EVE Online

Hello,

The first 2 days of the Trial, I found myself really submerged into the depth of the game. Just figuring out the menu system & the learning the basic mechanics. A real crack addiction, you can say. I was totaly addicted & was very impressed

By the 3rd or 4th day I joined a play corp for rookies, there was always a few people on & I got help with missions. Around this time I lost my frigate at least once a day, but that did not stop me. Eventually  I got a destroyer which is like the 2nd step up from your starting ship. Now I was in a position to help others & effectively help myself to agent running.

So for the next week I trained my skills to get a cruiser & farmed missions for cash. Before I knew it, I had all the cash I could ever want waaay before I could use the ship. Consequently, I purchased the ship & all weapons & sub systems about 4 days before skills permitting. Thats when it really started to get boring, I had zero incentive to log in. I would go about my day thinking, "Oh i should remember to log in around X:XX time so I can train the next level of skill". I had all the skills & purchases written down on a peice of paper too, like a real pro. I felt like I had a handle on the game.

With 3 days left in the trial I finally got my Cruiser III skill completed & hoped into my new Cruiser!!! But then the expansion came out & had to wait another 24 hours to play it. Oh well, no big deal right? Some things are just out of our control.

With the new expansion wierd things started to happen. I was running my first level II mission, autopiloting to a jump gate. Eventually I got to my destination & engaged the encounter, but then I started getting shot at from nobody. I checked my overview and it said "no objects". I right clicked in space & got no options. As im trying to figure all of this out, my shields are gone & my armor is getting destroyed, fairly quicky. I put the armor repairer on, to buy some time while I try to quickly figure out what the hells going on & why i cant see the enemy ships. Well at this point I was left with only 1 option, relog. It worked, no problem I came back in saw all the ships & all the planets. Luckily I didnt die and warped out immediatly. Close call, but damn I was really annoyed with that.

I finished the mission & autopiloted to the "drop off zone" which is several systems away. Unfortunatly along the way I somehow managed to get "stuck" right at the warp gate of a 0.4  security zone. Well I have no idea what to do i try different things & ask around in rookie channel. FInally I open a peition & the GM askes me to rename folders & gives me the location. Fine, no problem but when I get back in game I was still stuck. So i update the petition, & wait .. & wait & wait. Im thinking to myself, why doesnt this guy just teleport me like 1 foot away so i can get on with my day". So after 25 minutes of waiting I start getting nervous. After all im in 0.4 security space & vulnerable to any ass. The last thing I want is to loose my ship when I have zero control over the situation. & im sure filing another peition for that would be a real big waste of time.

So, as you problaby guessed, I waited a bit more, no response from mr gm. No help really from rookie channel, even after posting the question several times. Nobody in my corp chat room, either. Then I get slammed, nailed, destroyed. There goes everything, just as I had feared. But you know what, after he killed my pod I was unstuck... yeah ironic isnt it. Just as im figuring out my clone business & having to go back to my destroyer & farm another 6 mil + weapons (im really dismayed at this point) the gm gets on and I just told him the entire story. His response was exactly as i had expected, He wouldnt help me now that im unstuck.

well that ends my 14 day trial. Bottom line, I tried. I feel this game, has potential if you stick it out. Im sure the player run corporations have alot of good stuff to add. I was about to transfer over to the real corporation too. But that was really the last straw for me. I was already struggling with the idea of paying a company just so i can wait around for skills to train. The missions were boring & repeatative. Mining was really boring too. The only saving grace was the corporation & the hopes of making friends and doing things together. Perhaps some time in the future I will give it another go, but for now this game has unfortunatly, lost it's appeal.

Things are always weird for a couple days right after a patch.  If you lost a bunch of crap you can file a petition.  Can't guarantee anything and it usually takes a few days but you might be able to get some reimbursement.

If you get hung up on something trying to go to warp, shift-space will take you out of warp, you can manually fly away from whatever you're running into, then you can try going to warp again.  I lost a Rifter back when I was new 'cause I didn't know that (lucky for me I had it fully insured though)

hey my friend lost a whole bunch of stuff when he encountered a glitch after an expansion (he was podkilled) he filed a petition and they got him back his stuff and made it so he got his ship back.

idk if they will do that to any1 though.

EVE is big with RPers and PVPers that dont like fps. End-game doesn't get much better, I've had 2 chars past 10m sp and bored myself to tears trying.

Originally posted by grimboj

EVE is big with RPers and PVPers that dont like fps. End-game doesn't get much better, I've had 2 chars past 10m sp and bored myself to tears trying.

End -game, there's an end-game. Never knew that ...

'that don't like fps' where did that come from. Eve is neither an FPS or Flight Sim, never has been. I have seen many Eve players wanting Walking In Stations turned into an FPS. CCP wants it to be neutral ground. They don't want the Demi-god pod pilots getting killed with a spoon in the station.

Looking at future plans, it looks like a FPS planetary battle branch may be in the cards.

Originally posted by grimboj

EVE is big with RPers and PVPers that dont like fps. End-game doesn't get much better, I've had 2 chars past 10m sp and bored myself to tears trying.

wow, there you have it boys and girls, not only does EVE have an endgame, but you can get there with 10 million skill points. thats what? just enough to fly a battleship well?

Originally posted by sonicwhip

hey my friend lost a whole bunch of stuff when he encountered a glitch after an expansion (he was podkilled) he filed a petition and they got him back his stuff and made it so he got his ship back.

idk if they will do that to any1 though.

I have never played a game worse for reimbursements.  There was the jump clone fiasco where they introduced a patch and anybody who clone jumped lost all their implants.  I filed a petition and they said they would reimburse me if I KNEW WHAT DAY I PUT THE IMPLANTS IN!!!!!!!!!!  It was about 8 frickin months before, how the f%&k do I know what day I put them in.

I think in total I have lost 500-750 million in ISK due to their bugs that they won't reimburse because "it couldn't be proved" or just plain BS.  I am currently really bored with the game and thinking of quitting.  Customer Service is a big reason though because I detest losing stuff that isn't my fault. 

My reason for leaving was the game promotes scammers.  Literally the GM's aren't about fairness.  Who cares about ship balance, they change systems that work and allow people to be scammed without stepping in to right wrongs.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if CCP employees were the ones who scammed me.

When I recently tried to DL the game, I felt like I was DLing one huge virus, and my system was acting strange, so I had to stop the entire DL and delete anything and everything.

I wouldn't trust anything from CCP, including "FREE" 14 day trial.  Most likely they are spying on your system etc while you play. 

BOTTOM LINE, CCP as a coorporation aren't trustworthy.  How can they be impartial to a product that they play and cheat at?  Most honest players are being scammed and don't know it.    Most piracy is done by CCP backing!!!

Originally posted by blackcat35

My reason for leaving was the game promotes scammers.  Literally the GM's aren't about fairness.  Who cares about ship balance, they change systems that work and allow people to be scammed without stepping in to right wrongs.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if CCP employees were the ones who scammed me.

When I recently tried to DL the game, I felt like I was DLing one huge virus, and my system was acting strange, so I had to stop the entire DL and delete anything and everything.

I wouldn't trust anything from CCP, including "FREE" 14 day trial.  Most likely they are spying on your system etc while you play. 

 

BOTTOM LINE, CCP as a coorporation aren't trustworthy.  How can they be impartial to a product that they play and cheat at?  Most honest players are being scammed and don't know it.    Most piracy is done by CCP backing!!!

 

 

 

translation: "I am a collosal carebear, and someone said that if i sent them ISK i would get back 10x as much. they stole my isk."

Some people cant hack eve, you are one of them.