Why do I want to play EVE?

[Tyrx]

but it never sticks with me when I do.

[Laedien]

Takes most people a couple of tries to actually get in to the game...

A lot of people run in to a roadblock where they end up sitting there bored. The theory goes that a lot of people expect eve to make you do something.

Picture a game like WoW or EQ2. There is a "right" place to go. You're level 50, you go to X. If you decide to go questing, they quest givers send you to your next location. You go on raids because that's what you do.

In eve, it's very different. No one ever tells you what to do. There is no quest giver. There's no right place to go when you're X level.

Think if you will, of most MMOs as a themepark with a bunch of rides you can go on. You can go see the attractions and ride the rides. Yet when you get to the rides, you're carefully strapped in and told to remain seated. As you grow older, you start getting on bigger and bigger rides--but still always strapped in.

Think of Eve (and other sandbox games) as heading to the beach. You personally can load up anything in to the trunk as you can think of. From a bucket and scoop, to camouflage and a paintball gun. The only restriction is that the item you're bringing has been invented. You might get older and wiser in what to pack in your trunk, but as long as the item exists, it's possible.

Both things are fun, but entirely different experiences.

The problem is, a lot of people enter eve with the first attitude. ((not saying you personally by the way)). The Devs don't walk you through the game. You as a player decide what's fun and what's not fun. You as a player use the tools that the developers gave you to make the game your own. If you don't make the effort to do that, then nothing happens. In my experience, this is what causes people to leave eve because they're bored.
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On another note--now is a really good time to come back. We're making huge leaps as a corporation. We're getting more and more in to combat. Actually seeking it out. It's been a lot of fun around here lately

[Nevar Darkmoon]

EvE doesnt hold your hand.... Its scary the first few times when your on your own in the night.... But damn, its liberating knowing your future is your responsiblity... its freedom.

Some people dont like that kind of idealism.. others crave it.

Personaly, i get tired of mmos that are continuously being made simpler, easier, more generic... EvE is a sandbox, no script in here. EvE, the game with a learning curve that is like a sheer cliff as high as you can see. EvE doest try to be like other games, and hopefuly will never aspire to be as such. Its a niche game, and its not for everone.

The thing you should ask yourself Tyrx... why do you keep trying to come back? Its not that it hasnt stuck yet... but what keeps drawing you back to give it another go?

[Jaria]

Tyrx,
The first time I came to EvE, I was aware it was "quite difficult" and that you had to make your own path. A small group of IRL friends and myself grabbed copies of the game, and decided that, as mining was the first thing the tutorial taught, THAT was what we'd do. Our plan was simple. Mine together, reprocess, sell everything, split the profits, train skills for Mining, and once we had the skills and cash, we'd all buy a new ship for... mining.

And it worked. BOY did it work. Within a few weeks we'd upgraded ship after ship, some of us were mining, some were hauling ore, then we switched and the miners hauled, the haulers mined.

We made what I considered to be stupid amounts of money, and slowly moved from secure space to iffy space to uh-oh space to nasty space.

I had the cunning idea of "How about a couple of us train to do other stuff like fight people that try to steal from us" but that idea was shot down. We were making enough to cover any loses like that...

So I got bored and quit, thinking mining was pretty much EvE online.

The over the last few months, it drew me in again. A few videos, reading a few articles, and I was thinking "Actually, yes..." got a buddy key invite for 21-days of free time, then Laedien said "Come on over to TSG if you like!" and I've not looked back... I've been playing just over a week, and now I'm out of the normal MMO/WoW/DAoC Mentality of class, race, questing and so on, it's sooo much better.

Freedom to do what you want. You want to do something, train the skills and do it.

Sign up for the trial, do the Tutorial (for heavens sake, DO the tutorial!) and then do the four Beginner Agents things. These four people show you the basics of Warfare, Industry, Exploration, Advanced Warfare tactics... It'll help you decide what you want to do, what you want to try and so on.

I am a complete newbie to it all still, and am loving it, but now I have a plan of what I want to do, what I want to achieve and how I will (roughly!) go about doing it!

[Hereogar]

Eve and Evil both have E and V in them. Coincidence? I think not!


In fact, add the short work Ill to Eve and you have Eveill. That's Evil but said in a real creepy accent.

[Tyrx]

Alright well I made a silly looking Gallente, named Tyrx Goolagoonx.

Should I be joining a chat channel?

[Haliit Ferase]

join TSG Chat