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Comment on Eve Online is a casual mmorpg by David

David — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:22:57 +0000

I really like EVE because you don’t really have to play it to get better. When I’m busy all I have to do is log in and update my skills. I have been running missions when I’m bored or doing something on the computer instead of playing mine sweeper or something like that I just play EVE. Since I usually play console games it gives me more time for that than most other MMOs. Plus the EVE community is better about not bothering other players. They might destroy your ship and steal your stuff (it’s part of the fun) but they don’t generally annoy you in many of the other ways that happen in other MMOs.

Comment on Restless gaming by Rick

Rick — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:47:11 +0000

Thanks for stopping by! I’d be curious to see how you feel about Darkfall. I’m enjoying Eve again, but I think I have to head for 0.0 and join a corp if I’m going to stick with it for any length of time. Hope you stop by again

Comment on Restless gaming by Orrbain

Orrbain — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:09:57 +0000

Hey, just wanted to say, first time visitor to your blog here, I started reading some of your most recent articles after reading a post you made on Gamers with Jobs saying you had just blogged about…well, something. Can’t really remember now

Anywho, I’m a young professional, couple of years out of college, no kids yet, but a serious girlfriend who isn’t really much of a gamer outside of Wii Sports that I live with, so my gaming time has really been cut back. Played WoW for several years while in college, and often get the “itch” to go and play an MMO, but I want something a) new b) more adventurous with less “time wasting” since my time is now much more restricted.

After reading your articles and the comments, I might have to look into giving Darkfall a try as well.

EVE has *always* interested me, and I love reading about it, but the few times I’ve installed and tried playing, I just couldn’t really get into it. Like you, I appreciate the ecomony and PVP-anywhere combat, but I just need a character running around on the ground, not a ship in space, to really get into the game, I think.

Anyways, going to add you to my RSS reader, just know that there are new folks out there reading, and thanks for the info!

Comment on Eve’s Certificate System and other shiny improvements by Rick

Rick — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:42:21 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I didn’t realize that, and I appreciate it.

So much of what I see being improved in Eve, especially around the new player experience and the information available through the tools I mentioned, in-game, were things that I learned through E-UNI, the in-game channel, the Rookie channel, and the forums. CCP was smart to integrate that information within the client.

I can’t wait to see the new in-game browser. If I can get to the Evelopedia quickly without needing to alt-tab, it will be even more seamless.

Comment on Eve’s Certificate System and other shiny improvements by Rick

Rick — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:13:23 +0000

Thanks Letrange

Comment on Eve’s Certificate System and other shiny improvements by michael, St Erroneous

michael, St Erroneous — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:41:34 +0000

If you revisit the Uni forum sign-up page in game, you will update your corp, and join an Alumni usergroup, that gives you access to many of the subforums.

And EFT can export to files which can be directly loaded into the new Fitting browser. “Export to XML” -> “Import”. <3 integration.

Comment on Eve’s Certificate System and other shiny improvements by Letrange

Letrange — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:34:36 +0000

welcome back to EVE – the hotel California of MMOs

Comment on Return to Eve by Rick

Rick — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:42:44 +0000

Ouch. I jumped out of my implants before I tried the 0.0 adventure, luckily. My big almost-mistake was not realizing I had to re-buy a clone after getting podded. I’m flying implant-free at the moment, and that gives me a little more freedom to take risks. I hope your adventures are more fun and less painful next time around

Comment on Return to Eve by DerMuffin

DerMuffin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:34:19 +0000

I havent looked into /random recently. So welcome back to Eve. Your 0.0-adventure sounds very like mine (one bubble avoided by pure luck, the second got me like glue). Besides the cheap T1-Frig, the most painful side effect of podding were the 20mil for new implants. Next time I’ll try 0.0 with some cheap alt without implants and an shuttle – just to learn bubble survival.

On Jumpgate I’m sharing your opinion: lets see what it will be. I did apply for their beta in december 2008 and still today there is no open beta. Last thing I heard is Q1 2010.

Comment on Really, Sony? Order 66? by Rick

Rick — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:27:28 +0000

Actually, I didn’t realize that. I haven’t received mail about SWG in a long time, and wasn’t notified about free time. And did the free month and character transfer option make it clear that if you didn’t take advantage of it, you’d lose your character eventually? Even if it did, that’s unlike any other MMO that I’ve ever played. I could log back into DAoC today and have the option to move my character to one of the merged servers; Mythic didn’t remove access to my character because I happened to miss some arbitrary deadline.