Has Eve Online changed enough to be worth coming back to?
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I don't play EVE myself but I think that for the sake of comparison it'd be handy if you'd include the moment you stopped playing. As a point of reference.
I don't play it, but my girlfriend does. Or did, around a year ago. When I asked her about it, she told me the problem that she has with it is that as you level up, the amount you can get done in, say, one month's subscription falls drastically, what with the skills training in real time. To the point where it sounds like you'd have to be playing all the time to make any worthwhile headway.
I imagine the only redeemer then is being part of a large alliance, because then you're helping do things on a grander scale, which I imagine is satisfying. That said, essentially being someone else's drone in such a game would essentially just be like having a second job.
I imagine the only redeemer then is being part of a large alliance, because then you're helping do things on a grander scale, which I imagine is satisfying. That said, essentially being someone else's drone in such a game would essentially just be like having a second job.
Depends on what you can fly (or more importantly like to fly.) The last few fights I was in escalated up to supers and carriers quickly and I got bored and quit. On one hand it's good to be in big fights, but when fights are dominated by just a few people it gets old quickly. It was still fun to hop in a destroyer solo or in fleet, but it has got hard to get a fight.
Most of null was incredibly boring largely due to everyone flying drone boats with drones under the command of the leader - no pilot skill needed in such fleets (last fight I had I pressed about four keys, that was it - really really dull.) CCP are doing something with drones, but for me it's too late. I ended up playing Tera instead - best PvP in any game I've played and I'm hoping Star Citizen will offer something EvE didn't.
Most of null was incredibly boring largely due to everyone flying drone boats with drones under the command of the leader - no pilot skill needed in such fleets (last fight I had I pressed about four keys, that was it - really really dull.) CCP are doing something with drones, but for me it's too late. I ended up playing Tera instead - best PvP in any game I've played and I'm hoping Star Citizen will offer something EvE didn't.
I quit too around 2012, and have been wondering this same question. My reasons were that I went to live to wormhole space and it got boring soon. You would either have nobody to play with (and you DID need someone to play with), or you would have people to run the same sites, over and over again, or chase shadows and scan down ships that actually were inside POS.
I remember the game foundly tho. I loved to heart the ships, the mythos, the UI...
I started reading about Star Citizen yesterday, and it shocked me how good it seems. It's like EVE with Freelancer's combat system, and hundreds of improvements to every single complaint I had about EVE. Got so instantly hyped that I threw 32? in for the alpha+beta+game pack (the Aurora Mr+).
I remember the game foundly tho. I loved to heart the ships, the mythos, the UI...
I started reading about Star Citizen yesterday, and it shocked me how good it seems. It's like EVE with Freelancer's combat system, and hundreds of improvements to every single complaint I had about EVE. Got so instantly hyped that I threw 32? in for the alpha+beta+game pack (the Aurora Mr+).
Sooo 2012 let me think.backster said:
Incursions and Faction War are the big things that did came in since the start of 2012. Every non-capital except pirates has been rebalanced.
Goons have formed a donut in 00.
Lowsec is now mostly Frig fights.
Ganking Freighters is now profitable from 1 billion upwarts.
Highsec income got slightly nerfed.
3 New faction ships frig cruiser BS.
That should be the most important. Sorry I cant think of more I'm just a lowsec pirate
C5-6 should be more people now.Qvar said:
And if you expect that Star Citizen is like Eve with Freelancer's combat system then you are gonna left a little bit disapointed
I wanted to focus on Mining when I started playing as I had the ability to mine for hours without lossing my mind. But after a bit of harassment and attempted suicide ganking (I lucked out and jumped a few seconds before they instantly popped three hulks and two Orcas.) I decided then to start learning the skills to fly combat ships so I could fight back as I hate being a victim.
Honestly the majority of the ships I own and Pilot are Mining and Hauling though I did branch out all the way to command ship for the Caldari and ORE ( I love the Orca!).
What I am wondering is if there is still a hardy grouping of chuckle head still insta popping Mining vessels for the Lolz or did that practice finally flame out?
Honestly the majority of the ships I own and Pilot are Mining and Hauling though I did branch out all the way to command ship for the Caldari and ORE ( I love the Orca!).
What I am wondering is if there is still a hardy grouping of chuckle head still insta popping Mining vessels for the Lolz or did that practice finally flame out?
Last time I checked, mining ships have been rebalanced quite a bit, and when I was playing last year, I had my mining alt on for quite some time, nobody tried to suicide gank me, so although I'm sure there're still some people like that (there always are, and always will be) it doesn't seem so big of a problem.backster said:
I forgot the mining barge overhaul -.-backster said:
In short: Every mining barge/exhumer can now mine everything but with different efficency. Hulk has the highest yield, but lowest ehp, mackinaw the highest cargo and skiff the highest tank.
Oh yeah and if you fit your ship for max yield without any tank mods you deserve to be shot down
Well I decided to go back and found that when I came into the game that the system I was currently parked in was now being invaded by pirate hordes! I had to laugh as I finally go back to get caught up in an invasion =) I was lucky and only took a few hits into armor before making it back to station, I never thought I would survive a battle ship and three escorts but my tank held till I warped!
It is better than when I was last playing with some really good UI changes and better information on the modules and tool tips. Now is the time for me to re-learning the whole game again as I am so darn rusty.
It is better than when I was last playing with some really good UI changes and better information on the modules and tool tips. Now is the time for me to re-learning the whole game again as I am so darn rusty.
backster said:
I've tried to play EVE on a few occasions, and really the answer to this is going to depend on whether the people you played with are still there and will take you back, or if you think you can find a large corp to team up with. As a solo player or someone who just hangs with one or two people it gets rather boring, especially if your not really into PVP. As many people will tell you, EVE is a niche title, it's for a very specific group of people who both "get it" and also enjoy the type of game that understanding brings with it.
To put things into perspective, The Escapist covered a rather huge battle between two huge alliances not to long ago which saw a massive amount of damage done, with titans getting crushed like eggshells and whatever else. Consider though that we're talking years of effort and building going into a petty conflict that really accomplished very little except to show who's nuts were bigger. There is an appeal in that kind of thing I suppose, and the fight itself was cool, but when you see thousands and thousands of man hours combined with $15 fees every month to CCP, all for a fancier way of kicking over someone's sand castle, it takes a certain kind of person to appreciate it.
Qvar, I am sorry to hear that your character is stuck in the POS wormhole. I got stuck in one once but lucked out and finally found my way out flying a Hulk...I had epic level butt puckering the whole four hours of dodging ships and hoping the next leap is the leap to high sec or a one way ticket to a cold float in space. I hit low sec and popped the WH while a group was trying to get their miners through I made it to the gate with a quarter of hull left and no more drones...but I made it!
Therumancer that is so true it does take a certain kind of person to play Eve and get the most out of it. My friends have all left the game and the Corp I was in went into wormhole and became a shadow military corp that has all but dropped off the map including killing their website and changing their character names...real weird. I know folks that still play but I will not contact them in game as they are strictly all in your face PVP and I am not truly setup skill wise for becoming a pirate.
Seeing that I am pretty much starting back in by my lonesome I will keep on eye out for a corp that will happily take my oddly skilled self and see what happens.
Therumancer that is so true it does take a certain kind of person to play Eve and get the most out of it. My friends have all left the game and the Corp I was in went into wormhole and became a shadow military corp that has all but dropped off the map including killing their website and changing their character names...real weird. I know folks that still play but I will not contact them in game as they are strictly all in your face PVP and I am not truly setup skill wise for becoming a pirate.
Seeing that I am pretty much starting back in by my lonesome I will keep on eye out for a corp that will happily take my oddly skilled self and see what happens.
Honestly they probably didn't they just changed to a new character and trained them up while I was gone and then removed their old Character names. That would be my guess as if they were just off line the characters would still be listed in the index and they aren't anymore.
I played about 4 years ago just after worm holes was introduced, and keep on getting urges to resub but I won't because:-
it's a MMO which are timesinks and while I could play casually the subscription makes it too expensive to play that way, also I've way too many games to play even without juggling a MMO.
I've lost my passwords to my 2 accounts and while I should be able to get my main back (PVE), I'm not so sure about my alt account (PVP) which doesn't have my real address and details since I made a bogus char trying to get in on a deal for free game time. I don't think I could bear to lose even one of those accounts considering the time and investments made to them
My toons and most of my assets are in deep 0.0, I would need a refresher in how to play the game and I don't think loggin in to 0.0 safe spots in expensive ships and no rights to dock in the alliance owned stations makes a good tutorial .
it's a MMO which are timesinks and while I could play casually the subscription makes it too expensive to play that way, also I've way too many games to play even without juggling a MMO.
I've lost my passwords to my 2 accounts and while I should be able to get my main back (PVE), I'm not so sure about my alt account (PVP) which doesn't have my real address and details since I made a bogus char trying to get in on a deal for free game time. I don't think I could bear to lose even one of those accounts considering the time and investments made to them
My toons and most of my assets are in deep 0.0, I would need a refresher in how to play the game and I don't think loggin in to 0.0 safe spots in expensive ships and no rights to dock in the alliance owned stations makes a good tutorial .