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I miss EVE
roodbwoy
Member Posts: 120
I miss EVE, I don't know why, but I do miss it, I never played for long, max 3 months in a row but I still get atracted back to this wonderfull sandbox game (about 5 times now) and everytime after a while I can't find any reason to log in except changing skills and the reason for that is that I can't find anything to do on a quick basis, mission and ratting is a tad boring, I mean, the AI reacts always the same so load the right damage/defence modules for the type of rats and away you go!
I was part of a big pirate corp but there was never something to do, most of the times we where busy scouting/looking for targets and well, I have a job and social life so after 4 hours of looking for a fight and not finding some does not clense my thirst for online action, not wanting to live on 1 kill a week so I swapped my pirate life for a high sec miner, which I enjoyed for a couple of days untill I found out that I never could make any profit alone + the lack of combat was also disturbing.
I want to give EVE another chance, starting from scratch, aiming for PvP, pirate/mercs/corpwars whatever, are there people here who can take me in to their corp and show me the way of the PvP, learn me the PvP basics, because flying alone out there in the cold and dark space is not ment for me, I am a socializer.
Tips/help/comments/everything welcome here! I really want to get "in to" this game :-)
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Was more or less the same reason I on-and-off played EVE. I still am awed by the game, if I were playing an MMO, that'd be it. But, like you, I'm more interested in interacting with other players and being social, and I had a hard time breaking into that because I more or less felt I didn't have enough skills to be useful to any group of people doing anything worthwhile (I like PvP in particular, and well, last time I quit I was about 3 weeks worth of training into caldari ships off some guide I read, then it was like "hey nub, caldari sucks for pvp", then I was like "cool, *canceled*".
And that was my last EVE voyage.
Play CCS if you want quick fights. Join FW for instant pvp in eve.
CCS? FW? clarification plox :-)
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Don't know about CCS, but FW is EVE lingo for Factional Warfare. Basically, factions can battle it out in lowsec and since it is sanctioned warfare, there is no concord intervention.
I am in a Mercenary corp taht is really good, very social, very supportive, good people and some very experienced pilots. We're a new corp and about to make our first wardec. I'm sure that once that happens we won't be recruiting
'til the war's over but I'll be glad to give the name of the corp later today once the 'dec is official. You might want to contact our CEO sometime and talk about a possible "job".
that would be awesome! I'll probably re-activate my account within 3 weeks, I'll send you a msg via mmorpg.com then,...
thanks!
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two words for you -- faction warfare.
give it a try, you might find it's what you're looking for.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
I am in the same boat. However, I remember many of the negative things that make attempting to play frustrating.
NPC Corps. The only thing that can touch them are suicide tactics or elaborate misrepresentations and social engineering. The fact that they can be involved in the market and shipping makes it rather difficult to identify and fight the real competition. Occasionally one can connect the dots, but not usually. Empire war would actually be my favorite arena otherwise. Starting a war over underpricing would be immeasurably more satisfying than underbidding an opponent every x hours/days.
Local chat. The result is that you have very very brief windows to sneak up on the few individuals willing to put themselves at risk.
Strait up fights are fun and all, and it's great that they are expensive. However, grinding is a truly unendurable experience for some individuals. Surviving on just on predating enemy organizations and the unwary would be fine if only grinding didn't pay out so much better, and require so much less organization. Lowsec may have targets in it somewhere, but most evenings I can wander through a couple regions without seeing even one undocked mission runner. Small gangs are rarer than lag inducing gangs.
I've been in exactly one awesome pirate corp, which was just a dozen people that played all the time with no money, and no competent skills or ships, but enthusiasm in spades. I wasn't able to stick with it due to RL, and it folded within a month with some members going on to more traditional corps. I've been in countless corps since then, and they were all uniformly horrible, disorganized, and attracted very irritating personalities once they got big. More than a few had directors that would throw a tantrum if you tried to organize your fellow members.