I like games like Freelancers and Darkstar One (though the latter is quite lackluster, and Freelancer is clearly incomplete and fall short of the greatness it should attain). I have heard much about Eve Online and am tempted to try.
Before I pony up USD 14 for the demo, I have some questions
What is the PvE like?
Can I easily form groups of 2 to 3 and have a good time hunting mobs without being bored but not being too hard?
What is this about being able to play Eve Online for free?
I already have enough stress in RL. Can I enjoy the game without all its in-game politics, elections?
I have no interest in PvP. Is there an option to turn it on/off? I will lend a hand in group fights though, but won’t pick fights with individual and etc.
And yeah…how much is it like Freelancer? With and without mods like Discovery Reunion?
Dull and repetitive. No real challenge, very modest rewards.
I guess. What you’d most likely be looking at is a missioning corp (guilds in other mmos, corps in Eve). There is a large difference between ratting (killing NPCs in the game world) and missioning (questing).
You can buy time codes, convert them to PLEX (30 days of play time) and sell them on the market for ISK (game currency). Obviously you can also buy these time codes for ISK from the market. If you make enough ISK per month to buy your next time code, you play for free.
Other than whatever your corp has for politics, yeah you can ignore it. Eve is perhaps the least stressfull MMO I know of.
No. Eve is almost entirely PvP based, even if you never leave 1.0 space (security ratings of 0.5 and above mean that you will lose your if you attack another player, but it does NOT mean that players cannot be attacked). Everything useful on the markets was gathered by players, made by players, and sold by players.
If you are looking for Freelancer style combat you will be sorely disappointed. When I first started, that was what I thought it would be like. Instead of the dog-fighting style combat of Freelancer, EVE combat feels more like you are the captain standing on the bridge telling your helmsman what to do.
The worst thing about Eve is that of you start playing it, and you like it, it will ruin all other MMOs for you. They will all seems simple and uninteresting in comparision.
Your ship. What happens is that a few seconds after you attack another player in high security space, Concord (the police, basically) warps in, and attacks you. Your ship will not survive this. It is quite possible to be able to finish off that other player before the cops kill you, though, and sometimes people do just that.
Unless your corporation and that players corporation are at war, then he can legally bend you over and rape you and concord will sit there and give him suggestions.
I dislike war in hi sec. Grow some frelling nads and go fight in low sec and stop harassing me. All I want to do is mine and make stuff.
Ship. I’d swear that was there when I typed it. NPCs don’t target pods (that I know of).
Some people have an irrational dislike of carebears and will wardec highsec corps, or go suicide ganking (destroying ships or podding people in highsec before Concord arrives, evading Concord is a bannable offense). Some of it, I’m sure, comes from irritation with carebears whining for policy changes that will affect large areas of PvP, and a bit of it is PvP corps trying to drive competition out of an area they want to use to rebuild themselves after a failed bid in 0.0, but most of it is assholishness.
The basic rule is don’t undock in what you can’t afford to lose.
Forgive my shitty search skills and general laziness (if it mitigates anything, I’m recovering from gall bladder surgery and completely gooned on Vicodin at the moment), but are there any other general EVE Online threads? I just bought the game as a “Congrats to yourself for not snuffing it on the table” present. I only played it for a few hours during moments of general lucidity these past few days and as far as I can tell, I’m still in the campaign mode, versus computer, tutorial thigamajig section. So far, I’m enjoying it, and I’m anxious to delve furthing into the Online portion of the game.
Um … I guess that’s a Vicodin paragraph version of, “Who wants to play EVE Online with me?”