EVE is very different from any MMO I've played before ...<br> - there's only one server, AFAICS.<br> - There are no classes, just skills, which anyone can learn. Skills take time to learn to learn, the exact time required is determined by your 5 prime stats and the level of the skill (varies from minutes to days). Skills continue to be trained when you are logged out. So essentially someone who is not logged in at all, can progress their character as quickly as someone who is logged in all the time. (Although the bloke who's logged in is probably making money as well :) )
<br> - The world is almost entirely player driven, with just some basic NPC organisations to provide a background. E.g. Flying around space it is almost impossible to tell which space stations are run by players and which are NPC.
<br> - All trade is done automatically with players via a superb stock-market like trading system, again NPCs provide a 'floor' here by setting lowest possible prices on the market.<br><br>Johno & I have formed a corporation and are busily saving up to rent our first offices on an existing space station. We're having a ball and already pricing how much it would cost to get our own station up and running :) Oh and we get to shoot bad guys as well.
<br><br>Who's in the Box?<br><br>/chop<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Kelly</b> <<a href="mailto:mike.j.kelly@gmail.com">mike.j.kelly@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Weeks of staring at nothing? Sounds like a hoot, Dave! Sign me up, at least until the "World of Watching Paint Dry" BETA kicks-off in June. ;)
<br><br>I've heard very mixed reports of EVE Online, including someone telling me (wrongly I presume) that it'd shut down last year. I like the idea of a MMO Elite type game though.
<div><span class="e" id="q_10fecfdb45f96da0_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/01/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Vaughan</b> <<a href="mailto:joev@jarhedz.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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That's a shame Dave but then DDO just isn't for everyone. Bren also hated it, as<br>did your namesake...<br><br>I continue to love it... last night was a blast re-doing redwillow (again) and<br>having a great old laugh. Good to have the thief...er...I mean scout back :)
<br><br>EVE I found awful... As a friend of mine who is totally living in EVE said: "If<br>you can get past the first couple of weeks of boredom waiting for your ship to<br>fly from A->B then it get's better" - but to me, if the first few weeks involves
<br>lots of sitting staring at nothing, doing nothing, then it's a no-sale. Not a<br>good introductory strategy I felt.<br><br>Different strokes again.<br><br>Joe<br><br>On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 at 18:35:59, David Knowles wrote:
<br><br>> FYI: I'm probably going to cancel my DDO account, 'coz I never use it and at<br>> the moment things sound very complicated :) I tried a bit pre-xmas and it<br>> still isn't grabbing me.<br>
><br>> Plus I've discovered EVE online! And WoW TBC is out in two weeks. And I<br>> have a big new project to manage in work (which is already 6 months late and<br>> I only took it over yesterday)! And I'm doing a professional qualification
<br>> with exams in May. And I have a girlfriend.<br>><br>> /chop ... sleep is for wimps!<br>><br>> PS. Hurry up and finish that damn game so we can all be friends again<br>> somewhere new.<br>><br>
> PPS. Come and join Johno and I on EVE!<br>><br>><br>> On 1/3/07, Mike Kelly <<a href="mailto:mike.j.kelly@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mike.j.kelly@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > NP Brian, he didn't sound too happy. :(
<br>> ><br>> > We just finished that dungeon and called it a night (I think, last night<br>> > is kinda fuzzy, feeling tired) a good romp, I much prefer my human cleric<br>> > Drevin to that Drow wench I had, it's amazing the difference +2 Strength
<br>> > makes, the extra feat more than makes up for the missing point of Wis. I<br>> > wish I'd thought of it in time but in future if yourself or Leigh have to<br>> > head off in the middle of a quest it'd be a good idea to quit TS but leave
<br>> > the client logged on if possible, that way you get the XP for the quest...<br>> > we've done it once or twice before but if you don't mind the "cheese"<br>> factor<br>> > of XP for idling then I reckon it's a good idea.
<br>> ><br>> > For next week, I can play Monday, Tuesday or Weds, I'll let those of you<br>> > with RL commitments decide which night we should play. :)<br>> ><br>> > On 03/01/07, <a href="mailto:setanta@dspsrv.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
setanta@dspsrv.com</a> <<a href="mailto:setanta@dspsrv.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">setanta@dspsrv.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > Sorry I had to bail last night fellas. Rory was not a happy babie at
<br>> > > all,
<br>> > > and in fact a nights sleep went out the window as well!<br>> > ><br>> > > What night will be good next week for you guys, so I can try to book it<br>> > > up<br>> > > in advance.
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