This is the accurate description of this game. It wasn’t designed with any particular playstyle in mind.
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It was designed with EvE in mind. Everyone vs, Everything.
If you stop looking at is as grand sci-fi (Star Trek) and look at it more like grimdark (40k), a lot about this game makes a bunch more sense. For Capsuleers, there is only war.
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You can do whatever you like. As said with “having fun” you can justify just anything. Doesn’t mean it is a good recommendation to do it that way. If you are having fun, more power to you. If someone wants to progress and really make profits, cooperation is the key and the difference between someone “playing solo” and someone “being integrated into a good corporation” is magnitudes. On all levels of the game. Nothing more, nothing less.
I think we may have lost @N0MAD_0 but the name does sort of say, I play alone. Might as well have called his character Lone Wolf or the like. I do play with others who know me. I just don’t do the drama of belonging to a group. I hope they find their fun zone in EVE.
To anyone new, reading this thread in the future, you need to establish your goals, to even start to have fun in any social gaming. No one can decide it for you.
Have fun!
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Star Trek? Star Trek is terrible. I’m playing Eve Online
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You get no argument from me here. I wrote several shorts for Star Trek, but the fans eat you alive at the conventions. There is a serious contrast between the Star Wars and the Star Trek fans and lore. For example; Star Trek all the fans know the ships are powered by dilithium crystals, most can even quote you power ratings. Meanwhile not one Star Wars fan can tell you what powers the Millennium Falcon, nor do they care.
Have fun!
Well Star Wars fans think their ships can stand up to Star Trek ships.
Imperial Star Destroyer: top speed about 606 mph when not moving at “light speed”.
Star Trek ships: Full impulse (about 1/4th C or 167 million mph)
Yeah, my money is on any Star Trek ship with a speed difference like that! I know- not important, but it’s so much fun to see them try and justify a win when their ships are at a standstill!
Star Trek is obviously more advanced technology.
Teleporters, replicators, tricorders, holodecks…
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They’re both nothing compared to the Culture.
Sure, but when you write up some fiction, they expect you to know how those things work. I am a writer not an engineer. Star Trek fans are into all those details that don’t matter in a fictional story, while the Star Wars fans are more into action. I could get all technical with a Star Wars fan and ask them, how the Empire planned to take over an entire galaxy with less than 300 cloned troopers? One planet can contain a population in the billions. Maybe if you have hundred of trillions of cloned troopers, then you might stand a shot at it. It is easy to poke holes in science-fiction. This is why I always prefer to write fantasy, my fallback answer to any question is, “Because magic duh?!”.
Have fun!
Well, transporters were written in because the studio didn’t have the budget to show shuttles going to and from the planets. Throwing glitter in front of a camera was a lot cheaper.
How am I going to establish goals when I don’t know what the game has to offer in terms of ships, modules and mechanics? I read this forum and see the names of ships I haven’t even seen yet, let alone fly. I have a little idea of what I could do whith what I have already seen but I could not call it “goals”.
I’m only now checking off-game and online for more in-depth information and the more I read the more I understand it is going to take me years to get a good grasp of this game. Goals will come later, when I do have a good grasp of it.
That means, in a few years? Okay…
I play this game for almost 20 years now and there are still things I haven’t done and thing I don’t know. EVE Online is by far too great and to complex to jump in as a new player and try to “understand everything” first, before making decisions.
Do the AIR Career program, test the 4 “paths” if any of that kind of stuff looks interesting to you. Then do the Sister’s Arc for a bit of storyline action, at the end of it you’ll probably need to ask for thelp to beat the boss anyway. But you know how to navigate in the universe, how to use weapons, propmods, how to travel and how to talk to agents or gathering some resources. Enough for a start.
After that you should have a clue what is more to your liking: shooting, scanning, hacking, harvesting resources, trading, producing stuff… If you like more action, you can also go hunt other players, which will require you to find a corp that can train you, because you will most likely not find out how to properly PvP completely on your own.
Don’t try to make “perfect decisions” in the beginning, that is not possible. You have been thrown into a pool. Just swim!
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If that what it takes, yes. I can do other things in the meantime.
Doing that now. Almost done.
I will check that out, although I’m more interested in Sandboxing it than being led by the nose. I don’t like missioning but I will see what it’s about.
It was my choice to start this game, not anybody else’s so no, I wasn’t “trown” in, I waded in until the water got to my neck. I will learn to swim at my own pace.
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@Eileithya_Carmenta I have been here since 2023 and I still never finished any aspect of this game. Just to clarify, AIR has this whole section of achievements where you get bonus items for doing stuff.
Look at that almost 3 years and still not done! I am such a slacker.
Even the most completed category Industrialist is looking very bare.
You can also do a variety of missions.
Another thing to do is all 12 career centers. I know doing one is just like another, but I have a hard time passing up free frigates and a destroyer too! Each school is open to all factions, there is no stopping you from being a career school completist.
I have also done some space trucking. In contracts you can put up ISK for collateral to haul other people’s garbage to dock. Although be very carful some of those contracts are rigged to kill you and then they get to keep your collateral.
For example, that guy with the 77,713 volume shipment, I could never do that. I have no way to haul a load that size. I would be out 42 million ISK. I would contact him and ask it to be broken up in smaller lots to be shipped, but I think he knows that already.
If you are looking for ACTION as an alpha player, you need to get some basic skills upgraded, then I would suggest you do Abyssal Space. It is a basic 3 room dungeon crawl. Basic kill enemies, explode the treasure chest(s), loot, and enter next room. You will need to buy some keys called “Filaments” and start with tier zero. Take in some tutorial videos on them in Youtube. They can be played solo or with friends in a fleet. You can’t get attacked inside these 20 minute runs. This will prepare you for doing PvP against players.
There is a lot here for an alpha to do. If you decide to drink the special Kool-Aid and become an omega. There is Planetary Industry, among other things to mine, people to kill, and stuff to do.
Have fun!
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Thank you for your reply, Princess.
I imagine I will not finish anything in this game unless I stick with it for 20 years, although I like playing it so the thought doesn’t bother me at all.
I will be learning it for quite some years.
I’m really not crazy about missions. All the games I’ve played have missions. I don’t see me redoing the Career Agents mission another 11 times. I was relieved when I finished the ones for my corporations.
I mean, I might do one or two just to get the destroyers but I would rather buy them or build them. I prefer to Sandbox than be told what to do.
Yea, that doesn’t sound so appealing if I have to watchout for scammers. I have to that enough in real life.
I feel that killing NPCs is action enough for me right now. There’s already a lot to learn there.
I don’t think I want to bother with all that, really. I look for entertainment in games, not headaches. I guess one could say I’m a casual player… very casual.
I know there is a lot to do and I appreciate you pointing them out. The game is great, and I really like it, but I don’t feel like bothering with complicated stuff, timers, waiting for SP, spending money for more stuff or faster results… Maybe it’s because I have a lot to do IRL and I don’t want a game to stress me out on top of it all.
I just want to jump into a ship and go play.
Right now I only want to mine and kill NPCs so I figured being Alpha is enough.
I have an Amarrian destroyer and a Venture Consrtium Issue and I’m happy with that. Right now I’m learning about Mining, Manufacturing and Combat. Learning about my modules, tactics and minerals, where and when to sell, where to mine and where to kill rats.
Later when I’ve learned some more and feel the need for an Omega ship then I will subscribe and continue to learn more about the game.
If I had Omega right now I would not be able to fully take advantage of it.
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I’m also a lawful paladin!
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Traditional paladins are typically lawful good, as alignment, but I perceive you more like lawful chaotic paladin like Seelah.
Have fun!
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Princess above trade,
Poor‑perceptors count their lack—
In work, light divides.
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