Basically every popular forum plays EVE. Why doesn't /v/?

I'm sorry, Distant Worlds already has my space spreadsheet simulator itch covered and I really don't need another dreadfully boring game in my life.

Because you're new.

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>>377401695
>steep learning curve
>already been out for 10 years
>huge time sink

no thanks

Because we have /vg/ for that you dipshit.

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>>377401695
>being this new

I go to games for escapism as much as to kill time.
EVE just puts too much work on the player to keep up with and find meaning in its sandbox.
I already have a job, I don't need another one.

>brilliant style
>huge world, largely player managed
>can live out your megalomaniac fantasies

but ruined by

>multi accounts
>dumb travel and movement concepts

not a reason why /v/ doesn't play, just wanted to review eve in general

EVE is 90% extreme boredom, 9.99% petty guild drama, and 0.01% huge awesome battles that people will post screenshots of for years in order to pretend that's what the game is actually like.

The combat is too shallow for me. I need something more engaging like SotS instead of boring number crunches which essentially means you could copy/paste standard fantasy MMORPG characters onto it except now you'd have dickass thiefs orbiting tanks at 500m/s or some shit.

>>377402737
EVE needs Sins of a Solar Empire travel, and World of Warships battles.

>>377402797

I've never seen the appeal of Sins of a Solar Empire. Why do so many people like it?

>>377402852
It's like a 4X game except much simpler and more accessible, and in real time.

I don't much care for it either, but I can see the appeal at least.

Microsoft Excel is F2P.

>>377402387
>>377402442
/vg/ doesn't have a corp.

>>377402852
Stargates and warping simply doesn't work out in EVE. Its boring and ruins combat, which is bad already in the first place.

In SoaSE, you actually need to use the tactical drive of your ship to get somewhere, and can't just warp instantly from anywhere.

Also EVE ships need to have all speed upgrades removed

#armchairgamedeveloper

>>377402852
>4x game
>pretty graphics
>fun combat
>complex colony development
>interesting research and diplomacy

It's up there with Distant Worlds as my favorite space 4x game. Crazy that it came out in 2008 and is still miles ahead of Stellaris

I don't have much time to play video games to begin with - I'm certainly not going to jump into a game that takes more time than almost anything else

>>377403107

Doesn't SoaSE use warp points to go system to system too? Or was it adjacent systems allow warping?

>>377403139
>complex colony development
Complex compared to what? Tic Tac Toe?

>>377403059
Thank fuck for that.

I take it you aren't familiar with how /vg/ guilds for any online game work.

>>377403139

I went from SotS -> SoaSE so maybe that's why I found it seemingly quite dry.

>>377403168
You can only warp to adjacent systems, but you have to get far enough away from the planet (to escape its gravity well) before you can jump

>>377403241
That's curious, given that colony development and management in SotS is literally one single slider, versus the dozens of buildings and planet upgrades you have access to in SoaSE

>>377402283
>>377402510
Ah, memes. Way to bump the thread count.

>>377402569
It's the sandbox rule/exception though.. It's about getting as much of "the top" as you would, and now the game comes with a free 2 play option for limited ships/skills for as many recruits as you would find.

>>377403139
>pretty graphics
not really
>>complex colony development
you can click the upgrade button a few times

still a great strategy game, where you actually need to make smart decisions to win

>>377401695
Its too autistic even for /v/

>>377403225
>/vg/ Star Trek online guild
>Condition is that you have to make your character look like a Namekian and your colour scheme has to be green and purple
>Go to the first guild meeting
>Most of them are playing as little human girls
Nope. My /vg/ MMO experiences are either that, furries or completely dead.

4chan just does not have good MMO presence.

>>377403581
The GW2 /vg/ guild used to be pretty good.

Just too bad about the game.

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I play EVE: Offline aka X3. Does that count? You can control the speed of the game, meaning you can actually get things done within a reasonable time frame.

Also, this
>>377402283
Why build a corporation in EVE when I can play as a pirate corporation in DWU?

>>377403659
>The GW2 /vg/ guild used to be pretty good.
That was the furry experience. I dunno if we played at different times, but it was all attention whoring Asura or white furry Charr.

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>>377402510
>>377402680
>>377402737
It's sorta humorous how little EVE gameplay is really understood or explained.

>I need something more engaging like SotS
A turn-based 4x?

EVE is like an ARPG where you (double) click to move in 3D space, and it has modules depending on the class.. guns, propulsion and juggling modules to preserve cap (stamina).

https://youtu.be/FCwtzJvza5U

>>377402234

>>377403758
>A turn-based 4x?

Combat wise.

>It's sorta humorous how little EVE gameplay is really understood or explained.


It's humourous how you don't understand how boring a number crunch game it is but try to dress up these abstractions up as having "depth".

>>377403703
I used to use X3 as a way of getting assignments done back in uni. The travel and idling time was so huge that I needed something to do, so I was productive in those times.

It was fucking weird. Great game though.

>>377403363
>It's about getting as much of "the top" as you would, and now the game comes with a free 2 play option for limited ships/skills for as many recruits as you would find.

You might be too far in to realize how incredibly boring that sounds.
I did a free trial once, got killed by an advertising sing an hour in, never touched it again because how "no fun allowed" must a game be for prohibiting you from attacking advertising signs?.
But I have a few friends who got way into it during various periods of their lives, multi screens and multi accounts and all. One even became a business major, and I'm not entirely convinced he didn't just become one just to gain an upper hand in EVE.
Useless degree to him though, never got his foot in, so he went into IT instead.

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>>377403742
That was mostly the US guild, wasn't it?

I'm a Europoor and we didn't have as much furry bullshit. Just jumping adventures and posing.

>>377403860
You're not proving you even understand what I'm talking about..

>>377403937

Why would I have to prove anything to you?

>>377403932
Sometimes I miss FUN guild.

t. Kacho

>>377403932
>That gear
Yeah I must have played way later. Everything was all flashy wings and shit when I played.

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>>377403887
>You might be too far in to realize how incredibly boring that sounds.
Then you don't like MMOs? This isn't a theme park. So much exists to experience.

You attacked public property in high security.

>>377401695
I see no good reason to pick blargharbarglg over other games, which offer more entertainmentanumauntebaulakalalixanamepiruequetekelililii

>>377404065
Yeah that screenshot is from 2012, shortly after launch.

I didn't play the game for very long so I don't have any recent screenshots.

>>377404090
>Then you don't like MMOs?
Loved the concept behind titles such as Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, but have never been a fan of the execution of theme park skinner boxes or second job no fun allowed player does most of the work sandboxes such as EVE.
It's funny, but before release when I was younger and way dumber anticipating the game, I got laughed out of the forums for suggesting that it could be both cool and fun to have mechs in it. The regulars then went into autistic tirades on how mechs were both realisticly infeasible and how their form wasn't beneficial to the realities of space. And that pretty much sums what EVE is and its audience up perfectly for me. I'm not necessarily saying that there's anything wrong with that, but it it ain't my (or most people's I imagine) kool-aid.

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>>377403989
Because you're taking a stance on gameplay you 99% probably haven't played to have the basics of what I'm even saying.

You're actually in direct control of the ship, unlike 4x games where you just play, like, Age of Empires on a ~2D plane.

It's about spacing like no other game. https://youtu.be/4yBTaqiMrX4?t=6m31s

>>377403703
Because EVE has 3D gameplay like an MMO.

>>377403860
>a number crunch game
How is it a number crunch game if you want to go out and shoot shit? I played EvE from 2006 till 2013 and i propable spend less than a day of mining in that entire time.
Fitting a ship properly is not different from getting proper gear for any RPG char and after that it comes down to you skill in a fight.

I think the biggest problem new players have is that they are so indoctrinated by Theme park MMOs that they can't help but follow the instructions the game gives you at the beginning and end up doing mining or missions until they get bored. But this is a sandbox, so consider what you want to do and get on it.
I realized after a day that missions suck, so i went and looked for PVP corps that hired and ended up with a small bunch of pirates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z58ovpjJepQ

>>377406014
It's a number crunching game because combat is essentially racing to the bottom of an hp counter. And all the complicating layers of combat are qualified abstracts. Traversal speed, weapon optimal falloff ranges, module cpu requirements, capacitor depletion rates, it's all number crunching.

>>377403758
This guy knows what's up. Most noobs just orbit target at their optimal and turn on all their modules, then complain that the gameplay is "boring", assuming they even do combat.

Most normies just do a day or two of mission running or mining; which is literally "just kill yourself already" tier.

In PVP the game is mostly just knowing what ships generally counter what and how to utilize positioning and mechanics to your advantage to start/win a fight.

t. ex-Evefag that never used any spreadsheets or did any number crunching.

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>>377403887
>shoots an NPC structure in highsec
>complains that he got Concordokkened
lel

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>>377407510
>combat is essentially racing to the bottom of a HP counter
HAHAHAHA fukken funniest thing I read all day. Try manually piloting your ship for once instead of orbit&F1ing.

>>377408543
Large scale battles dont even get that far, its blob chases smaller blob because everyone has eyes on intel channels

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>>377401695

but im 'playing' right now, idiot!

Do you still warp straight through planets? I dropped this shit because of that.

>>377403758
ding ding ding

anywhere the game is discussed, only like 10% of the people talking about it have actually touched it

people love parroting the spreadsheet meme because they think they're clever

>>377403860
>>377407510
>>377408648
t. blob shitter

>>377402680

>small gang/duo/solo pvp in navy slicers and various interceptors and cruisers every day

>eve is mostly grinding

huh, nobody told me.

>>377402737

This post wins the award for least informed in thread.

>>377403525

/v/ is hardly autistic, i've never played a game at a top competitive level, but i've also never seen people as bad at games as the people on this imageboard.

>>377408905
A ship should probably come out fine if there's some space matter in the way of warping.

What this thread should be teaching you is how boring EVE is perceived to be and how little it does to teach people otherwise.

Before you counter them with examples of how it can be "not boring" remember that progression in the game is time-gated, which means no one starting out is going to have this experience in the amount of time it takes to download and install a game that is fun immediately.

>>377403887

do you have a link to the rest of your blog?

>>377409278
There's a starter area.. why not practice?

>>377401695
the core gameplay is boring
and you have to grind for everything which makes it even more boring

>>377409358
Not tip-top at reading the thread, huh?

ctrl+f: youtu

>>377401695
What toon should I make? Can I make enough gold from questing to be able to purchase premium gametime, or is subscription the only way? Also what are some fun /v/ or /vg/ guilds to join?

>>377409278

lol. playing the tackle role to any decent level is probably one of the most challenging parts of pvp and guess what? you can do it on day one.

Progression is time gated, but eve isnt about climbing up a skill tree to get le epic perk.
The perks are the knowledge YOU gain, the skill YOU gain, the people YOU meet.

>>377409617

b8

>>377409691
What?

>>377401695
This game is dying, don't waste your fucking time.

t. eve player

>>377409459
>lock asteroid
>activate your mining laser
or
>approach targets
>lock targets
>activate your weapons
>lock new targets
>repeat until they're all dead
>optionally loot and salvage
or
>haul shit around, extremely engaging
or
>go into industry / trading / whatever
>spend more time in spreadsheets than playing the game
or
>scan down shit
>the signal strength isn't strong enough
>slightly reposition your probes
>scan down shit again
>and again
>it's a wormhole
the core of the game is extremely boring

>>377409617
Gallente for drones (as they're F2P-locked factions).

>>377409747
>toon
>gold
>guilds

>>377409862

+1

EVE is boring desu. The number-crunch snooze gameplay doesn't help and the whole gatecamping thing doesn't really inspire either.

>>377410128
I don't understand. What's the equivalent of them in Eve?

>>377410224
Most players endure through hours of boredom for short bursts of adrenaline in pvp. Playing with other people makes it much better, and it's also a way to make friends. That's how it has always been in Eve.

>>377410418

Boring. I'll nyanpassu on this and play a real MMO while keeping my space game fix elsewhere.

>>377409862
>>377410224
I told you that you haven't read the thread, and now you're showing how little you've played.

>>377404907

>>377410520
>I told you that you haven't read the thread, and now you're showing how little you've played.

Uh? Who are you?

>>377410502
Eve is a real MMO but it isn't a themepark.

>>377410418
the problem is CCP are lazy motherfuckers and don't facilitate ease of cooperation or teamwork through the actual game so you have to rely on real world player run bureaucracy and bullshit to do anything fun in the game...a failing combination.

just because the game is a sandbox doesn't give them the right to not actual further developed a subscription MMO.

>>377410587

Who said anything about themepark?

>>377410565
Do you just read a single post before completely bashing a game in its thread? That post has a reply line..

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Join All-Out.

why won't someone make a fantasy eve?
just how fucking hard could it be?
let people conquer land and build towns and shit
it'd be extremely popular

>>377409862

lmao this is the "how to prove you're terrible at the game or have not actually played" post.
It actually looks like its satire, the level of understanding is so low.

>>377410592

>when ur failing combination has been dying since 2003.

>>377410771
this is not an argument

>>377410725
I think most developers are too scared of the netcode to do anything innovative. Too easy to just make an instanced MMO which is a glorified single player RPG and shit out small patches.

How's the free to play version of the game? Worth trying?

>>377410682

>bashing

Who the fuck was bashing? Quit being so mad.

>>377410725

Becase everyone likes to pretend they think for themselves, but as this thread proves, when challenged by even the simplest of tasks, people will shy away in favour of muh cumfy muh wasd movement!!!

>>377410592
Yeah, that's true. They are incapable of fixing their own game and developers like CCP Fozzie thoroughly fucked everyone's shit up. Now it's all going downhill fast.
This game isn't worth paying real money for. We older players haven't paid a cent to CCP in years, so the level of remorse is lower.

>>377410725
>let people conquer land and build towns and shit

Mortal Online does this

>>377410275
Capsuleer
Isk
Corporation

>>377410857
its impossible to say for sure how many people actually play the game. there is a lot of mutliaccounting. In all the corps I have been in virtually all the serious players had multiple accounts.

>>377410863

It wasn't intended to disprove a point, you're correct its not an argument. Im highlight how low your level of understanding is.

That reviewer playing doom terribly, and you talking about eve, have a lot in common.

>>377410771

lmao this is the "how to prove you're a salty evefag that got pissed somebody called his game shit" post.

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>"your game sucks because X, Y and Z."

>"WAAAAAAAAAH YOU JUST DON'T GET IT!!!"

Ah. They're evebots.

It all makes sense now.

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>>377411173

>just one server
>40,000 online

LMAO
dead game

I love runescape and wurm, and also love space, but I've never been able to get into EVE.

Never really understood why not.

>>377409617
>toon

Stop.

>>377401695
you cant pirate it

>>377411104
>Not an argument.

>>377412070

Who are you quoting, sweetie?

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>>377411328

>>377412096
Who is he quoting?

>>377412195
eve isn't really on steam though
and there is a player counter on the launcher
why don't you make a little more effort in shitposting
player count was between 25 and 35 k last time i checked

>>377412195

>STEAM STATS

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>>377402667
This character actually only fights with rookie ships (that come for free when docking in a pod with nothing in hangar).

This kill is a 200M fit faction frigate:
https://zkillboard.com/kill/58148752/

>>377412452

The balance in this game must suck dick.

>>377412195
http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

>>377412343
>>377412407
That was actually a post for EVE.

>>377412530
It just shows what skill can come to complete.

>she still plays eve online

>>377412530
Balance is decent but some people are just idiots and die like idiots. You can easily exploit them for tears in local chat and shiny loot.

Can someone post an example of someone getting outskilled in an at least somewhat realistic PVP scenario?

>>377402283
Litterally this.
I played eve when it came out and it's just as boring as it is now. The best fights are clusterfucks where nothing you do matters in any tangible way.

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>>377412581
It's just GTA in space.

>>377412763
GTA is a lot more fun though

>>377412686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1MEKdOYhYs
This russian cyka gets some insane fights.

>always liked the idea of Eve Online
>try game multiple times
>PvP too stressful so won't enter that
>keep floating towards mining
>relaxing but hard to keep interest
>quit
Mining is pretty comfy, and really the only other thing I like in Eve is drones but I hear ratting in Eve is equally boring. In one of my old accounts I was in a mining corp which was pretty fun. Whats the best mining ship you can get on a free account? An ORE mining frigate?

Maybe I should just make two free accounts, one mining one drone boat.

>>377412686
https://youtu.be/A9dbcWoCjL8?t=2m50s

Pretend he's feather-clicking a direction to direct his ship.

>>377412763
Maybe at first, but what are you going to experience after heists and KOSing?

>>377413005
>That knife fight
wew

>>377413398
Yeah, a Venture frigate which is pretty cheap. You can't login more than one alpha account at a time.

>>377414126
>You can't login more than one alpha account at a time.
Per IP address or per computer? Or its it a ToS thing? Guess in the end it would be too much to bother with.

>>377401695
>Basically every popular forum plays EVE
Lol, no.

>30k average players
>literally half are bots

Its fucking dead as shit. Its basically a rotting corpse of a once great game. Not to mention its P2W as fuck and /v/ is one of the few places that admits that.

>>377414243
Not him but you can multibox all you want

Too late to get into it
Don't tell me otherwise, I played it for years

>>377414394
But Anon! Now you can spend money on PLEX and injectors and get into a Carrier instantly!

Its not too late!

>>377414243
Per IP and there's a line in the EULA against it but CCP doesn't care. There's also an exploit allowing you to login more than one from the same computer. It hasn't been fixed despite numerous bug reports, so meh.

>>377414360
Omega accounts can.

>>377414542
Because multiboxing is one of CCPs biggest incomes

>>377401695
>Ditch plex + injectors
>Permanent bans to anyone who Multiboxes and deny their credit card for all future purchases
>Fresh server
Then I would come back. Fuck how p2w this game became. I want to play in a world made by players, not made by players credit cards.

>>377414243
>>377414542
Multiboxing is within TOS if they're paid clients though.. just no broadcasting simultaneously.

>>377414868
Yes, and alphas aren't paid accounts.

>>377401695
Because we would crash that galaxy.
With no survivors.

>>377401695
Played for a year, got podded a bunch of times, got bored, unsubbed.

>just want to play with people
>must join voice coms
listening to the FC is fine but I dont care to do anything beyond that
>most places are autistic about activity as if doing anything in the game doesnt take up shitload of time
>most non-blobfest/non-camping combat is about tricking the enemy into taking a fight then ganking them
>community masturbates to stories of scams, stealing from corps, and generic "haha I made them mad" type of shit

I like the world but I stopped pretending that its satisfying to play, the core mechanics are just shit
>click to target
>click to shoot
>doubleclick around in space to maneuver

I wont even go into the devs and how they handle the fucking game, they are lucky there is no competition for now

>>377401695
I play from time to time, but always lose interest after a couple of months

More than half of the game you expend doing boring shit, like travelling, scanning or moving your stuff around. When you finally find something to do, its over way too quickly or its not good enough.

also

>High sec is complete shit
>Low sec is DEAD
>Null is afk or pressing F1
>WH is annoying

Game will die in no more than 2 years, numbers are already as low as before alpha.

I put only 60 hours in it and i got bored because i didnt have anyone to play with. Also the real time skill training is kinda bogus because its an artificial time sink. I should be able to level up stuff based on how much i use it

>>377414868
>>377414360
>>377414542
Eh, I'll fire up my free account and work on getting that mining frigate. Something for easy time waste between games.

>huge fucking ships are controlled by one single dude in a pod
Did I get this shit right?
Commanding a huge starship and its massive crew always was interesting to me, merely "controlling" it with my mind as if it's some kind of floating robot not so much.

>>377417507
lore says there is crew on the ships

>>377417507
The only stuff thats solo piloted are frigates, every other ship class has a crew in the lore but you're basically a god while they are expendable.

>>377417507
the pod vastly reduces the crew requirement, it does not eliminate it,

>>377417485
I'll say this: mining is boring, so unless you just want to AFK mine, dont spend your time mining, it is not a good investment for your time

if you want to do PVE just do missions, you should be able to get cruisers on a free account

there are multiple types of PVE content, but mining is always going to be you watching your hold slowly fill up with ore, no matter the ship

>>377416826
>>377409459

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>>377401695
Because /v/ is a bunch of completionist autists who think that they have to be space-rich, have a 9999/1 k/d ratio and lead a 10000 person Coalition to 'finish' the game and get frustrated when they find out it's too hard.

>>377417927
how dare you talk to me

anyway which specific video relates to my post?
I understand game mechanics

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>>377417628
>>377417632
>>377417663
Still kinda feels like a lore-endorsed cop-out to not show ship interiors.
Also kinda smart, depending on how you want to look at it.
I just want to sit in the bridge and watch stuff happens from there every now and then, and also see the (customizable) crew in action.
Is STO anything like this?

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>>377401695

>every popular forum plays EVE.
>not in the top 100 games on Steam

>>377417750
I've played Eve Online a decent amount over the past decade, usually only at a month at a time. I do enjoy mining, just solo mining is easy to get burnt out on. Its comfy, and nice to see steady results. Would probably be best to get into a corp but I'm bad at that.

>>377401695
>every popular forum
so SA and.....?

>>377418092
that would be a different game

starcitizen might have that stuff with larger ships if they ever finish it
mining barges are already planned to need many people for operating

>>377418092
Not really, I can't think of a multiplayer game that straight up does what you want, if your fine with singleplayer go play star trek bridge commander.

>>377418092
There was a failed kickstarter for exactly what you're talking about. Also X:Rebirth might be really shit, but there is a mod that lets you command cap ships from the bridge.

>>377403052
this

>>377418225
>starcitizen
I mean real games.

Last news I have is that yeah you can have, and need, an NPC crew for larger ships.
They can also be controlled by your pals if they want to play with you, instead of their own characters, which can be immersion breaking but I can still see the appeal.

Guess I should stick to single player games.

>>377414394
>>377414442
I know you're memeing, but I make about 4 bil a day and just buy skill injectors for my capital alts. The game is stupid easy to get into and progress if you play often. Which you should, since people who play mmos have nothing but free time.

I have 2 super alts, 2 dread alts, and a fax plus my main that I can pay for in about 2 days. I just spend my extra isk on skill injectors for new players. Moreso in my alliance and corp.

>>377403052
>>377418380
Excel isn't free

>>377418195
TEST Alliance Please Ignore and Brave Collective are both reddit-based, Pandemic Legion used to be based out of /b/, and there are probably a ton of similar alliances, it's just they don't hold sovereignty like TEST, Brave and PL do, so they're not important.

But yeah, two of the biggest alliances in one of EVE's four power blocs are both from reddit. Do you really want to lose to redditfags?

>>377401695
EVE requires money and /v/ is NEETs.

>>377419080
>Pandemic Legion used to be based out of /b/
That's bullshit and you know it

>>377419159
>EVE requires money

I've only ever paid $20 for a month of game time back in 2009. That hardly sounds like a game that requires money.

>>377419387
HOW?

>>377419208
The only remotely reliable source I've found on their early days says they do. On the other hand, it's goons, but it's the only source I have, and it's from when goons and PL didn't hate each other

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Miss me yet?

>>377419951
Keep dreaming, Mittens.

>>377419498
>HOW?
I learned how to make isk.

>>377419498
join corp
make isk

>>377403932
>game looks almost the exact same 4 years ago except now the armour is korean f2p shit with sparkly wings and neon colour everywhere

I want a refund on this piece of shit. I like the pvp but its abandoned by both the devs and most of the playerbase. Even WoW is better at this point.

>>377409459
I'm a little over 1KD counting all pods this morning.. 2x ship efficiency.
https://zkillboard.com/character/92762975/

>>377416941
>>377416826

>>377417485
A 2M Catalyst can make 40M/hr in FW. Gallente is best Alpha.

>>377418059
Most of them.. ranged frigates are 3k+m/s. There's little gameplay as fast.

>>377418143
Accounts are supposedly locked into Steam that are made there.

>>377419498
Literally google "how do i make isk in eve online" and it'll give you tons of avenues. Hell, you can do exploration in your first month and pay for your game time in a week.

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>>377403225
>I take it you aren't familiar with how /vg/ guilds for any online game work.

Tree of Savior CoffeeHouse is comfy.

>>377418739
Is that mostly carrier ratting?

>>377401695
When I was playing Eve I literally had to apply for a job at one of the corps. And I had to show up every evening to work for at least for 3 hours. And I had salary.

>>377403225
GTAO crew was fun on PC launch.

>>377418143

>Steam
>relevant to anyone but autistic bronies

>>377401695
Because it's shit.

>>377420912
capybaras have no business being this chill

>>377421517
Your argument is shit

EVE isn't my thing. Seems more like a job than a video game.
I'd rather do something productive, or something fun. EVE is neither.

Game's fun if you understand that ranged play is the best way to overcome blobbing.

>>377420942
In a nidhoggur, yeah. Our null alliance is always crawling with neutrals looking to drop blops fleets or I'd rat in my Hel for even more. You can make pretty similar numbers in a battleship like a Rattlesnake or a Machariel as well. Auto targeting missiles + drones on a rattle is amazing afk isk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcmWaz_UTBQ
FC whats my primary
fc what to primar
fc how do i shoot

>>377401695

Because I'm not autistic as fuck?

>>377401695

Relatively few people at /v/ are randians who masturbate to the thought of playing fictional stock markets and being make-believe rich.

>>377401695
I do tho

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>>377420752
>play a game for 5 years
>I want a refund!

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Because of T3 Destroyers

Let me know when they're removed from the game, then maybe I'll come back

>>377420834
>A 2M Catalyst can make 40M/hr in FW.
You mean 2M ISK catalyst? And what is FW?

>>377426460
>>377426460
>And what is FW?

faction warfare

>>377425771
>as he comes to a thread, posting absolutely nothing of value

They've dropped both in price and use. They went from top kills (10k) to just 4.9k for the gatecamp ship.

>>377426460
>>377426724
Yes.

>>377426903
For >>377426424

Also missed my both-comma.

>>377426424
>not t3cs
>not ecm
>not highsec

>>377426724
>>377426903
Is faction warfare PvE (killing NPCs of said faction) or pure PvP? Not really interested in PvP at all but it would make for a good reason to train up drone boat stuff.

Just hopped back on my alpha clone that I barely played, seems he has mining frigate 4 already, so guess I'm going mining. Don't think I finished the tutorial story quests though. Not that those are important.

Fuck I love EVE. People who say it's a job don't know how to have fun. Was in a small gang pirate corp for a while, traveling through lowsec in a Leopard, ALMOST got fucked up by a smartbombing battleship, Caracal, and Tengu. Told one of my buddies on teamspeak so I got into a navy harbinger and him into a Vindicator, went out 13 junps to them and crashed the party. Killed the smartbombing vindy and caracal, ALMOST got the tengu but the motherfucker escaped. So many nights hanging out in lowsec with other pirates, hunting in wormholes for innocents. Fuck it makes me want to resubscribe. Too bad my friends are too busy with their lives to play it anymore.

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>>377427407
The money comes from sitting inside space gates with limited ship size per.. Both gal and min are lvl 3 on this chart. There's a rat that respawns.

>>377401695

We value our anonymity too much. EvE players will hire PIs to fucking track your ass down over a single lost load of tritanium.

> miss the game
> don't miss finding out from my RL boss that the CEO of my vidya corp called her and said they needed my help transporting a space station out to nullsec

>>377401695
>Playing blops online

Shit the enemy has two more frigates than us. Upship to Carriers and Titans boiiizz.

>Be part of the panfam faggotry
Shiet boiizzz we need more caps ayyy boizzz

The influx of caps and general inflation killed the game. + PL is pretty much the cancer that kills the game

>>377428525
PL is dead m8

>>377401695
can you play this solo? I just want to make it small time and play the comfy merchant.

>>377428806
You better pay your hauling pass. Enjoy highsec ganking faggot.

because eve is for faggots, and everyone else but me is a faggot, and I only come here, so you are all faggots because YOU know that they all play eve, meaning that you all go to other forums.

so therefor, you are all faggots.

suck a dick, faggots.

>>377428958
faggot

>>377419951
what happened to goonswarm?

>>377401695
>want to try eve f2p
>get into the game
>play for 10 minutes
>can't play anymore because apparently you can only fly up to destroyers
>sisters of EVE pay me 60x times more playing the shitty minigame than I would get doing missions

It's a fun game if you want to shell out for an omega c lone, but that F2P model is cancer.

>>377403703
Are there any good cockpit mods for x3?I know the rebalanced mod has one, but I don't think it's compatible with the steam version anymore...

>>377429150
Nothing, it's called Goonfleet now.

>>377428881
that sounds like I'm going to be paying a lot of taxes. Are the tendrils of the EVEjews so deeply rooted?

>>377403581
Vidya Trek was pretty good, I assume you're talking about a different one.

>>377428381
>miss our anonymity
So don't give them info..

Just come play spaceships.

>>377429169
I am pretty sure you can use cruisers, the most common ship in the game

but you shoud probably use your time for better things

/v/ here, I play eve

shit thread

>>377403059
we're too smart for that shit

I love Eve, it goes perfectly with my student life style, with all the downtime between things actually happening I can do all my studying.

>>377402958
>It's like a 4X game
Calling Sins a 4x is blasphemy.

>>377428806

>>377429418
Some corp/alliance is selling mining passes to keep ships (CODE). It isn't obvious if they keep their word.

If somebody scans your ship while hauling, though, they might lose their ship to try to get your drops.

>calling eve excel spreadsheets
so how does it feel to parrot shit you've heard but never actually tried?
yup, you're THAT guy

>>377401695
because /v/ is an imageboard. Lurk moar.

>>377429543
You can only use basic cruisers, which are common ships because they're used for suicide ganking and shit where you get 100% blown up. Although I don't think you can even learn enough tackling relevant skills to even fulfill tackling as a job in pvp and for pve cruisers are pretty much worthless. You're eventually gonna get killed in pve by players and there's no point in using anything less than a battlecruiser, especially since those fits are usually always free and in abundance in corps, because that shit is trained in literally 2 days where you can easily run T4 missions. Why bother even flying anything less at that point.

>>377429489
I have yet to experience but nice conditions for /vg/ games.

Even with /v/ included, Risk of Rain, Terraria, GTAO.. It's always a group of players with some really competent play.

>>377429551
>we're too smart for that shit
I have yet to hear any good reasons why 4chan groups are so risqué.

The game is too expensive in the long run.

>>377430009
I dont think battlecruisers are more common than cruisers in pvp

>>377429537

I didn't. What little I gave them was fake.

They tracked down my work address and phone number anyhow. There are NSA spooks that play EvE, and they take it way too fucking seriously.

>>377403581
oh man have you ever stumbled into the /ffxivg/? oh boy oh boy.

>>377430548
Good, because I never wrote anything like that

>>377430009
Because T4 missions are awful pay. 2M Catalyst ships pay the same, as does ratting.

If the playstyle if PvE focused, EVE probably isn't the most fun game. Though it's really the best game for background play.

>>377430649
Except that you can't do any of those things on alpha clones.

>>377431042
Ctrl+F FW. A Catalyst is a 1d train from Gallente.

You just answered your own question, OP.

>>377418092
SWG did this with Millennium Falcon sized ships. No capitals, though.

>>377430240
>I have yet to hear any good reasons why 4chan groups are so risqué.

because eve is not just a cooperative 10 man pve game like other "mmos". I'm not going to pay corp tax to and trust in some meme shitter I exchange dog pictures with on /vg/, and being a CEO is difficult, especially to get things running at the start. plus the rest of the game isn't just filled with shit kids like other games, the already existing groups are good

>>377402395
Porn and pizza pockets have ruined your ability to dedicate yourself neckbeard

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>>377403758
>double click in space
Are you new to the game?

>>377432194
There's still a reason to coordinate within a forum though. The game is simple, and so is grinding or whatever.. even if that takes joining a larger corp.

>>377432812
coordinate what though? not everyone wants to do the same thing or live in the same space

I'd be more interested in killing my /vg/ bros desu

>>377432812
No there's not. Any 4chan Corp is full of spies, shitters and thieves

>WH corp falls apart
>whatever I'll just do kspace stuff
>try Incursions and NPSI fleets
>boring as fuck
>none of the corps in recruitment interesting, all the WH corps are rentercucks
>gradually lose interest
>quit playing

Fuck dude I just wanna hang out in WHs with cool dudes who aren't carebear renter cucks

>>377432521
To get to the point where anything interesting like that happens you need to grind boring tedious content for 1000 hours and then get very lucky with corp choice.
99.99% of players will just be asked to grind minerals or sit in station for hours waiting for skill timers. There are only a few major corps that have regular huge battles, and if you join them now you're just going to be some mining slut while the cool kids go do all the fighting.

>>377432928
Finding buds and making dank KMs.

>>377433045
So is every large corp. When awoxing stops being the best thing to do (frigate gangs, alpha fleets), you can get a lot done, and there's something to show.

>>377433448
>So is every large corp
It's doubly worse with 4 chan

>>377433436
You've never played shut the fuck up

>>377433326
make your own corp

>>377432521
>everything is blob-F1
Then, maybe get out of the blob fleets into some small gang.

>>377433436
>huge battles

Are a meme, they are the worst fucking thing to take part in.

I'd rather do small gang stuff than just get alpha'd off the field by a 400 man cruiser fleet

>>377433498
But the point is to play together, even if the corp is non-exclusive.

>>377433610
I was considering that until Citadels went live, they seem like they're a major down grade from POS looking at it from a WH life perspective

>want to join corp since it seems like the games focus
>they have an actual interview and review process
>and a contract

thats when I knew this was not my game

>>377434126
>just post your API info
>so we know you're not a dick
It's really simple.

>>377433674
>400 man cruiser fleet
you would absolutely enjoy 300+ macha/nightmare blobs

>>377434724
>you don't like massive blob fights?
>I bet you'd enjoy a slightly smaller blob in more expensive ships

I really doubt it

>>377434849
this was sarcastic, being alphad in your faux by this shitgangs is gay as fuark

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>>377401695
because we aren't popular?

>>377435316
4chan is pretty top-level.

after playing 1030 hours if EVE in a 4 month timespan I decided to quit before i went deeper into this hole and became one of the middle aged autistic guys I talked with at my Corp chat

however I will admit the game is amazing, def the greatest MMO I've ever played and the devs are decent

EVE and other space aspergers simulators are autistic as fuck. /v/ is for normal people.

>no corp to join except PH
>KarmaFleet's application

>>377437941
elaborate

>>377437941
>PH
Dude please don't be a shitty pet

Because CCP are shitty devs who keep incentivizing the risk averse faggotry while catering exclusively to nullblobs. Jump Freighters and Capital Bridging destroyed the game. They completely removed any and all risk involved in a supply chain which allowed nullsec Alliances to get stupid big and resulted in everyone being blue to everyone, either formally or informally. Most of the big fights that people hear about a literally organized and agreed on between the Alliances because if they don't fight occasionally they start hemorrhaging members due to boredom.

>>377402680
Just like real war

>>377401695
HOW FUCKING NEW

>>377401695
you know that vg exist, anon?

>>377438415
>this descirbes it perfectly
rip in shit to that shitty game boiizz