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!
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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