Morning Discussion
I keep meaning to actually play some video games in my free time--50 Cent needs to be finished, Dawn of War II is looking lonely--but I keep getting distracted by The Wire. I'm mid-way through season 2, and it's to the point where I'm watching a disc per night.
Lastly, there are few things more annoying than a pair of headphones on its last legs. The sound on the right side keeps cutting in and out, and I'm getting dizzy. Blah.
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Holy crap, it's about time.
New Eve Online expansion comes out today. Discuss.-
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I loved that game, but I spent most of my time milking the economy. I don't think I ever got a character past level 25 or so. My friend and his brother played hardcore though, got 90+ and hunted the Rift and shit. I just made massive amounts of silver and got shit altered. It was basically text fapping.
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The new character creation stuff is much better for newer players because it doesn't immediately force choices on attributes and professions right up front when the player has no idea what is going on. It is basically just pick a race and make your portrait and then everything else is done in the tutorial/missions. Its not so great for old players because even though you train faster you start with 50k skillpoints instead of 800k so you can't make an insta-useful throwaway alt.
Oh and they added epic mission arcs but just one level 1 epic arc. Kind of underwhelming but I'm sure they'll add a bunch more soon now that the arc system is in the game.-
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I guess I'm thinking more of the mindset of a trial player. Are they going to know to train up the learning skills? You say "useless skills" but I've never found any of my skills useless... just not being used at the moment :)
I guess I'll have to see it myself. I thought giving a "general" range of skills off the get go with a focus determined by your bloodline was pretty damn good.
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So this game has intrigued me enough to grab the trial version. Is it really as hardcore as people say? If I don't have 10 hours a day to devote to it, should I not bother? I'm pretty casual when it comes to MMOs, but I'd really like to fly around a massive galaxy and do cool shit and earn space bucks. Also, do you need a joystick to play it or can you get by with a mouse/keyboard a la Freelancer?
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the learning curve is pretty hardcore, but advancement doesn't require a ton of free time because skills are trained in real-time whether you are logged in or not. the time you spend actually playing the game only impacts how much money you make. joystick do not apply, completely mouse/keyboard interface.
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The learning curve really isn't that bad. If you like space shit then you'll have fun while learning anyway.
You don't need to poopsock to have fun. I think of it as pretty casual. If you want to get hardcore, there's certainly room to do that.
No joystick required (in fact I'm not sure if you can even use one?). Mouse/keyboard is just fine. Try it out, free trial, nothing to lose, etc.. -
Here is a great blog to read if your new http://hammer-eve.blogspot.com . Just go through all the topics on the right.. You'll pretty much get a huge amount of insight into the game.
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The Mittani writes columns now: http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/65110
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That's an amazing article, love the timeline at the end: http://images.tentonhammer.com/eve/delve.gif
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