Comments on: Space (I believe in)

By: Ethic

Ethic — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:06:58 +0000

I’m starting to get the yearning for EVE once more. Good thing I have LotRO and two betas to keep me busy already.

By: Daraddishman

Daraddishman — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:47:09 +0000

Almost everyone I know who “plays” EVE doesn’t really play it, they do the typical log in, change skill, log out. Play once in a blue moon for an hour or so. Props have to be given to CCP for making a game that gets people to do that. ( I like CCP, even if I think their community relations are a shambles. ) Though people who play EVE really do so for the communities they’ve built, it’s all about the corps.

I stopped playing EVE pretty quick for the reasons mentioned in the article. It was boring, turn-based like combat. It was pretty, it was exciting to fly around in space, but when I wanted to blow up people, it was nothing more than dice rolls and waiting.

By: alaph

alaph — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:35:55 +0000

“I signed up again after reading a friends blog about the ongoing conflict in 0.0 space.”

Please Please tell me that blog is still going and linky for me. EvE blogs are so hard to find and even harder to find alive.

Good read btw

By: Nuyan

Nuyan — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:46:58 +0000

I consider a titan-kill a - lot - more interesting than some end-boss world first kill in WoW. Anyway, this doesn’t seem to be the topic. I’m playing Eve for a couple of months now and I love it, but I do know what you mean. From the beginning I loved the way of the game, an huge sandbox, most dynamic with most realistic consequences MMO around, detailed on-going storyline. It’s what I want in a MMO, but after a month of playing I just didn’t really know what to do aswell. This sandbox game really is what you make of it yourself, but when you don’t really know what to make of it, you can end up being bored quickly. I was wondering if it was the sci-fi theme I didn’t like or the battles. I stopped playing and for a week or so I didn’t play any games at all.

Then I came back. I suddenly started to love the game again, I played more with my corpmates, pretty much every time I logged in. Got into some very fun operations and I even fell in love with the combat itself. It’s so very tactical and there’s a lot to do to perfect yourself and it gives me a huge kick to kill some npc ships while you’re barely able to save the structure of your ship, it gives an even bigger adrenaline-boost to do the same against other player-ships.

Anyway. I could really suggest all of you to give it another try, it might take a while until you really start to love it.

By: Dragon

Dragon — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:27:01 +0000

Pete: I struggled to know how to describe the combat and decided on ‘turn based’ because of the messages you get when you shoot - “Your Weak-arse Gatling Gun scraps the hull for 11 damage” and so on. My issue with EVE is not that it’s not frantic nor that it’s not quick paced because it is both those things. I’m not even going to say that it doesn’t need a lot of skill to play well because it does.

My issue with it is a personal thing and that is one of wanting to have more control over flying the ship which, in EVEs case is a case of point and click and there’s no getting away from that.

You say “Give it a go” and the truth is, I have. The ironic thing is that if I’d stuck with it from the first time I’d started playing, I’d probably be piloting a Titan right about now.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:14:27 +0000

“Turn based” isn’t really a fair description; it’s realtime combat at one remove. You order guns to fire, and your ship to head in a direction or orbit or chase, then those things happen. In a PvP situation it gets pretty frantic managing all your stuff, even without having to steer manually.

Really, it’s a multiplayer PvP game, and much of the rest of it is a backdrop for that.

Give it a go, sign up with EVE University or Agony and see how you like it.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:27:39 +0000

the 2nd mention of X3 was obviously supposed to be EVE!!!
Oops

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:26:17 +0000

hey, thanks for this story I realy like space sims such as X3 etc. (
I was really wondering for a long time if X3 is something form me but how can a spacesim like that use turn based combat???

that just isn’t for me.

i really recommend you checkout X3 at least the missions are original) if you don’t get bored waiting for your ship to get wherever you’re going (you can speed up the clock times 10 and you have a jumpdrive (you’ll have to buy that one though and it costs energy cells each time you use it)

the fights are good, the fleet control and wingmen support i find somewhat lacking but it’s still probably still one of the best.

the trade your way around the universe is great but i find it becomes tedious so i have to admit that after my 3rd sip i cheated in that area.