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">> Dont know what trade wars is. Check www.eve-online.com for info about
EVE.
>> Trade is just a small part of EVE. Biggest part is player interaction and
>> PVP. But if you dont like PVP you can do PVE and trade and other
>> professions as well.
> Having looked at the uber cool screen shots. What would you folks rate
> EVE? It looks and sounds cool, but how does it play? How does it compare
> to other online games?
EVE is skill based. You dont gain experience to build your character from
killing mobs or doing missions. Skill training takes real time, and you
train skills whether you are online or not. All skills have a rank, higher
the rank the longer time it takes to train. All skills have 5 levels. Skills
can unlock other skills, give certain bonus's or add attributes to your
character. Higher attributes means shorter training time for skills.
Example of a skill that gives bonus can be "Operation of large projectile
turret. 5% Bonus to large projectile turret damage". That bonus is pr level
of the skill, so at level 5 (which would take a long time to train you would
have 25% dmg bonus to large projectile turrets"
At current time I got 153 different skills and about 21 mill skillpoints.
Have played since July of 2003.
You can ask yourself how you can catch up to the old players, the trut is
you can't! However, these days its much easier to make a profit and build
your characters assets than back then. You also got advanced learning skills
to build your characters attributes up, and implants that also affect your
attributes. You will never catch up skillwise but to go from level 1 to
level 4 in a skill takes not much time compared to the long treks of 20+
days for level 5 skills that many of the older players trains.
If you dont like PVP you can do other things such as missions/PVE, mining,
building, researching, or simple trading. There is several thousand star
systems in eve. Ranging for 1.0 security systems to 0.0 security systems.
Where 0.4-0.0 is basically lawless and you enter at own risk and 1.0-0.5 is
protected by Concorde police forces. If you are in a corperation or an
alliance that have a legal sanctioned war going on you wont be safe anywhere
though.
If you are a bit industrious as a new player, you try join a good player
corperation. You will get aided with gear and how to play the game. New
players are not useless, if you dont like PVP much you can easily train up
fast to use a hauler (Industrial ship), to help in mining operations, do
trade runs etc while build up your skills. If you are more combat oriented
you can do PVE as a new player, but with low level NPC's. If you want do to
PVP you would be usefull as a tackler. That could be described as cannon
fodder ;-) However its like pilot a fast ship with scramblers on to disable
the target long enough so the rest of your mates can bring it down.
There is 4 main factions in EVE. Caldari, Amarr, Gallente and Minmatar.
Doesn't really matter what faction you start with, unless you are into
roleplay. Yes, there is many players who roleplay in EVE as well. Especially
Amarr and Minmatar. Amarr being evil slave keepers and well Minmatar's the
ex-enslaved. So called Minmatar Freedom fighters and Amarr corp's have
running fights all the time.
Ships and weapons are faction based, but nothing keep you from training the
required skills needed to fly another factions ships and to use their
weapons. Amarr's use lasers, Caldari missiles and rails, Gallente being more
blasters and drones while Minmatar use projectile weapons.
EVE is not sharded, it runs on one server. Some 55k subscribers or so atm I
think. At peak hours there is about 10-12k players online at once. Its hard
to tell someone how great and good eve is, you need to experience it
yourself and then just try it. Either you like it or you dont.
There is a 14 day buddy program available. If you know someone who plays EVE
they can refer you and you get a 14 days access pass. Only thing you need to
do then is to download the EVE client from
http://www.eve-online.com/download/ (about 450 mb).
If someone want me to refer them, I can do that, but you would need to email
me a valid email address that the 14 day pass get sent too.
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