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• • Tried the trial....

  • Also tried the trial, but my problem was totally different.

    Here's my experience.

    Pros:

    1. FUN, yes the game is fun. You can fight, craft (never even tried that), or mine/trade/make money in general.

    2. Big, feels epic.

    3. Lots of ships

    4. Corps can take space for themselves and that actually has benefits (I never got to experience this, but that sounds hella fun)

     

    Cons: (and why I won't be staying sadly)

    1. Oddly I have the feeling that after completing every level 1 mission (at least 20 times) that I've experienced almost the full extent of combat. I have nothing against EVE's style of combat, but honestly it gets old fast when I gain nothing but money I can't use yet.

    2. Artificial pacing (see below)

    Before I say anything more this is NOT a rant about never catching up to long time players. After reading that flame fest a few posts down I just want to make that clear. I've played MMOs for 10 years(The majority in EQ) now, I know vet players will *usually* be ahead of the curve.

    My issue is not that I can never catch up, it's that no matter what I do (minus pumping my Learning skills) it means nothing for advancement. It's the ultimate casual game - regardless of how much you play you will be forced to stay the same as the guy that pays his monthly and logs in to train.

    Yes I make money, but what good does that do me when I've purchased almost all the best junk I can use with my current skills? Bank money for when my next skill-up ticks over and unlocks a new item? Start PvPing in a Thrasher? (I was flying around a Thrasher with 280mm artils [in hindsight I should of got smaller cannons as i ran out of cpu and could only fill 5 top slots and had 2 artils left] on my first day of the trial and halfway to buying a Rupture + I purchased all skills I could that I hadn't started with, and the Cruiser learning book which i couldn't train yet (5 days on Min-Frig 4))

     

     

    While I'm sad I never got to experience 0,0 PvP and corp warfare, I just can't play a game that restrains me soo much. Even if it is a good game.

     

    [In reference to the locked thread, I created a guild in WoW with ~14 friends. We went from level 1 to 70 (I PvP'd ~1 month while they caught up) and I got full badge gear, a full set of PvP gear, beat kara umpteen times, and got ZA down to the last boss in only ~7 months. The XP boost happened when I was level 50.]

  • Posted: 7/23/08 6:08 PM
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