Eve Online: After 2+ weeks

[Sckoarn]

For those wondering,

Eve online is a space based game. Activities include NPC missions, NPC hunting, Mining, Trading, Corperate management, manufacturing, All things related to space ships, and pirating. Players can be in wars where one group is at war with another group, this gives open season to killing each other.

Skills are trained in real time. So the limit to your progression is based on your skills, and they are limited to training one at a time from level to level. There are many many skills, so it is easy to get very specialized and be good at that activity. The longer you play the game the higher your skills could be.

Making money is the thing needed to buy skills and ships. Seems like ships get blown up lots depending on the activity you are engaged in.

The application itself seems very stable to me, I have only seen one real problem in the short time I have played. Compared to other applications this one is ROCK solid for me. The bandwidth required is low but the graphics are in par with what you would expect form this kind of environment.

[Nebula]

The game does look cool.

The graphics look sweet. The interface looks very involved.

Something about it doesnt seem like it would particularly hold my intrest though. As far as what I have seen Sylver doing, it appears to me you spend a lot of your time 'working' (IE.. Mining or what have you).. and not enough battling...? Perhaps you all have just not reached that phase in the game yet?

[Sckoarn]

The group we have joined are pirates. My skill set is NOOB city. I could go out and participate in those activities but I do not have the skills nor the ship to make my self of much use. As a group Sylver, JB and I, we are trying to make cash as fast as possible. Currently I have found that mining is a relatively safe and profitable activity. The other choices are hunting NPC's, missions and trading. All of which have their ups and downs. I have a couple ship logs that will lead to some encounter with NPC's. They are usually group efforts and I plan on getting the 3 of us out now and again.

The pace of the game is slower than some. Being in space there is lots of travel. When in battle though, things get really complicated. The action tends to be bursty and intence.

The thing is that when you get blown up, you need another ship, and that costs cash. I have always liked to have cash in the bank, not real life, but in games. That way I feel more able to recover from a loss. Hunting with our Corp mates would wear down my cash and not have much coming back. They say they will replace ships lost while doing corp bussiness but, funds are not unlimited.

I can see this getting much more active as time goes by. This Corp is young and has not that many members. There are plans for some fun times ahead, just in the begining you have to skill up and get some cash in your wallet.

[McTucket]

one, i dont have enough time on my hands to indulge in a new game. two, my feelings on space- related movies, games, tvshows, etc... yeah... they just dont keep me interested. this is why i have not started on this game.

the only reason i watched a star wars movie is because natalie portman was in it.

[Sckoarn]

Tucky,
I think You are too much of a realist, you do not dream of being is space? You do not hail the achievments of man kind going into space? And I bet you do not believe in Alians either.

Ok, how about this. The Map is 3D and is bigger than some little town or a couple buildings. Your skills are not dependant on your connection or your computer power. The group we joined go out and kill other players. It is just a complicated CS IMO.

[Triple_6]

Bah, I had a lengthy post about the cons of EVE, but that's all irrelevant if you guys are having a good time. I'd join you but I've given that game a couple of tries in the past and it's just not my speed.

[The Undefined]

I played the game for about 6 months. The player owned corp i was in is called Ocean Dyamics if want to say hello for me. Thier public channle is "O.D." they are good guys. The thing about the game that turned me off, was the fact that it gets to a point where it starts to take 2 or 3 weeks to train one skill and there is no way to do it any faster. So it starts to feel like you are paying rent just to wait around for the skills to fly a new ship. I'd jump in for a bit and hang with you kids, but my PC is down and life is not really coducive to gaming ATM. I'm using a Libray computer with no memory to type this. But check out that corp if you like. There main office is in Osmeden.