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I've been playing and subscribing off and on since 2012... currently subscribed and mostly just really super ultra casual.
I'll set my skills... maybe mine for a bit in highsec... then log off...
I like that they gave out free mining ships recently... at least I think I did... because I don't remember buying the ship I use for mining now... Love that its an actual mining vessel with capacity for lots of ore.
I'd join a corporation but I'm not on it frequently enough and I'm kind of a super paranoid person.
Frankenberry wrote: I might re-activate, but I've gotta be honest, running around low-sec doing security missions and ratting can be pretty mind-numbing - I don't know how many times I've fallen asleep because of the music/ambiance and awoken shortly after in a pod.
messhallcook wrote: I've been playing and subscribing off and on since 2012... currently subscribed and mostly just really super ultra casual.
I'll set my skills... maybe mine for a bit in highsec... then log off...
Go kill people if you want EVE to be interesting. Go into lowsec/0.0 and gank whatever you see, join a corp and stab them in the back, etc. The high-stakes PvP and the tears you get from people when you kill (or scam) them and take all their loot are the best part of the game.
Automatically Appended Next Post: As for the subject of the OP? Please, please let this flood EVE with tons of new floating loot containers to gank and not just turn into veteran players making tons of alt accounts. Please.
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Frankenberry wrote: I might re-activate, but I've gotta be honest, running around low-sec doing security missions and ratting can be pretty mind-numbing - I don't know how many times I've fallen asleep because of the music/ambiance and awoken shortly after in a pod.
messhallcook wrote: I've been playing and subscribing off and on since 2012... currently subscribed and mostly just really super ultra casual.
I'll set my skills... maybe mine for a bit in highsec... then log off...
Go kill people if you want EVE to be interesting. Go into lowsec/0.0 and gank whatever you see, join a corp and stab them in the back, etc. The high-stakes PvP and the tears you get from people when you kill (or scam) them and take all their loot are the best part of the game.
It's still interesting to me now even with the way I'm playing it.
Sometimes while my mining ship is filling up I just rotate around the ship and take in the aesthetics of it. Or I just fool around with the zooming in and out of the camera on my ship. I love the scale of it.
Don't get me wrong... I love shooting down some ships everyone once in a while... on occasion I'll take out whatever combat-abled ship I have ready and shoot down some npcs...
And maybe someday I'll join a corporation again... but at the moment its mostly just my little 'getaway' when I want to relax... until I get employed again, I don't think I'll really want to commit to a corp/guild anytime soon.
I'll put on a podcast... start up Eve... check my training... then undock and head for the closest asteroid belt... then while mining some Veldspar, I'll take a peek at the chart that shows all the different ships you can get and I'll read up on them or just ogle their 3d models...
Highsec mining sounds so dull now that I mine in null, I cant fathom how I kept my sanity for the year I mined in highsec.
When I mine in null I am furiously tabbing between my 3 accounts because my Hulks fill up in under 2 min. I quietly curse every hour when I have to pull out my freighter to empty my cans of 500km3 of ore.
Then I notice some rats spawn and before I even launch drones I notice that one drone is really big, and then I realize I am looking at a carrier spawn and I need to fleet warp instantly or die.
I had fun playing EVE during my free trial, and I think I got to see some parts of the game that most newbs (like me) would likely not get to see until much later.
It all started with my ship getting destroyed... I'd managed to grind out enough money to upgrade to a destroyer, which I was super pleased with. Unfortunately, one of the tutorial missions involved a battle against a much larger ship. Had I still been zipping around in a frigate (which the game probably expected) then I'm sure it would have all gone to plan, but I wasn't, so it didn't. My destroyer was destroyed, and I was left with no ship, and all my money gone.
Dejected, I decided to blow off the rest of the tutorials and go exploring the galaxy. I wound up a very long way from home, in a lower sec system, where lots of miners were hanging out, and I began to eke out a meagre living by salvaging the wrecks of NPC pirates that attacked them. I ended up chatting to the miners, usually as a consequence of me technically stealing their wrecks, but they were cool, and one guy even took pity on me and gifted me quite a lot of money (wish I could remember his name).
Anyway... one day a guy turned up in a really cool ship, asking if any miners wanted to come with him on an excursion through a wormhole into uncharted space. Apparently, he'd found some asteroids with rare ores out there, but didn't have the gear to harvest them. Even though I was a massive newb, I asked if I could tag along, and for some reason they let me. So I was joined to a fleet, and got to go on a little adventure through a wormhole, which was quite a new addition at the time, and It was astoundingly beautiful on the other side.
I also got to assist in a fight against some pirates, whom I really had no business fighting with, as they were colossal, and I really didn't contribute much damage in my gakky little destroyer, but I had fun nonetheless. When we got back to the wormhole location, however, it had collapsed, leaving us stranded there. It took a lot of searching, and jumping and fighting through uncharted areas before we eventually got back to known space, about 25 jumps from where we'd started.
On the last day of my trial, I managed to buy myself a cruiser, which was damn sexy! I can still see the sun glistening off her sleek hull... Then my trial ran out, and I couldn't play any more without paying, so that was that.
It's interesting that it has gone free to play now. It was a lot of years ago when I did the trial... I wonder if my stuff is still there.
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Smacks wrote: On the last day of my trial, I managed to buy myself a cruiser, which was damn sexy! I can still see the sun glistening off her sleek hull... Then my trial ran out, and I couldn't play any more without paying, so that was that.
It's interesting that it has gone free to play now. It was a lot of years ago when I did the trial... I wonder if my stuff is still there.
Your cruiser should still be there. And, incidentally, cruisers are the most powerful type of ship that Alpha Clones (i.e. free to play players) can use.
I went and had a look, and most of my ships were Omega'd out of reach. :( I had to subscribe to get access to half my skills, and any ship worth flying.
Is there a way to re-spec my skills?
Technically there is but it will not be cheap. You can buy skill extractors to remove SP and then use the skill injector to gain unallocated SP that you can allocate where you want. There will be some SP loss.
Deathklaat wrote: Highsec mining sounds so dull now that I mine in null, I cant fathom how I kept my sanity for the year I mined in highsec.
Hi-Sec mining hasn't been safe for quite a while now. Admittedly, it's not as risky as low or null sec. But there's a group called CODE that basically exists to extort hi-sec miners. You pay them a fee, and they leave you alone for a while (unless they find an excuse to blow you up anyway). If you mine in hi-sec without paying the fee, then you risk having the local representative show up in a destroyer and gank you. Yeah, Concord will kill his or her destroyer. But your mining barge will be floating space debris before that happens.
CODE are much smaller and less active than they used to be. That being said it is really easy to avoid them without having to investigate everyone who is in system or spamming your D-scan key.
The problem is that most people think that they can mine and go afk and nothing will happen. I really do not get the point of playing a game just so you can afk and do something else. If you want passive income learn how PI works and rake in fat piles of ISK with minimal effort, or research a popular BPO and sell of BPC runs.
@Skinnereal another option that might take more time but cost you much less would be to make a new Alpha account and just contract ISK and assets to your new account. It will only cost you minimal ISK and time.
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Deathklaat wrote: Highsec mining sounds so dull now that I mine in null, I cant fathom how I kept my sanity for the year I mined in highsec.
Hi-Sec mining hasn't been safe for quite a while now. Admittedly, it's not as risky as low or null sec. But there's a group called CODE that basically exists to extort hi-sec miners. You pay them a fee, and they leave you alone for a while (unless they find an excuse to blow you up anyway). If you mine in hi-sec without paying the fee, then you risk having the local representative show up in a destroyer and gank you. Yeah, Concord will kill his or her destroyer. But your mining barge will be floating space debris before that happens.
They frequent normaly certain systems like Jita and Goram(Guess why I know that.....). Just go mining where they are not. And use a Procurer/mine in a fleet and for the Omnissiahs sake, don´t go AFK! Yes, they are a nuisance.
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Deathklaat wrote: CODE are much smaller and less active than they used to be. That being said it is really easy to avoid them without having to investigate everyone who is in system or spamming your D-scan key.
Depends on the individual. I frequently hang out in Osman (both for mining and other activities), and the CODE guy in that region is still very active. The two characters that he uses to bushwhack miners (because two catalysts will do twice as much damage before Concorde shows up) are online pretty much all the time, though they're usually parked in a station (presumably because otherwise you could set the game to warn you when he logs the characters on). He has at least one more character that he uses to scout out mining locations and identify likely targets.
When you're mining, look for players that are acting odd (a mining frigate - which can't mine ice - in an ice field is a bit of a giveaway). They might be scouting. And if someone suddenly arrives and targets you, you should drop what you're doing and bail.
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