EVE Online

Alright ive been trolling the forums for a while today looking at a few things and trying to figure out what MMO is for me. My search has been fruitful and i have been looking at EVE for a while but i have a few questions.

1.) Can i play this game at a casual pace and still enjoy much of the content it has to offer?

2.) I have heard numerous times that this game can be a little bit much to handle in the PvP arena once you decide to risk it. I enjoy PvP once in a while but only at a minor level. Is this game for me on this level?

3.) Many People and Posts have told me that this game is truely the richest in depth and especially so with crafting in the economy. Is this something i can jump into or is it gonna take me months of playing and working at it?

Now i know this mostly pertains to time investment and the whole can a casual gamer enjoy this quandry, but being a worker and a full time student i need something that i can manage around my schedule without having to be thinking about it all the time.

Thanks so much for any help that you are willing to provide. I am also interested in hearing any general knowledge of the game and good solid reasons for joining.

Originally posted by ghostofspuds

Alright ive been trolling the forums for a while today looking at a few things and trying to figure out what MMO is for me. My search has been fruitful and i have been looking at EVE for a while but i have a few questions.

1.) Can i play this game at a casual pace and still enjoy much of the content it has to offer?

2.) I have heard numerous times that this game can be a little bit much to handle in the PvP arena once you decide to risk it. I enjoy PvP once in a while but only at a minor level. Is this game for me on this level?

3.) Many People and Posts have told me that this game is truely the richest in depth and especially so with crafting in the economy. Is this something i can jump into or is it gonna take me months of playing and working at it?

Now i know this mostly pertains to time investment and the whole can a casual gamer enjoy this quandry, but being a worker and a full time student i need something that i can manage around my schedule without having to be thinking about it all the time.

Thanks so much for any help that you are willing to provide. I am also interested in hearing any general knowledge of the game and good solid reasons for joining.

 

1. Yes. There are no levels. Instead, you have skills that level on their own. Some can take weeks to train, but they train while you're offline, so you don't even need to be playing to advance.

2. EVE is very PvP centric, and it's brutal. When you die you lose your ship and everything you had on it, but if you bought insurance you get money back for the ship so it's not a total loss. If your escape pod gets destroyed and you didn't buy insurance, you lose skills. It's not that bad early in the game, though.

Not a lot of PvE stuff though. It's only really PvP and mining.

3. Months. The first 2 or 3 are slow, but after that the game picks up. You don't need to play that much a day, though.

Hi, I though been an EVE player for like 3 years now i'll post my thoughts for you.

1. I would say yes you can play at a casual pace and enjoy most of what everyone else does. the real time skill system helps with this, Isk (game money) is the only thing you can get more of if your on more, but if you want to carebare most of the time then it shouldn't be a problem. join a player corp in highsec with similiar interests would be the best way to go.

2. With pvping it is risky and can cost you but the great thing about EVE is that new players generally dont risk as much and can still be very useful in small gangs. I been pvping for nearly 2 years, never looked back even though for my first year I only carbared\mission ran in high sec avoiding all pvp.

3. It definatly can be an overwhelming game especially if you try it by yourself. though i would say if you take the trial by the time the 14days is up you should have an idea of how complex and interesting it can be. though it can still take months more to fully understand just some aspects of the game. This is what i love about it, others may say this is why the game is boring.

Generally these days i generally play about 3 days during the week only about 2 hours each day, and sometimes a lot on the weekends or sometimes don't touch it on the weekend.

hope this was useful if you want any more info you can ask again or ingame my char is fishy418. happy to help answer anymore questions. i would definately recommend giving the trial a go and work it out from there.

Thanks Fishy! You were very helpful... I am currently debating between Vanguard and EVE, quite a dichotomy i know, i plan on testing eve when i get my new rig sometime next week. I have one more question if you ever get to answering it and that is, are the missions something that can carry me through most of the game and is the economy as interesting as i have heard?

I think Fishy summed it up well.

Missions are but one aspect of the game.  Some people only do missions but IMO they are missing a very large aspect of the game.  Missions range everywhere from mining and courier missions to all out kill missions.  The difficulty range is quite large and not that many people have even experienced level 5 missions.

The economy of eve is by far the most interesting I've ever seen in an MMO and I don't think it will be matched anytime soon.

My advice is to try both out but don't try to do everything alone in Eve.  It's very much a social game.

Side note... IMO there is a very good reason why you can't download a trial of Vanguard;  It's awful!  By the time you realise it Sony's suckered you out of $50.  You might like it.  Who knows, it's all about personal preference in the end.

No problem, i don't quite know what you mean by that? will missions be enough to keep you interested in the game as a whole? I don't think so, i don't mind missions and that was basically all i did for my first year of eve i didn't mind but obviously it does get boring, but they can be fun to start with and i had a bit of a goal just to see what i could do solo trying my different setups during missions.

Otherwise if you mean are mission enough to earn you enough isk to pvp or just play around, easily. once you get to lvl4s you can earn pretty decent isk, it won't get you all the fancy and expensive faction stuff without weeks of missions but will be enough to fit t2 cruisers and even bs's with a couple of hours a week on missions.

now the economy is very diverse and can be interesting if your into that kind of thing, at one point i did earn a decent amount of isk just buying items people didn't use a turn them to minerals and selling again. also did a bit of trading, buying from Jita (main trading hub) and flying to a minor hub and selling for more. it was interesting to see what i could sell and is very dynamic. i found i just prefer blowing up all those modules and ships

This game sounds more intruiging to me every time i read posts or get responses here... I will definentally be downloading the trial coming up here, thanks again for all the help  

Originally posted by ghostofspuds

Alright ive been trolling the forums for a while today looking at a few things and trying to figure out what MMO is for me. My search has been fruitful and i have been looking at EVE for a while but i have a few questions.

1.) Can i play this game at a casual pace and still enjoy much of the content it has to offer?

Yes you can....but don't expect to "rush" through it. Take your time and you will enjoy more.

2.) I have heard numerous times that this game can be a little bit much to handle in the PvP arena once you decide to risk it. I enjoy PvP once in a while but only at a minor level. Is this game for me on this level?

The new expansion allows players to get into PvP extremely fast. Now, does that mean you will be good at? Depends. Join a good Corp (ie Clan/Kin) that specalizes in helping you in your chosen path. If you want to PvP there are many Corps that help train PvP to new players.

3.) Many People and Posts have told me that this game is truely the richest in depth and especially so with crafting in the economy. Is this something i can jump into or is it gonna take me months of playing and working at it?

You can jump in at any time...start...late...makes no difference. But, as with life, don't expect to be the "mega" crafter on day one. Day twenty...maybe...lol.

Now i know this mostly pertains to time investment and the whole can a casual gamer enjoy this quandry, but being a worker and a full time student i need something that i can manage around my schedule without having to be thinking about it all the time.

Being that EVE is my "second" MMO that I play I will say you can put in as much or as little time as you like. I really think the skill training methods in EVE actually are catered more toward the player that has little time to invest since you don't have to be in game to actually advance.

Thanks so much for any help that you are willing to provide. I am also interested in hearing any general knowledge of the game and good solid reasons for joining.

 

Originally posted by ghostofspuds

Thanks Fishy! You were very helpful... I am currently debating between Vanguard and EVE, quite a dichotomy i know, i plan on testing eve when i get my new rig sometime next week. I have one more question if you ever get to answering it and that is, are the missions something that can carry me through most of the game and is the economy as interesting as i have heard?

 

As someone who has invested a lot of time into Vanguard and a moderate amount of time into EVE, I believe that EVE is far more casual friendly in time commitment terms (even though it is more hardcore in terms of learning curve and depth of gameplay). Both are great games, but from what you've posted in this thread i think EVE will suit you more. Either way gl with your choice