toe into that game. But man, just watching these players...
Dude Ive tried to get into it twice but while its so damned intriguing! I just cant let myself get into it really.
Unlike most other games there are ways around the grind if you use you're brain, be creative or build up a good network of contacts.
And the lack of imagination is often the thing that puts many newcommers off, as most gamers who have played other themepark MMOs they go into Eve with pre formed notions that Eve plays much the same way.
Most MMO gamers will start a trial and play the same way as WoW. Ie do nothing but grind away a few boring missions or mine, fly into low sec alone expecting some easy pvp and get gang banged on the 1st gate leaving safe high sec. Now they have lost their ship they are back to square one, see the grinding as wasted time and rage quit.
Luckly Eve was my first MMO (and the only since I don't want to play another) so I was more flexible in learning how to enjoy the game.
Eve can be divided up into 2 major activities, Making isk and loosing isk in PVP both have more than one way of going about it, and the games sandbox nature means half the time you create your own fun. If you are going into the game expecting to grind for isk then thats alot of time spent grinding. Joining a good corp with fun ppl is a must, plus having 2 or more accounts to run alts at the same time will help greatly, it also allows you to diversify the things you can do as you can train different characters up to do different things, plus train a pvp character up to battleships to get you into a 0.0 owning corp, where all the interesting things happen and you can make isk very quickly.
For example PVP due to logistics can take a while to get going, having an alt run missions at the same time will keep you busy and make isk in the bargin, same goes for mining where normally you need someone to haul in a cargo transport, missions can be run much quicker so you make money quicker, flying an expensive ship? get an alt in a fast frigate or cloaker and scout out the systems ahead. Most easy kills are lone players jumping into a new system blind.
OFC you should be able to do all of this with other ppl in a good corp, but this allows you to be flexible which helps greatly. The best thing about running 2 accounts at the same time is that it gives you more to do and stops you from getting bored. Next time you play give it a try you should enjoy the game better. (2 monitors or 1 big monitor with 2 instances of Eve in windows is how to play)
