Tell me a bit about Eve Online?
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Tell me a bit about Eve Online?
by sissy55 » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:14 pm
So a friend and I went to Best Buy today to buy some parts for my computer and we decided to check out the game section. While there he picked up the Eve Online box and was reading about it. He ended up buying it and is trying to convince me to get it as well. I like the sound of it, teaming up with friends and taking over others. Space Pirates and all. I just had a few questions. What is the objective? Do you actually have a char you control or is the only thing you control is a ship and your char is just a little pic? Is the value of the game worth buying? Like I said before I like the sound of it... but i am afraid it is going to be a big let down (I have been playing W.o.W since beta) and have gotten used to W.o.W and only W.o.W. Tried to play Conan and did not like it that much. Tried to go back to Guild Wars and can't do it.. lacks way to much content. Tell me what you like about Eve and all I guess.
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by wxp01 » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:50 pm
"Captain, our sensors seem to be picking up a huge wall of text..."
EvE online is a very amazing game. Before i start, ill tell you Ive been playing for 3 years, so it might be a bit bias.
EvE online is a game that is all just trying to find your niche in the game. They do this by giving you lots of options in terms of occupations. There's bounty hunters - Chase people with big bounties(very rare), Pirates - Find targets in low sec and attack them, ransom them, or just murder them, Anti-pirates - kill pirates (duh), Huge Alliances - They take over null sec and set up Player owned Starbases and Stations, there's people in industry, Like Mining, Building ships - from materials and blueprints, Trading - normal carry goods form one place to the other for profit, Mission Runners - they do the various missions the agents in the stations give out.
The list goes on.
Right now you can only control your ship and your character is just a pic, but in the vary vary near future they are coming out with an expansion(free like always) to make your avatars interact in stations, but no combat and such.
You objective is what you make it to be, depending on your occupation. I'm a pirate, I'm hoping to make my bounty reach the number one most wanted, right now I'm number 13.
The thing is, its not normal a game you play for 13 hours straight in a raid group. But the cool thing about EvE is you CAN if you want, you can play it as much as you want or as little and still compete.
The Learning curve is extremely steep which causes a lot of people to quit, but it still has a huge player base and has on peak around 50,000 players online, this is on one server, there's only one(technically its a cluster but all players are together)
EvE isn't for everyone, you need patient and a lot of it. Skills take days to train, and once you get to the god ones (level 5s) months. In my experience WoW players don't like it to much, unless they are looking for something totally different.
Now you can try it for free. you don't need to buy the box. Your friend didn't buy the game, he bought 2 months of gameplay. The game is to download but there's a small activation fee and the monthly fees. But you can try the trial and convert it to a subscription if you like it. But to be honest, you cant experience eve in 15 days, or even a month for that matter.
In the end it's up to you. You can just go to their website and sign up for the trial, but everything you see and do in the trial, is only about 0.050% of the game.
EvE online is a very amazing game. Before i start, ill tell you Ive been playing for 3 years, so it might be a bit bias.
EvE online is a game that is all just trying to find your niche in the game. They do this by giving you lots of options in terms of occupations. There's bounty hunters - Chase people with big bounties(very rare), Pirates - Find targets in low sec and attack them, ransom them, or just murder them, Anti-pirates - kill pirates (duh), Huge Alliances - They take over null sec and set up Player owned Starbases and Stations, there's people in industry, Like Mining, Building ships - from materials and blueprints, Trading - normal carry goods form one place to the other for profit, Mission Runners - they do the various missions the agents in the stations give out.
The list goes on.
Right now you can only control your ship and your character is just a pic, but in the vary vary near future they are coming out with an expansion(free like always) to make your avatars interact in stations, but no combat and such.
You objective is what you make it to be, depending on your occupation. I'm a pirate, I'm hoping to make my bounty reach the number one most wanted, right now I'm number 13.
The thing is, its not normal a game you play for 13 hours straight in a raid group. But the cool thing about EvE is you CAN if you want, you can play it as much as you want or as little and still compete.
The Learning curve is extremely steep which causes a lot of people to quit, but it still has a huge player base and has on peak around 50,000 players online, this is on one server, there's only one(technically its a cluster but all players are together)
EvE isn't for everyone, you need patient and a lot of it. Skills take days to train, and once you get to the god ones (level 5s) months. In my experience WoW players don't like it to much, unless they are looking for something totally different.
Now you can try it for free. you don't need to buy the box. Your friend didn't buy the game, he bought 2 months of gameplay. The game is to download but there's a small activation fee and the monthly fees. But you can try the trial and convert it to a subscription if you like it. But to be honest, you cant experience eve in 15 days, or even a month for that matter.
In the end it's up to you. You can just go to their website and sign up for the trial, but everything you see and do in the trial, is only about 0.050% of the game.
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