Anyone here play EVE online?

[jumpy]

Had a trial account last year - did some of the first level epic ark missions and some skill level-ups until the two week trial ended.

Was never totally sold on the idea of a subscription to play a game, but I thought I'd give it another go.

Been online with it for about 10 days now. Mooching about in n00b space mostly; mining for the most part so I can buy some better stuff.

Impressions: there's a lot to this one and as such I've barely scratched the surface.
I like the eve radio station and the fact that I can do other stuff whilst mining. Seems to be a wide and varied community to get involved with.

Any other n00bs out there?

[Raptor1]

It just so happens that I reactivated my 17 mill SP character (Which, despite being about 5 years old, always manages to be completely bankrupt and at the worse end of most single PVP fights) on one of them returning trials. Currently somewhere in Caldari space in an NPC corp, so not doing too much besides missions and some mining.

Just might completely reactivate my account after the trial is over, as I have time to play again now...

[jumpy]

heh I've not ventured out of 0.5 space yet. mostly 0.9. :oops:

I recon the learning curve is too steep for me to risk travelling anywhere where another player is likely to fill me in, and will most likely be so for some time yet to come.

[Raptor1]

I used to go into lowsec regularly when I started out until some gatecamping bastard popped my poor little shuttle and podded me without mercy (I nearly got revenge a while later, though).

As it is, it's much more profitable to mine in high sec than it seems, since for some reason the need for tritanium has completely raised the prices and Veldspar has since become one of the most profitable ores you can mine. So there's no real need to go into lowsec unless you want to kill some cruiser rats or unfortunate miners or innocent bystanders or whatever.

[Gerald]

I used to go into lowsec regularly when I started out until some gatecamping bastard popped my poor little shuttle and podded me without mercy (I nearly got revenge a while later, though).

As it is, it's much more profitable to mine in high sec than it seems, since for some reason the need for tritanium has completely raised the prices and Veldspar has since become one of the most profitable ores you can mine. So there's no real need to go into lowsec unless you want to kill some cruiser rats or unfortunate miners or innocent bystanders or whatever.

I create acc. for long time ago,but what can you gain? to play,forever? :hmmm:

Note: I don't play anymore!

[Kapitanleutnant]

I play. Currently a member of AEGIS Militia, fighting against those dirty Matari terrorists in Providence.


it's much more profitable to mine in high sec than it seems
It's still mining - the most ball-achingly boring job in EVE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39keGwM1GtU&playnext_from=TL&videos=F0jWsuDLjhA

[jumpy]

Yer, mining (at least at my skill level) is a real pain in the arse. Takes for ever with my sigil and a miner II plus mining upgrade module and expanded cargo II.

Still L1 mission running. Currently have a destroyer (over kill for L1) since my first post
[Coercer, destroyer1]
Power Diagnostic System I
Damage Control II
Small Armor Repairer II
400mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I

Cap Recharger II

Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S
Dual Modal Light Laser I, Standard S

Small Capacitor Control Circuit I
Small Capacitor Control Circuit I
Small Capacitor Control Circuit I

Cap is stable at around 46% depending on what type of turret frequency crystal is used (multifrequency/standard/infrared/radio). I've got a few other high slot bits of kit I can swap out (salvager etc) should the need arise.
Deals with npc pirates quite effectively - kite away from them and kill them out of range, then collect their stuff.

I know it's a bit of a n00b setup - there's no ecm type stuff (mostly I have not trained those skills to any decent level) but it's a good slugger with a reasonable armour tank for what I use it for - anything faster than me gets zapped by the lazorz of plenty.
Though I nearly lost it the first mission I used it for: having loads of weapons is no substitute for sound tactics and evaluation of your enemy threat - kill those guys with stasis webifyers quickly!

Roll on cruiser abilities.

[Zachstar]

I play eve and more importantly I have been actually getting involved with the RP aspect with the game. CCP is really helping to push the RP element and it does make things interesting.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Yer, mining (at least at my skill level) is a real pain in the arse. Takes for ever with my sigil and a miner II plus mining upgrade module and expanded cargo II.

If you're mining (and you shouldn't) - but if you are (and I must emphasise that you shouldn't under any circumstances) and you can't fly any of the ORE ships, then for the love of god don't do it in a Sigil - don't do it in any kind of industrial ship.
Get a Bantam.
You know how to jetcan mine, right? You don't need any cargo space in your mining boat - just dump all of the ore straight into a jetcan, then come and collect it later in your Sigil or your Bestower or whatever. A Bantam has the same number of High slots as a Sigil, but it has some really nice bonuses to mining yield and Mining Laser cap usage, so you're going to be much more efficient in the long term.

Perhaps you already know all this, but from the content of your post I'm assuming you're still relatively new to EVE?

I play eve and more importantly I have been actually getting involved with the RP aspect with the game. CCP is really helping to push the RP element and it does make things interesting.Yeah there is a nice little RP community in EVE. The Sansha stuff has been really interesting. I just hope that CCP have a good plan for that gigantic Sansha fleet that was spotted through the Jovian Wormhole.

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2714/june262010sanshawhfeedm.jpg

[Raptor1]

Bantam is nice, but Osprey with high cruiser skills can outmine even the smaller barge.

[jumpy]

If you're mining (and you shouldn't) - but if you are (and I must emphasise that you shouldn't under any circumstances) and you can't fly any of the ORE ships, then for the love of god don't do it in a Sigil - don't do it in any kind of industrial ship.
Get a Bantam.
You know how to jetcan mine, right? You don't need any cargo space in your mining boat - just dump all of the ore straight into a jetcan, then come and collect it later in your Sigil or your Bestower or whatever. A Bantam has the same number of High slots as a Sigil, but it has some really nice bonuses to mining yield and Mining Laser cap usage, so you're going to be much more efficient in the long term.

Perhaps you already know all this, but from the content of your post I'm assuming you're still relatively new to EVE?


New to EVE... yeh sort of hehe. Been using the time of late to re-learn some of the basics of using the overlay and navigation and other odds and sods I'd forgotten since my 14 day trial expired last year. Once some of the basics are sorted then I can think about efficiency in terms of what you were saying about mining and related stuff.

Basically the mining thing was for a bit of extra cash. A means to an end as it were; a relatively short term one at that. I found a station buyer that was paying a good whack over the regional rate for scordite, tens of millions of units of it and seeing as my reprocessing skills are still a bit naff at this point, it was easier to sell the ore for a decent profit rather than make a loss refining.
Still, all that time hanging about the asteroids in 0.9 space (hedion university school) gave me lots of time to read up on skills/tactics/ship fittings and the like. Plus there's the great EVE radio and chatroom to get involved with. Besides I was waiting for some new skills to train and didn't want to get a pasting before they were finished.

So far I have most of the basic and standard certificates in core/defence/gunnery (at least for frigate turrets etc). I figured these were best invested in early... also the learning skills - after I hit 1.6m skill points the 100% training time modifier is out, so I'm planning on using the freebie 100,000 sp that was given in the last server update delay to use on those learning skills - I think most of the basic ones are at L3-4 already anyway.

Been using EFT and EVE MON to figure out what is the best ship fitting for my skills and what I should be looking at getting/training next.

On the whole I accept that my current skill level makes me rubbish at just about everything lol so at the moment I'm like one of those tenant hill farmers, scratching a miserly standard of living out of next to nothing, always expecting the bank to foreclose on the smallholding whilst wistfully looking down into the valley at all those lush pastures and fat beef and dairy herds, knowing that if I go anywhere near most of it I'll be greeted by the farmer and his gun telling me to 'get orf moy laaand!'

:rotfl2:

[Submarine]

Yea I play, got a retriever and some odd 5mil ISK.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Submarine, jump; what are your in-game names?

[Submarine]

wadehampton, I'll be on in 2-3 hours just doing some daily navy field grinding :damn: should have that CV one of these days.

[Kapitanleutnant]

wadehampton, I'll be on in 2-3 hours just doing some daily navy field grinding :damn: should have that CV one of these days.
Sent you a little something to get you started. :salute:

[August]

I've been playing Eve since 2005. For the past 3 years i've been a member of hirr corporation in the Morsus Mihi alliance.

[jumpy]

Submarine, jump; what are your in-game names?

Listed as Harpalion

From the the epic poem The Iliad and also listed as a merchant ship in convoy PQ13 loch ewe to murmansk in 1942. (later to be lost on the return convoy QP10, sunk by U435) You learn something new every day :DL

[Submarine]

Thanks for the money :woot:

[Raptor1]

Arrrrgh. To reactivate or not to reactivate?

*hovers mouse indecisively over the resubbing button*

[VacantName]

I've been playing Eve for about 18 months. Main char is called Roger Dailly. I have my own corp in hi sec too. Only has 3 members, but it's still a corp :O:

(BTW if anyone wants to join my corp for mining, mission running, wormholes trading or hauling, hit me up. We could use some new faces ;))


I did have a nullsec pvp char as well, but I deactivated that account as I found 0.0 to be full of immature pricks who act hard when they're in a fleet but insult your mother from the safety of a station/POS/cloaking device when they're on their own.

[Spyguy101]

heh I've not ventured out of 0.5 space yet. mostly 0.9. :oops:

I recon the learning curve is too steep for me to risk travelling anywhere where another player is likely to fill me in, and will most likely be so for some time yet to come.
http://dedricmauriac.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/eve-learning-curve.jpg
That just about sums up the learning curve

[jumpy]

hehe, that's the one alright :DL

[Takeda Shingen]

Not really much of an MMO player. Those things are just chock full of internet tough guys. Yes, we have them on the forums too, but give them the ability to kill your character and they take it to a new level. Really just ruins the experience for me.

[Ducimus]

Is this game any more exciting to play yet?

Last I tried this game, was a few months after Earth & Beyond was shut down. (which was years ago). From what i could tell, it was an economy simulation in space where you did one of three things. Run repedative missions from some stupid NPC, mining, or gank the people doing either of those activities.

I played it for 2 weeks before the boring monotony took the upper hand, and i canceled my account before my first 30 free days had expired. I'ts not like E&B was any less repedative, but at least in that game you could explore some planet surfaces, dock at space stations and get out of your ship and walk around, and stuff like that. Eve had NONE of that. Just rock pounding in space or mindless errand boy missions. :damn:

[saxxon]

Lol a few SH5 players does play also on EVE Online :DL

I play already over 2 years a eve, in ANZA corp / IT Alliance :yeah:

[Laffertytig]

Is this game any more exciting to play yet?

Last I tried this game, was a few months after Earth & Beyond was shut down. (which was years ago). From what i could tell, it was an economy simulation in space where you did one of three things. Run repedative missions from some stupid NPC, mining, or gank the people doing either of those activities.

I played it for 2 weeks before the boring monotony took the upper hand, and i canceled my account before my first 30 free days had expired. I'ts not like E&B was any less repedative, but at least in that game you could explore some planet surfaces, dock at space stations and get out of your ship and walk around, and stuff like that. Eve had NONE of that. Just rock pounding in space or mindless errand boy missions. :damn:

i know the feeling. ive tried to get into eve online twice now, the last time i was playin was april last year and it was 6 months or so before i got fed up again. thing is, there looks to be a great game in there somewhere but i still havent been able to find it.

i initially went into it hopin for a elite/wing commander type experience but that didnt happen.

ive never done any pvp yet and ive been told that adds a new dimension, it is a multiplayer game after all. but the whole game seems a very hands off experience.

the winner of any pvp battle will be who has the best/relevant ship fittings and even then all your doin is clicking a button to attack.

i think it would be much more engaging if you could actually fly the ship, like in X3 for example. the way i see it, x3 does everthing eve online does + no monthly sub.

but every now and again though i get the urge to try it again, thinkin maybe this time it will stick.

[Spyguy101]

This is a great game on many levels for whatever floats your boat. Yes there are boring parts that make you want to quit sometimes and I almost did until I was found by a small but active corp. You must find a corp. Corporations add a whole new level to gameplay from trading to PvP. I have been playing for over 6 months with my corp and have not gottten bored as my corp is great and is always willing to help me, taking me from a small destroyer to a my own Battleship, whether it is money, and extra gun, or helping me fit my ship (which makes me really confused). I have played other MMO's and the player base in EVE is MUCH more serious then other games.

[Nisgeis]

thing is, there looks to be a great game in there somewhere but i still havent been able to find it.

I think the best way to experience eve is by reading the accounts of what happened to other people. That way you don' have to wait on a gate security detail for the 4 hours before anyone comes through into your setor. The four hours makes the ten seconds of action seem much more interesting.

I stopped playing Eve when I found I was reading a book in between waiting for something to happen. Someone reviewed it by saying 'Eve does the impossible: It makes space boring'.

The one really good thing about Eve is the economy, where everything in game is made by the players. This also means that it's more difficult to get started in a small business, as you are less efficient and can't create new products, but it's the least broken economy out there.

[Rilder]

I've been playing Eve since 2005. For the past 3 years i've been a member of hirr corporation in the Morsus Mihi alliance.

I used to be a part of Oberon Inc in Morsus Mihi. Good Alliance.


Anyways, I used to play but my last computer's graphics card had an issue with the game and forced me to quit... one day I'll get playing again I guess.

[Takeda Shingen]

Someone reviewed it by saying 'Eve does the impossible: It makes space boring'.

That's the guy that does 'Zero Punctuation' on the escapist. His views are generally the opposite of mine (I like simulations, he likes action; I like sandbox, he likes linear play), but his reviews are a laugh riot. I'd link a few, but there is some pretty questionable language involved.

[Arclight]

Always get the impression it's more entertainment than review. Maybe equal parts of both. :hmmm:

[antikristuseke]

I've been playing Eve since 2005. For the past 3 years i've been a member of hirr corporation in the Morsus Mihi alliance.

I'll be damned, I allmost joined Morsus Mihi just recently, but at the last moment opted for Enterprise Estonia instead, we should be resurecting Cult of War later this fall and will see whose teeth we kick in then.

Edit: Ohyeah my main is Anti Kondor, if anyone wants to say hi/threaten to make by ship go pop, morphing me into an eg and leaving me wondering if i had leveled up.

[Wolfehunter]

One thing about eve I learned expect the unexpected. day two of playing I joined a corp... 2 days after that we at war with pirate faction.... YAY...

My little destroyer kicks ass since the equipment tech 2 is worth 18 milion....

war baby... Its a good day to die.. :03:

[VirtualVikingX]

I'm on on a trial account now. Really like it so far, though to say that I have only scratched the surface would be an overstatment.

Anyone here playing actively for the momment?

[Crécy]

Anyone here playing actively for the momment?

No but more than once I've had mouse cursor over 'purchase' button. I'm just afraid that I would to sink too much time to it. But still I frequently think about getting this...

[Spyguy101]

It's easy to sink time into this, but I wish I was more interested. It seems that the longer I play , the more time I need to invest into it.

[kiwi_2005]

In Eve when you lose your ship that might of taken you weeks/months to get you lose it for good. :damn:

[Raptor1]

And that's a bad thing? It's one of the many things that make EVE better than most MMORPGs, in my opinion.

[seaniam81]

I agree with Raptor1. If you loose your ship that has taken you ages to get you'll be more careful next time wont you.

[kiwi_2005]

^ Diehard Eve players true to the bone. I like it.

Besides I have no idea I never lost my ship, :O:. I never got that far to lose a good ship. I played Eve for about 4 months then quit. I read many reviews as I new this game was a gem behind the spreadsheets but I didn't have the patience. I came across a review of a guy who had played for 6-7 months got himself a cruiser or something and lost it all in one pvp battle. That's heavy stuff man.

[seaniam81]

Ya I kinda was. I've put EVE on hold. It started to feel like work. But loosing a cruiser is no biggy. Unless it was a T2 cruiser. That would hurt. Try loosing a 200mil Hulk a few time and you'll start learning to be more careful.

[Iron Budokan]

I had an account with this game and I loved it. I liked the fact it was hard and I liked the sandbox aspect of it.

But then I got busy with other things and came to the realization I was paying monthly dues and not playing. So I unsubscribed. I have been thinking of reactivating my account, though, but if I do I want to make sure I will actually have time to play.

But all in all I like this game a lot. :DL

[0rpheus]

Got various extended trial codes for this if people are interested.:D