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After years of paid subscriptions, the folks at CCP Games have finally launched its EVE Online Experience. The new expansion brings the option to play for free and other big changes to EVE Online.
 
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I think the learning curve of this game killed it for me. I had no idea what I was doing. And I enjoy Elite Dangerous.
 
i might have to give it another go. though, LOL not with 3 accounts for mining like i have before.
 
Kelby said:
I think the learning curve of this game killed it for me. I had no idea what I was doing. And I enjoy Elite Dangerous.
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WORD.

I played it briefly like 10 years ago, but my life has more meaning than checking if my latest grind is complete. ED for the win.
 
Also, what you can do in Free vs. Paid is very limited. GL HF to anyone who's interested in trying it. I guess it's better than nothing though.
 
Kelby said:
I think the learning curve of this game killed it for me. I had no idea what I was doing. And I enjoy Elite Dangerous.
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If I'm remembering the promo for this right, the skills available for the 'free' experience flattened that curve a lot...and hampered advanced skills by limiting you.
 
No one in their right mind would want to hop into a game like this with a player base that has already been around forever and established themselves already. You don't stand a chance at this point but correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Rahh said:
No one in their right mind would want to hop into a game like this with a player base that has already been around forever and established themselves already. You don't stand a chance at this point but correct me if I'm wrong.
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Not wrong at all. I played EvE for a long time. it is by far the most Hardcore MMO there is, I'm talking universities studying the economy in it.

To anyone who hasn't played it before I'll just put this.

Skills train in real time using books. You're going to be against some people who have 13 years of training under their belts, you can't catch up.

A new character with no implants and skill training boots and such gains about 1800 skill points per hour, you aren't close to being decently combat ready until around the 18-20 million mark. And you'll be up against http://eveboard.com/fullranks/1-skillpoints/p1/

Note, if you want to be a miner, effectively, in low sec space, you will need 3 accounts, and the ability to play them all simultaneously. Or REALLY patient friends.
 
What percentage of people actually paid the subscription tho, when I quit, it seems a majority was trading isk for plexes, or am I over-estimating that?
 
kledar586 said:
What percentage of people actually paid the subscription tho, when I quit, it seems a majority was trading isk for plexes, or am I over-estimating that?
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Not sure of stats but when a person is buying 20-50 plex to sell for isk, that makes up a few subscriptions. I may be installing this tonight and giving it another go. Furthest I think I remember getting was t2-t3 cruisers? I might be off on terms.
 
Rahh said:
No one in their right mind would want to hop into a game like this with a player base that has already been around forever and established themselves already. You don't stand a chance at this point but correct me if I'm wrong.
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You are wrong. The political influence in EVE has changed over the years, its an ebb and flow. Also there is much more of the game now that can be done completely independent of that influence control. It is steep long curve you need to climb if you want to create your own alliance from scratch and try to compete, but mostly people create their own corporations, increase their skills and renown and then join a current alliance. The beauty of the game is the fact that anyone can learn skills without having to spend hours and hours actually playing the game. Since skills happen in real-time, you can leave the game for awhile and come back and still have been learning skills.
 
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I love how open/sandbox the game is, but I just can not "enjoy" the game because of it's archaic and "mmo" gameplay.

The fact you can't actually CONTROL your ship in terms of actually flying it around like in about any other space-sim game, it just feels like a circa 90's "click to move" mmo rather then a good enjoyable space sim where the actual gameplay is fun/enjoyable.

Lots of clicking, grinding, and watching battles rather then actually fully engaging in them with your own skills or piloting/dogfighting.
 
Stiler said:
I love how open/sandbox the game is, but I just can not "enjoy" the game because of it's archaic and "mmo" gameplay.

The fact you can't actually CONTROL your ship in terms of actually flying it around like in about any other space-sim game, it just feels like a circa 90's "click to move" mmo rather then a good enjoyable space sim where the actual gameplay is fun/enjoyable.

Lots of clicking, grinding, and watching battles rather then actually fully engaging in them with your own skills or piloting/dogfighting.
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Yea, it really is geared more toward long term play, start at the bottom and work up. For me I enjoy the fact that long term players are better 'geared'. Many mmo's you can max your gear in a months time and be up there with the people that have been playing since launch. The battles are very involved and tactical, not just a button masher. A lot of coordinating with your squads and leaders to pull it off. Also the fact there can be loss upon death, that if I destroy your ship it actually takes money away from you. Not just a simple respawn and go again. Same with thieving, it is nice to find someone trying to sneak a freighter with a bunch of stuff on it and not having any escorts, some times you could catch players moving plex and could get a few months of free game time out of the robbery.

EDIT: Also the reason for no dogfighting is because you aren't flying little fighters around, this is more like large scale naval sea battles.
 
Bowman15 said:
With EVE it's more like EXCEL.
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I just knew there had to be a meme for that.
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So much non sense being written here. You don't need millions and millions of skill points to be combat effective. You can get into high tier combat a couple weeks into your go if you know what to spec into, and that is your goal. People here talk about all these super high skilled players you won't ever catch but fail to mention the fact that 95% of the time they don't put that SP to use because they fly low cost effective easy to skill into ships. this game is about economy, you're not going to risk lots of your money to be ganged up on and lose it.

EVE is also not a excel -anything- It takes some basic knowledge and then it's really not hard to do anything yourself. And with how cheap some things are to fly and how easy ISK can be to earn in that small of quantity you will learn if nothing else by trial and error. further that even if you want to get REAL advanced there are programs that do all the "spreadsheets" for you. So it's just silly. EVE is alot of work if you get into the big leagues of running things, don't get me wrong. But a small fry really comes and goes as he pleases, does and does not do what he wants. Don't let people scare you off with non sense. But don't take this like a EVE is meant for everyone post either, it's not. If you don't like being ganked for no reason other than funsy's. Or being able to lose years of work in minutes and get highly emotionally attached to digital pixels. EVE is probably best avoided, as these kind of things can happen, and more. Fly safe o/
 
Exavior said:
people bitching about a free game, right on par.
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Pretty much, people want games to be cheaper or free and when it happens then they need something else to bitch about.

I think there was a quote about it in the movie jay and silent bob strikes back about the internet gives everyone a voice and they choose to use that to bitch about things while hiding behind their monitors.
 
schizrade said:
LMAO

Elite Dangerous.
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Heh, I guess I spend too much time in GenMay.

Eve felt like a second job. I sometimes get the urge to return and even as free to play I don't think I ever will. I don't think it was ever fun. I had good stats too. Dreads, carriers, all that jazz. I liked small gangs the most (vaga or rapier). At the end of the day it's a time sink and there are better things to do.
 
isn't null space one giant NAP now, the only dangerous parts of eve is like low sec right?
 
Dayaks said:
Heh, I guess I spend too much time in GenMay.

Eve felt like a second job. I sometimes get the urge to return and even as free to play I don't think I ever will. I don't think it was ever fun. I had good stats too. Dreads, carriers, all that jazz. I liked small gangs the most (vaga or rapier). At the end of the day it's a time sink and there are better things to do.
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Worm holes with a small group were fun for me, and terrifying when another player shows up at the entrance. Once we each paid someone to be a pal and lose his ship to let the rest of us escape. We stayed cloaked and he decloaked and ran off so we could make it through to wormhole back to higher sec space. Those are the kinds of things you can't get in many games.
 
nevermind, there is alpha class(F2P) and omega(paid sub) class for your account. Apparently none of my ships are flyable by alpha class nor my ship modules, and I can't even train skills, past a certain point you can't train anymore without paying. So really I can't do anything in the game at the moment.
 
First I have known Andi Norgren since slightly before she had her first job at a video game company in japan animating characters (there is a japanese anime from one the new hires four years later in 2004)... so bias to eve, even if she only recently took over. That said eve has gone through a lot of changes over the years and some of the insider traders that hit fun com... they work as qa or dev's get paid in stock start screwing around and not working delay the game or covering up certain story lines or npc's to lower the value of the game at the same time as rack in more stock then when they think it is at rock bottom start working again buying up extra stock is need be then once it is worth a lot of money plan a jump to another company and sell off their stock once they are no longer at the company. It is called a pump and dump. They pump up the company and then dump the stock. Usually by covering with the meta game you hear about. Andi sunk a lot of money into buying up a bunch of people dumping their stock to have controlling interest because it was her favorite game but not knowing what was going is dealing with the mess still.

CCCP brought a guy onto to look into the new player experience because they lost most of the new players in the first two hours because you can follow the npc contact to contact ratting path but if you look at handful of isk reward and people with millions of skill points... you miss out the game. Most people either joined in 2008-2010 or in 2012-2014 those were major updates when they tried to bring the skills in more parity. The joke is that if you logged into wow on day 1 2004... your character today would likely be 110... in eve you try offline. You set a years worth of training and it just runs... well the free accounts have to log in every day, which makes the game feel more alive, but fly through jita and you can see thousands of players at any time of the day. Most people who play eve do so to fly a space ship around a tactical sim, rsi has a flight system and how many systems they have built eve already has thousands of solar systems... so the upsides to eve are you fly around asking for missions. the downsides if you don't play everyday you lose standing and have to go back to work for lower standing people. Also if you are a ganker or griefer welll null sec is the place you want to play but well that is where most of experince players play. PVE type players are called ratters when you kill the npcs in the complexes and the ones that show up when mining. So you could stay in high sec and be nice to your faction and likely build many things but the more wealth you build in eve the more interesting the players around you make the game.

I would say if you look at try the free to play with one character and try one of the story lines and join up with someone like eve university if you your learning and play nice or try to impress band of brothers or goon squad if you want play in the deep end. I like watching those antics and building ships. A titan takes about a 1000 USD dollars worth of in game currency you earn by running mission looting wreck and or salvaging them, selling parts or ships... etc... and because you can get a thousand small ships in a system with a titan if the titan pilot is not remembering combined arms and having screens of smaller and smaller ships... as picket lines you see goon squard blow them up. or someone else in low to null sec.

So you fly your frigate learning the game and don't use any implants and avoid pissing people off you likely will have an easy time, or you can go through every system getting blow up seeing how much random damage you can do... it is like a chose your own adventure. Just remember those are people who can remember you, so when you say something to a co worker they may laugh then at lunch text everyone of their friends this is the guy he is on my friends so every new account wait twenty minutes after he logs in and hunt him/her and blow the ship up... that is the meta they talk about. Well that and people trying to steal accounts or impersonate people with similar names and other really sleazy things but at least in eve when they do that someone one finds out.
 
Eve is a game like wargame strategy grognards that I enjoy watching others do AARs but its definitely not something I enjoy doing firsthand.
 
I mean the game has always been free to play if you aren't terrible at earning money.
 
They seem to gloss over a few things in that article, these free account seemed more like trial account with no time limitation. However, there are skill restrictions as well as slower skill training, no ability to dual box on these also. kind of meh.
 
kledar586 said:
They seem to gloss over a few things in that article, these free account seemed more like trial account with no time limitation. However, there are skill restrictions as well as slower skill training, no ability to dual box on these also. kind of meh.
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yeah i looked it over last night and was put off when i saw you cant even train misslees.. n eed a paid account for that. continued looking over the skill list.. and "needs an omega clone" was all over the place.

so yeah.. a non expiring trial account is what i thought too

meh
 
katanaD said:
i might have to give it another go. though, LOL not with 3 accounts for mining like i have before.
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So that's why it took me 10 minutes to find an unused name. It was worse than signing up for a Google Account !
 
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