Comments on: Ethic’s In Space

By: Stormwaltz

Stormwaltz — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:45:13 +0000

Hooray for redundancy! This is what I get for not reading all the way through the thread…

By: Stormwaltz

Stormwaltz — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:44:25 +0000

If things are the same as when I left, resolution should be one of the options you can tweak on the panel you access through the ESC key.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:53:15 +0000

Alt+enter will quickly take you to full screen and it looks like hitting ESC will bring up the resolution options we are looking for. (Edited once I learned how to do things properly)

By: Inhibit

Inhibit — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:52:02 +0000

First game I ever played that defaulted to windowed mode….

By: Inhibit

Inhibit — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:47:13 +0000

Riddle me this, Batman: How the heck to I change the resolution? this 1024×786 is killing me. I want it closer to 2kx1.2k. Can it be changed?

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 31 May 2005 21:58:38 +0000

I can see that being the case, but it seems to me that CCP intended this to be one of those open ended games and that “missions” are not really the main thing to do. I think that they leave you to do whatever you want. It is a case of player-made content being the bulk of what you do. Manufacturing, stealing, deliveries, protection, corporations, pvp, wars, etc.

I’m not sure what the long-term holds for me, but short term it is very interesting to play around in. Learning how to play a game is possibly the most interesting phase of an MMO for me.

By: Spot

Spot — Tue, 31 May 2005 21:43:55 +0000

I must agree with Eon Blue. At first the waiting does not seem to take that long. This is until you get missions which literally have you waiting 30 minutes while you are speeding across space.

You actually end up doing so much watching, that you figure out what is taking up the most time, and it starts to annoy you.

The first thing you will notice is the slow approach to the jump gate. You will soon become obsessed with buying an afterburner just to speed that up. It helps a little bit.

The game is beautiful however. It is a lot easier to up the quality of the environment in a space based game because there are fewer polys on the screen. The effect is still just as brilliant.

I really adored the UI in EVE. I loved the customizable nature of it, and the IM type windows you could use for chat. It was all great.

For me, it just got boring after a while. The missions don’t have a lot of variety to them, and therefore get repetitious pretty quickly.

By: Eon Blue

Eon Blue — Tue, 31 May 2005 12:26:00 +0000

The waiting is what killed this game for me. At first I thought it was really peaceful to watch my ship fly around, but eventually it just got boring. I hear that you get a lot more variety in what you can do later on, I just never had the patience to get there.