I play EVE!
I'm Haverloth in there, proud Amarrian and member of the 1st Praetorian Guard... we just formed an Alliance, the Vigilia Valeria (means the Strong Watch).
What part of space are you in? Getting Podded in lowsec is never fun, we've all been there.
EDIT - and you're right, don't seem to be too many of us, EVE doesn't have so much coverage in the US as it does in Europe though. The US prefers its fix in the form of World of Warcraft for some reason (I'm not a fan of grinding, level caps, fixed professions... ;-) )
cmdrfire said:
What part of space are you in? Getting Podded in lowsec is never fun, we've all been there.
EDIT - and you're right, don't seem to be too many of us, EVE doesn't have so much coverage in the US as it does in Europe though. The US prefers its fix in the form of World of Warcraft for some reason (I'm not a fan of grinding, level caps, fixed professions... ;-) )
I'm running around high-sec space (Sinq mostly) with the occasional excursion into low-sec space.
I'm an econ/math geek, so level grinding has almost zero appeal. A game with functioning markets and I get to blow stuff up? I'm there.
My friends are big into City of Heroes, which I swtiched away from for EVE. They didn't like it because of all the "travel time". Meh. Travel time is never boring in low-sec space. ;-) Level grinding by pressing the right sequence of keys -- yawn!
I played it a lot a couple of years ago, but didn't know anyone else who was on, got frustrated by the amount of time it took to do anything or get anywhere, and, my biggest problem with it: I ran out of interesting things to do, and couldn't figure out how to keep advancing. I think I might enjoy it if a lot of my friends were on it, but it got really lonely and boring with no social interaction at all.
I tried it out and liked it a fair bit, and like bean says, if I'd had a strong social network I probably would have stuck around. But solo it doesn't have the storyline and exploration appeal that WoW has for me, and the passive levelling is completely against one of the two main enjoyments I get out of RPGs. I don't like grinding either, but I do like to feel like I'm levelling based on my actions, which is not true in EVE. (Yes, there's the money-new gear end of things, but that's much like getting phat lewt in other MMOs and that does very little for me. I'm all about new powers and capabilities, not having a slightly shootier gun.)
just excited about the whole Alliance deal)
GammaRat
Seattle, WA
January 2005
JUL 29, 2006 04:04 PM