General Discussion

I have really played most of the mmo out there and i am really bored of them so now i am thinking back about those older mmo and i have narrowed it down to this 2. I like lineage 2 graphic but i also like Eve gameplay and i cant decide which one i wan to play back. Hope the nice community here can give me some feedback from your experience and help me to chose. Thank you all in advance for your help ^^ and some comment from myself on why i quited this 2 games last time. I quited lineage 2 last time because i am really sick of the grinding last time but seem like now the experience rate have increase alot compare to the past with the new patch. As for Eve i quited because there was once when I was doing my lvl 4 mission  when i warp into the mission area into the middle of huge group of npc ship and my game freeze up on me and I lost my BS and i was so sad and pissed that I quited in a moment of anger as CCP say they have no problem on their server and wont refund my ship  ;p

L2 is good if you have a high enough level to participate in pvp, otherwise, prepare for a grind.

Eve if you like interacting with others, join a coorp and such, personally I would pick Eve.

La2 if you prepare for SLOW progress OR spending allot of money on ebay OR botting. Eve is allright aswell but endgame La2 is best pvp game on market atm. Its stable and offers nice balance, many servers have like 3-12h pvp for epic raids ect. I played most major mmos and most of them haven't even been close to giving the players the freedom to pvp as lineage2 has.  Instanced pvp is sucha bs, i can't even understand how people concider it pvp, even rvr as in DAOC is sub compared to open world pvp that goes on every day in la2. There are also those servers who are a bit faster, figure it out yourself :)

Doesnt it take like a full year or close if you play L2 casually? (not /played, IRL).

Read something similiar in a review when it was completely fresh, its why i dont bother with it :-p

EVE.  lineage2 was great to play when it first came out, but joining that type of game later just makes it less fun.  most of the world is a ghost town, except for massive numbers of bots.

EVE has a harsh learning curve, but if you can find some good people it can turn into a lot of fun.  If you can't find some good people you'll end up pretty lonely.

Originally posted by Majinash

EVE.  lineage2 was great to play when it first came out, but joining that type of game later just makes it less fun.  most of the world is a ghost town, except for massive numbers of bots.

EVE has a harsh learning curve, but if you can find some good people it can turn into a lot of fun.  If you can't find some good people you'll end up pretty lonely.

Now if I could just fix that problem for myself...

I need a nice bunch of regular people ("social drinkers who game :-p") to play with.

EVE with ventrilo+m8's would so hook me up.

Right now im looking at the EVE-client and my trial account, with some booring MP3 in the headphone, didnt get out of the tutorial before I ALT+F4 :-p

I so want a sci-fi/futuristic mmo to play, EVE would fix me (I like enormous complex games aslong as they are online/mmo), just that no IRL-m8's plays it and the ones I knew when I DID play it, have quit :p

Originally posted by tigeryao80

I As for Eve i quited because there was once when I was doing my lvl 4 mission  when i warp into the mission area into the middle of huge group of npc ship and my game freeze up on me and I lost my BS and i was so sad and pissed that I quited in a moment of anger as CCP say they have no problem on their server and wont refund my ship  ;p

I'd say EVE, but realize, in your example above you broke the cardinal rule, never fly what you can't afford to lose, and that applies not only to players but anomolies such as you experienced.

Also, keep your mission running ships insured and it will take much of the sting out of the loss.

Nice! so many people to help out. Love u all so much ^^

Before you listen to the people talking about a grind in lineage 2 or slow progress check out the changes being made in the entire lineage 2 system. The horrible grind that lineage 2 is famous for is going away.

theres a couple posts here allready about that so I wont go into again, but you can read up on it yourself  a litle bit here at mmorpg,  or at the lineage 2 gracia preview site or go to l2blah and read the translated patch notes for almost all of the info.

not so fast lol, sure they added vitality system, but you may wanna know that l2 still have a very challenging grind, sure you can go 1-20 in less than 1h, even up to 60+ in couple of days, but  still you will have to grind some for 70-80+.

the point with lineage2 is to have fun you need ppl with who you can have fun, like an end game oriented clan/ally, becuz some ppl join crap clans and say they arnt having fun playing l2, thats normal if your clan doesnt play end game competition, all you have left is grind which isnt that fun.