Sixcess said:
Fappy said:
Oh man this is great. I will never play EVE, but the way it handles it's world and players needs to be adapted by the genre as a whole. They're doing it right.
This.
I've always wanted to try EVE but I'm way too casual/solo for the game... but even so I think it's an absolute jewel in the MMO crown, and a fantastic example of how to do a real uber-sandbox. Stories like this are a big part of why I think that.
I liked the game in a vast space flight and fighting sense, but three months of playing it told me that it was built for a normal gamer. It's for people that want to have another life that is basically in a sci-fi setting, but operates like real life, but is as ruthless or even more so.
I would at least somewhat fine with it, if the game's mechanics fit with it. You basically level by learning more skills and improving those skills. Even the most minor system or ability you have to buy a skill book for and go through the training process, and even the lowest training level takes hours, only on very small things is it any less. Beyond that the training time gets larger and larger, some even taking a full month or more to train, and for a good long while, you can only train one skill at a time. Because of this it is a very good idea to buy a clone, because if your character is killed without a proper clone, you can restart that character, but all the training you did is lost.
It is definitely not solo friendly, as it can take months just to train and get the ISK needed to get to just the third ship tier and be able to use it. I did just that, but wondered into a low security sector, I was able to handle the NPC pirates just fine. I took out quite a few and got enough salvage that it was worth more than I had ever earned in high security space in a month, in just one day. ......But then I got attacked by two real life player pirates, they made quick work of my cruiser, then held my life pod in a holding beam, and told me that I could live if I handed over 50 million ISK, I had only 2 Million because of my recent cruiser and high skill point clone purchases, so they killed me. I only had basic insurance on my ship, so I barely got 1/20th the actual price of what it took to get it.
The game rewards people for being bullies, pirates, and downright dicks. If it took only a few days to get anywhere, then I'd be fine with it. But with how slow it is skill up and gain money being nice and honest, I just can't play it. And I also forgot to mention that the economy is so overpriced and inflated it isn't even funny, the real world economy has nothing on EVE. Seriously, life in EVE is harder than real life. When you scrimp and save and work hard by yourself in real life to get something, double that time or more and for anything you want in EVE, at least that is what the world would be like if it ran like EVE.
When Yahtzee said it was a game that he most likely saw as one that businessmen played behind their desks at work, he wasn't kidding. It is a game tailor made for cut-throat business types.