punkorange
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Okay, so I got the free 14 day trial of eve online, and it looks really cool. I just don't know anyone who plays, so I'm curious what enworlders play.
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Eve Online
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I'm a relatively new Eve Online player myself. I got turned onto it by a couple of friends I made in Anarchy Online. I don't have a lot of time to play, so the learn-even-while-offline system works great for me.
If you want to concentrate on Combat to start out, I suggest starting as Caldari/Civire. Mining in High Sec is the easiest (if somewhat slow early on) way to make some starting cash, so you'll definitely want to spend some time doing so. After a month or two, you may very well have a highly specific notion as to what sort of character you want to build, at which point you can either redirect your toon's focus or simply shelve him and start a new one if the starting build doesn't fit well.
Regardless, do spend the time early on to train your Learning/Ability boosting skills. It seems boring, since they don't directly affect your in-game capabilities, but bumping those up to Level IV and then getting the second set up to Level IV as quickly as possible will save you immense amounts of time (days and weeks, not hours) training other skills down the road (you can, however, put Charisma on the backburner for the most part until something else you want requires you to start boosting it, as it doesn't boost training times all that much).
Oh, and if you decide to subscribe, get yourself a copy of EveMon. It's absolutely essential to character development.
If you want to concentrate on Combat to start out, I suggest starting as Caldari/Civire. Mining in High Sec is the easiest (if somewhat slow early on) way to make some starting cash, so you'll definitely want to spend some time doing so. After a month or two, you may very well have a highly specific notion as to what sort of character you want to build, at which point you can either redirect your toon's focus or simply shelve him and start a new one if the starting build doesn't fit well.
Regardless, do spend the time early on to train your Learning/Ability boosting skills. It seems boring, since they don't directly affect your in-game capabilities, but bumping those up to Level IV and then getting the second set up to Level IV as quickly as possible will save you immense amounts of time (days and weeks, not hours) training other skills down the road (you can, however, put Charisma on the backburner for the most part until something else you want requires you to start boosting it, as it doesn't boost training times all that much).
Oh, and if you decide to subscribe, get yourself a copy of EveMon. It's absolutely essential to character development.
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Neo
Explorer
There are some really nice folks playing EVE, but as with any MMO you get your muppet contingent too. It is however a very good game IF you like PvP, if like me you prefer the PvE and Crafting side of things then sooner or later you will run into a brick wall with EVE as eventually you have to go low sec in order to get the materials to keep crafting (unless you want to pay the typically exorbitently greedy prices set by players as per usual MMO style) and once your low sec, if you stop for any period of time you going to get taken...taken hard and without lubrication 
And very few will just take you down to a pod..most will pod kill also..and dying soon becomes REAL expensive.
There are some fairly huge Corporations of players in the game that have PvP'ing down to a fine art, I had some arrangements to function unharrassed (even protecteD) in low sec with one of the larger pirate corps in exchange for a % of my mined ore per trip. And I had some fairly enlightening conversations with them on thier pvping and they have it down as I say to a fine art, they miss little and thier is a heck of a lot of fine tuning, technique to it that the tutorials etc..dont even come close to hinting at. I was quite frankly, amazed at how involved and specialised thier process for scanning, identifying, and engaging targets was and what equipment your ship mounts makes a huge difference.
However as I say, if you not into pvp though then you REALLY need to steer clear of low sec systems (Except for passing through, as pvpers generally only attempt to take folks who linger), and that means being only so much you can do (plenty of random missions, or player created delivery contracts, though be sure to check the security rating of the start and end points and the systems you'll need to pass through to reach it before accepting), and especially if you want to craft then eventually you just cannot function in anyway that makes money, because you need low sec minerals and you cant get them yourself without risking the expense of losing a ship and all its gear.
Also beware of a certain contingent of scum bag that take out a low inexpensive ship and then put some tempting items in it (heavy missiles etc...) or other valuable gear, while one low level shuttle or other unintimidating vessel sits far away seemingly innocently going about its busines,s but is in fact keep a close eye on who loots the wreck.
As the intent is to draw people in to loot the wreck, which once they do they alert the battleships or whatever that are typically waiting one jump away, who then appear and blow said looter to smitherenes, netting them a safe pvp kill and whatever gear they can salvage from that players ship. Yup, it is a crafty (and despicable) method for pvp'ing in the safety of high sec space with no risk to themselves at all. I cannot count the number of times I saw people falling for this and getting mobbed by groups of smug (no doubt 10 year olds) patting themselve son the back and thinking they've been clever.
Anyway the by and large of it is, if you like PVP then EVE is an awesome game with heaps to offer, but if you are more PvE or dont like PVP at all then this game only has so much to offer before it becomes untenable to advance much further into some of the more interestign aspects of the game. (player made and run stations for example... can only be made in low sec, making them preyed on by every pvpers who lays eye on them, exploration, have to go low sec to do it makign you prey for every pvper, crafting eventually need low sec ores making you prey for every pvper etc..etc...the list goes on).
I would also add that EVE is not a very sociable game particularly, unless you join a corp. Otherwise the most player contact you will have usually is the odd rare exception who likes to chat or talking via the various channels, where mostly you will be ignored as you have try to follow a conversation through a monotony of mixed conversations and general nonsense that would be better off left to private chat.
I enjoyed EVE though not being a PVP'er in any regard nor having interest in that aspect eventually it just played out interestwise for me. Well, that and the scandal where one of the Devs was caught out giving the best blueprints form the Research lottery to hiw own friends (seriously not on).
And very few will just take you down to a pod..most will pod kill also..and dying soon becomes REAL expensive. There are some fairly huge Corporations of players in the game that have PvP'ing down to a fine art, I had some arrangements to function unharrassed (even protecteD) in low sec with one of the larger pirate corps in exchange for a % of my mined ore per trip. And I had some fairly enlightening conversations with them on thier pvping and they have it down as I say to a fine art, they miss little and thier is a heck of a lot of fine tuning, technique to it that the tutorials etc..dont even come close to hinting at. I was quite frankly, amazed at how involved and specialised thier process for scanning, identifying, and engaging targets was and what equipment your ship mounts makes a huge difference.
However as I say, if you not into pvp though then you REALLY need to steer clear of low sec systems (Except for passing through, as pvpers generally only attempt to take folks who linger), and that means being only so much you can do (plenty of random missions, or player created delivery contracts, though be sure to check the security rating of the start and end points and the systems you'll need to pass through to reach it before accepting), and especially if you want to craft then eventually you just cannot function in anyway that makes money, because you need low sec minerals and you cant get them yourself without risking the expense of losing a ship and all its gear.
Also beware of a certain contingent of scum bag that take out a low inexpensive ship and then put some tempting items in it (heavy missiles etc...) or other valuable gear, while one low level shuttle or other unintimidating vessel sits far away seemingly innocently going about its busines,s but is in fact keep a close eye on who loots the wreck.
As the intent is to draw people in to loot the wreck, which once they do they alert the battleships or whatever that are typically waiting one jump away, who then appear and blow said looter to smitherenes, netting them a safe pvp kill and whatever gear they can salvage from that players ship. Yup, it is a crafty (and despicable) method for pvp'ing in the safety of high sec space with no risk to themselves at all. I cannot count the number of times I saw people falling for this and getting mobbed by groups of smug (no doubt 10 year olds) patting themselve son the back and thinking they've been clever.
Anyway the by and large of it is, if you like PVP then EVE is an awesome game with heaps to offer, but if you are more PvE or dont like PVP at all then this game only has so much to offer before it becomes untenable to advance much further into some of the more interestign aspects of the game. (player made and run stations for example... can only be made in low sec, making them preyed on by every pvpers who lays eye on them, exploration, have to go low sec to do it makign you prey for every pvper, crafting eventually need low sec ores making you prey for every pvper etc..etc...the list goes on).
I would also add that EVE is not a very sociable game particularly, unless you join a corp. Otherwise the most player contact you will have usually is the odd rare exception who likes to chat or talking via the various channels, where mostly you will be ignored as you have try to follow a conversation through a monotony of mixed conversations and general nonsense that would be better off left to private chat.
I enjoyed EVE though not being a PVP'er in any regard nor having interest in that aspect eventually it just played out interestwise for me. Well, that and the scandal where one of the Devs was caught out giving the best blueprints form the Research lottery to hiw own friends (seriously not on).
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Welcome to Eve! I've been playing since early 2006, am now in Stain with my alliance, Hammer Time. There are at least a dozen EN Worlders playing Eve, and there's a channel for us called ENWORLD (you are free to join).
Currently, I'm on a break, back into it in August. Over xmas time and early this year, I've been playing way too much, so I took a step back.
It's a great game, and yes there are the occasional muppets.
Here are a couple of past Eve threads from this forum:
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=191310
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=191815
Currently, I'm on a break, back into it in August. Over xmas time and early this year, I've been playing way too much, so I took a step back.
It's a great game, and yes there are the occasional muppets.
Here are a couple of past Eve threads from this forum:
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=191310
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=191815
