EVE Online

I'm approaching the end of my trial and I still cant decide if I want to pay. I enjoy the game but recently I've only logged on to start up training my next skill then moving to a different game. I think I'd love this game if I got into it, course thats the trouble. Really my problems arent entirely related to the game, though. One is I'm on my last $30 or so before I start saving up for AWA. Second is the start of school in 2 weeks, so I'll go from 12 hours a day on the computer to four or five. Well now I don't know what the real question here is...

Theres a few other things I have to decide between, and if anyone cares:
My own copy of Vampire: the Requiem
Saving up another 2 weeks for Battlefield 2
City of Heros looks interesting, but I wish there was a trial or something. I've spent too much money on MMORPGs I don't play anymore.
Putting more money on my allofmp3.com account
Too much other crap.

thing with eve... you can play this game afk! Play when you want.

i would really say its worth the cost to play this game, just takes some time to get used to

The thing about eve is, it is a completely afk game. Asin there is absolutely nothing to do except the same mission again and again or be afk while the skill you need takes 2 weeks RL time. You're paying to click on a skill mate - call it a day :)

grimboj - "The thing about eve is, it is a completely afk game."

There are certain things which you can do afk, like travelling. But if you view the game the way you state, then you are not really playing EVE, or an MMORPG at all, which is based on contact with other players. Some people only see one small aspect of EVE, cling to it, because everything else takes too much effort, and then complain that the game is boring and unsatisfactory.

Wow.

First of all, if you are serious about even travelling whilst AFK you have to travel only in very high security space (and with the new maps that means a lot of jumps) and, in any case, not be at war with anyone. If you want shorter routes, you're going through low sec, and if you do that AFK ... well then you deserve to be blown up and podded, in my opinion.

You can mine asteroids while semi-afk, I agree, but that's really the only thing. I don't mine much at all, really. I spend most of my time outside the station on scouting or combat patrols, with voice comms and all, and it's very much *not* AFK.

The thing that trips people up is that they are brainwashed into thinking that unless they need to do something to increase their skill points, there's not point in playing ... that's really the issue. EVE has separated playing from skill points. So what do you do? You PLAY THE GAME! Don't worry about your skills ... monitor them, train them according to a plan, execute against that plan, and then move on to PLAYING THE GAME. When I'm out on a combat patrol, checking gates for the enemy and the like, I honestly don't care what skill I'm training because I'm actually playing the game!

Before you can fully understand EVE Online, you'll have to play it for at least 2-3 months.

By then you should have enough skills to mine in 0.0 space or pvp in 0.0 space.

The first weeks or month of playing EVE, you'll find it to be difficult and hard, I know this because I'm only into my 2nd week playing. But if you find a good corporation, they can help you out both financially and with information.

If you want to afk mine, go into a .9 or 1.0 space and grab a cheap indutrial ship, and mine an asteroid also.

To be good at EVE doesn't require time spent mining or pvping necessarily. It helps, but strategy and focusing on certain skill areas "specializing" is the key to excelling at EVE.

I wouldn't necessarily say that EVE Online is an AFK game as much as I would say that it takes incredibly long to do much of anything. You spend a big majority of your time just waiting for your ship to travel around and get to places before you can do anything there.

Overall, I say that this is the perfect game if you prefer watching TV or chatting with friends while you play a game. Otherwise it just gets too boring.