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Originally Posted by Rubix I quit WoW just the other day (sharded my gear so im not going back) after tiring from having to be on to raid six nights a week in BWL/AQ40/Naxx, as well as helping in MC, ZG, AQ20 on offtime.
I started reading this thread about EVE and was completely lost about 20 pages in, but mesmerized by the game. I also realized that the thread has been around for a few months, so I was wondering what the situation of the game was like now.
As for me, im looking for a game I can get into but dont have to commit to certain times every day. The aspect of improving while you are offline appealed to me because my schedule is always changing in college. I know I have alot ahead of me if I pick up the game, but im a smart guy and will use whatever resources I can find. I will pick one route and persue it and expand from there.
Communities in games can rapidly change, so I wanted to know if it will still be fun to start out at this point in time past the game's release. |
Eve sounds perfect for you to be honest, I'll not ellaborate much since there isn't really anything that hasn't been said, but I did pretty much the same thing in WoW for a few months and playing Eve haven't looked back since, the only hump you have to get over is learning skills and the low rank levels 1-4 where you have to babysit your character to an extent. After that you're free to set away long skills when you aren't gonna be on for a few days/weeks. Earning ISK isn't much of a problem either, skill books don't cost much and you only need a lot of ISK if you play a lot, or like blowing up a lot of tech 2 ships (a large majority PVP veterans actually prefer tech1 frigates/cruisers for pvp'ing in).
The community is ever-changing, Goonfleet is only a few months old and they're the drama of the game right now (as demonstrated in the last few pages of this thread). Territorial PVP and a huge amount of player interaction is what makes the game's community so great, there's no instances to exile yourself and your guild/corp members from the rest of the player base, and there's only one server so someone you meet in the forums you could end up shooting in the face.
It's a shame you missed the EveTV weekends, once you get over all of the jargon and humour it'd be hard not to want to play Eve afterwards. It's like the BotB tournaments in EQ except with live coverage and more bragging rights than "Soandso the Warlord" or whatever. Anyone can earn them with enough preparation, some alliances I never heard of suprised me during the tournament.
After a certain point newer players aren't at a disadvantage, the only problem they suffer is having less options. You'll have to choose what you want to do more or less when you install Eve.
