Well, I just gave up on EVE. If I said I enjoyed  the 3 months I was there I would be lying, but I believe the game wasn't for me.

What I wish EVE had...

Little more action based.... In my final week I was on Level 4 missions, challenging sort of but i found myself on a sub-afk mode (in my Drake). Watching TV and looking at my ship time after time, just to change my missle target (BTW this was solo). Mining- almost full afk... i put my keyboard on my monitor and did my college homework with a my corp (about 20 peeps in the belt).

I guess some peeps get a kick out of being almost semi-afk throughout their game experience, but I don't know. I think I'm looking for a game with a little more action.

On my 2nd month, my corp got wardecced (War between Corps). So again we did a blockade on their station.. and again I went semi-afk until they left their station or they logged on. The fight lasted about 30 min with them darting back and forth with their microwarp drives on.

Tried pirate hunting with a my corp mates... we found one, warp disrupted him bam he was dead. (only excitement i had).

Then we gate camped.... Z Z z z. Killed a couple pods.

I guess the game isn't for me, but I just don't get it. All the systems I went into .4 and below were barren. Just me in an entire system doing a .2 complex.

When I went to 0.0, just people hanging out at gates waiting for the next sucker to come through.

Just seemed that all the encounters I did. I either outnumbered the guy or he outnumbered me, thus the winner was the guy with either more peeps, or the guy with a million or two more sp than me. In the end I had 3 mil SP. I know everyone says that with EVE having SP lets everyone be able to become skilled in one area of the game... but not having skills in other areas makes the game very boring IMO.

Later EVE. It was interesting. Just alittle to slow for me. Give me some ASWD controls on my ship or make the game faster paced.

Heh Amen to that!

U'r absolutely rigth, sad, but true.

Shoulda came and hung out with us.  You woulda had more fun.

Can I have your stuff?  (sorry had to say it

You should get into a 0.0-Alliance at war, not into a gatecamping carebearalliance. You just took the three most boring parts of eve.. ;)

Originally posted by treefitty

Well, I just gave up on EVE. If I said I enjoyed  the 3 months I was there I would be lying, but I believe the game wasn't for me.

What I wish EVE had...

Little more action based.... In my final week I was on Level 4 missions, challenging sort of but i found myself on a sub-afk mode (in my Drake). Watching TV and looking at my ship time after time, just to change my missle target (BTW this was solo). Mining- almost full afk... i put my keyboard on my monitor and did my college homework with a my corp (about 20 peeps in the belt).

I guess some peeps get a kick out of being almost semi-afk throughout their game experience, but I don't know. I think I'm looking for a game with a little more action.

On my 2nd month, my corp got wardecced (War between Corps). So again we did a blockade on their station.. and again I went semi-afk until they left their station or they logged on. The fight lasted about 30 min with them darting back and forth with their microwarp drives on.

Tried pirate hunting with a my corp mates... we found one, warp disrupted him bam he was dead. (only excitement i had).

Then we gate camped.... Z Z z z. Killed a couple pods.

I guess the game isn't for me, but I just don't get it. All the systems I went into .4 and below were barren. Just me in an entire system doing a .2 complex.

When I went to 0.0, just people hanging out at gates waiting for the next sucker to come through.

Just seemed that all the encounters I did. I either outnumbered the guy or he outnumbered me, thus the winner was the guy with either more peeps, or the guy with a million or two more sp than me. In the end I had 3 mil SP. I know everyone says that with EVE having SP lets everyone be able to become skilled in one area of the game... but not having skills in other areas makes the game very boring IMO.

Later EVE. It was interesting. Just alittle to slow for me. Give me some ASWD controls on my ship or make the game faster paced.

 

 

We've all been there M8. Just some friendly advice...Keep training your character if you can...just take core skills (shield and armor resistance skills would work) and space ship command skills to level 5 and let them train...if you decide to come back later you will be sooo glad you did.

I was going to keep my subscription and come on change a skill, but then I thought about it. It costs me 15 dollars a month to 'play' EVE. But if all I do for the next 3 months or so is log on and change skill then log off. I would have spent 45 dollars, not including the 20 dollars for the game, and the two months of subscription I have already paid for. So in all, I would pay 95 dollars for a program that all I did was log on change skill then log off. So in 5 months I logged back on with a character with a good amount of skillpoints to do reasonably well in 0.0.... and then I figure out if I like the game?

No offense but that doesn't sound like fun to me. I want to enjoy the next 3 months of playing the game.

I play games to enjoy them. Don't get me wrong seeing all the stuff in the first few weeks was cool, but to get where I wanna go by offline sp training just doesn't seem enjoyable to me.

I guess I'm just one of those crazy people that play a game for enjoyment.

If i don't enjoy the game at 2 mil sp, I don't think, I'll enjoy the game anymore after offline training to lets say 7 million sp.

I think I'm looking for more of an action based game earlier on.

Plus if i came back to EVE, then decided to move into 0.0. The dread of transporting my cargo 36 jumps to a new corp, doesn't get me that warm fuzzy feeling.

Enjoy :). I wish I had the patience and the money to get a high sp character in EVE.

You didnt quite understand. ;)

Take the time left to train lets say your racial battleship to 4. Then start training lvl5, and cancel the sub.

You skill will proceed to train, so when you decide to come back, you will have some nice bonus (t2 battleships..)

Yeah, whatever skill you have training when your sub expires or you cancel it will KEEP training until its done.  So when you do cancel make sure you set a big one like Battleship lvl 5 and it will be done when / if you decide to come back some time.

Originally posted by treefitty

Well, I just gave up on EVE. If I said I enjoyed  the 3 months I was there I would be lying, but I believe the game wasn't for me.

What I wish EVE had...

Little more action based.... In my final week I was on Level 4 missions, challenging sort of but i found myself on a sub-afk mode (in my Drake). Watching TV and looking at my ship time after time, just to change my missle target (BTW this was solo). Mining- almost full afk... i put my keyboard on my monitor and did my college homework with a my corp (about 20 peeps in the belt).

I guess some peeps get a kick out of being almost semi-afk throughout their game experience, but I don't know. I think I'm looking for a game with a little more action.

On my 2nd month, my corp got wardecced (War between Corps). So again we did a blockade on their station.. and again I went semi-afk until they left their station or they logged on. The fight lasted about 30 min with them darting back and forth with their microwarp drives on.

Tried pirate hunting with a my corp mates... we found one, warp disrupted him bam he was dead. (only excitement i had).

Then we gate camped.... Z Z z z. Killed a couple pods.

I guess the game isn't for me, but I just don't get it. All the systems I went into .4 and below were barren. Just me in an entire system doing a .2 complex.

When I went to 0.0, just people hanging out at gates waiting for the next sucker to come through.

Just seemed that all the encounters I did. I either outnumbered the guy or he outnumbered me, thus the winner was the guy with either more peeps, or the guy with a million or two more sp than me. In the end I had 3 mil SP. I know everyone says that with EVE having SP lets everyone be able to become skilled in one area of the game... but not having skills in other areas makes the game very boring IMO.

Later EVE. It was interesting. Just alittle to slow for me. Give me some ASWD controls on my ship or make the game faster paced.

 

 

Exactly, this isn't like Earth and Beyond - so sad :(. Although I heard Microsoft acquired Earth and Beyond and it will be released next year - I can't wait!

I too had that feeling about EVE, it was just slow. If you are still interested in Sci-fi MMOs, I suggest Vendetta-Online . Although I currently do not play it, it was a lot more interesting considering it was FPS style controls of fighting.

These days i only logon to change my skills and then logoff.

It is boring, unless you are in a corp which does missions or go and mine together to get some funds to buy new skills.

If Eve is too boring, move to 0.0. Its where the cool stuff is.

EVE relies on two aspects, the Market and Corporations.

If you do not join an involved corp, your experience will not be wholesome. As in any other MMO, teamwork is a huge part. With that said, the common complaint in EVE is there not being enough coop-specific stuff to do. That would probably be a more worthwhile Suggestion than anything.

EVE also seems to have two kinds of players (of the ones that stay). The first group contain players that are short on time, and can't spend all day grinding their characters. They log on, train a different skill, log off. They log on, use their new skill to add to their ship, do missions, log off...  The second group stays on and interacts heavily with their corp. Mine, for instance, has PvE missions and mining goals every day, i.e. something to do.

It really depends on what you want out of the game.

Ill have to join the Short time list there, Ill admit there has been time when ive wanted to quit i now only have 1 account fully subbed and the other is on rotation of month sub for small skills month off for long skills.

Its sad to say but ill always be there ive got alot of friends in the game and so when i get on theres usually some1 to kill you either find something to keep you in the game in your first few month or you dont, You just didnt find anything to satisify what you where looking for

Fly safe

Fenik

Sounds like EVE just isn't your game OP, that's cool, it doesn't appeal to those looking for more of a FPS game experience (something I abhor) and that's fine, they'll be another game coming I'm sure.

Here's my bit on EVE.. and I think EVE is the coolest game out there.

You know, I've kinda been in the same boat. I've been playing MMO's on and off for about 5 years now. Classic SWG was my favorite, and I've played near all of the boring run-of-the-mill fantasy MMO's since (wow, eq2, vanguard, etc).

To this point, I've only tinkered with EVE for not more than a month at a time. The first try a while back, I made a trial account, flew around as a caldari, but I just felt bored leveling learning skills up. I was following one of those guides "how to most efficiently train your character", and I realized that I really wouldn't be flying any of the cooler looking ships for a while, so I got really discouraged. I ended up surrenduring my kestrel (I think that's what it was) before a month, and canceled.

Then, my second foray into EVE was on a friends account, but that was mainly a mining character. He had the huge gallente freighter, and that really long tube-looking transport ship whatever it was called. Even playing on a friends decked out miner, I was bored to tears, but I suppose that was because I've always been a pvp-er at heart, so I shouldn't have expected to gain excitement from listening to the music while watching lasers hit rocks.

At the end of the day, I think it boils down to the fact that I'm kinda spoiled by the fact that all of the MMO's I've played over the last few years, I can sit in front of the pc for hours on end for a month straight and effectively catch-up somewhat to be on level with the top 5% of pvp'ers. In those other games, I can study video, figure out what others are doing, read guides, etc, and become effective competition. In EVE this is so far from the case. I feel totally lost, and from all of this talk of "gatecamping" - which sounds super lame - , I am kinda discouraged a bit.

I love teamwork in pvp and all, those two words are the best components of an MMO in my opinion, but maybe I just didn't make the right friends in EVE, maybe I didn't fall into the right place/corp to feel like I was actually going somewhere and/or having fun.

It's a shame too, because I've read and watched a lot on EVE, and it really looks like the coolest MMO out there. I'd really like to give it another shot, but I just feel discouraged.

Originally posted by batolemaeus

If Eve is too boring, move to 0.0. Its where the cool stuff is.

yeah I tried playing EVE a few months and the skill learning time is ridiculous(IMO of course)
I know this is part of the grand scope envisioned for EVE - but this overly drawn out process is not for me. 

Even when I was in corps, it was like still borring and not their fault, it was like why are we ganking this dude? oh because we are bored, the probelm is there is no real hunting, someone is there or not and afk enough for you to catch them or not or it is camping some gate for ever.

I got about 18mill SP not and I'm just going to stop skilling up after my sub runs out and then  maybe re up one a year for a month.

To the OP I agree, and IMO the missions are like mining NPC ships, for goodness sakes the story linge they give you is meaningless too and in the begining I thought it would get better but never did after 2 1/2 years.

But beware the skill system were you have to lofg in all times of the day will get you just having to keep doing it even if you are only logging on just to change them, that stinks. I have to log in even when I do not want to play? pft.

And there is no actual reason to PvP, you have to make one up and sit at a gate, that sucks.

the problem is they expect the players to make up the content, well sorry to say but players are mostly borring, unless they are talking in a podcast but then that is not even in the actual gameplay of it,

The worst thing that can happen to someone is that they are left with nothing to do and they are just logging in to change skills, and that  happened to me. Because you got to change them or you loose any hope of doing better in the future. Or for whatever reason one could think of, but that's no good.

Even if you war deck it is so boring like you say with the sitting and waiting for someone to come along etc...

EVE isn't PvE based, it's a PvP based game.