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• • How hard is it for new players?

  • It is hard for new players in EVE like it is hard for new players in most games, however in EVE unlike a lot of other games everything is based around skills and as a new player you will NEVER catch up to someone that has been playing for any amount of time longer than you have unless they stop playing/trainning skills and wait for you to catch up.

    There is a lot of things to help new players in EVE now but they are really only to help you learn how things work, if you are wanting to be a PVP'er you are going to find that unless you fight with other longer term players(in a gang) you are going to get badly smashed and may find yourself with a starter ship and no ISK to get anything better.

    EVE is not the sort of game that appeals to many people because it takes so long to be able to fly anything and be really good at it with skills, it is also because EVE is menu driven mainly and there is no way of moving without the point and click method (same with fighting)

    Some people like to be able to have more control over things and in EVE this just won't happen.

    as a game EVE has a lot to offer but it is going to cost you $34.99 every 60 days to play (has just been changed to this recently) and the adverage age of players in EVE would have to be in the mid 20's so it isn't hard to find decent conversation usually. (in fact there are people that play simply so they can chat to the other people)

    I would suggest that people make use of the 14 day free trial if they are thinking of playing, (oh when you swap your account from the trial to paid it is going to cost you also, it isn't that much but it does cost so just be aware of that. this is on top of the normal cost of game time but is a one time only thing. from memory it is $5 -$10 or something like that)

     

     

     

     

     

  • Posted: 6/23/08 5:26 AM
    EVE Online
• • EVE connection problems

  • Yeah they are blaming their ISP and as per usual there will be no compensation of any sort for this.

    the DC's are now also happening to people from more than just the US, they are happening to people in Australia and a couple of other countries also and they are now happening to a lot of people every 3 or so minutes making the game basically unplayable unless you don't mind losing your ship if you are doing a mission or PVP'ing.

    CCP have also removed the 30 & 90 day game time cards and replaced them with a single 60 day card which costs $34.99US which is an increase in the cost of playing (well it used to cost me $29.98US to play for 60 days & according to some people there is no change in the cost, So if someone can tell me how 60 days at $29.98 is the same as 60 days for $34.99 please do because I simply can not work out how it is the same).

    The DC's are just one issue among a growing list of issues that players have to deal with in this game, so if you are thinking of playing the game make sure you understand that you are going to come across these issues and there is basically nothing you can do about them because you will just be attacked if you bring them up on the forums.

    Hopefully Jumpgate will be everything it looks like being and EVE will become yet another one of those games that people used to play

     

     

  • Posted: 6/23/08 5:01 AM
    EVE Online