EVE Online- yes, it's a geeky thread

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Daimo

I thought the whole idea of EVE though WAS to fly around in ships, go to space stations, trade, start wars, have battled, mine stuff etc?

See, I agree with this... Basically, my ship's my avatar, I don't think the ambulation stuff is going to add anything, it's just a load more development time and server load. Seems like you'll be able to opt out, which I probably will, since it's bound to slow down the station stuff. I wish they'd fix what they have instead of doing new stuff though.

I don't think anything much has changed lately... They swapped the servers and upgraded the databasing so it's faster and more stable, introduced more ships etc, including a mining capital ship. But nothing really huge to change the way the game works, which is probably for the best. If you were bored of it before, you'd still be bored of it, put it that way. Thing is, Eve doesn't go out of its way to entertain you, you have to make your own entertainment, as long as you remember that it's great but if you lose track, like I did for a bit, it's just such a grind. So I jumped corp, found a new gang in more interesting space, now I'm having a great time again.

[JediGoat]

Originally Posted by Daimo

Anyone else want to join our geeky discussion

Me!

Don't do Eve, WoW, SL, NNWNWNWN (or whatever it's called), however I am a regular in Entropia Universe (what used to be Project Entropia).

Any more entropians on here?

Jo

Originally Posted by northwind

Thing is, Eve doesn't go out of its way to entertain you, you have to make your own entertainment, as long as you remember that it's great but if you lose track, like I did for a bit, it's just such a grind. So I jumped corp, found a new gang in more interesting space, now I'm having a great time again.

Aye, if i wanted a platform game, theres plenty around. I liked Eve because it reminded me of the original ELITE game, absolutly massive in size, but with modern day graphics.

I think part of the issue was the cost, the other issue my friends "Corp" never had anyone ever online, so i was just going round, shooting drones, making a few ISK, selling bits. Never really got into the game, although I learned how to play it. I was kinda a 1 man band within a corp.

Re-sparked becuase another friend plays it and gets involved in loads of missions and such. But i lost interest becuase I never done that stuff.

May sign up again, good for the dark winter nights during the weekday evenings.

Just watched all the trailers again on the site and wanna rejoin But its still £15pm which is a lot.

[northwind]

You do have the option of paying for your gametime with ingame currency, though you need to be a pretty good earner to do that. I can do it, but it'd suck up most of my cash. There's cheaper ways to play though, I just checked my account and I paid $38.85 for my last quarter, that's only £8 a month or so.

Well I would have re-joined, but we're swapping our BB connection, and while i have a connection, login details, they have failed to send me the damn install CD and hardware so no Internet for me at home since friday.

booooooooooooo.

But i think im going to rejoin. Im sure I was paying 3 monthly, and it was about £35-£40 im sure.

Currently on an mmo break as I was spending FAR too much time playing

Will be going back onto swg in a month or two though, Eve is far to timeconsuming for me, and not into the whole nwn fantasy type thing, altho age of conan and warhammer might change that if they're any good on release

Currently beta testing Pirates of the Burning Sea (ooops nda)

Its looking good if you like the whole pirates thing

Thats why I liked eve as I like the whole space thing, and it basically a much much modern version of the old game "Elite"

Is there any other spacey type games online like that, or is Eve the clear leader?

not really... there are some sci fi mmo's about but none you could really compare to eve, I play galaxies as I have the space part and ground part, like 2 games in one

check out the mmo list on mmorpg.com you might find something of interest

YAY im back online baby