Eve Online (sci-fi MMORPG)

[Snotty]

my friend got blown up in safe space while doing a courier mission. So if youve pissed someone, or maybe a lot of people, dont go afk

[Skanky Burns]

Courier is really the only thing you can do afk. That is, if you plan on almost always surviving and making some isk. Mining means you need a bot if you plan to be afk. Still, no-one is forcing you to do courier missions. If you have ADD, blow things up by ratting or running kill missions. Or fly through 0.0.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by DrSpike


There's grind and there's GRIND. I've never played an MMO where I actually go afk whilst grinding. It's like botting.

This is a good thing.

Then you can save all the excitement for the important things, like trying to not ****ing die to a gatecamp, or hunting/being hunted in 0.

JM

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Courier is really the only thing you can do afk. That is, if you plan on almost always surviving and making some isk. Mining means you need a bot if you plan to be afk. Still, no-one is forcing you to do courier missions. If you have ADD, blow things up by ratting or running kill missions. Or fly through 0.0.

Okay, my only experience with MMORPG's is spending a month killing rats in Everquest. I do understand that "PvP" is player versus player, but for little newbie me, please define:

akf -
bot - robot??
ADD -
0.0 -
isk - monetary unit??
grind -

[Harovan]

grind is a good thing

GRIND is even better

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Okay, my only experience with MMORPG's is spending a month killing rats in Everquest. I do understand that "PvP" is player versus player, but for little newbie me, please define:

akf - away from keyboard
bot - robot
ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder (no patience, needs contiual entertainment)
0.0 - See below
isk - monetary unit
grind - doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over etc

Each system in the game has a security rating, where a 1.0 system is newbie-friendly down to 0.0 where you must assume everyone else is trying to kill you. High-sec is from 1.0 to 0.5, and you can generally fly through there without paying much attention. Low sec is from 0.4 down, and you tend to die if you aren't watching what you are doing.

Fortunately for the carebears, you don't need to go through low-sec much or at all, so you can play the game where you won't get killed much at all. Fortunately for those willing to risk, the rewards in low-sec are much higher.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
grind is a good thing

GRIND is even better

grind is uninteresting work for results..

EVE still has work for results.. lots of work.. it is just mostly interesting

JM

[Snotty]

if you are couriering through low sec space you can reduce the danger to virtually nil by pre creating a series of bookmarks called instas. It takes some practice but i can make my insta jumps on the fly now using my interceptor. Making instas is a useful trick and well worth learning how to do

the bookmarks stay in your folder so once you have created them once you get to keep them. if you are couring out of an agent they like to send you to the same kind of places so its worth having the instas for your favorite area

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


grind is uninteresting work for results..

EVE still has work for results.. lots of work.. it is just mostly interesting

JM

Surely that depends on the DVD you are watching whilst playing being good?

[Skanky Burns]

Speaking of which Snotty, is there a limit on the number of bookmarks you can have in one folder? Rather than sorting by region, I was thinking of shoving the entire lot in an "Instas" folder and sorting them by number of jumps away - that way instas for the system I am in would be at the top.

[Snotty]

Ive not found a limit. maybe the screen loads to slowly if you have to many

I sort by region like you say but also I set my autopilot before I leave and when i jump into a new system i check where the auto pilot says is the next system, right click in space and can jump to my insta to the next gate using that menu.

thats the best way ive found to use my overview, I click at the top of the distance column in the overview.

I enable stargates in the overview when making my instas. I found it easiest to makes instas in a shuttle

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by DrSpike


Surely that depends on the DVD you are watching whilst playing being good?

If you are in low sec, you aren't watching a DVD

that is purely for carebears..

JM

[Snotty]

courier in low sec safely and watch most of a dvd with good instas

in 00 space they can make bubbles to stop instas so its more dangerous

[Grumbold]

Sounds like the quantity and quality of missions have improved since launch, it was unbearably tedious back then.

[conmcb25]

Been playing for about a month, I'm in The Dead Parrot Shoppe Corp. There is a couple of CIV addicts in that corp, one of which is Fried- Psitalon who has posted here in the past but he is more of a ladder player.

Fun game/ good corp. Im not bored by mining yet, when I want to go mainly afk, I mine scordite in .9 space. When I want a thrill, I ninja mine in .4 space.

Its all about what you want in an MMO and the offline skills training is really what I like since I can't play 12 hours a day.