Welcome to day number 1 of my Eve Online review!
This review up to date with Apocrypha 1.2
In case you missed my first post, I’m a MMO gamer that’s trying out the Eve Online 14 day trial, and I’m just cataloging what I get up to on each of the 14 days.
Whether I continue playing after my 14 days are up remains to be seen, but here are my initial impressions.
I’ll cover the reworked tutorial system, graphics, install, general gameplay, starting missions, and more…
If at any time you’d like to check the game out for yourself, scroll back up and click here to enter Eve Online’s 14 day free trial.
Introduction:
I’m always blown away by the Eve Online movies, and the intro for Apochrypha is no exception. Gorgeous scene’s, sweeping space vistas, and provocative suggestions at the scope of the world you’re about to enter. Eve has always striven to be an open world driven by the players, and this intro really backs this up. You can watch the intro video below!
Character creation:
You choose from 4 different races during character creation:
- Amarr,
- Caldari,
- Minmatar, and
- Gallente.
I was very impressed with character creation – each race has its own intro movie giving you their background in full cinema style. You can then read further into each race, and then into each blood line to find the roleplay angle that’s right for you. Like most RPG’s, I found myself endlessly debating which race to go… but I ended up choosing a Minmatar Vherokior, who is a “mystic” of sorts. Very cool backstory!
Each race has its own background and feel to them, but as of recently, they have all got the same statistics. I personally feel this is good and bad, but to be brief, players can now choose a race and blood line for roleplay reasons, rather than everyone choosing the best statistic.
You now advance your character through the game by choosing a path, such as research and manufacturing, and then sticking to a long term goal by training skills consistently. You CAN also be a “jack of all trades” if you want, and train many low level skills from many disciplines, but you’ll fall behind the specialists.
While I’m talking about skill training, I’m so, so happy to see CCP have now got a training “queue”, which lets you put 24 hours worth of skills into the order of your choosing.
Skill Training Queue
Previously you had to manually choose a new skill each time you wanted to start training, and of course every time you went to bed that night you’d need to log in to train long skills that took more than 8 hours!
I like the idea of having a pirate who can shoot, fly and fix almost anything, so I’m training a balance of technical skills and combat skills.
Learning the game, tutorials:
Another big plus for new players is the reworked tutorial system. In fact people who are considering returning will be glad to hear the tutorial system has been cut down to a much more easily digested “crash course”, and then new tutorials appear as you explore new areas of the game.
For example, you get shown exactly how to do the basics right at the start. Here’s how to fly, shoot, dock, warp, etc. Then, as you need to use, say, the galaxy map, you open the map screen, and then the tutorial pops and tells you what’s what.
The Corporation Welcome Page
The tutorial system seamlessly carries into the game via what are called “agents”. Agents are simply NPC’s, or “computer players” who give you missions important to your faction.
Your first agent mission will be selected from either mining, trading, or a combat agent.
Each of these agents slowly brings you up to speed with the essentials of what you need to know about the role, and gives you a good warm up to the game.
As of about an hour ago, I’ve finished all 3 chains of agent quests (you only really need to finish one if you want to specialize in one field), and right now I feel quite comfortable with what is admittedly a very complex game.
Graphics:
Eve has always been a good looking game, and since space games aren’t usually system hogs, people with slower systems can still come along to play.
Having said that, the new Apocrypha expansion has put in some nice new effects that I really like. There’s a shield effect when you’re recharging, new pretty asteroids, a bunch of new warp and jumping effects, and stuff like the stasis webifier’s bizarre looking effect.
Warping To a Roid Field
Installation:
A bit of a problem here for me – when I tried to install using the auto downloader, I got hit with some weird looking error message about mismatches. A quick look on the help forums showed others were having the problem too… To fix the problem I simply downloaded the manually downloaded file found on CCP’s website and I was fine installing that version.
Other gameplay/notes so far?
I’ve really only scratched the surface so far. I’ve done the three tutorial agent missions, loaded up on skills, and done some mining.
I hear on the “rookie chat” channel that there’s an epic mission arc that you can do after these tutorial missions, and I plan on checking that out tomorrow.
After the mission arc? Hopefully I can wreak terror on civilized pilots with my mentally unstable Minmatar pirate… oh the fun!
Oh, and here’s my “burst”, a specialist mining vessel just coming out of port.
Pretty!
Since writing this I’ve gone on to complete the 14 day free trial and given an overall review from a newbie perspective. You can see my 14 day trial wrap up review, here.
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I found Eve online a little too drab and sterile for my taste. You can find yourself sitting looking at nothing for long periods of time. Regardless of all the missions and constant chat it does feel very lonely and dull at times. Flying is always a set path so crazy maneuvers are out of the question.
I guess Eve has something to offer some people, just not me.
You have to be kidding Malfoy. Flying is always set… what game are you playing! That is absolutly not true. For example last night I was in a T1 frigate hunting. I would warp between gates at 0. burn out on ab to 150. miniwarp back to gate. When an interceptor showed up I allowed it to burn towards me. Before it got to me I warped to an obvoious planet at 0. It did the same but landed first. For about 2 seconds I had a chance so I webbed and scramed him. as we started shooting at each other he was able to beat my tracking so he was damaging me… and I wasn’t damaging him. I stopped orbiting and started kiting him (by going straight slowing down his angular velocity). This did the trick and I started hitting him hard. He didn’t adapt his strategy fast enough (he should have tried to get some range on me). End result one badly damaged T1 frigate and a dead T2 interceptor.
Nice result 6 month Eve player!
This is something people often forget about Eve – a noobie can take out a veteran player if they use their wits and fight well.
Good job – I bet that intie pilot cried emo tears
I tried EvE for a second time and found it as boring as ever. If they can’t make the game fun in the first hour of play they aren’t going to get money. Also the learning curve is hideously steep (and yes I did the tutorial). It may have it’s fans, but in my book it’s simply a poorly designed game. I play to have fun not do a bunch of reading.
Guys this game isnt for everyone but its has ALOT of pros , you can be/do what ever you want.
I started with like 1mil ISK and am sitting on over 4.5bil currently , all i do is explore and fight NPC’s in complexes these NPC sometimes drops items of ridiculous value.
Any game where you can literally “explore” like in a 0.0 system is a good game if you ask me.
Fly Safe.!
After playing through half of my 14 day trial, I can definitely say I’m frustrated with this game. I’ve learned the basics, getting to know how combat works, but still not giving my thumbs up.
1. The text is so small I get eyestrain. There is SOOO much information on weapons, “show info”, requirements, etc. And yes my screen resolution is maxed and I have a fairly decent monitor.
2. My main activity has been warping around to my destinations. At first I was fascinated by the effects. After awhile I’d just leave my computer while my autopilot travels the journey. Not that interesting anymore.
To all the “slow boring” commenters – go find a POW POEW BANG shoot-em-up. This is a game for serious simulation gamers, not someone that wants to blow up a planet in the first 30 minutes of a game that takes years to master. Then again I am the sort of player that likes to play simulations – real time international flights, and proper controls. I will never get bored of information and detail. I don’t mind reading and memorizing.
One of the best MMORGS i have played for years! I usually get bored of mmorpgs really fast simply because i think that most arent that deep. But eve is a diamond in the rough, you just gotta keep playing.
Heres what you do and it will make your gaming experience alot better:
- DO NOT enter a system security status lower than .5 this is where all the so-called griefers and pirates are. Until ur ready, dont enter it as a noob cause ur ship will get blown up and you WILL cry about it.Its just like how you dont send a soldier to a warzone without training. High sec is pretty safe.
- DO NOT play this game for a few hours and think you know everything. ive played this game for a year running my own corporation and i still dont know everything about this game. But so far most of what i have encountered just makes me want to play more
- DO the tutorials. This isnt like most MMORPGS where the controls are easy. People say the controls are “bad” but thats because the controls arent the same as all the other mmorpgs. Right clicking is your best friend, trust me =D
- DO join a corporation. There are corporations for almost every aspect of eve like mining, piracy, industrial, or even corporations that teach epople how toplay (like eve University). These corporations will usually get you on your feet alot faster than doing it solo. Also you will form bonds with them for your eve online career.
- DO have a bit of patience. DOnt expect super equipment after a week, or a monthm or even a year of playing. In fact new players actually have an advantage over old ones because they can catch up alot faster now than they did a few years ago. The edge that veteran players have is usually in the real experience and connections that they have in game, not SP or items. Because training time increases exponentially with every level,but the gains are linear.
DO NOT take the character creation too seriously. Treat is in a roleplaying style where you want to develop how your character looks and the backstory. There is no real difference between Gallente or Caldari other than looks, and starting skills.You can train up to fly every ship in the game if you want and it doesnt really make a difference in character creation. There are no classes in eve, its just for looks and roleplaying.
Conclusion: one of my favorite mmorpgs to date. Some games canbe judged by its first few hours of play, but not eve. Its a deep game but also very rewarding. You need to just develop the eve online mentality. Most mmorpgs are like art galleries, you go in it look at the pretty art and buy the nice ones. Eve online is like giving someone the paint brush and paper. The only thing is that you need to learn how to use it.
I know I have the patience for this so I think I’ll try the trial v. as I spent the last week pouring over info in prepping myself for the task at hand and feel almost ready to jump in.
I’d hoped joy-sticks were an option but I guess I’ll just have to be happy with multi-monitors. Thanks for the poss. responses herein, esp “DC CEO” for prov. a bit more insight, it really is a communal game isn’t it, even if you don’t live in a population center.
At this point I think I know more about what direction I want to take than where I want to start out though. I’m not that anal or pious so I think I’ll probably be Gallentean or Caldarian and start my illustrious career as a cargo pilot, still undecided though.
I was going to write a message about how detailed and complex the tactics and strategy are that are involved with PVP in Eve, but It would take a small essay just to scrape the surface.
Eve is all about PVP in my opinion, It’s the only game i’ve ever played where i actually get a real adrenaline rush. I mean a true adrenaline rush, your heart is pumping you eyes are wide, you are actually worried about the outcome of the fight you are currently warping into. It’s the consequences that make Eve. In short, get into pvp as soon as possible.
DO go out into systems with a security status below 0.5 and do it as soon as you can warp scram and use guns/missiles/drones sufficiently.
Just get in a cheap frig and pick your fights, a 2 week old player in a frigate can take out a 4 year old player in a battleship if he plays his cards right, and that’s the beauty of eve. It’s not about what level you are or what items you have, it’s situational. Who wins or loses depends on the tactics used and how they used them (providing you don’t fit you ship like a noob)
Half the time winning a fight is just a case of actually getting into the fight you want, it’s about tricking/fooling your target, it’s about getting him/them to make a mistake of thinking they are the more powerfull force. It’s much more a game about wits than it is about gaming skill. There is a saying in Eve: “if it’s an even fight, your intell sucks”
bah, if i keep going this will seem like a short essay >.<
I think people that don’t like eve are people who like WoW, generally. After a long time thinking about it, I find that they are ‘simpler’. They’re the kind of people who love a movie like harry potter, but ignore a film like bladerunner or star trek the motion picture.
Am I right or am I overthinking things?
I don’t think that people who don’t like the game are simple. I personally don’t like eve online, its just not my cup of tea. I’ve just about every mmorpg you can think of. WoW was ok just a little to simple and easy for my tastes.
Eve online however is in it own league as far as complexity goes. I won’t pretend to know every thing about it, as I don’t. I do know that I played it several years ago, and only played it for 14 days before getting so bored and confused I felt like shootint myself in the leg
Like I said, I’m no expert, just not my type of mmo. Saying people that don’t play a game you like are simple is a completely unfair assessment. Especially a game that I think is made for a completely niche market.
Anyway I suggest if you not sure give it the 14 day trial then decide you’ll either love it, in which case the game was made for you. Ore you will hate it.
It is interesting how personally invested some people are getting in a game. If someone doesn’t like EVE it’s not a personal attack on your character so don’t get so defensive. I have played EVE for several years and left about 1 year ago … I am thinking about trying again but honestly, it can be boring. That’s the plain and simple truth of all MMO’s. They can all have their own version of the ‘grind’ and lose their appeal. For me, I’m leaning away from reactivating because I think there needs to be a total revamp in content and additional functionality to bring the game into the 21st century. I dunno …. maybe letting you walk around your ship or better ship controls might be a start into something new?
I am giving Eve Online a rating of 1, as a deserved rating of 0 would be petty, but a rating of 1 is right, for the following reason.
Eve Online has spectacular looking graphics, with amazing looking planets, and metalic effects on the various spaceships and stations, but it is totally let down by the font size on the games User Interface when you play the game at high resolution on large screen size monitors. Coupled with this is the total indifference of the CCP dev team to this issue despite numerous complaints in the Eve Online forum.
You can only enlarge the UI font to 12 points, which makes the lower case letters at 1920 x 1200 2mm high, and no more.
If you have a 17 inch monitor you’ll be fine at its default resolution of 1024 x 768, as the lower case letters are 3mm high, and the icons on the left of the screen ar a comfortable 10mm high, but if you have a now standard 24 inch monitor or larger at its default resolution of 1920 x 1200 or higher then your eyes will not be happy as you squint and try to read the tiny text on the UI when you are sat at a comfortable distance from the screen. The same effect is if you play at HD resolution or 1920 x 1080.
Note: On 30 inch monitors at their default resolution of 2560 x 1600 it gets worse, as the lower case letters are now just 1 millimeter high, and the icons on the left of the UI are now a mere 5 millimeters high.
You can have a comfortable text size that can be read at 1024 x 768, or you can play the game with HD graphics, but you cannot do both at the same time…yet.
I have been playing Freelancer, both in SP and onlinefor sometime and was contimplating jumping across to X3, then EVE came along and I’m still in the 14 day trial..
Pro’s:
Amazing graphix and special effects, Kudo’s to CCP.
The depth of the gameplay is immersive.
Con’s:
No SP mode for honing and refining your skill before going online.
No manual flight abilities, and by that I refer to the inability to manually steer and thruster your way through asteroid fields and combat situations. (that said.!!!…coming from a FPS space-flight environment [Freelancer] to this is vastly different).
And there’s the most obvious negative of all, and that’s having to dip into ones pocket to garner this experience, as opposed to Freelancer, which costs you zip, zero, zilch…
So, at this point in time, I will play the trial period through to it’s end and re-assess my opinion and thoughts as to whether or not I will continue playing the game, and most importantly, if I can afford to play it…
EvE is something but there is one thing you need for playing READING AND COMMUNICATE….without the will or the time to read a lot and ask people ingame for help, EvE becomes boring very soon.
We have often players which ask very easy things which they learned already if they made the TUTORIALS in the beginning. There are training missions, excellent explained in these TUTORIALS, if you doesnt understand hereafter or while doing it, ASK IN THE HELP CHANNEL, there is always somebody there willing to teach you.
This game is nothing for people who wants to shoot and kill only!
You need a BRAIN playing it and the will of learning. EvE is nothing for ppl under 20, lots of guys there are 30-40 up and have life experiences you need and a youngster cant have
I am since 4 years in EvE now and I am still learning….there is always something new one can do.
If you like contact me ingame or join after your trial has expired our company. We like to help new players
CaZio
I have played or currently play WoW, Everquest, Fallen Earth, SWG and Eve Online.
I love the complexity of Eve. Without a doubt there are boring periods of time in the game, but there are some real adrenaline rushes, as one poster commented.
For those who really want to try it, I echo a few comments.
1) Do the tutorials.
2) READ everything you can about the game. There are some great guides out there and they really are quite useful.
3) Join a helpful corp. It makes all the difference in the world.
Eve is definitely different from the other games I’ve played in just about every way. It doesn’t make WoW or the others inferior or take away from the fun of those games, it merely makes Eve quite different and a game I find immensely challenging and quite enjoyable.
To be honest the 14 day trial is very, very limited, as anyone who actually pays for lets say a month will tell you. As a beginner you cannot enjoy the feeling of undocking your first capital ship, setting up a Player Owned Station, there are so many skill restrictions that I almost always, ignore these types of reviews, really in a game where people have been playing 8 years and still are playing it, 14 days is very little. To those that think its boring, aren’t most good games dull in the beginning? You cant’ exactly fly a battle ship, get the standing to do the highest missions that are to hard you usually need 2 capital ships, worth billions of ISK to even do! There is so much to do in EVE, I don’t recall where, but to master all the skills in Eve would take decades! Those are just the ones that are out, there is so much coming up! As mentioned before, do try things, some people might find PVP to be boring as hell, but might just LOVE to mine, most don’t’ but there are capital mining ships in eve that cost billions! Heck, once your good enough, you can actually play eve without having to pay real money, you just need to make some 300m ISK to pay for a month, to most beginners that seems massive, but after half a year, you can actually make that much easily, all depending on what you do. Train up mining, train up ships, you shouldn’t’ limit yourself to one race, find what you like, then find what you don’t, just remember don’t’ go overboard on what you do, a jack of all trades is nice but specialists do out do them. This review doesn’t’ go into detail, which is fine, there is just so much to cover on only one subject. Before you knock it, look up video’s of what people can do in EVE, heck go probe a worm hole, fly up CONCORD and shoot them, if you really get bored, do something stupid! Shoot a ship randomly even if it does get you killed! EVE is really limited only by your imagination! Not really but its is incredible how many skills there are! 14 days gives you time to do almost nothing in game, there are so many limits that after a only 2 days I count’ stand them and bought service. You people who go around and say EVE is dumb I tried it a few days. It just tells us that you either didn’t’ really try it very well. Or you might just not like these kinds of games. To be honest I don’t’ like quiet a few games, wow being one of them, there graphics are all right, good amount of players, many skills. That game is just not for me, but I never put it down in my reviews, I use it as an example to compare other games to even! So before you knock it down, think of how it compares to those other games. Even get technical, the codes for this game are amazing! I know of a player who plays from a destroyer somewhere out in the sea! You can imagine the internet the solders get there is very bad, but he can still play and that game is virtually unaffected by it. Those 14 days only scratch the surface of what you can do.
Thanks Shelwyn, I agree, the 14 day trial is almost ludicrously short. You barely get a glimpse of what Eve is really like. There may be reasons for why the trial is only 14 days, but you really need more like a month (or 3) to experience what Eve is actually like… hence why i’ve tried to continue putting more varied info into this blog.
Played eve for about a week; I was given 20 million to spend from a friend. Bought a few ships, did mission after mission…. (almost literally the same thing over and over), traveled for HOURS system by system (they all look EXACTLY the same… give or take colors)… tried mining for 10 mins until i got bored of that, went into low sec area and got PWNED by a 6 year player, and what do I have to credit this game so far? Absolutely nothing. Dock…. undock…. dock… undock… over and over and over…… no joke. Ideally you can either do absolutely nothing for YEARS to train all your skills to actually be half decent, or you can not play the game at all because of it. For the people saying that there is “so much you can do in this game”… no. There isn’t, sorry, at least not compared to the leading mmos. Go kill npcs, go mine, go get owned in low sec or stay docked until you have leveled all your skills up. That is literally all you can do. Put it this way, its only worth playing this game if you started when it first came out because due to the leveling system in eve, you cannot compete in any way, shape or form.
@Eve Trial Player.
You got it complete wrong, you don´t have to train “years” to compete vs an older character. That´s the beauty of EvE, the specialization of your character. You can be competive within weeks at worst within months. What you experienced are the usual experience of new players who didn´t read jackass or thought after 14 days my ship is leet, no one can kill me. Well, wrong.
You jumped in a less secure system without any preparation, without having any clue about PvP, no basics whatsorever. That killed you, you need to learn the ropes, the fundamental basics of PvP as in every other game.
I´m playing EvE now for 6months, i started with PvP after the first month and being trained by a PvP corp. I specialized very heavy on combat and after 6months my skills are maxed in this particular tree for a particular role and ship (Battleship damage dealer). No older character has better skills than me, that´s the point in EvE, if you are maxed in skills (there are 5 Levels to train on each skill), you can´t get better leveling the field of old vs new characters a whole lot more than in every other game.
The only advantage an older character has is cash and with cash access to better equipment but more important hopefully are more experienced. You would be surprise how often older characters fail in the last part, thinking they are invincible with having a super ownage ship and equipment being owned by a far younger character.
EvE is brutal and does not forgive any fault. You make a fault you get punished … most times.
*At the beginning of the game, when you first start in some BS 1.0 system sure the game can get a little repetitive and annoying, but I don’t understand what kind of reasonably good MMO is fun at the beginning? EvE just doesn’t show it’s full colors and flashes itself to you, unlike others. [Btw, I think WoW is stupid] All you need is some patience, a willingness to learn, to be reasonably intelligent, and to a bit social as well. You won’t get anywhere without the help of another, unless you’re Japanese or Korean. [I'm korean]
win.
@ CaZio
*The last part you said about age is stereotypical, if not completely wrong. It’s true that most teenagers have a short attention span and aren’t all that intelligent, but it doesn’t mean we cannot enjoy the game ?
*For example: I’m 13 years old and I’ve played the game for 4 days. So far I’ve earned over 50 Million, have a mission-running cruiser and I’m working on getting an industrial. I’ve learned how to use blueprints, proper gank strategies, fleet over-view settings. most of the insane vocabulary, and I’m trying to learn how to think straight when I’m about to blow up. I’m not exactly familiar with the market, but I was never really good at long-term investments.
*The age, and state of mind isn’t as important, as the backround enviroment and people you meet along the way. I’ve seen many trial players quit because they’re unwilling to ask for help, or atleast unwilling to ask for help POLITELY.
@ Christopher
*My text is also 1mm high, and I can read it just fine ? ^^
And you give it a 1. Just because from your personal experience you thought the text was too small. I’m sure you could work something out if you really tried.
Thanks to: *6 month eve player, 14 day trial player, Jabberwock, etc. etc* and pretty much every one that has commented here, you have given the reader something to think about.
I noted that part of those that were with the game and those against it seemed resign to harsher language than was necessary (though more of those who were against it said harsh words at average).
Personally I don´t think that we need to resign to trolling here to get your point through. True, some think this game is boring and uninteresting while other think he is everchanging and fun, but those are all according to personal opinions and experience. So I am going to try to be as neutral as I can about this.
Eve-online is supposedly supposed to be a massive multy online (roleplaying) player game. Most of you knew that already and are facepalming over this sentence at the moment but bear with me for a moment. What most people that are in favour of this game say that he is really immersive and complex. That is true, but the complexity is often the con for many players. There are many players that want nothing else than get completely immersed into a game and enjoy playing it with all its feelings and difficulties that come with it. But that is hard for many who try Eve, as the complexity makes it so that they are forced to think much further ahead than usually, and for many that creates a kind of a hole that makes the game impossible to enjoy.
Thus it is obvious that this game requiers a lot, and lot and lot of patience. And many people don´t want to put in so much work and effort just to enjoy a single game, and thus give up before they begin, while for others it is simply not a game for them.
Those that think against the game often say that the game is boring, repetive, has bad GM´s and/or simply bad/buggy. Eve can be boring, true. Eve can be repetive, that is also true. Eve is bad/buggy, that is also to some extent true. (This game certanly isn´t for everyone, or even for most. This game applies to certain group of people, and if you don´t fit in that gategory, then it can become farly hard to get into this game). But I doubt that the GM´s are bad. I have seen lot of people that seem to blame the GM´s for being unhelpful, slow to respond and/or don´t listen to the players opinion. I seemed to see lot of these on many forums around the internet and I wondered whether those were actually true. WARNING: LONG RANT INCOMMING GO TO – - – - IF YOU WANT TO SKIP IT!
So decited to test it out and created 3 different 14 days trial accounts, used 1 of them to whine about pretty much everything at the help channel. And used the other 2 to find every bugg and nick that I knew of in the game and called for GM´s assistance (Buggs in like, getting stuck between gates, being unable to control your ship, unable to dock or undock etc. etc.). In every case a GM responded shortly with a good explanation against my whining, and in less than an hour I was saved from every bugg.
So I proved that the first two of those were wrong, but what about the last one? I and my friend did an experiment. We checked how much of what was posted on the forum actually reached the CCP people, and to our surprice it was wast amount of things that CCP GM´s had done after obviously reading people posts on forums; fixing buggs, adding new things etc. etc..
But it is one thing that completely showed that it was simple trolling about the GM´s. This is the only game that has an actually voted counsil of players that go yearly to CCP HQ to discuss the eve universe with the CCP GM´s and workers.
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I am player by 3 years and frankly, I am anything but a veteran of this game. I am and industrialist but also have a electronic warfare specialist on another account which I use once in a while. I have traveled from one end of the galaxy to the other but I have still not seen 1/15th of the things in the game. Personally this game is both boring and fun at the same time, which I find rather peculiar, but that is simply how it is for me.
I don´t know whether this comment has shed any light on this for you but I hope it was.
Fly safe
Elmithian signing off
PS. Thank you *Kryst* for showing that younger players can also play this game correctly and with fun. You actually showed more maturity than many prewious commentors did ; ).
i did the trial… sure the game looks beautiful, but its just boring, i have been a gamer since i was 12 ( when the atari came out lol) its as most people say, you mine, you go to hyperspace, in the meantime you yourself go to the dentist, or the store, or visit your grandma, you come back home and youre halfway there.
i want a game that has my right hand on my mouse and my left hand on my keyboard, not click………..click……….click
click….
now i see people defending the game here, and say go back to wow stuff like that, but sorry if i compare eve with their 20.000 players on one single server worldwide( pat on the back for the developers themselves cause they really have 1 server.) or the 12 million players of warcraft or the 5 million of lord of the rings, or even the FREE dungeons and dragons on the bottom of the list with their 50.000, i’d say the majority of the people who are defending this game dont even believe it themselves.
Uh oh….
Totally agree with Christopher. I am still watching and waitinf for CCP to allow for larger UI. This is literally the ONLY thing keeping me from subscribing and getting right into this gem. It is very poor quality service on their part that they prioritize something as important as UI fonts so low. Honestly, if you don’t get eyestrain from this, you eventually will. I understand that they wanted it to seem minimalist and futuristic and individual to some extent, but the size of the font is just rediculous for anyone who values retaining their vision.
Seriously any optometrist will tell you that using font sizes which are too small will overtime force your eyes to strain and eventually deteriorate your ability to relax them in order to see things further away.
Hmm, i play Eve about 2 years and have many other MMO accounts. When i read what dude up there was writing i can only laugh. Rookie with frigate can beat Veteran with battleship??? Cmon! Stop dreaming. You have no chance in Eve as rookie to do much in pvp 1vs1. Solo player can do nothing there, thats the bad part of Eve. Combat is not much about player skill—lock, web,scramb keep range and thats all, if he have better ship and years of skill you lose. Game is not hard to learn people, it is just many information. Did you ever played civilization? Thats the game for braniacs not Eve. Where Eve shines? Mass pvp, raw power and strategy. Never be afraid of first look and to much information it is just like every other mmo when you start playing. By the way–PVE is so stupid and boring, repeat and repeat sam missions 5-10 times.
i have tried to download eve the other day and i have a slightly better than normal computer i got 4 months ago when it was great but still eve doesnt even work on it which means the average person wanting to play wont be able to or if they have a brand new computer will probably only be able to play on low settings on the non “premium” engine
I’ve tried this game several times throughout the years. The game has evolved and is better than it was a few years back. I’ve bought the Commissioned Officer Box set a few days ago. I’m not sure how long I will stay after my 30 days free play are up. I find my self drifting to sleep at my computer desk every time I play. I’m not sure if a subscription based snooze fest is what I have in mind for long term entertainment.