Wee fun. I've been playing over a year now, and its the best MMORPG I've ever played.
What a lot of people do not understand is that it is an RPG. Not a space simulator. They don't understand why the game is why it is, and often presume they're getting some arcadey point and clickedy click game, which it is anything but.
I played the trial and tbfh - the game is rotten to the core - the devs play in corps and have been caught cheating more than once. Their reply was to ban and delete the accusers accounts.
Wrong. The developer in question lost his job, and the accuser was banned for being a forum hacker, amongst other things. Don't know how you got that misinformation. Also the devs are allowed to play without abusing their powers - would you seriously develop a game that you would not be allowed to play?
the thing that really pisses me off is the pvp, it would at least six months to be pvp capable
That would be one or two days in skills. Existing players in the game do "trial account pirating" in frigates (cheapest combat ships in the game) and get dozens of kills in the 14 day free trial, solo, with newbie characters. Imagine starting off playing WoW as a level 10 player and running around killing level 50s-60s. Its a matter of learning how to play the game, then applying it to a PvP situation. I prefer the time based skill system over the lameness of grinding 1000 monsters to get a level.
As there is absolutely no skill involved in combat.
At least there isn't if you're fighting AI NPCs, which isn't "combat". PvP is combat, and there is a heck of a lot to learn about it, which cannot be learnt all in the trial. Perhaps you could give me a full guide to scanning if you think you know everything about PvP. The game is not about NPCs, its about the other players.
Oh one more gripe - wtf is there no collision detection? it pisses me off when your ship flys straight though a station or a planet, ffs. /[rant]
Thats because its an RPG. Consider the fact that you're controlling a ship through a computer, with a ping to the other side of the world. Imagine if you lagged out. You would lose your 100m ISK investment ($20) from lag by crashing into a station. That would be seriously bad game design. EVE is an RPG, not a sim. Perhaps you should understand game design before having a go at that one, because you don't.
I dont mean to be nasty at all. Most people who play EVE and leave simply don't
get it, or simply think they're going to get a happy, fun, sci-fi game with lots of big explosions and good times with friends. Sure, its sci-fi, has explosions and you can have good times, but unlike other games you actually have to put some effort into the game to get anything back from it. EVE is comparable to real life on both the economic level (a market so vast and complex the developers hire economists to keep it stable) and social (corporations and alliances are one of the core parts of the game, and are based on trust, assets and manpower, just like RL.)
EVE, at its core, is a player driven MMO. One of very few, and the only one to do it properly. Games like wow simply don't compare on the design complexity - EVE is designed to be run by the players, not run for the players. You build your own empire, make your own money. Death is harsh, scams, griefing, are legit and all part of the game. It is rarely a fun game. For this, most people don't like it. I like it purely for the massive scope of the game, the ability to do anything to anyone anywhere and anywhen (given normal constraints) and not have whiny kids complaining to the devs about it.
Average age of players: 27. Consider the average age of your normal Bf2 player.
One single server (no shards), 200k people, some 6000 systems.
Most EVE players put it like this:
"If I wanted someone to choose how I should play my game, I'd play WoW. If I want to play a game the way I want to play it, ill play EVE." Sorry for the wow-bashing, ive played it too, it ain't that bad.
EVE is terribly brutal, unforgiving and very hard to learn, but is by far the most complex game in existence. If you don't like it for this, then it isn't your type of game. But if you're looking for a game that is
completely different to 99% of all other games you've played, then its by far a good choice. The only problem is that the trial doesn't give you enough time to scratch the surface, but if you get hold of someone who is willing to help, they'll point you in the right direction.
