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#81

OK, I logged in a bit earlier this evening. Fortunately I was in Slays, not Intaki. Wasn’t looking forward to logging back in after over a year to find myself in losec.

Had to take a quick, easy courier mission in hisec to remember how to fly my damn ship and I still can’t remember what half the stuff in my hanger does. Of course, I’ve got around 18 million skill points and can’t remember what half of my skills do either.

Currently running around in an Amarr cruiser for some reason; can’t remember why I have it. I’ve got a tech 2 frigate out there but want to get my survival skills back before I risk taking it out again. I used to have a battlecruiser too but I think it blew up around the time I quit and I never replaced it. Maybe I’ll pick up a battleship; I can fly one, just not very well.

See y’all around the cluster. Name is Denis Jacquard in-game.

#82

OK, I have been at loose ends since I let my WoW account lapse. I have been wanting to try an on-line community based space type game & the way you guys talk about this I just may have to at least do the 15 day trial!

Oh & SP? Slaying demons on Azeroth, gets old after you’ve done it a million times.

#83

Yay! One day back in game and already gotten jumped at a gate and been podded. Woot!

Fight would have gone much better if I had remembered to launch the drones I was carrying… :frowning:
((Yeah, I’ll remember what I’m doing again at some point.))

#84

alright I think I’m gonna give EVE a shot again, I’ve tried it before but I honestly never gave it a serious shot on learning all the controls

have it downloading now, which race should I pick when I start?

#85

I think most of the other GWC’ers went with Gallente or Minmatar, but we have a sprinkling from everywhere. Each race’s ship/stores have their own bonuses and preferences - shields vs armor, kinetic weapons vs. energy weapons, but you can study up on whichever interests you. Of course your race selection (and backgrounds) will appropriately guide your starting skills.

#86

We GWCers can finally fulfill the fantasy of waking up in a tub o’ goo!

#87

am I the only one who’s eyes hurt after playing? I got about 20 minutes into the tutorial and had to turn it off because I was getting a deep burning in my eyes for some reason

#88

I think it is the text. There is a crazy amount of info to process in the game and a lot of text to read. I tried several different display sizes till I found one I liked and was easy to read. I haven’t found a way to change the fonts (Which suck! IMO) or size but if you can find a good balance between screen resolution and monitor distance all should be good.

#89

You can change font size on one of the settings tabs. (Can’t remember which one; hit ESC to bring up the menu; I think it is called “General Settiings” or something like that.) You can change font size and narrow/standard/wide settings.

#90

So I decided to check out eve a little while back. Been playing just under a month now and I’m really liking it.
At first I was put off a little by the complexity of the game but decide to stick at it and when i worked most things out it became really fun.

My in-game character’s name is JbBooth. Hope to see u guys out there sometime.

#91

There’s a couple reasons this happens. First, as they said, the text, adjust it as best you can so it’s easier for you to read. Second, and this will sound dumb, you need to blink! It’s very wierd I know, but when you start doing things on your computer a lot of times you will open your eyes really wide & stop blinking, you don’t even realize you’re doing it.

#92

When picking a race, there’s no right and wrong answer. Just pick what interests you most. And remember, just cause you pick one race doesn’t mean you can’t fly another race’s ships. I’m a true-blooded Gallente, but I opt to fly mostly Caldari ships.

#93

The one thing I have come to learn after…oh crap it’s been almost 10 years playing MMO’s! Pick something that YOU will enjoy playing. Don’t worry about what everyone else needs or makes it easier for them. You are the one who will be playing it, you’re satisfaction is more important than other concerns. If it’s not something you wil like to play, you won’t want to.

#94

I’ve been having a blast running around with a few friends in Frigates, cheap fittings, and no implants. Makes it really fun, we wind up being very bold when taking on players in lowsec who obviously overpower us. We wind up with two different outcomes:

  • We get blown away, in which case who cares, I’ve got four spare frigates ready to go. Its fairly easy to come up with the ~400k ISK to replace them, and the cost of a new clone is relatively cheap as well.

  • We take out the opponent and loot his wreck, destroying or selling most of his Tech II gear, which cost him millions of ISK. And we took him out with some of the cheapest gear possible.

Its because of these fights that I like staying in the ‘noob corp’, it gives the indication that we’re entirely disorganized, when in fact, we’re only mostly disorganized!

  • Juan -
#95

Juan forgot the corollary to outcome #1: We learn something.

I’d say about 3/4 of the time we get blown away we learn some significant lesson. For example the last time we got cleaned out by a superior force we learned that when attacking cruisers with frigates always target drones first. For some of you this might be second nature, but we’re still learning, so this was a significant discovery for us. (And FWIW, we took one of the enemy’s T2 EWar Blackbirds with us. Heh.)

Of course the other 1/4 of the time we just tried something incredibly stupid (but fun), like jumping a Thorax (stuffed with T2 drones) in our two lowly T1-fit Rifters. Yeah, didn’t go so well. But a good time was had by all.

I’m fully with Juan on this, though. I spent my first months playing Eve worrying about losing what I had. Once I stopped undocking in high-buck hardware, I’ve found the fun in the game. And I’m having a blast. :slight_smile:

#96

What Juan and Chuck said. Sure we didn’t make tons of iskies/hour but gods damn does it beat the monotony of mission running. I think my next objective after sorting my tanking/drones out is to get into Exploration. Flying into a system, droppin some probes and seeing what’s out there hidden in the black. Sounds just amazingly fun to me

#97

Maybe we could move up to cheap destroyers next. A smidge more ISK to spend, but not so much that if you lose it you feel like you got gut-checked.

#98

Eh I don’t think so. Destroyers aren’t really that great outside of level 1 missions. They’re frigate killers. They’re too big and slow to easily avoid cruiser fire. Frigates or Tech 2 frigates is probably the way to go until we can move up to cruisers in earnest.

#99

Hmm. I might have a Caracal blueprint lying around. :smiley:

#100

DP’s got a great point: One of the advantages of frigates is that they can “fly under” the guns of most cruisers and darn near all ships larger – assuming, of course, that they don’t end up webbed. But it’s difficult for a single cruiser/battlecruiser to web five or six frigates at a time.

Drones, of course, even out that equation a bit. But not all cruisers can really carry a lot, and even then if the frigate fleet targets the drones quickly enough it’s a good fight.

Personally I’m training for T2 fittings first, then for T2 frigates. Then I think I’m ready to head to cruisers. Driving a not-perfectly-skills-optimized cruiser or BC around works fine for missions, but doesn’t seem to last a minute in the big black.