Author Topic: Eve Online (Read 2112 times)

Sandman · « **on:** June 16, 2004, 04:15:48 PM »

I've been playing for the past couple of days. Months ago, I played JumpGate for a bit, but after reaching the rank of "optimus", I quickly lost interest.

By comparison, EO is just huge. The playing area is so immense, I am sure I could play for years and not get to every part of it. Character development seems fairly complicated (a good thing) as well as the player based economy. If I stick around, it's going to take me awhile to understand it.

I also like the combat interface. It's more about strategy than gamesmanship. I got a rude lesson in JumpGate. There I was, level 50, and I got beat like a three-year old in K-Mart by a couple of guys that really understood how to fly and win in a vacuum.

Anyway... any players here?

After a couple of nights playing, my chat buffers were practically empty, but the last night I played I had quite a few corporations recruiting me. I'm holding off for the time being. In JumpGate, my affiliations were getting me into more trouble than I had bargained for.

Martlet · « **Reply #1 on:** June 16, 2004, 04:18:07 PM »

I played JumpGate for years. I only just recently cancelled my accounts. There's a few JG guys that play AH.

I did Eve beta, but didn't really care for it. Has it gotten better?

AKIron · « **Reply #2 on:** June 16, 2004, 04:18:56 PM »

I played EO for about a month immediately after it went public. The trading system was interesting but got tired of the mining. Anything else to it?

Sandman · « **Reply #3 on:** June 16, 2004, 04:29:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Martlet
I played JumpGate for years. I only just recently cancelled my accounts. There's a few JG guys that play AH.

I did Eve beta, but didn't really care for it. Has it gotten better?

I can't answer the question. I didn't play Eve beta, but the eye candy is much better than JG (not that that means anything). The character leveling and races allow for much more diversity than JG did. There are races and then within each, there are tribes or other political affiliations. Where JG was a space game with some very loose role playing aspects, the role play in EO begins right at character generation.

There's a lot of different options for ships as well. To make that even more complicated, your character skills and experience can directly affect the performance of the ship. It's more than just setting thresholds on what you can buy or operate. Certain ship subsystems can operate more efficiently if your character has the skills.

Oh... on top of that, you can have up to three characters. They aren't at all linked.

Sandman · « **Reply #4 on:** June 16, 2004, 04:30:42 PM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
I played EO for about a month immediately after it went public. The trading system was interesting but got tired of the mining. Anything else to it?

I can see where mining can get old. I've done a fair bit already. But there's money to be made in other ways and so far mining really isn't any more lucrative than doing courier missions.

midnight Target · « **Reply #5 on:** June 16, 2004, 04:31:40 PM »

geeks

Sandman · « **Reply #6 on:** June 16, 2004, 04:33:52 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target

geeks

Shush. Some people around here don't yet realize that they are geeks.

Wolf14 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 16, 2004, 04:35:01 PM »

I too am a Jumpgate junkie. Kinda funny what some folks lose to pirates cause they wont get off the phone.

CyranoAH · « **Reply #8 on:** June 16, 2004, 06:40:06 PM »

Been there. Founded a corp. We all got cruisers. Nice blueprints. Quite a large mining player base. Killed lots of pirates. Got my skills up quite a bit (all of em). Got a lot of crokite and whatever. Went where no man had gone before...

Booooring.

Daniel

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #9 on:** June 16, 2004, 06:50:07 PM »

I was in the beta... trried really hard to get into Eve... but just couldnt.

I think its too complicated for the average gamer just trying to feel it out. Sure thats great for a game you understand, but in the beta the learning curve was HUGE and I quickly lost interest.

Same question as above... has it gotten better? In other words... is it easy to figure out WTF youre supposed to do beyond fly around, oogle at the graphics, and wait in line to mine asteroids behind 20 other people?

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 16, 2004, 09:27:46 PM »

I played the EO beta. I was dumbfounded when they went live because the game was still 3 monts from completion in my opinion. The price in the stores quickly went from $49.99 to $24.99.

I might give it another try someday.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #11 on:** June 16, 2004, 10:17:50 PM »

I think Fileplanet is offering a DL'ed version for $9.99 now.

Engine · « **Reply #12 on:** June 16, 2004, 11:58:38 PM »

Skill-based combat is the beauty of Jumpgate, sandman, and what's kept me playing it for so long. It doesn't matter what level you are, what matters is whether you know how to fly.

Momus-- · « **Reply #13 on:** June 17, 2004, 04:21:57 AM »

I've been in Eve for a year and am still having fun

Sandman, mail me your Eve character name at the address in my profile and I'll contact you in game if you'd like some help or pointers?

Martlet · « **Reply #14 on:** June 17, 2004, 08:13:15 AM »

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Originally posted by Engine
It doesn't matter what level you are, what matters is whether you know how to fly.

without getting banned.