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[KaelGotDwarves]

Its also a lot more fun than salvaging and doesn't require touching the giant pot of shit that is Goons.

Why so mad dude?

Basically all I'm saying is that it's the quickest and best money for a new character to make friends and salvage out in rich space.

[Eclectic Wizard]

If i am ever to join this i would rather be with the goons than with the redditors.
Been following this for a while, might try that 21 day trial. How time consuming is this?
I have about 4 hours of free time at my disposal sometimes, usually 2-2½ hours.

[KaelGotDwarves]

The answer is - it's as time consuming as you want it to be.

I'm a grad student, I don't have much time. But I keep up to date on my skill queue training and it trains as I'm away. I only have to log in once a day to every few days for a minute or two to update skills.

Or I can log in for several hours a day to make money and go blow up space nerds.

[Eclectic Wizard]

The answer is - it's as time consuming as you want it to be.

I'm a grad student, I don't have much time. But I keep up to date on my skill queue training and it trains as I'm away. I only have to log in once a day to every few days for a minute or two to update skills.

Or I can log in for several hours a day to make money and go blow up space nerds.

What is updating skills?

Also how playable is this on horrible mobile/camping nets? Is it expensive bandwidth wise?

Im a person living on a barely working student economy, man.

[KaelGotDwarves]

You don't level up in Eve as you would train a character in regular MMOs by grinding, instead your character gains up to 5 levels in each skill that you put in a queue that trains over time, even when you're logged off. The time to train each level grows exponentially, meaning it's faster to train a lot of skills to level 3 than get a few skills to level 5.

~Elite pvp~ frigate battles can be pretty twitchy and require quick reactions, but most of eve doesn't require super fast internet. The game is more strategic and tactical than reaction based.

Basically, when you go into pvp, you're going to have hours of preparation, some boredom, followed by mouse-gripping excitement and sheer terror as you go into structure, followed by elation if you survive or annoyed when you respawn in station wondering where that truck that hit you went when you get podded.

That ship you destroyed may be the result of someone spending hours crafting and playing to make the best ship they could, or it could be some clueless guy that managed to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and you made him lose weeks of progress. That's just how Eve is. The things that occur have much more important consequences than other MMOs and you craft a story for your character, corporations, alliances, and friends that you make in game.

You'll either love it or hate it.

My advice: find good people to fly with that you actually enjoy spending time with.

[Eclectic Wizard]

The only person that would play this with me would be my brother, but he doesnt want to try because its only space ships and no walking around on planets and stuff. So i play SWGemu with him. Is this a game that suits lonewolfing in anyway?

[KaelGotDwarves]

Eh, not really.

Find a good corp and people to fly with asap. That's what makes the game shit or amazing.

[HopFlash]

The only person that would play this with me would be my brother, but he doesnt want to try because its only space ships and no walking around on planets and stuff. So i play SWGemu with him. Is this a game that suits lonewolfing in anyway?

Your brother could try Dust514. It's an Playstation-FPS on Eve Online Planets. And yes that are real Eve Online planets...in the same universe on the same servers as the spaceship players.
People can hire the Dust-Soldiers to conquer places and spaceships can fire down from orbit.
I have never played Dust but sounds like it's worth a try if you have a PS 3.

It's free to play but it's exclusively for PS 3!

http://dust514.com/

PS: You can tell your brother that sooner or later CCP want to implement "Walking on station"

[Eclectic Wizard]

The only person that would play this with me would be my brother, but he doesnt want to try because its only space ships and no walking around on planets and stuff. So i play SWGemu with him. Is this a game that suits lonewolfing in anyway?

Your brother could try Dust514. It's an Playstation-FPS on Eve Online Planets. And yes that are real Eve Online planets...in the same universe on the same servers as the spaceship players.
People can hire the Dust-Soldiers to conquer places and spaceships can fire down from orbit.
I have never played Dust but sounds like it's worth a try if you have a PS 3.

It's free to play but it's exclusively for PS 3!

http://dust514.com/

PS: You can tell your brother that sooner or later CCP want to implement "Walking on station"

His PS3 is borken but that is definately somethign i will try!

[LordBucket]

might try that 21 day trial.

Here's the link again: 21 day trial

How time consuming is this?
I have about 4 hours of free time at my disposal sometimes, usually 2-2½ hours.

Eve is extremely flexible on time spent. It's possible to sit and play for 8 hours straight if you want, but skill training continues while you're offline, so you can literally queue up days (eventually weeks or months) worth of skills and not play for that time, then come back to a bunch of skill gains. Missions last a week, automated planet extraction can be set to any thing of time from 15 minutes to a month, market trades can be set to last for three months, and there are no "daily quests" of any kind.

If you want a game that you play when you want to play, Eve is it.

The only person that would play this with me would be my brother

Lots of people from bay12 play, and as soon as you join you'll probably get a bunch of corp invites. Even if you don't join a corp, we do have an in-game chat channel: "Bay12 Eve" that has people in it several times per day. We haven't done any fleets that I know of since the bay12 corp fell apart, but we still loosely stay in touch and if you posted here saying you wanted company, I'm sure we could put together some people for a fleet.

Is this a game that suits lonewolfing in anyway?

...yes, you can...but a lot of the game does pretty much require people to play with. Mission running, mining and anomalies get boring after a while, and it's difficult to pvp solo. A lot of the more interesting things to do will probably require a corp to be practical. Sure, you can run wormholes solo, but it would be tedious to live in one on your own. Sure, you can go to null  solo, but you'd be missing out on alliance warfare.

Nothing stopping you from flying solo for your first few months though. Why not give it a try, hang out with some people from bay12, then decide whether you want to join a corp later?

[Eclectic Wizard]

Oh also, when i buy subscription time, is it spent while im offline too? Or is it only spent when i actually play?
Because i might have days where i am simply too busy to even log on for 5 minutes.

I really wanna play this game now.. i mean, im going to try that trial in the weekend if i have enough time.

[dragonshardz]

Oh also, when i buy subscription time, is it spent while im offline too? Or is it only spent when i actually play?
Because i might have days where i am simply too busy to even log on for 5 minutes.

I really wanna play this game now.. i mean, im going to try that trial in the weekend if i have enough time.

Subscription time ticks down even when you're offline.

[Eclectic Wizard]

Then those prices are outrageous, 15€a month? Wow, that is like.. insane, its a new AAA game every month, i cant afford that.. :/

damn :/

[ScriptWolf]

Then those prices are outrageous, 15€a month? Wow, that is like.. insane, its a new AAA game every month, i cant afford that.. :/

damn :/

It's not really that expensive in my opinion, I paid £89 for a years sub so that's about 2 AAA games for me not to mention you don't pay for the updates unlike you would for wow so I think the price is quite reasonable. Once you hit about a years play time you can pay for game time with in game money ( note I say year as a general sort of time frame it depends on a lot of things if you can make enough isk to buy plex each month )

[Tilla]

Scamming is the best way to pay for an account when you're new. I only paid for one starter pack which came to like $2 for an extra 30 days, after that I played from like May to Auguest entirely on money I tricked out of someone who should have known better.