' Wrote:I'm trying (desperately) to stay away from it myself, because I know I'll get hooked on it, and cough up the money for it when the trial is over! :wacko:
Its really not as expensive as a lot of other online games are. EVE is just 15.99 a month, and that gets you EVERYTHING. Unlike those that have you pay monthly, then you have to pay a bit more for the special stuff or whatever. Also, eventually you can pay for your subscription with in-game money, but its likely to take you a year to get to that point (where I am right now) as you'll need to be able to fly very good ships and you basically have to grind level IV missions 2 hours a day. But when you do, you'll make enough money to pay for your subscription with in-game ISK each month, as well as having money for the things you'll need to buy.
No if EVE is clicking the squares and hitting F1-F12 all day that is not fighting. That is watching a game fight for you which is retarded and boring. Thats like WoW which is even worse than EVE.
Freelancer is good because you can actually control your own ship.
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Eve felt too much like wow in space to me... I kinda have a lfe besides my gaming persona.. it's called real life where I have to be a hubby and dad and provider and all that other stuff. It is very frustrating to get pwnzed by some kid that I can't even see because he is so dang far away!
Then, to add insult to injury, you are kind of rediculed if you don't know all the ins and outs (and Eve is riddled with them) of the game... (not unlike wow and other no lifer grinding epics).
HEY... thats awesome... NLGE - no lifer grinding epic... much more suitable a name than MMORPG... those long assed grinding games steal your life man! You sit down at your PC one day and click 'install' and the next thing you know, it's a couple of months later and you've become an antisocial cannon.
Disco is great for people who want to be able to have a life other than the one and a half year grind to uber Faction King...
Needless to say, I did not enjoy Eve at all, I only found the dang game because I was googling Freelancer 2 anyway heh heh.
I have been playing EVE for about 25 days now and i can say it fits in great with the time i spend at uni/work/socialising/getting my ass handed to me on Disco. I really enjoy the dynamics of the game, supply and demand of the market is awesome. Its great fun to have to peg it through some low security system to try and meet a contract handed to you, before some other git gets there first.
And btw anyone who wants to play from the UK, i found an american site that sells the timecards, 90 days for 19 quid. To me that is worthwhile, if it was 16 quid a month i might not have gone for it...
' Wrote:I have been playing EVE for about 25 days now and i can say it fits in great with the time i spend at uni/work/socialising/getting my ass handed to me on Disco. I really enjoy the dynamics of the game, supply and demand of the market is awesome. Its great fun to have to peg it through some low security system to try and meet a contract handed to you, before some other git gets there first.
And btw anyone who wants to play from the UK, i found an american site that sells the timecards, 90 days for 19 quid. To me that is worthwhile, if it was 16 quid a month i might not have gone for it...
*Mucho respect for your time mangement skilz*
I am sooo not worthy!
My addictive personality borders somewhere between epic phail and mental institution!
Theres several things stopping me from playing EVE.
1) Nothing in my house can run it.
2) Lack of money to pay the subscription.
3) Lack of time to devote to it.
4) Got fed up with the holy-then-thou attitude and bitchness on the EVE forums, if I want that sort of thing I'd be in an office job.
5) Extreme lag when I was playing meant that doing anything other then mining meant I'd lose my ship.
Losing a ship to a mistake or underestimating opponents is one thing, losing a ship because of the 50+ enemies, gas clouds, not to mention horde of objects (wrecks, roids, ancient stations) to render gets old fast.
I did find a nice little game (darkspace), tightknit community feel, they didn't make new players feel like fools for asking questions etc. Reason I'm not playing it? It crashed/kicked me off the server everything single time I got into a PvP fight, after three times I took the hint and uninstalled it.
Dab, which alliance are you part of? I was playing for a long time, but mostly money issues came up. I have plans to bring my account back up for a bit, but being an Indie....well, that just not the wise choice anymore it seems.
EVE to me is just about the only PTP game out there worth it to me. I dont have to be a "clicker" like in WoW to work on skills, nor worry that time spent offline is wasted, as your skills still train while you are offline.
Granted, grinding for ISk can be boring, and without a decent goal in mind, with all the skills, its easy to loose track of what you wnat to be.
Every good game has its positive and negitive aspects, Eve is no different. Still, I enjoyed playing and will likely enjoy it again once I am back.
I'have been playin EVE for over and year now, played Freelancer for an year or so before that. The game mechanics are a very different from Freelancer, so most Freelancer players might not like and some might just love it.
If you want to just fight then EVE is not for you, yes it is a PvP game (as said by its developers) but you can't sustain yourself if you just want to PvP.
Plus the other big factor in EVE is that when you loose your ship, you actually loose it alongwith all equipment mounted on it, so it might turn away some folks.
Anyways I play both EVE and Freelancer and love both their playstyles:D
DO NOT GET IT.
Guys, you all may hate me but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE listen to me.
Soon, all the games you will have to pay for online. Do NOT buy it.
i dont know about you but i refuse to pay anymore for a game than when you buy it.
S U P P O R T FREELANCER! HAHA 15 BUCKS A MONTH! ROFL!!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHA. you could buy a new good game every 2 months for that. Waste O' Cash...
' Wrote:DO NOT GET IT.
Guys, you all may hate me but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE listen to me.
Soon, all the games you will have to pay for online. Do NOT buy it.
i dont know about you but i refuse to pay anymore for a game than when you buy it.
S U P P O R T FREELANCER! HAHA 15 BUCKS A MONTH! ROFL!!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHA. you could buy a new good game every 2 months for that. Waste O' Cash...
You try running a gameserver that supports 50.000+ players from your home. And for free.
Actually, the Tranquility supercluster occupies a WHOLE building, and needs a certain amount of $$$ to keep it running: Electricity, Internet Connectivity, Hardware maintenance, IT staff...
Servers of the size of Freelancer can be run from a private party, but the dedicated servers of EVE... no. So get your facts right before acting childish, without any clue about the resources needed for an online server (imagine the work Igiss puts on the server. Now multiply it by a factor of 10000).
Also, EVE is continuously updated, new features added, game attributes balanced optimisations to the actual engine constantly coded... You think 15 euros are not a fair price, while we may spend 15 euros on a meal in a restaurant...
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